What's New Archive
July 30, 2002
July 29, 2002
Added this week's Hunt Watch, applauding Mr. Hunt's uncharacteristically sensible opinions on the important subject of getting rid of the former Soviet arsenal.
July 28, 2002
Finished my overview of Hugo Award short fiction nominees with the candidates for Best Novelette.
July 25, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the silly, widespread view that recent stock market moves demonstrate investors' appetite for more government regulation.
July 24, 2002
Added my ratings of the Hugo Award Best Novella nominees to Quark Watch.
July 22, 2002
Added this week's Hunt Watch. This time Al berates Democrats who don't hew the McCain-Feingold-Hunt line on regulating free speech campaign finance reform.
July 20, 2002
Added my ratings of the Hugo Award Best Short Story nominees to Quark Watch.
Added an item to the Enron Mythos on the contrived "accounting scandal" surrounding Halliburton Co. and Vice President Cheney.
July 17, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on left-wing sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein's pipe dream of inevitable American decline.
July 15, 2002
Added an item to the Enron Mythos on the silliness of finding the cause of corporate scandals in the accounting treatment of stock options.
July 12, 2002
Added this week's Hunt Watch: Al Hunt flails away againt the President's speech on corporate fraud.
July 10, 2002
Added more about the International Court of Criminals Criminal Court to Ephemerides and updated the July 6th entry.
July 9, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Chris Patten's self-refuting defense of the International Criminal Court.
Added an item to the Enron Mythos on why promised corporate reforms aren't likely to comfort investors.
July 8, 2002
Added a report on this year's Westercon to Quark Watch.
July 6, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on insider trading as a victim-friendly crime.
July 4, 2002
July 2, 2002
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
June 30, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on a loony left Web site that claims to be promoting the Democratic Party, with no contradiction from the official Dems.
Added this week's Hunt Watch: Facts show that welfare reform has been a success, so Al Hunt plays the "child card" against it.
June 29, 2002
Introduced Worldcom to the Enron Mythos, where it has taken up residence in many commentators' minds.
June 26, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the Ninth Circuit's Pledge of Allegiance decision, plus additional comments on the Bush plan for Palestine.
June 24, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on President Bush's proposal for the transformation of the Palestinian Authority into a constitutional democracy as a precondition for statehood.
June 23, 2002
Added the Scraps Archive, to which Scraps will be sent after they are two weeks old.
Added this week's Hunt Watch: Al Hunt calls for a great national filibuster of overthrowing Saddam Hussein.
June 21, 2002
Added an item to Et Cetera on why soccer doesn't appeal to American sports fans and the strategy that its promoters could use to find an audience.
Added an item to Ephemerides on the outcome of the latest Yale trustee election and the doubts about democracy that it has inspired in a liberal politician.
June 19, 2002
Added an item to Querulous Notes on the relationship between Shakespeare's life and the "Fair Youth" sonnets.
June 17, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on why the Watergate scandal was good for conservatives and Republicans.
Added an item to the Enron Mythos on the verdict in the Arthur Andersen trial.
Added an overview of this year's Best Novel Hugo nominees to Quark Watch.
June 14, 2002
Added this week's Al Hunt Watch: trite thoughts on Al Gore's prospects for a political comeback, interesting chiefly for the news that Tom Daschle is thinking of retiring from politics!
June 12, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the latest "civil libertarian" hysteria over America's treatment of its avowed enemies.
June 10, 2002
Added an item to Et Cetera on an apparent historical fraud that deserves more notoriety than that of Michael Bellesiles.
June 9, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on a Cardinal's allegation that the American media are engaged in a "witch hunt" against the Roman Catholic Church.
June 8, 2002
Added a new, less frivolous (but equally meaningless, I realize) on-line poll.
June 7, 2002
Added this week's installment of Hunt Watch, appraising Mr. Hunt's criticisms of John Ashcroft's anti-terrorist performance.
June 6, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the real lesson of the energy market manipulation in California.
June 5, 2002
Added a new feature, Scraps, which is more like a traditional blog than what I usually write. The name "Scraps" is stolen from proto-blogger Rudyard Kipling.
June 4, 2002
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
Added an item to Ephemerides on explanations for yesterday's stock market decline.
June 2, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Arafat's proposal to "reform" the Palestinian Authority by adding terrorist groups to his cabinet.
