The Diplomad has this on the Condi Rice appointment. I don’t really want to get into the whole politics of Condi being appointed. That has been beaten to death enough here, here, and elsewhere. However, this is interesting on the state of bureaucracy within the State Department and some of the things going on...

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Patrick Ruffini has this on the exit polls. Short story shorter, they were off 2% at the precinct level from the word go. The question remains why anyone gives them money…

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Congress is passing a law to outlaw technology to fast-forward through commercials (details here ). I don’t know, I haven’t really turned on a TV in a long time, at most when I travel I’ll turn on the news and even then I can’t handle it. There is nothing worthwhile on TV anymore except...

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Looks like I’m going to get a paper published over at http://www.infosecwriters.com on defeating encryption. Yeah, it’s not glamourous, but it’s the first paper I’ve gotten published outside of SANS books.

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http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2004/11/07/npr_star_keillor_tel.php I quote: – Not one to shy away from speaking his mind, Keillor proposed a solution to what he deemed a fundamental problem with U.S. elections. �I�m trying to organize support for a constitutional amendment to deny voting rights to born-again Christians,� Keillor smirked. �I feel if your citizenship is in Heaven�like a...

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I’m sure most people by now have seen the blather on how the blue states are giving all the money to the government and the red states are all the welfare recipients of that money. This election has demonstrated what the red states have to say about it… If you listen very carefully you...

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http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2004/11/senators_and_in.html Part of my disdain for politicians is that they often take quite a big pay cut to become politicians. That indicates to me that they are looking for something else to offset the income loss. Well here is one thing… Insider Trading. Perhaps I should mirror Senator’s investment choices…

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http://fromasadamerican.blogspot.com/2004/11/how-you-could-have-had-my-vote.html I’m probably not the first to link this, but it bears worth repeating… and it’s good insight for someone who might have voted Democrat.

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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA480150 I’m not sure what I think about Yasser Arafat, to be honest. I haven’t really researched it, but have been meaning to. Suha Arafat being paid $22 mil/year I think speaks for itself, but I digress. The fact that CBS cut in to report the death of Arafat and the viewers going bonkers...

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0411120323nov12,1,3166377.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed This one is interesting (sorry about the registration link thing). Essentially it comes down to how the question was asked that determined what people answered. When they were asked straight up what was the most important issue, the Iraq war, et al, was given. When they were given a list, they choose moral...

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