- No wonder the Iraq adventure has gone so smoothly: Rumsfeld & co. planned the war with PowerPoint.
- Chrome warriors: Here’s a Flash cartoon that had me grinning ear to ear at its sheer cleverness. “An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself.” If you love Chuck Jones cartoon classics like “Duck Amuck,” get thee hence. [via Metafilter]
- I did not know that the historian David Kaiser, who taught at Harvard when I was a student, has a blog, and a good one, indeed. Most recently he puts Judge Anita Taylor’s recent decision against Bush’s domestic wiretapping program (full text of the ruling) in context:
I was inspired by her opinion and am distressed that a variety of legal scholars, including some opposing the program, have claimed that it lacked legal sophistication. Certainly it did not focus primarily on recent precedents, although it cited some of them, nor did it, in accepted legal fashion, attempt to decide the question on the narrowest possible grounds. Instead, Judge Taylor reached back to the origin of the Republic and to the text and essential philosophy of the Constitution to point out that a President, once again, was taking advantage of an emergency to disregard both…. to those legal professionals who found fault with Judge Taylor’s opinion, I can only reply that it is clear enough to be understood by any intelligent high school student, much less a grown citizen — and that, like the finest opinions of Justice Black, it relies above all on the simple tactic of arguing that the Constitution means what it says.
[via Brad DeLong]
[tags]flash, powerpoint, rumsfeld, wiretapping[/tags]
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