Miscellaneous stuff I'm reading/listening to

Former Spook discusses old WMD...and Shannonloveblog explains the real problem is that people don't understand the technology of WMD's...as does Strategypage...

my take is that WMD and the technology to use them effectively is two different things. The ability to use them efficiently to cause mass death is very hard....But since low tech can lead to low level death and high level terror, and the terror itself is a powerful weapon...

THIS discusses trying to separate mainstream "insurgency" from the radical nut cases...this is being done in the Philippines all the time...you settle with those who have real grievences, and the hard core you just kill, imprison or marginalize. Alas, too many prowar blogs ignore this...and actually the anti war blogs have no clue at all.

Lileks discusses the latest "we're all gonna die" hysteria.."...As long as I can remember I have been fed end-times scenarios – death by ice, death by fire, death by famine, death by smothering from heaps of clambering humans scrabbling for purchase on an overpopulated world, death by full-scale nuclear exchange, death by unstoppable global AIDS, death by a two-degree rise in temperatures, death by radon, death by alar, death by inadvertent Audi acceleration, death by juju...."
On the other hand, the Weather channel's new series will scare the heck out of you...one of the scenerios is an F5 tornado to hit Dallas...hmmm...Oklahoma city already went thru that when I lived near there...Gee, I'm glad I don't live in Tornado alley anymore...I'm safe here in the Philippines, where I only have to worry about terrorism, earthquakes, monsoons, floods, landslides, dengue fever and volcanoes...

VDH discusses negativism in the MSM

Opinion Journal discusses the need for beauty in the language of worship.

Peter Kreeft's essay on the importance of words and the beauty of language in LOTR DownloadAudio HEre
His lecture on surfing and spirituality is HERE