Shakedown Artist Fingered?
Everybody has surely heard about the woman who allegedly found a finger in her chili. She’s been arrested. It seems that, through a remarkable string of coincidences, this sort of…
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Being Fair to Benedict XVI is One Thing……
Do We Need a Crusade Against the iPod? I watched with interest the BBC live broadcast of the appearance of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI. I’m not a Roman…
A Tribute to a Young Woman Who Made a Difference
Peter Mork on the murder of Marla Ruzicka by terrorists. Her last essay appeared in USA Today.
Random Gibberish and Academia
Some clever MIT students had their paper — “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy” — accepted for presentation at an academic conference. The paper…
Speech to Iraqi Transitional Assembly
I just got back from giving a presentation in the assembly hall of the Iraqi Transitional National Assembly. It was truly a moving experience for me, as the members had…
More Baghdad Meetings
I’ll have some interesting meetings in Baghdad today. I won’t report on them until they’re over, however.
Baghdad Lectures and Seminars
Baghdad’s Babylon Hotel I had two very different presentations today. The first was a lecture and Powerpoint presentation on the process of writing an Iraqi constitution to a private organization…
The Constitution in Exile
I’ve just quickly read the New York Times Magazine piece by Jeffrey Rosen on “The Constitution in Exile.” (I have to finish some work before giving some lectures for univesity…
Common Sense Economics
As I’ve been trying to help Iraqis to explain economics to their compatriots, I’ve had the pleasure of reading through an excellent little work, Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should…
Mass Graves and Courage
A new set of mass graves has been found in Iraq, according to a report in the New York Times (requires simple registration). Many of the terrorists who are attacking…