Monthly Archives: March 2004
The euphemism of the “war on terror”
As Noam Chomsky pointed out in “Power and Terror: Post 9-11 Talks and Interviews” and elsewhere, the idea that the federal government is waging a “war on terror”, if you can even call it that, is ludicrous. The recent assassination of Hamas founder and leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin is a good example of this as [...]
Ecclectic new Who
Christopher Eccleston has been announced as the actor chosen to play Dr Who in the new incarnation of the BBC’s legendary sci-fi series Dr Who.
CA Supreme Court halts illegal unions
The Supreme Court of California today ordered that the issuing of marriage certificates to same-sex couples in San Francisco must be halted immediately. This is what I mean by ultraliberals shooting themselves in the foot. If they had waited until the issue had been settled in Massachusetts and on the federal level same-sex couples could [...]
Foregone conclusion
Seeing as Sen John Kerry has already secured the nomination as the Democratic party’s presidential candidate, tonight’s primaries don’t deserve much of a mention. Without any surprises, John Kerry won all four states.
New RSS parser
I have switched the RSS parsing app for GeezerBlog on top of the links bar to magpieRSS in order to get rid of the clutter that was the old RSS parser. I chose this parser over mt-rssfeed in order to retain some independence from MT as I don’t want to be confined to only working [...]
Bonesman vs. bonesman it is!
With his victories in nine ouf the ten Super Tuesday states and Sen. Edwards leaving the race tomorrow, Sen. John Kerry has as good as secured his nomination as the Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in the general election in November. The only state he did not win was Vermont where former VT Governor [...]
