a crank’s progress

Ayn Rand:
“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”

We are not innocent.’
in our headlong rush to hand George W. Bush the keys to the Great American Torture Machine we do damage to our enemies, we do damage to the innocent, and just as importantly we do damage to ourselves. We will have inscribed upon ourselves the following: ‘
(tags: war values Iraq)

phrase of the [...]

For some reason, I haven’t been able to access wireless router consistently. My password seems not to be right. But how to create/change it if you can’t log in? This assumes a WRT54G with the dd-wrt firmware.
Assuming you’re on some system that supports openssl (I did this on FreeBSD), you can just make a [...]

The Online Photographer: A Brief Policy Note:
Many forums tolerate what are called “thread Nazis” (this is what they’re called—it’s not my term), whose self-appointed task is to keep all the discussions strictly on topic, never suffering anyone to stray.
Apparently, this refers to a comment I left, wondering if a rundown of upcoming TV series premieres [...]

Crackdown on illegal immigrants leads to a shortage of farm workers:
What do you know? The crackdown on illegal immigration has led to a shortage of produce pickers this year.
The tightening of the border with Mexico, begun more than a decade ago but reinforced since May with the deployment of 6,000 National Guard troops, has forced [...]

Photon Detector: Blog : Digital discontent, or, I bitch about Canon
Nicolai rips Canon a new one over how useless their DSLRs are for anything useful
(tags: photography)

Think Progress » Chris Wallace Has Never Asked A Bush Administration Official About The USS Cole
facts, schmacts/you go to war with the journamalism you have, not the journalamalism you wish [...]

someone is weighing his place in history: two things come to mind.
The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » ‘Just a comma’:
BLITZER: Let’s move on and talk a little bit about Iraq. Because this is a huge, huge issue, as you know, for the American public, a lot of concern that perhaps [...]

Honest Election Workers
This is just one more in a great series of posts on the flimsy Diebold voting machines. Ed Felten is doing a great public service here.
(tags: currentaffairs diebold security)

I’d like to see a timeline of Clinton’s actions against bin Laden, et al, the reaction to the USS Cole bombing, the first WTC attack, compared to the Whitewater investigation, the impeachment, etc.
Think Progress » FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News:
WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?
CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get [...]

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When Mohammed Atta was learning to fly and Clinton was firing cruise missles at OBL what was the focus of the entire Republican party? Bringing down the President over [a private, consensual affair].
More here. Glad I didn’t see it, to watch a tv newsreader laugh at a former president of the United States [...]