Very interesting to watch documents morph over time as the decisions change about what's to be blocked out of documents. It's even more insightful when they first publish documents and then later take out even more information. [Read more…]

Because Boston's emergency alert teams are really really bad at their jobs, someone who's actually good at his has to lose his job. Jim Samples (CEO of Cartoon Network) didn't deserve this. Why not fire the Boston officials who botched their responses up so badly? The same ads were in many other cities without setting off full-scale alerts. [Read more…]

US government officials continually inform us that we are in a state of war, but are we? Even newspapers and TV/cable news shows parrot the sentiment. As far as I can tell, we are most certainly not at war. At most, the phrase is a rhetorical turn to justify a certain course of foreign and domestic policy. [Read more…]