Tag Archives for bad reading
Lara M. Dadkhah On CAS = FAIL
Lara M. Dadkhah, once a graduate student in Security Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, has written the most brain-dead op-ed I’ve read on the war in Afghanistan in years. It’s an infantile perspective on a complex dynamic. … Continue reading
Friedman’s Bizarre Loop
Agree with Manning here. I have no idea what reality George Friedman’s book is grounded in. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
John Dvorak Jumps the Shark
Yuck. Update: LOL. Thanks to reader Deven, we have the following real date of when Dvorak jumped the shark: “The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse.’ There is no evidence that people want to use these things. … Continue reading
LOL: Pirates as Part of a Grand Jihadi Conspiracy
Look, Walid’s a nice guy but this is a laughable caricature of institutional legacy thinking: Here is why: these so-called Somali pirates are strategically different from their historical predecessors in the Caribbean, or from their contemporary colleagues in archipelagoes around … Continue reading
Special Kind of Asshole
Mark Krikorian is clearly trying to exceed his intellectual capacity (and failing): But we’re in this mess, ultimately, because our political elites thought it was good social policy to encourage banks to give mortgages to uncreditworthy people, resulting in what … Continue reading