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Drew Carey and the Failure of the Fourth Estate

“…there were Three Estates in Parliament; but in the Reporters’ Gallery there sat a Fourth Estate more important than them all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact. Printing…is equivalent to Democracy; invent...

A Fitting Eulogy for BeOS..

..will of course be written by a District Court Judge in the great city of San Francisco. The BeOS community, now washed up on the shore of a nearby deserted island, can watch the captain of their soon-to-be-scuttled ship attempt to extract some sense of pride as he...

FW: Black Hawk Down: The Real Battle of Mogadishu

—— Forwarded Message From: Patrick Redding Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:40:26 -0800 To: Ian Andrew Bell Subject: Re: @F: Black Hawk Down: The Real Battle of Mogadishu There is much about this incident that is often glossed over in the current media discussion...

Black Hawk Down: The Real Battle of Mogadishu

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story4013 Black Hawk Down: Shoot first, don’t ask questions afterwards In October 1993, 18 US soldiers died during a botched mission in Mogadishu. The incident is the subject of a new film, Black Hawk Down. But, asks Alex...

21st-Century War

I disagree with the article below, but thought I’d post it anyway. How you go about fighting a war depends greatly in part on what your objectives are. The objective of Operation Desert Storm was to decrement the military strength of the world’s third...