http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/ Dean B. Krafft's eclectic weblog: thoughts on whatever. en-us 2004-03-22T17:07:31-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000031.html www.AndrewSullivan.com - 3/11 - Europe's Second Munich? is an excellent piece on the current state of the war on terror and the European response. From his column in the Sunday Times of London.... General Dean 2004-03-22T17:07:31-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000030.html Virginia Postrel's article: "Economic Scene: The Trend of Vanishing Tech Jobs" takes a good free market look at the current IT outsourcing scare. It draws some nice analogies with the "Japan, Inc. will eat our lunch!" scare of the 1980s.... General Dean 2004-01-30T16:52:34-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000029.html Calling Iraq's Bluff (washingtonpost.com) is a very interesting column by Charles Krauthammer on why all the intelligence agencies believed that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled WMD, when it seems likely that he did not.... Dean 2004-01-30T08:23:18-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000028.html Friedman continues his excellent analysis of Iraq and the war on terrorism in Thomas Friedman: War of Ideas, Part 5. Key quote: 'First, this notion, put forward by Mr. Dean and Al Gore, that the war in Iraq has diverted... General Dean 2004-01-22T08:41:02-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000027.html The Morality of the Market is an article by Jerry Z. Muller, a professor of history, on the ways in which capitalism is "morally good" rather than merely "economically good". It's pretty dense reading, but provides some good insights and... General Dean 2004-01-16T16:54:13-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000026.html Here's a Virginia Postrel column in the Boston Globe on Friedrich Hayek. He was a Nobel Prize winning Economist, and one of the best-known exponents of libertarian economics. This is an excellent short overview of the man and his writings.... General Dean 2004-01-13T17:49:05-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000025.html Here's a very interesting discussion at Slate: Liberal Hawks Reconsider the Iraq War - Iraq revisionism. By Paul Berman, Thomas Friedman, Christopher Hitchens, Fred Kaplan, George Packer, Kenneth M. Pollack, Jacob Weisberg, and Fareed Zakaria These are a set of (mostly) liberals who backed the Iraq war at its start. In... General Dean 2004-01-13T14:48:44-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000024.html How to Deconstruct Almost Anything is a wonderful paper by a computer professional analyzing and explicating the current state of "literary criticism". It's very entertaining, and informative - definitely recommended. Here's the conclusion of what is actually good in lit... Reviews Dean 2004-01-09T11:53:07-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000023.html Tom Friedman does it again. Here's the first of a promised series of articles on the challenge of Islamist terrorism. Thomas Friedman: War of Ideas, Part 1 Here's a key quote: "What you are witnessing is why Sept. 11 amounts... General Dean 2004-01-08T09:16:22-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000022.html OK - here's a commentary on "Chuck Schumer and Paul Craig Roberts rethinking the theoretical underpinnings of free trade" on the NY Times op-ed page. It provides a great, quick summary of why free trade is a good thing,... General Dean 2004-01-07T17:54:13-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000021.html Here's another great item from Andrew Sullivan's weblog (www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish..). I suspect all my many readers will strongly agree. "BRITNEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT: Look, I know some of you will object to the logic, but can you not see... Dean 2004-01-05T13:22:29-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000020.html In a somewhat amazing transaction, I've recently traded a sailboat for a nice old wooden Irish Flute (simple system flute in the key of D with six holes and six keys, so it's fully chromatic), a bagpipe practice chanter, and... General Dean 2003-12-23T14:20:19-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000019.html Here's a great excerpt from an email that Andrew Sullivan received and posted on his weblog: www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish While having a beer at a neighborhood bar/restaurant in NYC's West Village last weekend, I was party to a situation... General Dean 2003-12-23T14:12:31-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000018.html OK - here's a cool item for all you science geeks out there: Measure The Speed of Light With Chocolate and a Microwave. The ultimate in household science: in addition to the microwave and chocolate, you only need a ruler... General Dean 2003-10-02T12:46:04-05:00 http://KrafftFamily.org/deansblog/000017.html Well, it's been a big painting day here at home. After seeing it at my sister Sue's house, we're going with Sherwin-Williams "Gardenia" (a light creamy yellow) for two of the upstairs rooms. It does make you realize how much... General Dean 2003-09-28T21:24:21-05:00