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Archive for August, 2005

August 28th, 2005

Green! Purple! Green! Purple!

After the 2004 elections, we’ve all seen the state-by-state results maps:

But the other day, it occurred to me that I’d seen this kind of political process before on a certain T.V. show. Everyone sniping at the other side, unwilling to listen to reasoned arguments, insults flying everywhere… That map had the wrong colors. Here’s a […]

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August 18th, 2005

Lawyer “war stories” - very well-told

What’s one of the first things that comes to mind when you think of lawyers? A sense of humor? Probably not. But all that means is that you don’t know too many good lawyers. The really good ones are folks like Bill Dyer and his friend Walter Workman. Bill Dyer has a collection of stories […]

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August 15th, 2005

What you may not know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki

I’ve gotten into a few arguments over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and whether there was any possible justification for them, so I was fascinated to read this article in the Weekly Standard. The author discusses transcripts of radio intercepts from 1945, some of which were only released fifty years later in 1995, […]

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