June 1, 2002
May 31, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the adverse economic and political impact of the Administration's steel tariffs.
Added a frivolous on-line poll.
May 30, 2002
Added this week's Al Hunt Watch, taking note of Mr. Hunt's belief that no one can do good without the impetus of government.
May 29, 2002
Added an item to Et Cetera on the Fall of Constantinople, along with a culturally insensitive Methodist hymn.
May 28, 2002
Added items to Ephemerides on the claim that the estate tax is a patriotic measure and Eric Alterman's implicit defense of the Nuremberg Laws.
May 27, 2002
Added an item to Et Cetera on alternative outcomes of Southern secession.
May 26, 2002
May 25, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the blogosphere's teen sex controversy.
May 23, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on a Labor Department report blaming companies for excessively generous pension plans.
May 22, 2002
Added an item to Et Cetera on vacationing in the wake of 9/11 and how "homeland security" isn't keeping the terrorists from winning.
May 16, 2002
Added a vacation notice. There will be no Stromata updates from May 17th through 21st.
Added an item to Ephemerides on the "warnings" that preceded the 9/11 attacks.
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
May 14, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on a new liberal attack line.
May 13, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Likud's rejection of Palestinian statehood.
May 11, 2002
May 9, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on a "Palestinian Studies" course at Berkeley.
May 8, 2002
Added an update to yesterday's blast at Chris Patten.
May 7, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Chris Patten's defense of Europe against American criticism.
May 6, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the assassination of Pim Fortuyn and Europe's response to Moslem immigration.
May 5, 2002
May 4, 2002
Added an obituary of George Alec Effinger to Quark Watch.
May 1, 2002
April 27, 2002
Added an item to Querulous Notes on Joseph Sobran's application of the conspiracy theory mentality to the Shakespeare authorship controversy.
Added an item to Ephemerides on the the "religious" element in the debate over therapeutic cloning.
April 25, 2002
Added new links to File 911. Regular writing has taken second place to packing for a short vacation but will resume tomorrow.
April 23, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the political balance in France following the first round of the Presidential election.
April 22, 2002
Added an item to In hac lacrimarum valle on the Roman Catholic sex scandals and their roots in modern non-judgmentalism.
April 21, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on this year's election to the Yale Corporation.
April 20, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on how the Department of Labor guards its own political interests at the expense of Enron's creditors.
April 19, 2002
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
Added an item to Et Cetera on the sequel to my copyright law adventure.
April 17, 2002
Added an update to the Ephemerides item on CAIR's polling practices.
April 16, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the Islamic approach to polling.
April 15, 2002
Added an item to Quark Watch on the Great Ant War in Europe.
April 14, 2002
Added an update to the Ephemerides item on the Arafat statement regarding terrorism.
April 13. 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Yasser Arafat's pseudo-condemnation of terrorism.
Added a Topical Index to the short essay pages (Ephemerides, In hac lacrimarum valle, Quark Watch, Querulous Notes and Et Cetera).
April 12, 2002
April 11, 2002
April 10, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the prospects for a Second Cold War.
April 9, 2002
April 3, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on the media's strange view of what constitutes media bias.
April 2, 2002
April 1, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Bill Clinton's April foolishness.
March 31, 2002
Added a item to Ephemerides on the next phase of the war against terrorism.
March 29, 2002
Added a item to Ephemerides on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
March 28, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on why secret consultations between business and government are good for policy making.
Added a item to Ephemerides on the prospect of waging war without allies.
March 26, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on the virtues of not diversifying investments.
Added a item to Ephemerides on airport insecurity and what to do about it.
March 24, 2002
Added an update to Ephemerides item on Hispanics and the Republican Party.
Added a Letter of Comment from Erwin S. Strauss on the sundering of the Europeanized and non-Europeanized worlds.
Added a item to Ephemerides on the Illinois gubernatorial race.
March 23, 2002
Added to Querulous Notes the second part of my analysis of Roger Stritmatter's study of Shakespearean authorship.
March 21, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on smoke-without-fire in the post-Enron media.
Added a item to Ephemerides on the liberarian version of realpolitik.
March 20, 2002
Added a item to Ephemerides on a truly bizarre claim that elections are no better in the U.S. than in - Zimbabwe!
