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August 22, 2008

Merlin Mann on Time and Attention (Getting things Done)

Merlin Mann on Time and Attention (Getting Things Done)

This is important - I learned a lot from it.



Merlin Mann on Time and Attention (Getting Things Done)

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich - Mohammed style

Gates of Vienna: A Painting of Mohammed


August 21, 2008

"Free Gaza"

This mission to "Free Gaza" clearly has a lot of money and some very slick public relations minds behind it.

::..Free Gaza..::





And the Western press are obivously just lapping it all up, without any critical analysis, as I read to my disgust in Le Monde today:

A l'abordage du blocus de Gaza - Le Monde.fr

Hamas, refusal to recognize Israel, missiles... does any of this count in the journalist's writeup? Of course not.





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August 11, 2008

How to deal with bordering states, Russian style

1,500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle - NYTimes.com



Perhaps Israel needs to take a page from the Russian playbook. Imagine the was an image from the 2006 War in Lebanon. Consider the uproar that there would have been.

If Israel responded only once in the Russian way to provocations on it's border, would it not result in more quiet for Israel?


Russian push in Georgia




Russians Push Past Separatist Area to Assault Central Georgia - NYTimes.com



This is so ugly. And what would Barack Obama's policy be?