February, 2004

  1. Hypocrisy from Gay Marriage Supporter

    Human Rights Campaign president Cheryl Jacques did a nice job of making my major point about gay marriage — that many of those supporting gay marriage are hypocrites unwilling to take their views to their logical outcome. Here’s a partial transcript of Jacques appearance on Crossfire on Feb. 24 (emphasis added), TUCKER CARLSON: I beg…

  2. LRA Kills Almost 200 in Weekend Attack

    Lord’s Resistance Army soldiers attacked a camp for displaced persons near Lira, Uganda, this weekend. According to the BBC, 190 of the estimated 4,000 people living in the camp were killed in the attack and many more were injured. The BBC quoted MP Charles Angiro describing the attack, The rebels came with sophisticated guns… and…

  3. February 1, 2004 Anti-War Protest

    Below are images from a protest by the |Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents to War| held in downtown Kalamazoo on February 1, 2004: I count about 25 people there when I showed up about 12:30 p.m. Not a bad turnout for a cold Michigan winter day. “522 dead for Haliburton.” Hmm, where have I seen that sign…

  4. Archos Gmini 220

    I am a total sucker for gadgets like the Archos Gmini 220 (what a horrible product title). Okay, it’s your basic 20 gb MP3 player. But wait, there’s more. Add an attachment and it becomes an FM radio as well, and you can record directly to the HD. But there’s still more — add an…

  5. GreyTuesday.Org

    Via Boing! Boing! it appears that activists have set up GreyTuesday.Org to encourage people to mirror The Grey Album on February 24. The Grey Album is a mix album making the rounds that takes the vocals from Jay-Z’s The Black Album and mixes it with samples from the Beatles’ White Album. Rolling Stone called The…

  6. Asimov’s Responds to Wood TV 8 Piece

    Asimov’s Science Fiction today posted a response to that Wood TV 8 hit piece on them that I mentioned the other day (see In Which I Discover My Wife’s Adult Magazine Collection) that claims Wood TV 8 distorted and outright lied about several key parts of its story on Asimov’s. Reporter Kristi Andersen and the…