Thursday, January 30, 2003
"You must not force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex."
-- Mary McCarthy
We'll start off with random stuff from yesterday. I should've posted these yesterday but the boss was in the office and I tend to try and look more productive when he is and thus I actually did some work.
From the making something of nothing department. One man acting silly does not constitute a problem. We do it all the time no matter what race we are.
Frivolous thinking about GW and Saddam.
Interesting observations about traffic, via http://www.harrumph.com/:
"My own driving experience is that if I'm behind an SUV I need more space, simply because I cannot see through the SUV to the vehicle in front to see if that one is slowing down. So I have a larger distance if I'm driving behind an SUV and I see other people with similar behavior. So I have a suspicion that because of SUVs, the capacity of the freeways is reduced."
- Life in the Fast Lane, Traffic expert Pravin Varaiya knows why we drive ourselves crazy.
From salon.com’s news wires:
"We do not know of evidence linking Iraq to al-Qaida in circumstances concerning the Sept. 11 attack," Blair told the House of Commons. "We do know of links between al-Qaida and Iraq. We cannot be sure of the exact extent of those links." Blair did not say what evidence Britain had of such links.
I can understand, to some extent, that government cannot always disclose their evidence or their sources for reasons of (national) security but there must be some way to check sources so that we are not taking them on blind faith. In the case of the US’s evidence against Iraq, I would think that, at the very least, we could share that evidence with our allies. If it was convincing then we could be certain this isn’t simply some personal vendetta. This article demonstrates to me that even the US’s strongest ally, Britain, isn’t convinced the case has been made.
Interesting opinion about economics of globalizations from the Motley Fool. I know very little regarding this issue but it does make me curious enough to look further into it. My main question is whether it’s true that overseas workers at American corporations get paid better than the local average. Little findings so far.
</Aurelius> <!--9:45 AM-->Okay, I'm gonna try this blogging thing again. On a regular basis even. We'll see how long this lasts.
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