Month: January 2006

  • Jerry Falwell Used Lewinsky Scandal to Pressure Clinton on Israel

    The best part about blowhards is they always end up revealing their bluster in last month’s Vanity Fair: “It was during the Monica Lewinsky scandal . . . . Clinton had to save himself, so he terminated the demands [to relinquish West Bank territory] that would have been forthcoming during that meeting, and would have […]

  • Iraq War Could Cost 2 Trillion Dollars

    Old news I know but I want to point my kids to this article when it ends up it really cost 5 trillion. The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to […]

  • Bigfoot Appears in Malaysia

    Everybody’s favorite sasquatch is back and appearing in Malaysia igfoot fever erupted last month when some fish farm workers claimed to have spotted three of the beasts — two adults and a youngster — on the edge of a forest reserve in southern Johor state. Their improbable tale was lent some authority soon after when […]

  • Robert In Defense of Bill Cosby

    Great essay from Robert on thug life, anti-intellectual racism and black leadership in the United States: I committed the transgression of wearing a tweed jacket, black sweater, black slacks and glasses, a no-no for the “thug barbers” there because to be an appropriate African American by their standards was to wear saggy pants, sport jerseys […]

  • How to Bomb a Target Store

    Google Maps turns up a Target store with the company’s logo on the roof.

  • Is This a Trapeziusi I See Before Me?

    Good news as last night I notice that I can finally see my trapeziuses – trapezii? Anyway – it’s good news and means all those pulldowns and rows are working. Yippee!

  • Human Right Watch Issues Annual Report

    In their latest annual report on the state of global human rights, Human Rights Watch says that US support for torture severely undermines human rights worldwide: (quotes:) Abusive interrogation cannot be reduced to the misdeeds of a few low-ranking soldiers, but was a conscious policy choice by senior U.S. government officials. Britain sought to send […]

  • Bush Authorized Domestic Spying BEFORE 9/11

    Wow. The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret executive order authorizing the NSA to monitor a select number of American citizens thought to have ties to terrorist […]

  • Distractor Factor

    People that don’t watch the news scare me. I just started a recommended self-help book and there’s a passage where the guru tells a man who has had a paralyzing car accident that he created that situation. And that perhaps it is because he watches so much negative news on TV. And on another coaching […]

  • Raging Infomaniac

    Sunday. Lots to do. While journaling yesterday I made a realization that my entire life right now revolves around three locations: At the gym With Ron At the computer With the third location as the default. My default action has become working. Or rather ‘at the computer’ which may or may not include working. I’ve […]