http://www.peterkrupa.com An eclectic blog for talented people Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:13:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are all sorts of things I could say about this Palin business. Mostly my jaw has just been flapping up and down in silent shock. I had no idea it was possible, in a matter of 24 hours, to simultaneously establish Barak Obama as a seasoned veteran and drive ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/397 Rick Warren to Barack Obama: "Does evil exist? And what do we do about it?" TORTURE IT! According to the last Batman movie anyway. It might know where that ticking bomb is! Oh, and one other thing, why is a fat, goateed mega-church pastor asking presidential candidates about their relationship with ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/396 That's right folks. Hamdan: War criminal. Basically, the crime was "material support" of someone else who committed war crimes. ... although the terminology “material support” may not have existed historically, the laws of war have long prohibited stealthy attacks on civilians, the mainstay of terrorism groups and the target of material-support ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/395 At the risk of destroying any chance I might have of winning public office in the near future: Can someone please tell me why Americans spend so much time worrying about terrorism? I'm really impressed how often the topic comes up in all sorts of contexts in U.S. discourse, despite ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/394 It's been a long time since I enjoyed a movie as much as I enjoyed Wall-E. And at the risk of hyperbole, I think someday, a decade or two from now, people will look back at this movie as a cultural turning point. How can I say this... Wall-E feels ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/393 If you haven't been following the Betancourt/Colombian military/FARC/dramatic Hollywood rescue saga, Simon Romero has an excellent round-up in the New York Times this morning. The official version is that the Colombian military tricked the FARC into putting their prize hostages onto two "international mission"-looking helicopters that appeared to be of ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/392 Here's a great, inadvertent example of why newspapers are going out of business. Howell Raines, former executive editor of the New York Times, publishes a profile in a recent issue of Portfolio on god-like media blogger Jim Romenesko. He concludes, rather presumptively, about a third of the way ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/391 In one of the creepiest videos I've seen in some time, Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded in what looks like a garage in Naperville, Illinois. He lasts about 15 seconds. In the post-op interview, some days later, he is visibly shaken, and says he has begun having nightmares. Kudos to Hitch ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/390 Maybe it's because I work from home now, so I no longer have to be out in it, but the afternoon rain has become one of my favorite parts of the day. The clouds come in and a cool breeze kicks up and the rain comes roaring down on all ... http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/389 http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/388