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Monthly Archives: October 2002
Islam Should Not Be a Sacred Cow
National Review Online’s Rod Dreher has a pretty damning piece about the state of campus tolerance toward differing views. A couple scholars who have documented the repression of Christians in Islamic states was invited to speak at Georgetown, but the … Continue reading
Paul Wellstone’s Memorial Service . . . Er, Political Rally
First Paul Wellstone’s family were reportedly upset at comments being made by Republicans about Walter Mondale over the weekend, but then they go and turn his memorial service into a three hour political rally. Could they make up their minds … Continue reading
Tagged Trent Lott
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Journalists and Racial Profiling
I’ve been reading a lot of comments ever since the sniper suspects were arrested about the failure of criminal profilers and, specifically, the implicit — and in some cases explicit — pre-arrest claims that the sniper(s) were almost certainly a … Continue reading
Activists Who Hate McDonald’s More Than Polio
According to the British Medical Journal, some activists apparently hate McDonald’s more than polio and are angered at UNICEF’s deal with the former to fight the latter. McDonald’s has an agreement with Unicef in which the international chain restaurant will … Continue reading
Paul Wellstone Killed in Crash
According to CNN, Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) has been killed in a plane crash.
The Perils of Cross-Cultural Statistics
In an excellent article about the UK’s failed experiment in gun control, Janet Malcolm offer an amazing example of the perils of using statistics as-is from different countries. As we all know, the United States has one of the highest … Continue reading
If Mugabe Can’t Go to Europe, Europe Will Go To Mugabe
Yet another example of just how pointless multilateral action with Europe is. As I noted awhile ago, the European Union imposed a travel ban on Zimbabwe officials as punishment for the government’s increasingly authoritarian ways. But they weren’t enforcing it. … Continue reading
Jennifer Granholm Redefining Backpedaling
One of the more amusing aspects of elections is watching one candidate or another say something completely off the wall and then, rather than admit the mistake, try to spin the statement away. Jennifer Granholm, Democratic candidate for governor here … Continue reading
RSS Validator
Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby have created an RSS Validator that validates RSS feeds including RSS 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, and 2.0. Just enter the URL of your RSS feed, click “Validate” and quickly find any problems.
Tagged Syndication
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Macro Caching in Conversant
Macrobyte Resources have added a number of macro caching features in the last 48 hours, including caching the insertQuery macro. This is especially useful to me since I use queries on data fields to build dynamic category pages. This works … Continue reading
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