Managed to find this picture of Martin Sheen from NBC4.TV. Sheen has a piece of duct tape across his mouth with the word “Peace” written on the tape. This was how Sheen showed up to an antiwar protest where he carried a cross while other antiwar activists read aloud a prayer he had written.
March, 2003
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Jim Roepcke links to this story about a goofy Albertan separatist group. What would Albertans do once they separate from Canada, “One of the things that was suggested would be a couple of nuclear submarines moving around the world,” Bruce Hutton told a news conference Tuesday. “That makes us a formidable power. With the amount…
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Yahoo! Entertainment actually has an entire story devoted to Wonder Woman’s new haircut. Superman had to die to get mass media interest, but Wonder Woman just has to cut her hair? Is there any gimmick DC won’t try to improve their sales? And with a lineup that includes books like Aquaman Secret Files can you…
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Command-Post.Org offers something I had been looking for — total coalition deaths to date in the war on Iraq: US: Combat – 15 Accidents – 8 UK: Combat – 6 Accidents – 14 POWS: US – 7 UK – 0 Just for comparison, there were a total of 363 deaths and 357 wounded in the…
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According to this CBS report, the United States dropped a bomb designed to take out Iraqi television by emitting an electromagnetic pulse to fry the broadcast equipment. According to CBS, The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable…
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There is nothing that annoys me when using a computer or PDA than this — when I am given the option to configure a setting but the device simply ignores my desires anyway. I wanted to scream when I finally realized this was why my new 1910 IPAQ was acting oddly. Frankly, I thought for…
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On the one hand, I really can’t imagine ditching my Dixie Chicks CDs just because I disagree with their position on the Persian Gulf War. In fact some people seem to be forgetting that this is one of the advantages of a free market — I generally don’t know nor care about the politics of…
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Hopefully they won’t run into the same problems that Glenn Fleischmann did, but Capitalism.Net has posted a 30 megabyte PDF of Ludwig Von Mises’ book, Socialism. Published in 1922, Socialism outlined what would turn out to be the fundamental problem faced by non-market economies — namely their inability to make rational economic decisions due to…
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The Boston Globe recently ran a column by Ellen Goodman pointing out the more egregious nonsense that comes out of talk radio. But this seems to be a case of throwing stones in glass houses. Apparently the Globe hopes people have forgotten about its own columnists, Patricia Smith and Mike Barnicle, who stole others’ ideas,…
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Here’s a picture of my daughter going all Blair Witch Project with a disposable camera,