I’ve been waiting for an major news outlet to run a commercial satellite image the suspected North Korean nuclear test site near Kilju (Kilchu). Imagine my surprise when the leading “fake news” outlet The Daily Show with Jon Stewart runs what purports to be a satellite image of North Korea either preparing for a nuclear …
Kim Possible: Daily Show Runs Satellite Image of Suspected NK Test Site
by | 2005-05-14 | 3 Comments
IC Debates North Korean Test Preparations
by | 2005-05-13 | No Comments
The IC split over China’s Lop Nor test site, too. David Sanger details the debate over signs of possible North Korea nuclear test preparations. The key graf casts doubt on his earlier report North Korea had erected a “grandstand”: Last week, three sources in different parts of the United States government told The New York …
Hay Adams @ 6:30 Tonight …
by | 2005-05-12 | No Comments
I am meeting some friends for drinks tonight (Thursday) at Off The Record, the hotel bar in the Hay-Adams (One Lafayette Square, 16th & H NW) around 6:30. Blog readers are welcome. I promise to minimize the cock jokes.
Baker Spring: The Great Sophist of All Sophists
by | 2005-05-11 | 15 Comments
P1. Hot dogs are better than nothing P2. Nothing is better than steak. C. Therefore, hot dogs are better than steak. Ah, the fallacy of equivocation. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it thus: The fallacy which is committed when a term has different senses in the different members of a syllogism. 1605 BACON Adv. Learn. …
