Archive for September, 2004
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
The "Bush only has to stumble through, but Kerry has to kick ass" pre-spin to the debates is everywhere. What is this, golf with handicaps? Once again, the Media Matters for America folks get it right: Not-So-Great Expectations: Media's spin favors Bush -- again.
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
I have a few Gmail invites, if there's anybody who reads this blog who doesn't have one yet and wants one. Just email me at ronmcc at gmail dot com and ask. People I know and/or like get first dibs.
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Friday, September 24th, 2004
Maybe there's hope for the Sunshine State after all: 'Terri's Law' struck down:
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that was rushed through the Legislature last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked up to a feeding tube against her husband's wishes. The unanimous court ...
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Friday, September 24th, 2004
Sony gets a ticket on the clue bus, and so decided to support the MP3 format on its new hard drive portable music systems, instead of its stupid proprietary "ATRAC" format. Apple should shit its pants. Here are zillion articles about the whole thing from GoogleNews; Geek.com's article "Sony accepts ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
...but then, you're reading this, aren't you? Anyway, inserted a new "Top 10" list of sites into the right column on this page, since nobody really wants to sort through all my Furl links, and you might just want to see what's at the top of my list at ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
OK, I can't help myself -- more of the same. Our good friends at DemocraticUnderground.com quote the New York Post as saying that...
The hot rumor in New York political circles has Roger Stone, the longtime GOP activist, as the source for Dan Rather's dubious Texas Air National Guard "memos." ...
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Saturday, September 18th, 2004
OK, just one more bit on the "Forged memos as distractor technique" stuff before I stop: The consistently good Media Matters for America has this excellent piece: Media's memo obsession has enabled conservatives to distract from Bush's lies about service.
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Saturday, September 18th, 2004
A zillion years ago in a different life I took about a year of ASL and absorbed some of the linguists' view of sign language; so, this piece from Scientific American is pretty cool and interesting: Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: In Nicaragua, a Language Is Born. ...
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Friday, September 17th, 2004
OK, read this LA Times piece about the blogger who "broke" the "forgeries" story about the guard memos (Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist), and then try telling me my last post was just paranoia. I don't think so.
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Thursday, September 16th, 2004
Now that CBS is backing off the authenticity of the incriminating Bush-in-the-Guard memos (CBS Softens Defense of Bush Documents) , here's my theory: The whole thing was a Karl Rove dirty trick. The Publicans planted false memos that they could then discredit, because they know that Bush is ...
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