Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Found on the web.
- "[F]olks join the CIA thinking they will become Jack Ryan or Mitch Rapp. Within a few short years they realize they are Dilbert." Larry Johnson on Porter Goss's house-cleaning at the CIA.
- Looks like Tookie Williams' supporters are not only ones gullible enough to think that a Nobel Peace Prize nomination means something. Balloon Juice says, "Heads are going to explode." Indeed. I'm sure Volokh will set Cole straight.
- A Ukrainian Spetsnaz veteran returns from a year of security work in Iraq to open a beauty parlor in his hometown.
- Yglesias: "When we honor a recently dead person, we always leave it up to the judgment of the deceased's close friends and families to use their best judgment as to how that person would want his or her life to be commemorated. Since when did these arrangements come to be subjected to criticism by random pundits? I hope to God that if through some misfortune I drop dead tomorrow, the organizers of my funeral won't shy away from mentioning the small matter of the political causes I've spent my entire (and admittedly brief) professional career fighting for. "
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