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Monday, September 30, 2002
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09:56:00 PM
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FINE LINE BETWEEN DEMS AND GOP
Vociferous Republicans protested outside the Fine Line Cafe in Minneapolis where a DFL fundraiser sported the likes of celeb extraordinaire Alec Baldwin and Senator Paul Wellstone. [Star Tribune] {See? It's not only the liberals, progressives, and radicals who're causing all the trouble. Each side denigrate the other. Republicans bad-mouth Democrats and Democrats bad-mouth Republicans. Conservatives accuse liberals of causing all of the problems, and liberals accuse conservatives of the same. Isn't anyone capable of stepping back from the fray and assessing the overall situation in a truly objective way?} [more] SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT, PARDNER
"We are not neo-anything. We are old church and old right. We love the old republic, and when we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers." (Pat Buchanan on his new mag 'The American Conservative') [Wash. Post] {That just about says it all, doesn't it?}
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Friday, September 27, 2002
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03:03:54 AM
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GA. COUNTY OKS CREATIONISM
Despite a Supreme Court ruling in 1987 that defines creationism as a religious belief, Georgia's second-largest school district approved its teaching alongside evolution. [PghChannel] {All of the good work that intelligent people in the South have done to reverse the stereotype that Southerners are ignorant crackers is being undone by these retro religionists.} LOGICAL CONCLUSION
A new bill in congress could make it legal for copyright holders to hack peer-to-peer file trading networks to prevent piracy. [Hotwired] {Okay. And we can let cell phone and e-mail users hack spammers. And then we can let burglary victims get away with stealing from thieves. And the relatives of murder victims can assassinate the murderers in the streets. It's only logical, Spock.} MONKEY HEAVEN
Ecstasy use leads to Parkinson's disease, or so a new study claims. But critics question both the timing and the interpretation of the report because Congress is in the process of considering legislation on the drug. The study on monkeys purports that Ecstasy may damage key brain neurons. [CNN] [Hotwired] {Well, maybe. But they were really happy monkeys. It does, however, sound a lot like the marijuana scare tactics of the thirties and the acid tactics of the sixties.} FRAUDULENT HMOS?
A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of doctors who treated HMO patients between 1990 and 2002 against healthcare providers, whom it accuses of committing fraud. [CNN] {It’s about time.} TRUMPING SADDAM'S DEUCE
In a speech focused on trying to make up with senators he criticized earlier as leaving America threatened and unprepared to "take the enemy on" because they balked at giving him unfettered authority over workers in the proposed Homeland SecurityDept., President Bush called Saddam Hussein "the guy who tried to kill my dad." [CNN] {I knew it was only a matter of time before Dubya played the Dad card.}
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Thursday, September 26, 2002
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02:46:49 AM
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THE PARTY OF FEAR
"Saletan: Both sides now...Bush and Gore on Iraq: a debate between the party of fear vs. the party of good will." (Hardball Newsletter) [MSNBC] {There it is in a nutshell.} DEMOCRATIC WORDSMITH
"He put Lady Justice in a burqa" (Al Gore re John Ashcroft) {Good line. I wonder who wrote that for him.}
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Tuesday, September 24, 2002
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05:15:28 AM
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BUSH SNUBS SCHRODER
President Bush defied protocol and snubbed German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder by failing to congratulate him with the expected phone call after Schroder was narrowly reelected. [NY Times] {I disagree with a lot of what Bush stands for, and I am especially appalled by the fact that he's bought and paid for by the oil companies and will do nothing against their interests. But I gotta admire the guy anyway. He's got a pair.}
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Monday, September 23, 2002
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05:27:32 AM
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BUSH TAKES ON SENATORS
"A day before senators headed into a showdown over President Bush's proposal to create a new homeland security department, Bush on Monday said a dispute over labor rights threatened to leave America unprepared to 'take the enemy on.' "[CNN] {Bush, on the other hand, would rather that the situation be that having America prepared to 'take the enemy on' threaten America's labor rights.}
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Friday, September 20, 2002
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12:37:09 PM
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2006 DIGITAL TV DEADLINE
"U.S. lawmakers are working on an effort that would render standard televisions and VCRs obsolete within five years by requiring broadcasters to switch to digital, copy-protected signals." [CNN] {Five years, huh? I can't wait. Then I can cancel my cable and finally break my tv jones, because there's no way I'm forking over the money for a whole new set of technologies.} WHY CAN'T AHNOLD COUNT?
"No Gov. Schwarzenegger - Yet... Arnold says he can only focus on one thing at a time. And right now, his focus is on raising money for California schools and blowing things up as the Terminator, not on a write-in campaign for governor." (Hardball Newsletter) [Wash. Post] {Ah, that's two things, dude.}
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Tuesday, September 03, 2002
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03:56:18 PM
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KILL FREE WILLY?
Keiko, the killer whale that starred in Free Willy, showed up in a Norwegian fjord six weeks after being released to the wild from his pen in Iceland. An expert says he should be put to death. [CNN] {Maybe it's the expert who should be put to death.} SERIAL KILLER PROFILE
An FBI profile describes a killer who has murdered three women as an "impulsive" and "determined," but "non-threatening" person. "He may come across to some women as a nice guy," says a Baton Rouge Police Department spokesperson. "This veneer of harmlessness is his shield of protection from suspicion." [CNN] {Great. Now, not only will women be primed to jump on any guy who appears to be for any reason suspicious, they'll be wary of the nice guys too. Why don't we just get down to it and tell women not associate with any type of guy at all. That'll solve the problem.}
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Monday, September 02, 2002
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03:44:26 PM
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SCHOOLS WHINE ABOUT MONEY
"As primary schools steadily attract more students, traditional school districts complain that the online campuses siphon public money from dwindling budgets."[Wired News] {Maybe if public schools weren't so bad at providing a good education, school districts wouldn't have to worry about losing "customers."}
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Sunday, September 01, 2002
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10:51:02 AM
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U.S. NOT BACK TO NORMAL AFTER 9/11
"With the one-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks approaching, a new poll indicates many Americans feel no lingering effects in their personal lives but they believe the country is not back to normal and may never return." [CNN] {Did the U.S. ever get back to previous normality after WWI? WWII? Vietnam? Elvis? The Beatles? There is no such thing as normality, only progress or decay.} TRANSPLANT CAUSES WEST NILE
The CDC is investigating the possibility that organ transplants and/or blood transfusions resulted in patients infected with the West Nile virus. [CNN] [article#1] [article#2] {Yet another reason to avoid blood transfusions if at all possible.}
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