DanKohn.com

Superb piece by former CIA head James Woolsey:

The ruling mullahs in Iran are beginning to look like the inhabitants of the Kremlin in 1988 or of Versailles in 1788 — the storm that engulfs them may not be here yet, but it is gathering.

A democratic, capitalist Iran and Iraq would leave Saudi Arabia as the main remaining country in the world that oppresses its people and exports terror by brutally combining religion with the state.

I like this insight from the WSJ:

Just as people grow up to become their parents, companies morph into the firms they spent their formative years fighting.
Sun Microsystems, for example, now looks a lot like Digital Equipment of the early 1980s, clinging stubbornly and perilously to a strategy made out-of-date by cheaper machines.

Microsoft seems to have become like the IBM of old — moving at a glacial pace with massive self-serving software “architectures,” apparently unmindful of the PC being a lean, grass-roots machine. (There’s a sly name for these sorts of .NET-style strategy announcements that are heavy on marketing but light on specifics: “marketecture.”)

I’m especially pessimistic on Sun.