One Tin Soldier
There were a lot of changing stories about why we invaded and conquered Iraq, so it might be instructive to ask, instead, why we stay there. In an interview with Rush Limbaugh, da Prez let it slip. It’s about the oil, baby.
“Give me a second here, Rush, because I want to share something with you,” [...]
Losing Iraq
A classified CENTCOM briefing leaked to the New York Times shows that the war in Iraq is not being won, even if we narrowly define victory as staving off civil war. The attached graphic doesn’t seem to define what is and isn’t civil war, but the big picture is of a nation gradually falling [...]
More Outsourcing on the Way
The Hackett Group, an Atlanta-based “strategic advisory firm,” is aggressively pimping the offshoring of American jobs:
The study estimates that increased use of cheaper overseas labor could affect up to 1.47 million back-office jobs, or nearly 3,000 at a typical Fortune 500 company.
Some of the job functions that can now more readily be shipped overseas than [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“While she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a
sanctuary, and people sin upon purpose, because they
would go thither.” –Much Ado About Nothing, 2.1.241-43
