Thursday, May 13
American shame; Islamist snuff movies It's a tough call whether Abu Musab al-Zarqawi�the Jordanian "militant" who is reportedly responsible for the videotaped butchery of Nicholas Berg�is more stupid than he is brutal, or whether he is a bigger monster than he is a fool. Zarqawi's own nauseating videotape makes the case for his indescribable brutality. Reason
Monday, May 10
A failure of leadership at the highest levels Around the halls of the Pentagon, a term of caustic derision has emerged for the enlisted soldiers at the heart of the furor over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal: the six morons who lost the war. The Army Times
Connect music store an 'embarrassment' to Sony Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post says that Sony's Connect music store, which was launched on Tuesday, is "an embarrassment to the company that gave the world the Walkman." Pegoraro calls Sony's Sonic Stage, the software you must use to download and manage your purchases, "a bloated, bug-ridden beast of a program. Mac Minute
(Bush continues errors of his way) and backs 'superb' defence chief Mr Bush's praise of Mr Rumsfeld came amid growing calls for the defence secretary to resign over the scandal. BBC News
Newspapers See Danger in Text Messaging International editors and publishers warned Friday that nontraditional communications � such as cell phone text messages � are rapidly outflanking radio, television, and print media because of their immediacy and proximity to the public.
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