In response to the increasingly dictatorial nature of the Zimbabwe regime, the European Union early this year enacted a number of sanctions against Zimbabwe, including a ban on travel by members of Zimbabwe’s government. But, of course, they didn’t mean it. This month Zimbabwe’s Trade Minister was allowed to travel to Brussels, Belgium — which…
September, 2002
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The Associated Press reports that police in Washington, DC are once again looking at Ingmar Guandique as a possible suspect in the murder of Chandra Levy. Guandique was arrested and convicted for attacking two female joggers in the same general area that Levy’s remains were found. The scary thing is that DC police had ruled…
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is running for governor of Maryland. At a recent debate with her opponent, Robert Ehrlich, Townsend pointedly accused Ehrlich of opposing race-based affirmative action. Here’s her stunning defense of such initiatives, He opposes affirmative action based on race. Well, let me tell you, slavery was based on race. Lynching was based on…
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USA Today has an enormous front page story today on, of all things, Ayn Rand’s horrible novel Atlas Shrugged. The article is centered on CEOs reading the book as a defense of what they do in light of corporate scandals. I’m amazed that busy CEOs would have the time or energy to plow through it.…
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On Saturday, Sept. 21, 2002 at 8:50 a.m., my wife, Lisa, gave birth to our second child, Colin Aric Brian Carnell. But to really explain the experience, first you have to know about Christmas 1996. That was when my daughter decided to be born, and I can without any qualms say it was one of…
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Over the past couple weeks, a number of people had weighed in as supporting Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon and, who decked an idiot who asked Aldrin to swear on a Bible that the Moon landing actually took place. The idiot, Bart Sibrel, is one of those folks who think…
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Glenn Reynolds posted a link today to a massively stupid article by Ted Rall rehashing the lame conspiracy theory that the war in Afghanistan is really about oil. There are so many things wrong with Rall’s version of this conspiracy theory, that it’s difficult to know where to begin. So let me just stick to…
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I’m really taken aback by the number of people who are posting this alleged misdirected e-mail. Okay, I’ll grant there is a remote chance it is legitimate, but it has all of the hallmarks of a hoax. And yet dozens and dozens of people — especially the more-skeptical-than-thou webloggers — are posting this e-mail as…
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Watching the principals involved go back and forth over RSS 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, whatever.0, is certainly entertaining. Imagine what these people could do if they didn’t have to spend all that time fighting with each other? Anyway, le’affair RSS has devolved into threats of lawsuits, discussion of doing Winer’s bad ticker in with bad food,…
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ESPN has an excellent article about the conflict of interest that team doctors in the National Football League face as well as the surprisingly low level of care that athletes making hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year receive. The things that Jeff Novak faced from the Jacksonville Jaguars team doctor is just…