(Fourth essay of a series.)
In Mirror,
Mirror: Why Americans Don’t Understand the Threat of Jihadism, What
al-Qaeda Wants and The
Mirage of Moderate Islam, I have described Islam as a warlike and
bloody religion subject to periodic fits of violent fundamentalist
revival. I have analyzed the roots of Islamic terror in the Koranic
duty of jihad, and elucidated Osama bin [...]

(Third in a series.)
In What
al-Qaeda Wants and the first essay in this series, The
Mirage of Moderate Islam, I have described Islam as a warlike and
bloody religion subject to periodic fits of violent fundamentalist
revival. I have analyzed the roots of Islamic terror in the Koranic
duty of jihad, and elucidated Osama bin Laden’s goal as nothing [...]

(Second in a series.)
In a The
Mirage of Moderate Islam, I have described the Koranic roots of
Islamic fanaticism, and observed that Osama bin Laden’s terror war on
the west is part of a recurring pattern of fundamentalist revival
associated with jihad in Islamic history.
In this essay, I’ll get more specific about what Osama bin Laden is
really after. [...]

In his latest
Tech Central Station column, Glenn Reynolds complains
of `version fatigue’, his accumulating angst over the fact that since the
emid-1980s he’s had to migrate through three word processors and several
different versions of Windows.
I can’t fix the sad fact that every new VCR and remote control you get
has a different control layout. But if we’re [...]

Diplomatic lies notwithstanding, Islam is anything but a `religion
of peace’. Any honest scholar will tell you that Islam is a religion
of violence, martyrdom, and conversion by the sword. The duty to wage
war for the propagation of the faith is plainly written in the Koran;
Osama bin Laden’s suicide bombers are part of a tradition [...]

Mary Eberstadt’s Weekly Standard article
The Elephant in the Sacristy shines a strong light on facts that
will discomfit many of the politically correct. I don’t completely
agree with her analysis; as Amy Welborn argues, Ms. Eberstadt is too quick to dismiss the role of the
doctrine of celibacy in creating an ingrown, perfervid, and corrupt sexual
culture [...]

Many people wrote me with comments on my essay
Why Does Porn Got To Hurt So Bad?. For all of those who
sent praise, thank you. It’s actually nice to know there are so many
people who would like to reject the bad-porn aesthetic. For all
of those who refrained from calling down fire and brimstone on [...]

Top Ten Reasons I’m Not A (Left-)Liberal:

Gun control. Liberals are completely wrong about this. A fair number
of them know better, too, but they sponsor lies about it as a form of class
warfare against conservative-leaning gun owners.
Nuclear power. They’re wrong about this, too, and the cost in
both dollars and human deaths by pollution [...]

A couple days ago I chased a link over to unablogger and found myself unexpectedly confronted by pictures of naked women. This picture, in particular. And I noticed something unusual — which was that I liked it.
Don’t get me wrong, here. I’m a functioning heterosexual male; I enjoy looking at naked women. [...]

My good buddy Doc Searls says I’m
a warblogger, not a techblogger. Truth is I’ve never thought of
myself either way. I had only the vaguest notion what a `warblogger’
is until I followed his links to the definitional discussion. I write
stuff related to 9/11 because it’s one of the definining events of our
day, [...]

My good buddy Doc Searls says I’m
a warblogger, not a techblogger. Truth is I’ve never thought of
myself either way. I had only the vaguest notion what a `warblogger’
is until I followed his links to the definitional discussion. I write
stuff related to 9/11 because it’s one of the definining events of our
day, [...]

This afternoon I was reading a quote from a woman who had left a comment on Tim Blair’s weblog. She wrote:
rld, I feel it’s my duty as a woman to wear clingier clothing, flirt more outrageously, have more orgasms, and get on top more often. In short, anything that’s taboo to the islamofascists.”
Boo-yah, sister! [...]

The recent controversy over arming airline pilots against a
possible repetition of the 9/11 atrocity misses a crucial problem that
makes arming pilots relatively ineffective: terrorists would know in
advance where the guns are, and be able to game against that.
Let’s say you are a terrorist executing a hijacking. You know the pilots
are armed. Then here [...]