Why the Big Blockage

Okay, I have a question. See, the Korean government put a block on popular blogsites like blogspot.com and livejournal in order to prevent access to the kinds of blogs that post links to such things. They couldn’t be bothered to only penalize the sites who posted such links, so instead they simply blocked ALL blogspot and livejournal sites. (And who knows what else.) I don’t understand, then, why popular Korean blog sites like Naver’s or igloos are up. I mean, I can see Lime’s blog, over at Naver, without any difficulty. And my old friend Nam Suk’s egloos site is …

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The Tail End of the Trip

Well, I now have my wits about me, so I am going to post a little more about the rest of my trip, which concluded with my return to Korea on Saturday (I arrived Sunday afternoon, and got to Jeonju Sunday evening). However, since I know that a detailed breakdown of all of my voyage may not interest everyone, I’m going to use the Extended Entry function and let you pop over the the full story if you are interested by clicking the “Continue reading” link below…

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The New World Orwell

So now they’ve actually issued a report that this was all bullshit? But wait, I thought the report said that the President and co. simply ignored the CIA’s reports, which didn’t implicate Iraq in any involvement with Al Quaida. The connect the dots analogy below is tragic and chilling. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the leading Democrat on the 18-member panel, said that “bad information” was used to bolster the case for war. “We in Congress would not have authorized that war with 75 votes if we knew what we know now,” the West Virginia Democrat said. “Leading up to September 11, …

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