Only in America would a guy invent RSS. Only in America would there be a guy that weblogging wasn't good enough for. You know? One guy walking around Austin, Texas back in 2000 going, "You know, that weblog shit's pretty good, but I want something that makes my brain explode as soon as I turn it on, ok? I want to take one suck off that RSS feed and go *snort* *splat* Now I'm happy! (Patterned after Dennis Leary)
With that...
You Can't Spell "Superpower" without "Power"
Mark Steyn gives the lie to Europe's hope of becoming America's equal in power without having a military. It's not going to work.
Henceforth, my first rule of Geopolitics: To be a superpower, you must have power.
Whore. Navy. Whore. Navy. WHORE NAVY.
Instapundit finds this.China and France will hold rare joint naval exercises off the mainland's eastern coast on Tuesday, just four days before Beijing's rival, Taiwan, holds presidential elections.
China's official Xinhua news agency made no link between the exercises off Qingdao - about 780 miles from Taiwan's northernmost point - and the election.
But the show of military strength and solidarity signaled China's desire to isolate the self-governing island before the vote and its first-ever referendum, which Beijing views as a provocative step toward independence.
Henceforth, my second rule of geopolitics: Any "superpower" that whores its military force to another superpower with no basis in national interest is NOT A SUPERPOWER.
LGF reports that Muslim nations are pissed at Kofi for suggesting that the UN give benefits to the partners of gay UN employees. Jeepers. who do you root for on this one? Crazy Islamic fundamentalist despots or Liberal fundamentalist despots? It's like all the Georgetown Basketball fans I know trying to decide whether to root for Duke or Maryland...
Blame India! Blame India! We must form a full assault...'CUZ IT'S INDIA'S FAULT!
Porphyrogenitus fisks the current panic over outsourcing. In brief: reports of the death of American manufacturing have been GREATLY exaggerated.
Gazpacho Eating Surrender Llamas?
I was thinking a "cowardly lion" meme would work myself, but this is also acceptable. WARNING: Very insolent.
There's no right answer....oh, wait...there is a right answer. AND IT AIN'T YOURS.
From Nick over at De Novo, who just made me start wondering whether this whole law school thing is a good idea...law professors should more carefully examine the considerable challenges facing students who must not only learn the law, but learn each professor’s peculiar vision of the law, each professor’s unique and often unshared theoretical assumptions. Misunderstanding these assumptions could easily be the difference between an "A" and a "C" a misunderstanding that may reflect a student’s mind-reading prowess, but little of the student’s legal potential.
Some, but not enough, law professors explicitly define their vision of the law to the classroom, and use substantial class time to address the nature of that vision itself, not only its application to case materials. The best law professor I have had took the extra step and explained what, according to his vision of the law, constituted meritorious legal thinking. I suspect that such an explanation is often lacking from classrooms where "there’s no right answer" is so commonly intoned.
And Finally..
Are You Cool?
Siflay Hraka has a way to find out.
That's all, folks.
Posted by Thief at March 16, 2004 05:52 PM