Month: January 2006

Froggy Bottom Cafe Welcome newcomers! Please introduce yourself Come on in! Good morning, everyone! Coffee’s brewing… CDs are in their regular spot next to the stereo Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge...

Promoted from the diaries by Steven D. A couple of days ago, I wrote a piece on American intelligence agencies, a brief run-down of all the different organizations and what role they played. In the course of doing the research...

Interpreting the signals from the Beijing mandarins is closely akin to reading tea leaves at the bottom of a mineshaft, buried in ten feet of mud, while wearing a blindfold. But The Financial Times think they’ve struck...

NSA Spies On US Journalists This piece does not require a tinfoil hat, just a thinking cap. Eleven days before Andrea Mitchell asked author and NYT reporter James Risen whether he had any knowledge that the NSA had been spying...

This is an unhosted, though perhaps not unghosted, cafe. Open all night long. Please recommend (and unrecommend the old cafe).