EU Stares Into the Void Without Constitution with Karzai begins debate on Afghanistan future, which appeared simultaneously on Google News at midday Central Time (UT – 6 hours). Looks like Afghanistan will have a constitution before the EU will.
One is tempted to advise certain people to read this …
Jay Manifold
An Unqualified Victory for All the World
One good ace-of-spades reference deserves another …
The above image is from Saddam’s capture gives major boost to Coalition mission in Iraq, in Jane’s Defence Weekly.
Now to keep up the momentum; as Iraq settles down, we can start dealing with the source of the problem and the WMDs we actually know about (80 kB *.pdf).
First Blog To Have Its Own Navy?
(Ref this earlier post.)
After we buy that MiG, let’s get this, which I saw mentioned over on Dave Barry’s blog.
Voting Machine Follow-Up
Cringely’s promised conclusion is here; he notes that
If you could prove with an official receipt that you voted for Mr. Big, then it would be practical for Mr. Big to buy your vote, becoming Mayor Big …. My favorite voter receipt idea is the Vreceipt, which creates an auditable receipt that can’t be read by the voter or by Mr. Big.
— and ends up suggesting, whaddaya know, pencil and paper ballots, counted by hand.
UPDATE: InfoWorld has the latest (~1,000 words; reading time 5 minutes).
The Nine Ten Nations of North America?
Andy Cline of Rhetorica forwards a fascinating political map of the US reminiscent of the Nine Nations. The accompanying analysis suggests that a Bush blowout next year is far from certain: “No matter whom they nominate for president, the Democrats have a pretty good template for an Electoral College win, since Gore fell only three electoral votes short in 2000.” Indeed, the NAACP get-out-the-vote drive came within an eyelash of electing Gore, and if enough Republicans disenchanted by Bush’s spending habits stay home next November, the result could be the surprise of the decade. But thanks to internal migration from the Great Lakes to the West, an exact repeat is impossible: “If every state votes the same way it did in the last election, Bush would win seven more electoral votes – a total of 278 votes, up from 271 in 2000.” RTWT.