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A La Carte (04/16)

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Monday April 16, 2006

Site: Over the weekend I moved my site to a new server. I hope and trust that this server will prove more stable than the last and that we’ll all enjoy more problem-free reading and writing!

Nature: This could also have been filed under “humor.” Take a look at the rabbit tracks and note how and where they end.

Entertainment: Following the unexpected success of poker on television, producers have been looking for the next big thing. They think they may have found it in darts. Like most television fads, this one is imported from Britain. The day I blow two hours watching darts on TV…

Politics: Justin Taylor points to an article which helps explain why the US of A is so hesitant to allow Iran to gain nuclear capabilities. The task of the Iranian president is: “provoking a ‘clash of civilisations’ in which the Muslim world, led by Iran, takes on the ‘infidel’ West, led by the United States, and defeats it in a slow but prolonged contest that, in military jargon, sounds like a low intensity, asymmetrical war.”


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