UPI columnist Jim Bennett suggests that:

There is now some discussion that Osama bin Laden may be nominated Time’s Man of the Year. As you may recall, the criterion for that honor is to be the person who had the biggest impact on events during the past year.

It would be worthwhile to spread the meme, via emails, postings, and weblogs, that the nomination ought to go to the passengers and crew of United Flight 93. The Era of Osama lasted about an hour and half or so, from the time the first plane hit the tower to the moment the General Militia of Flight 93 reported for duty. At that point the Era of the Victim Fighting Back began.

Osama’s shadow on history is short. The shadow of the heroes of Flight 93 will be long. They deserve the nomination as People of the Year.

I agree that they’re more worthy than bin Laden, but while it’s early in the decade to make such an assessment, when we look back over it nine years from now, we may find that they deserve a People Of The Decade award, if such a thing exists.

Don’t expect Time to pick up on the suggestion, though–it’s still too politically incorrect (as demonstrated by the ongoing airline-security insanity), which means that the full impact of their actions hasn’t been societally felt yet.

Thanks to Tim Blair who, in between eating bugs, has discovered that Jihad Johnny, our own little Marinhadeen, has a compatriot in treason Down Under, from Adelaide. I guess Aussie traitors aren’t as newsworthy as Americans–I haven’t seen much about it in the news here. We’ll have to trust our upside-down friend to keep us up to date.

He also has a candidate for the Instapundit “Dropping The Ball” Contest–Margo Kingston, web diarist for the Sydney Morning Herald. A highly-recommended and entertaining skewering.

Good piece in today’s Opinion Journal by Michael Rubin on why it’s a mistake to “engage” with regimes that oppress their people. We need to ask why Mr. Powell wants to have a dialogue with one of the most notorious slave traders in the modern world. Sudan would appear to need the Aghanistan treatment–excise the cancer surgically, cauterize the wound, apply antibiotics in the form of intelligent aid. As in Afghanistan, their people will thank us.

Eric Drexler has some useful words at the Foresight web site.

The whole thing is worth reading, but I particularly enjoyed what is yet another interesting take on what happened on Flight 93:

#3 Our advocacy of openness as the safest strategy has been validated. In under two hours, the problem of airliners hitting buildings was solved ? by passengers in the fourth plane to be highjacked. They did it “open source style”: shared information on the need, collaborative design, and unpaid group implementation. (With earlier information, they might have been able to save their own lives, as well as those in the building their plane was meant to hit.) Their example can inspire us as we work to find a “bottom-up,” distributed, networked, immune-system-style defense against the abuse of nanotechnology.

Buena’ dia’ (that’s how they say it down here–for some reason Puerto Ricans drop the trailing “s” on many words–it’s a dialect thing).

Will Vehrs compliments my meager efforts (thanx), and comments that he didn’t know this was a PR-based blog. Well, that’s understandable, because it’s actually not. It’s a transterrestrial blog (hopefully to become an interglobal blog sometime in the future). I blog wherever I am.

Much of the time I’m in southern California, but I spend time down here because Patricia is working on a job here (Tren Urbano–an urban rail project in San Juan). I’ll be back in Redondo Beach next week, and then in Missouri and possibly Michigan for the holidays.

Who knows where I’ll be next year? New York? Cork? Only time will tell…

Anyway like the old saying goes, wherever I go, there I am, with my weblog.

Buena’ dia’ (that’s how they say it down here–for some reason Puerto Ricans drop the trailing “s” on many words–it’s a dialect thing).

Will Vehrs compliments my meager efforts (thanx), and comments that he didn’t know this was a PR-based blog. Well, that’s understandable, because it’s actually not. It’s a transterrestrial blog (hopefully to become an interglobal blog sometime in the future). I blog wherever I am.

Much of the time I’m in southern California, but I spend time down here because Patricia is working on a job here (Tren Urbano–an urban rail project in San Juan). I’ll be back in Redondo Beach next week, and then in Missouri and possibly Michigan for the holidays.

Who knows where I’ll be next year? New York? Cork? Only time will tell…

Anyway like the old saying goes, wherever I go, there I am, with my weblog.

Buena’ dia’ (that’s how they say it down here–for some reason Puerto Ricans drop the trailing “s” on many words–it’s a dialect thing).

Will Vehrs compliments my meager efforts (thanx), and comments that he didn’t know this was a PR-based blog. Well, that’s understandable, because it’s actually not. It’s a transterrestrial blog (hopefully to become an interglobal blog sometime in the future). I blog wherever I am.

Much of the time I’m in southern California, but I spend time down here because Patricia is working on a job here (Tren Urbano–an urban rail project in San Juan). I’ll be back in Redondo Beach next week, and then in Missouri and possibly Michigan for the holidays.

Who knows where I’ll be next year? New York? Cork? Only time will tell…

Anyway like the old saying goes, wherever I go, there I am, with my weblog.

According to Brit Hume, President Bush has announced that we’re withdrawing from the ABM Treaty after almost three decades. Thus we undo one more of Nixon’s mistaken policies (I could never figure out why the left hated Nixon–he instituted more of their loony prescriptions than most Democratic presidents). This would never have happened under a President Gore.

I’ll probably say more on this later, but for now…

Hallelluiah! It is now legal to defend ourselves.

According to Brit Hume, President Bush has announced that we’re withdrawing from the ABM Treaty after almost three decades. Thus we undo one more of Nixon’s mistaken policies (I could never figure out why the left hated Nixon–he instituted more of their loony prescriptions than most Democratic presidents). This would never have happened under a President Gore.

I’ll probably say more on this later, but for now…

Hallelluiah! It is now legal to defend ourselves.

According to Brit Hume, President Bush has announced that we’re withdrawing from the ABM Treaty after almost three decades. Thus we undo one more of Nixon’s mistaken policies (I could never figure out why the left hated Nixon–he instituted more of their loony prescriptions than most Democratic presidents). This would never have happened under a President Gore.

I’ll probably say more on this later, but for now…

Hallelluiah! It is now legal to defend ourselves.