Last month Reuters reported that Rwanda may try to indict several French military officers for their alleged role in aiding the 1994 genocide in that country as well as providing protection for the former Rwandan government as it fled the country in the summer of 1994. In 1998, a French parliamentary commission looked into the…
September, 2002
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National Review’s Jonah Goldberg has an article in the American Enterprise in which he tries to bring the hype about weblogs down a notch or two. But Goldberg seems to be tilting at windmills. Goldberg’s thesis can be summed up by the final paragraph of his article, Should the marketplace show its appreciation by generating…
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One of the things that frustrates me to no end is that very few reporters publish their e-mail addresses, so it is impossible for me to contact them and let them know just how inadequate they are. This morning it is United Press International’s Dan Whipple who wrote an op-ed on environmental terrorism that soft…
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Gee, doesn’t this sound familiar. An Florida election where Miami-Dade County is probably going to have to do a complete recount of ballots cast on almost 7,200 machines. What did that $32 million Florida spent on reforming its election system get spent on? New name tags for poll workers?
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This turns out to be many months old, but just randomly surfing today was the first time I’d seen Meryl Yourish’s The Stan Lee Solution: The problem: The world media is extremely biased against Israel, choosing to yammer about massacres without evidence while subsequently ignoring the evidence that there was no massacre. People like Robert…
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First Presbyterian Rev. Gretchen Graf managed to create a predictable controversey with a speech she gave at a memorial for 9/11 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. At that event, Graf opened her speech by saying, One year ago today, 19 young men on a mission profoundly changed our lives and the life of our nation.…
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Salon.Com’s managing editor Scott Rosenberg made the mistake of castigating weblogger Damian Penny, who was the first to draw attention to Salon’s 9/11 feature that includes dozens of tasteless and crass thoughts about the terrorist attacks. In one letter, for example, an anonymous writer complains that he hates his dad and wishes he hadn’t survived…
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I will never be able to understand how Dave Winer can write this sort of nonsense, An event like 9-11 brings us to gather, and events that do that, no matter how much grief they create, are wonderful, rich, powerful, enlivening, and believe it or not, healing. It’s easier to see that one year later.…
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And in time for the 9/11 anniversary, TownHall.Com features Ben Shapiro’s idiotic column defending Jerry Falwell’s comments about how 9/11 was the fault of homosexuals, abortion supporters and secular humanists. Shapiro writes, Jerry Falwell said after Sept. 11 that abortionists, feminists, the gays and lesbians who promote homosexuality as a natural lifestyle, the American Civil…
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Ah yes, the best way to remember and honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks. Speeches? Memorial Services? Candle light vigils? Nah, those are too traditional for a cutting edge New Media outfit like Salon.Com. Instead, why not run letters from readers with tasteless comments about the disaster. A sample, My husband and I were…