Progress in Iraq?

This article (via InstaPundit) is surreal. In it, Kofi Annan takes credit on behalf of the United Nations for the progress in Iraq. Yes, the same United Nations that stood in the way of progress. The same United Nations that cut and run from Iraq as soon as it got difficult. And the same Kofi Annan that called the Iraq War a violation of international law.

My God

Spotting criminals in nursery school (via Pej)

Children as young as 3 should be identified as potential criminals if they're bullying other kids or have criminal parents, recommends a crime reduction report to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The Bush Doctrine — "By Other Means"

Wretchard uses an interesting metaphor to explain the logic of the Bush Doctrine:

Planners in World War 2 solved the problem of accelerating enemy collapse by destroying the societies on which their war-making potential rested, as an alternative to a protracted battle of attrition. They were totally ruthless in selecting their ends; the problem consisted only of finding the means. In the European Theater of Operations, deep strike strategic bombing was largely ineffective until German cities and petroleum refining capacity was destroyed on a large scale. In the Pacific Theater, the US maritime campaign only began to bite when its submarines began annihilating Japanese merchant shipping, after a futile period of attempting to hunt down the Imperial Combined Fleet. For nearly a year, General Haywood Hansell attempted to reduce Japan by conventional high altitude precision bombing. He was replaced by Curtis Lemay after it became clear that his methods were not yielding results. Lemay embarked on a campaign of attacks on Japanese cities unparalleled in history, killing more people one night in Tokyo than in either of the atomic bombings and repeating the performance night after night.

The chosen method of American deep strike against the 21st century terrorist enemy has been to foster democracy in their home countries. 'Democratization' is fundamentally an attempt to destroy the fabric on which the terrorist war-making potential rests. It is the American weapon of choice in lieu of the Atomic Bomb.

Quantum-encrypted network

First quantumly-encrypted wireless network installed in Massachusetts.

Proof that we need WebHashCash

That's a verification image I encounted on Yahoo today. I was able to decipher it ("pl7p"), but it's clear the arms race is being won by the spammers.

End the arms race. Use WebHashCash.