The most amusing story I read this past year had to be a New York Times article about the rhyming Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice. Justice J. Michael Eakin has been writing his case opinions in verse to the consternation of both his fellow justices and the people who argue cases before the Pennsylvanian Supreme Court.…
December, 2002
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Via Boing! Boing! comes a link to The Peanuts Tarot Deck.
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Via National Review comes this excellent gaffe from the New York Times that is further evidence of their Raines-era fall into kneejerk American-style liberalism. The British milieu that the Clash emerged from called out for punk. When the Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten, draped on his microphone, intoned, “No future,” it was the cry of youth…
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I’ve been meaning to link to David Pearce’s manifesto, The Hedonistic Imperative for some time now. I have not had the time to really read this online book closely (in fact I strongly disagree with some parts that I have closely read), but regardless of how realistic or off-the-wall Pearce’s argument is, he highlights the…
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In the United States, we’re aware of the dangers of homegrown Christian extremism, and 9/11 and other events brought the dangers of Muslim extremism to the fore, but Hindu religious extremism — a major problem in India — rarely makes headlines. While doing research for a story about animal rights I came across news stories…
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Over the past month or so I’d read quite a few good reviews of Strategic Command: European Theater. This is an old school computer wargame, complete with hex map and counters for graphics. Since I have a bit of time on my hands this week, I downloaded a demo of the game and played for…
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Via Reason Magazine comes a link to an audit of the FBI’s lingering problems in upgrading its computer systems. The report betrays an agency that is plumbing new depths of government incompetence. The short version is the FBI doesn’t know what it currently has and so doesn’t know what it wants. It relies on five…
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Colin is growing very quickly — he’s probably going to be as big at 6 months as his sister was at a year old. Talking with Grandpa: Hanging out with Grandma:
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Last summer, my daughter began begging us for a cat of her own. So we assigned her to taking care of our existing cats. After she proved she could feed and water the cat, my wife did a little Internet searching and found a woman near us who was giving away kittens. Dusty, as my…
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My daughter, Emma turned 6 this month. Earlier in December we had a party with her and about 25 friends at one of those chain pizza places targeted at young kids. I think of it like one of those credit card ads. Price per child: $7-$8. Not having 25 children running through my house: Priceless.…