The New Republic Online: Closing of the Presidential Mind
Wednesday, July 7th, 2004The New Republic's Closing of the Presidential Mind is a nice little piece on the anti-knowledge, anti-intellectualism that dominates the Shrub administration.
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The New Republic's Closing of the Presidential Mind is a nice little piece on the anti-knowledge, anti-intellectualism that dominates the Shrub administration.
The Tard Blog lives
Sunday, July 4th, 2004The Tard Blog lives at the excellent WayBack Machine. I thought I'd lost it. If you've never read it, give it a look. It's hilarious.
Notes from the north
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004Just a couple quickies, since I'm in Maine, at an internet cafe (somehow, we ended up in a cottage w/o even a phone line). But here are 2 bits of good news in the world: (1) Bush Approval Rating Falls to Lowest Point in NYT/CBS Poll (down to ...
Those crazy Americans!
Thursday, June 3rd, 2004How can you not like a story with the headline "New Study: 26% Of Americans Have Mental Illnesses"? Bullshit study, as you can easily tell from NYTimes coverage here, but the study does indeed claim that 26% of us have mental illness. Interestingly, it's dominated by the 18% of ...
Undermining the pandering to the “pro-life” religious right
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004Go, Planned Parenthood! The U.S. District Court in San Francisco just struck down the federal "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003", which "imposed criminal and civil penalties on any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion." Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the ...
What happens when you occupy a country
Thursday, May 6th, 2004The Independent has one of the best pieces about the Iraqui prisoner abuse stuff, having spoken with one of the abused prisoners. The torture victim: Iraqi tells how he was stripped, beaten and sexually abused by US military.How does the saying go? "Those who do not remember Viet ...
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
Trying out posting to the blog via AvantGo's AvantBlog interface, which allows blog posting from your PDA. I've actually been pretty sick recently, and setting this up is about as much as I have energy for as I wait for the antibiotics to fully kick in.
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
Trying out posting to the blog via AvantGo's AvantBlog interface, which allows blog posting from your PDA. I've actually been pretty sick recently, and setting this up is about as much as I have energy for as I wait for the antibiotics to fully kick in.
The last taboo
Saturday, March 27th, 2004OK, I love this. Breaking down the last taboo. Comfort to the parents of nose-picking kids everywhere: Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it. Some highlights:Lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier and ...
No more fucking swearing!
Saturday, March 20th, 2004I guess the "'fucking' is OK as an adjective" days were short-lived. Now the FCC is taking it all back. All because of that damn tit on the Super Bowl, it seems. Fines galore, tightening all the rules. The 'Publicans hate Big Government getting in the ...
