SARS Watch and Capitalism
If you are interested in tracking things SARS then Tim Bishop’s SARS Watch is the place to go. Lots of good material and links to much, much more.
I am not sure, though, why Tim calls this an Extreme Capitalist approach.
Monthly Archives: April 2003
What were we fighting for – Freedom?
“Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things, ” he declared.
This seems to be a fair representation of what this administration believes freedom to be.
Oh, and he thinks looting is untidiness? Go read what Emma has to say about this! And Jeanne d’Arc and CalPundit have a lot to say as well. I can not believe that folks are defending this behavior.
It was Sysyphus Shrugged’s delightful reaction to Emma’s post the led me through all this reading and thus to the realization that it will be important for our future that we keep these kind of things in everyone’s minds as we head toward the 2004 elections.
New Arrival
New to the blog roll is Rob Schaap’s blogorrhoea. I usually do not add a site based on one visit but Rob sucked me into reading from beginning to end the longest single post* I have worked through to date: a ranging discussion of ‘capitalism’, government and globalisation. You will probably disagree with one point or another but there is certainly enough meat to get you thinking. I will be going back here often and suspect there might be a lot of treasure hiding in his archives. Thanks to Tim Dunlop for the pointer.
*Rob’s links are currently broken but this is his only post on April 16.
Friedman’s Moral Compass
Busy Busy Busy has found Thomas Friedman’s current moral compass and suggests that Friedman is now of one mind with Rumsfeld regarding post invasion security for the Iraqi people.
Back in ancient history (4/9) Friedman said:
America broke Iraq; now America owns Iraq, and it owns the primary responsibility for normalizing it. If the water doesn’t flow, if the food doesn’t arrive, if the rains don’t come and if the sun doesn’t shine, it’s now America’s fault. We’d better get used to it, we’d better make things right, we’d better do it soon, and we’d better get all the help we can get.
Putting the two together suggests that Friedman’s moral compass is about as stable as sand dunes in the desert wind.
New Arrival
New to the blog roll is Heretical Ideas. Yesterday Ben Carl joined Alex Knapp to make this a two headed collaboration with a libertarian bent.