Rationality on the cloning front. The three laws of cloning.
1. A human clone is a human being no less unique in his or her personhood than an identical twin.
2. A human clone has all the rights and privileges that accompany this legal and moral status.
3. A human clone is to be accorded the dignity and respect due any member of our species.

By looking for patterns in email traffic, a new technique can quickly identify online communities and the key people in them. The approach could mean terrorists or criminal gangs give themselves away, even if they are communicating in code or only discussing the weather.

David Greenberg makes the case that the anti-war movement strengthens our country.
If the doves were give in to their critics and shut up, then we would all have to trust the Bush administration completely to decide whether to continue, escalate, or end the war. The government would have a free hand to do as it likes. Far from showing their patriotism, critics who muzzle themselves in wartime are abdicating a democratic responsibility.

This is cool.

What's that hanging off Ted Koppel's helmet? It looks like a snorkel for skin diving. If he has a good filter it might make a decent breathing apparatus in the dust.

You know. You would think these guys would be just a little less transparent

Unfortunately, there is a real Muslim enemy out there. The followers of Qutb are so antithetical to Western ideals that it appears that no coexistence is possible. The fundamental Muslims can only survive by seeking the elimination of Western ideas. Since we can not allow that we must either encourage them to accept a reasonable coexistence or they must be eliminated. Sad, but true. Current and future generations should brace themselves and react appropriately.

So. Not only do they abysmally mismanage the diplomatic strategy, they have done a fairly bad job with the military strategy. Now where did I put those articles of impeachment?

The downside of cavalier disregard for legal niceties. The way we have handled "unlawful combatants" (Rumsfeld-speak) gives the Iraqis a model for how they might handle prisoners they may take. And it's not a good model.

Update: Via Unmedia. It happened.

I've been slow to post given the events of the past few days. All the actors have been playing out their roles. Rumsfeld's hypocrisy. Bush's cluelessness. What else can a person say. Others are sifting and posting with greater detail than I possibly could. There are too many events to track.

Our military strategies are being tested. I hope to God that we can adapt quicker than the opposition can change.

Am I an introvert? Are you?

Someone in the current regime is competent. The fix to North Korea is to have its neighbors deal with it. If the US hangs tough long enough the neighbors will handle it. They just don't want to tip off NorK until they are ready.

Howard Dean stands fast for the troops but in opposition to regime. The more he says, the more I like him.

Figures, I'm a

Democrat - You believe that there should be a free
market which is reigned in by a modest state
beaurocracy. You think that capitalism has
some good things, but that those it helps
should be obliged to help out their fellow man
a little. Your historical role model is
Franklin Rosevelt.


Which political sterotype are you?
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The Washington Post has the word for today. Bush clings to dubious accusations. Duh.

I wonder if this can quell the stench coming from the White House and the Republican Congress.

The New Republic Online: Truth Be Told Absent some convincing explanation by the White House, the most plausible theory is that key officials in the Bush administration knew--or at least suspected--they were making false claims. And they made them anyway.

By the time you read this column, the Bush administration may well have lost its bid for U.N. authorization for the war. If so, American officials and commentators will no doubt chalk up the defeat to anti-American suspicion among countries motivated by timidity, resentment, and pique. And they'll be partly correct. But it's worth noting that the suspicion isn't entirely irrational, given what Security Council members have witnessed over the past several months. If the Bush administration wanted to win the world's trust, it should have started by telling the truth.

Meanwhile, in the background, the Bush regime dismantles women's protections against domestic violence. We had better hope tthat the states protect women because the Feds don't care.

Krugman's up!
We all hope that the war with Iraq is a swift victory, with a minimum of civilian casualties. But more and more people now realize that even if all goes well at first, it will have been the wrong war, fought for the wrong reasons -- and there will be a heavy price to pay.

Alas, the epiphanies of the pundits have almost surely come too late. The odds are that by the time you read my next column, the war will already have started.

Recap of why career diplomats are bailing out of this administration.

The attacks of 9/11 left the United States stronger, not weaker, says Kiesling. More than ever before, the world was ready to team up to fight terrorism in a systematic way. But Washington's disregard for the community of nations has destroyed all that.

The Bush administration appears to be on a mission to pursue world domination, he says. That's not the sort of thing that spills easily from the lips of a diplomat.

Now where are those articles of impeachment?