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Out with the Old, In with the Old
Apparently, the NYT can’t learn any new tricks, so they start 2007 with their favorite old trick: bashing conservatives for imagined transgressions. In this case, the "transgression" is posting the...
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Maybe Not Militants?
A new headline from al-Reuters: Suspected Greek militants fire rocket at U.S. embassy "Suspected militants"? Well, if they fired a rocket at non-combatants, doesn’t that make them militants by...
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That Time of Year Again
Gentlemen, take your positions. Ready… Set… DEFAME! Seriously, you’d think the yearly ritual of bashing Christ’s Resurrection would be getting old after almost 2,000 years. But no, the so-called...
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A Problem of Scope
A “nor’easter” over New York City and the Eastern Seaboard (from the southwest, oh well) is dumping lots of snow and cold rain, making life very inconvenient, possibly dangerous, for people there. Into...
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It’s All in the Timing
Kathy Griffin says she was joking at the Emmy Awards. Either her timing’s way off, or it became a joke only after the damage was done. But look on the bright side: nobody is rioting or calling for her...
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Misleading Headline of the Day
Anti-abortion postings ordered removed Were the postings in question trying to make a rational argument against abortion? No. Whoops! The Disassociated Press must have been dreaming again. The postings...
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The Right Kind of Victim
The Los Angeles Times has apologized for a false accusation against P.Diddy. He was not involved in the murder of Tupac Shakur. So why hasn’t CBS apologized to President Bush for the forged “memos from...
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Turning Back the Blind Eye
Just seen on the AP wire: POW benefit claimants exceed recorded POWs Oh, suddenly an impossible quantity matters? Why didn't it ever matter during the elections in Chicago or California? With this kind...
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Microsoft: Tool of Terrorists
One of the big arguments against Free Software is the supposedly inherent insecurity of publicly-available encryption systems: “If it can be studied by anyone, it can be cracked by anyone!”, implying...
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No End to the Hatred
The press’s Bush Derangement Syndrome has surfaced yet again, almost a year after George W. Bush’s term ended: 22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found. Yes, that’s right. Twenty-two million....
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Cuban Hunger Striker Dies, AP Happy
Orlando Zapata Tamayo may have lost the earthly battle with his earthly enemies, but he won the spiritual war they waged against him. So how does the Dissociated Press observe his passing? By...
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Miscellany
A lot has happened since my last post, in both the public sphere and in my own life. In no particular order: Helen Thomas has demonstrated why, even today, Jews must remind themselves, “Never again.”...
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Does SCO have it backward?
I just found this article about the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit. It has a very telling pseudo-quote in the fourth paragraph: In essence, SCO is challenging the entire Linux community: "Prove you wrote this...
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NSA: Fine By Me
Has the mainstream press given up trying to make hay out of the NSA domestic spying wiretapping call records database? More importantly, have they actually bothered to look up any pertinent case law or...
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