March 19, 2002
Added a item to Ephemerides on Republican responses to the defeat of the Pickering nomination.
March 18, 2002
Added an item to Et Cetera on France's contribution to the war effort.
Added ERISA Whirled #02-2.
March 17, 2002
March 16, 2002
Added an item to Querulous Notes on Roger Stritmatter's new anti-Stratfordian tract.
Added an item to Quark Watch on controversy about this year's Worldcon.
March 15, 2002
Added a item to Ephemerides on the Bush Administration's period of "wobbling".
March 14, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on why Andersen's collapse shows the need for tort reform.
March 12, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on why Hispanic immigration is not a threat to the Republican Party, unless Republicans make it so.
Added a quote to Ephemerides on why Republicans should not respond to criticism, Clinton-like, by urging the country to "move on".
March 11, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on dubious prosecutorial tactics against Arthur Andersen.
Added a new section, Querulous Notes, on literary topics. The first installment discusses the notion that Will Shakespeare of Stratford was too contented and bourgeois to have penned Shakespeare's sonnets.
March 10, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on leftist wishful thinking.
March 9, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on a horrifying AIDS story from mainland China.
Added information about the Australian Design Group to Wargaming.
March 8, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on why Court of Appeals nominee Charles Pickering is being punished for his good deeds.
March 6, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the dubious utility of therapeutic cloning and the dangers of forming the wrong alliances against it.
Added an item to Ephemerides linking to the personal account of a foot soldier in the war on terrorism (uniform courtesy of Brooks Brothers).
March 5, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the need for trade war pacifism.
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on empirical evidence that "mixing" audit and consulting services makes audits better, not worse.
March 2, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on ending hunger in North Korea.
February 28, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Senator Daschle's incoherent complaints about the war effort.
February 27, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on the continued journalistic malpractice of the Wall Street Journal''s Ellen Schultz.
February 26, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on growing media attention to eco-terrorism.
February 25, 2002
Added, in Letters of Comment, a response to Diana Price's comments on aspects of my review of her book Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography.
Added an item to In hac lacrimarum valle on tactical alliances between Christian conservatives and ecological extremists.
February 24, 2002
February 23, 2002
Added my Ethical Philosophy Selector test results to Et Cetera.
February 22, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Danny Pearl's last words.
February 21, 2002
Added ERISA Whirled #02-1.
February 20, 2002 (first palindromic date of the new millennium)
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on the effect of the litigation explosive on audit quality.
February 19, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the European Union's persecution of non-metric grocers.
February 18, 2002
February 16, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the sudden, but thoroughly predictable, shortages of standard medications.
Added an essay on The New York Times' foray into the Shakespeare authorship controversy.
February 12, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on the postmodernist character of Enron-driven campaign finance reform.
February 11, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on who is responsible for civilian casualties in Afghanistan.
February 10, 2002
Added an item to Et Cetera comparing Princess Margaret to her nephew.
Reorganized File 911 in hopes of making it more useful for reference.
February 9, 2002
Changed the background of the main pages. Why not?
February 8, 2002
Added another item to The Enron Mythos commending sensible media views of Enron, however rare they may be.
February 7, 2002
Added items to The Enron Mythos on reasonable and unreasonable media commentary on Enron.
February 5, 2002
Added an item to The Enron Mythos on the dangers of an Enron-inspired separation of accounting from consulting.
February 3, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the risks in counting on sympathy from "secular Islam".
February 2, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on how the record of Enron's §401(k) plan demonstrates that no reforms are needed.
January 31, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on another sign of the evanescence of the secret ballot.
Added Universe Today, a service providing scientific and space-related news from around the Web.
January 30, 2002
Added to Et Cetera a eulogy for King Charles I, murdered on this day in 1649 by the English Taliban.
January 29, 2002
Added an item to Quark Watch on the anniversary of the Challenger tragedy.
January 28, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the current state of the Arming America controversy.
January 27, 2002
Upgraded Web hosting plan (Tripod.com) to eliminate popup ads. Readers should realize that I'm now spending $4.95/month, plus a $10.00 setup fee, for their convenience, bringing the total cost of this site so far to almost fifty bucks (only $75,000,000 less than Salon).
January 26, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on liberal conspiracy theorizing.
January 25, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on libertarian passion for cloning.
