Why are the state quarters
Why are the state quarters so ugly?
{ Daily Archives }
August 27th, 2002
Am I the only person
Am I the only person who finds anything Olympic-related to be sleep inducing? The US Olympic committee narrowed the 2012 choices to NY and SF. I do love a little neighborly city bashing, though: ‘When asked about New York’s rival, Mr. Bloomberg said, “San Francisco is a very nice small town.”‘
The most powerful man in
The most powerful man in the world (Dick Cheney) finally explains why Hussein must go:
A nuclear-armed Mr. Hussein would “seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world’s energy supplies, directly threaten America’s friends throughout the region and subject the United States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail.”
I think it’s more clear and correct to just say that Hussein is the only dictator who posesses and has used weapons of mass destruction and has previously attacked his neighbors. That also answers Saletan’s critique of Armey’s confusing doctrine. However, Cheney’s line that “a return of inspectors would provide no assurance whatsoever” is absurd, given that the (initial, unfettered) weapons inspections destroyed ten times as many weapons as were destroyed in the Gulf War itself.
The ILECs feeling threatened in
The ILECs feeling threatened in their primary voice business is a good thing for Pedestal, because it means they need to role out DSL to make up for lost revenues.
What is the only court
What is the only court in the US never to have heard a case? The Federal Intelligence Surveillence Appeals Court. James Bamford explains the answer, and calls Ashcroft’s enemy combatant nonsense worse than Kafka.
“The public, the court wrote,
“The public, the court wrote, has deputized the press “as the guardians of their liberty.”‘ And we’re lucky to live in a country where that press can witness immigration trials, at least if they’re in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. I had assumed that it would take years for the courts to undo all of the damage to the Constitution that Ashcroft has wrought, but perhaps federal judges can keep overturning these absurd, embarassing, self-defeating Justice department dictates almost as quickly as they’re issued. One more quote: “A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society envisioned by the framers of our Constitution.”
Not an oxymoron: Here is
Not an oxymoron: Here is a fascinating piece on demographics from the Economist. “Higher fertility rates and immigration produce not only a larger population but a society that is younger, more mixed ethnically and, on balance, more dynamic…. The contrast between youthful, exuberant, multi-coloured America and ageing, decrepit, inward-looking Europe goes back almost to the foundation of the United States.”