Live from the Nuke Free Zone

I should say as I begin today’s essay that my topic is touchy and my position at odds with the rest of the columnists of the Nuke Free Zone. In order to promote the most productive discussion, I will try to restrict myself to a narrow thesis and its associated call to action.
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Okay, guys. I’ve been mulling this in my mind, and I’d be appreciative of the commentary of all the Zoners and our regular readers on this one.
It started tonight when I discovered, on my friend Joe Hall’s blog that there was a neat trick involving the rel attribute to make comment spam less useful. […]

As I write this, the fractured nation of Iraq is holding a parody of a national election as those people who dare go to the polls will vote for parties who dare not disclose the identities of their candidates. Security and turnout will be better in the calmer north and south of the country, but […]

Here it is,
a ten-point plan all laid out. Summary follows.

Local elections were held recently in Gaza. The bad news is that Hamas made out like a bandit, capturing about two-thirds of offices at all levels available. The moderately good news is that local pollsters seem to be of the consensus that voters were mostly voting for their pocketbooks, not terrorist bombings.
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If you don’t know who Alberto Gonzales is, let me remind you.

“Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.”
–Ellison Onizuka

As most of our regular readers know, I am a Californian. I am currently living in the red part of the state up in the North (the failed State of Jefferson, but that’s a story for another time). Anyway, during the last campaign, our state’s junior senator swung through this very red part […]

That’s not exactly what I wanted to say to this, but even the Nuke-Free Zone is bound by certain unwritten decency guidelines. Otherwise, you would have been treated to the link below, followed by a whole lot of distressing monosyllables. I’ll spare you all, though, and stick to language I could use within a mile […]

So… there’s this country. Actually, there’s two countries. Let’s call them A and B. Currently, the U.S. Army is heavily engaged in Country A. Now, Country B has been a problem for a while, but there’s not exactly casus belli in the air. And yet, Administration officials begin commenting on […]