MORNING LINKS BREAKING NEWS: The American crew on that ship hijacked by Somali pirates has retaken control of the ship. A reminder to the world: don’t screw with Americans. ITEM: Two books you really, really should read are Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, both by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. These are outstanding works that […]
EARLY MORNING LINKS — they’ll still be brief, because I’m still busy ITEM: The mainstream media tells us how to cope with difficult times: eat more candy (NY Times), play more (USA Today). No, really. ITEM: Think of it as evolution in action: Josh Freeze comes up with a novel (and brilliant) tiered pricing structure […]
The following news item from the Long War Journal reads like the start of a Tom Clancy novel. It talks about an Iranian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates. And then the pirates start dying (emphasis mine): The MV Iran Deyanat was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured […]
The mainstream media gave little or no coverage to the various attempts to disrupt the RNC in St. Paul, but the investigators at Stratfor make it clear just how serious these attempts were: On Sept. 5, two men from Austin, Texas, were charged in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis in connection with a plot to […]
