Yearly Archives: 2005

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Private Armies and Government Control

This entry was posted in War on Terrorism on February 21, 2005 by Steve

Phil Carter suggests that the US should take advantage of private military units that are cropping up in Iraq.
On the other hand, Mark Kleiman raises a number of concerns including:

Armed forces not subject to governmental control are a recipe for thuggery at best, assassination in the middle, and civil war at the worst.

This seems like a pretty good description of armed forces under government control. Well, perhaps, the last phrase should be modified to read: waging war at the worst.

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Contrary to What You Might Think

This entry was posted in Domestic Terrorism Drug Laws Economics Federal Government Law Enforcement Libertarianism on February 20, 2005 by Steve

The US federal government actively prescribes and distributes medical marijuana.
Just thought you’d like to know….

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The Somerville Gates

This entry was posted in Culture on February 20, 2005 by Steve

Who need Christos?

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Dog Blogger Challenge

This entry was posted in Friday Ark on February 19, 2005 by Steve

Laurence Simon, founder of the Carnival of the Cats, charted the history of the Friday Ark and found out that:

When it comes to petblogging: cats rule, dogs drool.

Now, I don’t remember any drooling dog pictures but if I were a dog owner I’d still be a bit insulted and take up the challenge: get you entries in both at the Friday Ark and the Carnival of the Dogs.

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Mapping a Phone Number

This entry was posted in Google Information Marketing Technology on February 18, 2005 by Steve

Ursula is not real happy with one aspect of Google searching:

I use Google everyday, but I am not digging their new feature that allows you to enter a phone number and get a map to the address

These capability with or without Google has been around a long time. Just go to any of the various white page services, key in the number, and they will do a reverse look up and provide an address. Take the address to your preferred map site and, presto, you have the same thing Google is doing.
Me, I’d like to see the kids at Google talk to each other! Really, shouldn’t they at least be listing the Google map?

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