Apparently pedophiles — including Gary Glitter — are using lax law enforcement in Cambodia to seek refuge in that country. Glitter had been secretly living in Cambodia until April and was then kicked out. But now, there’s reason to believe he may have returned there. Given the recent spate of ridiculous ads that anyone who…
January, 2003
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Thirty-four people were arrested in Zimbabwe this week after food riots in two area, including a riot in front of a grain depot at Zimbabwe’s second-largest city. If you’re a second rate dictator with a famine and food riots on your hands, how do you deal with it? By arresting the opposition mayor of Harare,…
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One of my pet peeves is when I actually have to order software that arrives through snail mail. Give me a download or give me death (well, okay, maybe I’m not that extreme). Franklin Covey really takes the cake in this department for frustration. Franklin Covey makes a planning program called (oddly enough), Franklin Covey…
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The Associated Press is reporting that a United Nations human rights team will report that Congolese Liberation Movement and the Congolese Rally for Democracy-National used rape and cannabilism to pacify civilians in the round robin of carnage that is the Congo these days (well for the last 25 years or so). According to the AP,…
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Henry Hanks points to this post by far left cartoonist Tom Tomorrow in which Tomorrow is shocked that James Lileks wrote of Michael Moore, I donÂ’t hate Michael Moore, I pity him – heÂ’s going to die in 15 years of a massive coronary on a cold tiled bathroom floor, awash in the blasts of…
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After I sent CNSNews.Com an e-mail about the problem with their article on capital punishment, it corrected the story to explain that Larry Osborne had, indeed, been acquitted by a jury. But the effect of the way the story is told is still deceptive. Here’s how the story reads now (emphasis added), Contrary to the…
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Henry Hanks points to this CNSNews story that claims death penalty opponents are exaggerating. As an opponent of the death penalty, I agree that opponents tend to exaggerate individual cases, but in this side it seems to be the pro-death penalty folks who are exaggerating (or outright lying). This account of Larry Osborne’s, is almost…
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In 2002, the various web sites I run served up 4,466,455 pages — an average of 12,263 per day. That was a 45 percent increase over 2001. A major source of the increase as AnimalRights.Net, which logged 1,354,285 page views in 2002. Below is a plot of traffic trends for my sites since 1997. Clearly…
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Erich von Daniken’s Chariot of the Gods is being turned into a science fiction television series. Well, von Daniken’s book is a pretty good piece of science fiction, so why not?
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Lawrence Lessig has an excellent observation about Disney’s role in both extremes of intellectual property protection. Mickey Mouse, of course, first appeared in “Steamboat Willie” which was released in 1928. “Steamboat Willie” was in turn a takeoff of Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill” which had been released earlier that year. Lessig notes that the script for…