THE ARMY LIKES ITS OLDER RECRUITS: I’m not surprised. I seem to recall that the Roman legions preferred older soldiers — not as quick as the younger ones, perhaps, but steadier.
Archive for 2006
December 11, 2006
KOFI ANNAN plans to blast the United States in his farewell speech. Follow the link for an online poll on the topic.
TIE-BUYING ADVICE, over at Crescat Sententia. I get some of my ties from Brooks Brothers, but I like to order them from museum shops like the Guggenheim or the Metropolitan Museum. The quality’s usually pretty good, and the designs are usually more interesting.
But maybe I should be burning my ties as a protest against the matriarchy.
SO THE DENTIST GAVE ME A PAIR OF SHOP GOGGLES TO PUT ON, and then said “there may be some vibration, and some pieces, but don’t worry.” Done now, and at the office. Back later.
IN THE MAIL: The Lucky Shopping Manual: Building and Improving Your Wardrobe Piece by Piece.
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IRANIAN URANIUM PROSPECTORS in Somalia.
MICKEY KAUS: “I am so not excited about Windows Vista!”
JAILED FOR A BLOG POST: “If the Alexandria prosecutors’ standards of censorship were applied in the US, thousands of Americans would be behind bars. The Egyptian authorities’ decision to jail an obscure student for his blogposts reveals a larger struggle for free speech playing out between dissident bloggers and state prosecutors across the Middle East.”
A GUY WHO WORKS AT PFIZER wrote me about my book — nothing really relevant here — but in my reply to him I wrote:
BTW, we love Pfizer in my house because your exotic anti-arrhythmic drug Tikosyn has changed my wife’s life. It’s genuinely a miracle drug for her.
He emailed back:
I will pass your thanks along to the guys in the lab. You have no idea how much this kind of message matters to them –and to all of us. We KNOW there’s a pony in there somewhere but some days it’s not easy to remember that.
It’s kind of sad that such a small email means so much, but I suppose that these guys get a lot more criticism than praise, despite the miracles they produce. But it occurs to me that — while so-called “Big Pharma” may not be perfect — drug companies have done a lot more to make my life better than their critics have. Maybe someone should point that out more often.
UPDATE: Related thoughts from TigerHawk.
LARRY SOLUM explains the Rule of Law.
SMASH meets Rumsfeld.