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February, 2004
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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…
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Dave Winer absurdly claims that an amendement to the Constitution defining marriage as being between one woman and one man could never be adopted, The hot story today is the President’s call to amend the US Constitution to prevent gay marriage. You heard it here first: It won’t pass. It can’t. But the reasons Winer…
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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…
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What is the deal with overzealous school officials when it comes to drugs? First there was that video of the cops with guns drawn in a southern high school, and now there’s this story on the front page of my local paper today, An assistant high school principal is being investigated after police say he…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Ugandan Supreme Court this month agreed with the arguments of two journalists who claimed they had been unconstitutionally prosecuted under an Ugandan law making it illegal to report “false information.” The Supreme Court decisions led to the dropping of some charges against three journalists who had reported in 2002 that the Lord’s Resistance Army…