So. Heard of Henry Okah?Probably not. But he’s invented a new paradigm for waging war, straight out of a science fiction novel.The guy puts his army together from another country by cellphone, as if it were a flash mob. He has his own merchant marine to carry off his hijacked bunker crude, his own arms […]

To all you Maoists out there, have a happy Lei Feng Day!For all you Brits, I hope you had a good Mothering Sunday!For those of you in Western Australia, have a great Labour Day! (Those of you in Eastern Australia have to wait till October, apparently.)Those of us in the States will have to make […]

So— the Iraq War has cost three trillion dollars so far. That’s $3,000,000,000,000.00, if I have counted all the zeroes correctly.That’s the conclusion reached by Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Linda Bilmes, in their new book. Some interesting factoids:. . . they have produced a picture of comprehensive obfuscation and bad faith whose […]

The U.S. Air Force’s new Cyber Command has blocked servicemen from viewing this blog. Though I can sympathize with the brass in their quest to prevent their people from viewing my morale-sapping essays, they didn’t stop with just this blog. No sir. They’ve blocked any blog that has “blog” in its URL, which would mean […]