Is intelligence being redefined?

"What does it mean to be "smart"? Does it mean to hit a very specific place and destroy it? What would dumb mean then? Just destroy? Is there a term for a bomb that is created to help to erect a building rather than removing it from satellite pictures? Are soldiers considered "smart gun carriers?" Does "intelligence" mean finding out things that can lead to death and destruction? What would be the name of the thing that is used to bring life and new solutions? Does "friendly" just mean coming from the people who are told the same thing as the one being attacked? Is there "friendly beatings?", "friendly punishment", "friendly truth", "friendly death"? — Witold Riedel.

There are only three blogs I read regularly that are written by people I don't "know": Jonno, Loobylu, and Witold. Jonno is good for the hip, sharp factor. His is a life I can't identify with, but love to visit. Looby is the friend that all the girls identify with: pretty, clever, artistic, sweet, humble. she could be all of our best friends. But Witold -- Witold is just someone you want to know -- hang out with and share a coffee. Which is an odd thing to say about someone you don't know from Adam. But nonetheless, if he lived in SLO Town, I would go out of my way to say hi at the coffee shop. He'd be the guy who might come to all of our parties and afterwards the whole house might muse that "he should hang out more often." But instead we just read his blog and take a sip of a little new york transplant lifestyle. Witold kinda has a Carsten feel about him and I wonder if it is a European sensibility?