Archive for the ‘Quartos’ Category
More on Terrorism Hysteria
As I continue to believe: it appears to have been a case of police terrorism-hysteria. This from ITN [Great Britain]: Mistakes led to tube shooting 8.25PM, Tue Aug 16 2005 ITV News has obtained secret documents and photographs that detail why police shot Jean Charles De Menezes dead on the tube. The Brazilian electrician was […]
In: All, Plus Ca Change..., Quartos
Identity Theft
The problem of identity theft, a topic newly current after revelations about ChoicePoint and a "breach of security", was the subject of dueling opinion pieces today in USA Today. First, a few excerpts from the editorial piece that sets the context and says something that I think is a little more complicated than the editors […]
In: All, It's Only Rocket Science, Quartos
Exactly How Many?
From The Los Angeles Times story U.S. to Overhaul Training of Iraqi Forces, reporting on the confirmation hearings of Condi Rice as Secretary of State, comes this extraordinary statement: The Pentagon wants to train about 135,000 police officers, 62,000 national guardsmen, 24,000 army troops and others for a security force totaling 271,041. What is extraordinary […]
In: All, It's Only Rocket Science, Quartos, Splenetics
Memorable Signs
I am reading Eats Shoots & Leaves, which inspires several notions that I wanted to note. This one is simply to mention a couple of memorable signs that I have seen. The first was a roadsign that I saw several years ago here in suburban Washington DC on "The Parkway" heading into town. Several lanes […]
Great Book Titles
Recently I was at my favorite bookstore (that would be Daedalus Books, their warehouse store in Columbia, MD), and saw what I thought was a remarkable title for a book: Masters of Equitation on Canter, compiled by Martin Dizzle The title itself is masterly, suggesting volumes with the fewest possible perfectly chosen words, at the […]