Today the Supreme Court of the United States did the right thing in three decisions finding that the government cannot indefinitely people designated as enemy combatants indefinitely without giving them an opportunity to challenge their detention. That includes enemy combatants held outside of the United States, such at Guantanamo Bay. Source: Supreme Court Affirms Detainees’…
June, 2004
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Interesting blog post at RatherBiased.Com about CBS News’ business relationship with Amazon.Com. The subtext for this is some conservatives who think that CBS News is acting inappropriately in the way it is heavily promoting Bill Clinton’s new biography and other “controversial political books” (though I would put Clinton’s book in that category, although the RatherBiased.Com…
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If it weren’t so emblematic of the news media in general, these paragraphs from a CNN story would be funny, Meanwhile, a source told CNN that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld never approved a controversial interrogation technique called “water boarding.” That source had told CNN the opposite Monday. The senior defense official who provided the original…
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I agree completely with Jim Moore on the ongoing genocide in Sudan. It is long past time for the United States to stop twiddling its thumbs waiting for the United Nations and act unilaterally again to stop genocide in Sudan. A bigger question is exactly what the hell would have to happen for the United…
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This Dave Winer post had me laughing out loud. It’s so bizarre to see people who get themselves in situations largely through their own bad acts and then seem clueless about that. Winer is upset that he’s being attacked for taking down Weblogs.Com and that no one is coming to his defense, And I said…
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I am looking to make contact with any Vietnam veterans who were serving in Company D, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry, 11th Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division in early 1971 when that Company was deployed near Duc Pho.
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Last month I mentioned Hitachi’s annoucement of a 400gb hard drive. Now Seagate has announced its own 400gb hard drive. This one’s a three-platter drive (as opposed to the four-platter Hitachi model), with a 16mb cache. It will be interesting to see head to head performance comparisons, but as I’ve said before, the continually declining…
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Nature has a summary of a fascinating find mentioned at the 41st Animal Behavior Society meeting, Oaxaca, Mexico — octopuses favor one of their 8 appendages over the other. According to Nature, Most octopuses have a favourite arm, zoologists have discovered. This is the first time they have been found to show any bias when…
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The Center for Consumer Freedom points out that under definitions used by the U.S. government 75 percent of the players on the L.A. Lakers and Detroit Pistons are overweight or obese. With all that junk food he’s been eating, Kobe Bryant’s just a heart attack waiting to happen.
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This post accuses me of perpetuating a myth about Ronald Reagan’s statement about AIDS. It basically accuses me of repeating Deroy Murdock’s error which was just mindblowing — he was off by two days on a statement that Reagan made about AIDS. Rather than the statement being part of the State of the Union address,…