Month: April 2004
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Bob Edwards Leaves NPR
The news of Bob Edwards leaving NPR has been bubbling around for a week or so now. WNYC’s On the Media has an interview with Bob: RealAudio | transcript. I will never forget when the Lewinsky story broke and out of all the news outlets, Clinton talked to Bob and (I can’t remember her name) […]
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Email from Iraq
Sam sent my post, Iraq by The Numbers, to some friends. One of his friends sent it to a friend currently serving in Iraq. That friend emailed a friend back who emailed Sam back who then emailed me back: Who cares? You can support any argument if you pick and choose what numbers you use. […]
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Active Spiritual Seeker
Took Belief.net’s quiz on my spiritual type.: You scored 42, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here’s how to interpret your score: Active Spiritual Seeker ? Spiritual but turned off by organized religion Sounds good to me! Take the quiz yourself…
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Rwanda Ten Years Ago
Ten years ago in Rwanda, 800,000 people were murdered in 100 days and the world didn’t stop it: Rwanda?s extremist Hutu government and military led a campaign to exterminate the minority Tutsis. One much practiced strategy was to drive Tutsis into centers such as churches and schools and kill them en mass. Stories abound by […]
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Stopped Looking
Though the new news from the Dept of Labor that there’s 300K new jobs this month, I remained skeptical when I hear about ‘actively seeking employment’ and the idea that some people just ‘give up looking’. A little digging: To be classified as officially unemployed No employment during the reference week Available for work at […]
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Hard Drive Decaying
My desktop is slowly slowing down. The router’s not working. Viruses are starting to pop up. I have a whole 5 GB of free space on the hard drive and it’s still taking forever. This desktop is four years old. I may have to get a new one. Argh. I considered re-installing Windows XP again […]