January 24, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on journalistic distortion of the facts about Enron's retirement plans.
January 23, 2002
January 22, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Paul Krugman's change of heart about Enron.
January 21, 2002
Added an update to the Ephemerides item on the media's slippery handling of document destruction by Enron's auditors.
Added an item to Ephemerides on the relationship between terrorism and holy books.
January 20, 2002
Added Jay Kay Klein's con report on Pittcon, the 1960 World Science Fiction Convention.
January 19, 2002
Added links to a few of my favorite "bloggers" to Usually Reliable Sources.
Removed "Mind-It" icons. This service, which was supposed to inform visitors of when pages were updated, worked but not real well. A new owner has started charging for it, and, even if it improves dramatically, it won't be worth the cost to a little-trodden site like this one.
Added an item to Ephemerides on whether the Enron collapse could have been prevented by more and better regulation.
Added an item to Et Cetera on the customer service philosophy of Web merchants.
January 16, 2002
January 15, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the first real Enron scandal.
January 14, 2002
January 11, 2002
Added items to Ephemerides on liberals' fascination with the Internet, calls for limiting employer stock in 401(k) plans and the unfair practice of failing to "profile" airline passengers.
January 9, 2002
Added to Et Cetera some reflections touched off by encountering a cat on a leash.
January 6, 2002
Added a review of Frequency, a science fiction audio magazine.
January 5, 2002
Added an item to Quark Watch on the postponement of Doomsday.
Added items to Ephemerides on the Secret Service brouhaha and the economic proposals of the Senate's Democratic leader.
January 4, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the European "superstate".
January 2, 2002
Added ERISA Whirled 01-11 (12/28/01).
Ephemerides looks again at the Australian fires as possible terrorist handiwork.
January 1, 2002
December 31, 2001
Added year-end thoughts to Ephemerides on the inadequacies of today's sunshine patriotism.
December 30, 2001
Added a brief update on the Australian fires to Ephemerides.
December 29, 2001
December 27, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on suspicious Australian bush fires.
December 26, 2001
December 25, 2001
December 23, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides onTime's choice for "Person of the Year".
Added an item to Quark Watch on the Potter and Tolkien movies.
December 21, 2001
December 19, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the gap between the old and the new models of libertarianism.
December 17, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on Alan Dershowitz's claim that the notorious Osama bin Laden videotape isn't enough to prove his guilt.
December 16, 2001
December 15, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the relationship between religious faith and terrorism.
December 12, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on how President Bush has made a difference in the conduct of the war.
December 10, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on how to reform Social Security.
December 8, 2001
December 7, 2001
Added an item to Quark Watch on Martian global warming.
Added a follow-up to Ephemerides on the condemnation of Israel by the signatories to the Geneva Convention on Human Rights.
December 6, 2001
December 5, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on anti-anti-terrorism under the cloak of human rights.
Added an item to Et Cetera on two December 5th birthdays: Walt Disney and Strom Thurmond.
December 4, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the distasteful topic of economic stimulus sausage making.
December 3, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the New York Times's obituary for an anti-pornography crusader.
December 2, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides nominating a candidate for the next target in the war on terrorism.
December 1, 2001
Added items to Ephemerides on an ancient precedent for the war on terrorism and the Portland, Oregon, police department's continuing reluctance to join in the fray.
November 30, 2001
Added items to Et Cetera on a future urban legend and Diamond Mind Baseball.
November 29, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on left-wing pundit Al Hunt's claim that conservatives are closet bin Ladenites.
November 28, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the non-need for human cloning.
November 27, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the causes of the new recession.
November 25, 2001
November 23, 2001
November 22, 2001
Added photos from last year's Prime Time Party at Loscon 27.
Added an item to Ephemerides on the Taliban's attempt to emulate Bill Clinton.
Added Kevin Brockschmidt's cartoon "T3: Thanksgiving Day" to Et Cetera.
November 21, 2001
Added ERISA Whirled #01-10 (11/21/01).
Added an item to Ephemerides on the Portland police department's refusal to cooperate with September 11th investigations.
Added a birthday "well-wisher's" message to Et Cetera.
November 20, 2001
Added an addendum to the Et Cetera item on the Yale-Harvard game.
November 19, 2001
Added an item to Quark Watch on the successful test of XCOR Aerospace's rocket plane, a (private) step into space.
