Monthly Archives: March 2006

Why I Slept Much Better Last Night

While we’re vis­it­ing Drezner’s site, his take on the The Great Dubai Ports Deba­cle of 2006 mir­rors mine exactly. With the death of that deal, I slept soundly and safely, know­ing noth­ing could harm me now. Bush screwed this up roy­ally. For an Admin­is­tra­tion that is sup­posed to be polit­i­cally adept, this is a major faux …

March 10, 2006 – 9:26 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off

Travels Around Our Country

I’ve linked to this before but I ran across it again over at Dan Drezner’s site. It seems worth a repost for being so cool. I don’t believe that I’ve added any new states since the last time I posted it and I don’t believe we have any plans for new states this year, even …

March 10, 2006 – 9:04 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

A Menu and Its Translation

Any restau­rant that has salty egg veg­etable sponge liver pig soup as an entree is prob­a­bly not going to make it onto the Zagat sur­vey. And trust me, it only gets bet­ter from there.

March 9, 2006 – 8:48 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (2)

National Gun Database Has Troubles in Britain

Appar­ently, Great Britain is hav­ing trou­ble imple­ment­ing their national gun data­base of all peo­ple who have a license in the coun­try. Appar­ently, Tony Blair promised the par­ents of the chil­dren killed at the Dun­blane mas­sacre 10 years ago that a reg­is­ter would be put in place. Of course, if the offender had been reg­is­tered, how …

March 7, 2006 – 6:41 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Second Amendment | Comments (3)

Port Security

Frank J has the scoop.

March 1, 2006 – 6:07 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (2)