Nothing to See Here – Taking Us Down With Him edition
Here’s some more stuff you should be reading instead of this lousy blog… #
- This short post at First Draft about our failure in Iraq is depressing as hell, and for my money, Juan Cole makes the real point: “When your helmsman won’t correct course, you as passenger are in big trouble. That is where the US now stands.”
- Speaking of which, Sy Hersh claims they’re at it again...
- Via Josh Marshall, we find this article in the New York Times Magazine on Social Security. It’s a long article, but a must-read for anyone who wants both a history of the program and a clear-eyed look at the current debate. Here are some questions that came to me as I was reading the article: For those who think that Social Security needs to be scrapped, what happens if private accounts fail? Does the government have any responsibility or role in securing the welfare of seniors? Widows? The disabled? You know, the “General Welfare” that our constitution went on about? What’s the backup plan? And what are you planning to do about your own retirement? What would you want to happen to your wife and children if, god forbid, something should happen to you before you had a chance to put a nest egg in place? What benefit accrues to our society if we don’t provide for the basic security of our citizens?
- I’d really like an accounting of where the money for Homeland Security is actually going. First the Bush administration tells the District of Columbia to take money to pay for the inauguration festivities out of its DHS budget. Now, Sid the Fish points us to an AP article about a couple of DHS agents purporting to get involved with a spurious trademark infringement issue.
- I love my Mac. So does this writer for the Orlando Sentinel.
- I’m always interested in articles about good management, having suffered under my share of the opposite. Here’s the transcript of a Podcast from XplanaRadio that talks about creating Great Learning Spaces.
- Ars Technica reviews the latest iteration of my beloved Amiga.
Tuesday, January 18th, 2005 @ 12:30 pm 
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