At the end of January the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court announced that the court would take on leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in its first cases. ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that the court would collective evidence and issue arrest warrants against leaders of the Ugandan rebels who have kidnapped as…
February, 2004
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Kevin Werbach has an article about one of my tech obssessions — storage, in this case portable storage. As Werbach note, the rise of (relatively) cheap, high capacity storage for mobile devices is already changing what we use such devices for and that trend is going to accelerate to the point where we begin to…
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Lisa and I live about an hour from Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is a quite conservative part of Michigan. The local TV station there, WOOD-TV 8, always seems to be running some muckracking moral story or another. Recently, though, it took out radio promos advertising an upcoming story describing a truly shocking event — a…
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John Robb apparently has just returned from an alternative plane of existence where Bush wasn’t inaugrated president until January of 2002, When did the recession begin? March 2001. Of course, this isn’t going to stop the Bush team from rewriting history to blame it on Clinton. Since Bush was inaugurated on January 20, 2001, I…
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I have absolutely no use for shock columnist Ann Coulter who this week writes — among others — of Max Cleland, Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could…
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Sports commentators are whining today about the Yankee’s signing of A-Rod that will likely put their payroll this season at > $200 million. Oh, it’s horrible for the game — the rest of those poor teams just can’t compete. But wait a second — didn’t a team that had an opening day payroll of <…
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I happened to run across an article written a couple weeks ago about Google News’ disturbing decision to include JihadUnspun.Com in the mix of sites that are indexed as part of Google News. Now on its web site, Google says of its criteria for inclusion in Google News only that, While the sources of the…
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On January 7, the BBC had a brief report about clashes in northern Nigeria between the government and radical Muslim youth who have formed an organization they call the Taleban, after the Afghanistan Muslim extremists. Clashes and riots involving Muslims in northern Nigeria are nothing new, anad soldiers apparently crushed the Nigerian Taleban’s version of…
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Apparently, Slashdot does not like to be Slashdotted either. ROTFLMAO.
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The news stories about Robert Atkins being obese when he died were appalling for a number of reasons, not the least of which that much of the coverage deceived people like John Robb into believing that the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a run-of-the-mill nonprofit run by doctors. It’s not — it’s a front…