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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Monday, October 04, 2004
This Just In
Don Rumsfeld has said that he doesn't believe there will be a civil war in Iraq. Considering Rumsfeld's track record so far predicting how things in Iraq would go -- he's batting a perfect .000 -- a civil war is starting to look more and more inevitable.
Rumsfeld also seems to think "what has to be done in that country is what basically was done in Samarra over the last 48 hours." In other words, drive most of the population out of it and kill everyone that's left behind?
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Don Rumsfeld has said that he doesn't believe there will be a civil war in Iraq. Considering Rumsfeld's track record so far predicting how things in Iraq would go -- he's batting a perfect .000 -- a civil war is starting to look more and more inevitable.
Rumsfeld also seems to think "what has to be done in that country is what basically was done in Samarra over the last 48 hours." In other words, drive most of the population out of it and kill everyone that's left behind?