Derek Scruggs

Fellow Coloradan Alex Komarnitsky decided to bring a charity twist to an SEO competition. Despite not being a professional SEO, he currently ranks number three for the search phrase. This is my attempt to help him win. The best way to get good Google mojo is to link to the target site with the keyphrase [...]

A former CIA officer joins the chorus of former officials claiming the Bush administration “cherry picked” intelligence.
What is most remarkable about prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq is not that it got things wrong and thereby misled policymakers; it is that it played so small a role in one of the most important U.S. policy […]

In the US and, I suppose, most of the West, the words “Tianenmen Square” usually stir up images of the Chinese government brutally suppressing the protests there in 1989. This is why I linked to English and Chinese versions of searches on the word “Tianenmen.”
However, I learned today on Slashdot (and confirmed with my wife) the […]

I don’t know why I feed the trolls. In the interest of free speech and all that, here’s her response. She lost me at “Jewish Communist.” Why not just “Soviets?” She took the rope and hung herself. The forensic evidence for the crimes of Mao and others is often very spotty - when’s the last […]

Deadeye Dick Cheney’s Gun Club

 From the twisted minds at Chickenhead.com.

Today the Daily Northwestern printed letters to the editor in response to Arthur Butz’s column. In addition to the what you might expect – angry alumni expressing their displeasure, in which group you can place me – they also received a letter supporting Butz from a Michael Hoffman, editor of a publication called “Campaign for […]

One of my clients sent me this today. Clearly they have too much time on their hands.

This site was created in the wake of Superbowl XL. It’s main mission is to embarass the NFL enough to address the total lack of competence of their officiating crews. Too many events “happen to” the public… and we are forced to stand by and just accept the outcome from the powers that be. Well, […]

Today the Daily Northwestern allowed Holocaust-denier Arthur Butz to write an opinion piece. If you click through you’ll see that I posted a short response.
This afternoon I received this email:

I was checking out the postings concerning Prof Butz and the “Holocaust”.
Derek, I’m asking this next question with the most inquisitive, forthright honesty I can. […]

It’s easy:

Now, in order to be considered a “liberal,” only one thing is required – a failure to pledge blind loyalty to George W. Bush. The minute one criticizes him is the minute that one becomes a “liberal,” regardless of the ground on which the criticism is based. And the more one criticizes him, by […]