November 18, 2001
Added a party invitation to Quark Watch, the event being the Prime Time Party, Saturday night/Sunday morning at Loscon 28.
Added a further comment to Ephemerides on the proposed military tribunal for terrorists.
Added the first item to Et Cetera, on this year's Yale-Harvard game.
November 15, 2001
Added items to Ephemerides: the last two words on the Florida "recount" and hysteria over military trials for foreign terrorists.
November 14, 2001
Added links to the Daily Telegraph's Afghanistan situation maps for November 14th and 15th (Kabul time) to File 911.
November 13, 2001
Added items to Ephemerides about the advance of the Northern Alliance (with link to a nifty map) and phony imputations of racial slurs.
November 12, 2001
Added items to Ephemerides about evidence of real ballot discrimination in Florida and the failure of an attempt to paint a Republican candidate as "anti-Moslem".
November 11, 2001
Added an item to Quark Watch on the Asimov-Laden conspiracy theory, Russia's latest contribution to political analysis.
Added an item to Ephemerides about the newspaper "recount" of the Florida presidential tally.
November 10, 2001
Added to Ephemerides a more detailed analysis of Clinton's Georgetown speech.
November 9, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on CNN's weasely coverage of Bill Clinton's anti-American effusion.
November 8, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides about Bill Clinton's endorsement of the idea that September 11th was what the U.S. deserved for its past sins.
November 7, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the first anti-war protest of the season.
November 6, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides about the progressive, and largely unnoticed, demise of election by secret ballot.
November 5, 2001
Added items to Ephemerides about bigoted anti-bigotry and the Nicaraguan presidential election (another defeat for America's enemies).
November 4, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides arguing that the 18th century counter-Enlightenment did not form a template for modern irrationalist theories.
Added Chapters 1 and 2 of A Worldcon to Win, a novel about murder and other crimes at a science fiction convention.
November 3, 2001
Added two quotations to Ephemerides on the the "climate of intolerance" that liberal observers have suddenly discovered on college campuses.
Added a review of 6 in 60, a noncezine about Chicago SF fandom.
November 2, 2001
Added items to Ephemerides on further evidence of the British Broadcasting Company's divorce from its homeland and the generalship of Osama bin Laden.
Added photo of Yale University Tory Party Banquet, February 1999.
November 1, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides about how the European news media feed hatred of Israel.
October 31, 2001
October 30, 2001
October 28, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides about the supposed "stubborn resilience" of the Taliban.
October 27, 2001
Added ERISA Whirled #01-2 (1/29/01) and ERISA Whirled #01-1 (1/15/01), thus completing the posting of all issues published so far this year.
October 26, 2001
Added ERISA Whirled #01-9 (10/26/01)
October 25, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides about the rise and decline of The American Spectator.
October 24, 2001
Added item to Ephemerides about Senator Biden's criticism of American "bullies" in Afghanistan, plus an update on multicultural sensitivity in Florida.
Added photo of my great-niece with her great-grandmother.
Added ERISA Whirled #01-4 (5/10/01) and ERISA Whirled #01-3 (4/30/01).
October 23, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on a Florida school district's refusal to be "insensitive" toward Osama bin Laden.
October 21, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the new look in airport security.
October 19, 2001
October 18, 2001
Added ERISA Whirled #01-5 (6/7/01) and ERISA Whirled #01-6 (7/11/01).
Added half a dozen poems (or facsimiles thereof) to Verse.
October 17, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides on the happy ending to the Wisconsin Pledge controversy.
October 16, 2001
Added ERISA Whirled #01-8 (10/15/01)
October 14, 2001
Added Ditto 14/FanHistoricon con report to Quark Watch.
October 12, 2001
Added an item to Ephemerides disputing the notion that understanding why terrorists hate us is essential to ending the threat that they pose.
October 11, 2001
Added note to Ephemerides about Ronald Reagan's status as the longest-lived U.S. President, plus a prescient statement about fighting terrorism that he uttered 21 years ago
October 10, 2001
Today being "Ten-Ten Day", regarded as lucky among a large portion of Earth's population, I am going to declare the "shakedown cruise" complete. I'll now stop fiddling with the design of Stromata and will record changes (to content, that is, not every correction of typos) in this log.
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