The Intermess

October 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Richard Fernandez over at The Belmont Club has some interesting thoughts about the possible disintegration of the Internet. It seems there is international pressure–notably from countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, to “share the governance” of the Internet, which is presently administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) under [...]

I don’t know whether the Miers nomination is in actuality some sort of political head-fake designed to lull Democrats into a false sense of smugness while Bush softens them up in preparation for the real nomination, but no matter what happens it’s not very good news. James Taranto, referring to the facty that Republicans generally [...]