I was sitting in my living room yesterday working and I heard a bunch commotion and a few big booms from outside. There’s a lot of construction in the area so I didn’t really think much of it. Then this helicopter kept hovering overhead, which also isn’t that unusual but sometimes it means there’s some [...]
Judge John Spooner ruled that a New York City employee can
not be fired for surfing the Web at work. Judge Spooner stated that agencies
need to apply the same standard to personal Internet usage as they do to other
personal activities, according to CNET News. Spooner compared Web browsing to other
personal activities allowed by different agencies like [...]
An article from the man that coined the term ‘metrosexual.’
Male bisexuality doesn’t exist. Or it’s very, very rare. Or it’s really just gay men in denial. Yeah, it’s official: bi guys are freaks and liars as well as non-existent.
Female bisexuality, on the other hand, is almost universal. It’s as natural and as true as it [...]
Ahh, I do love Mark Marford. Nixon 2.0 is perfect.
Did you guys read this? From Seymour Hersh’s article in New York Magazine:
Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has challenged the reality of the Holocaust and said that Israel must be “wiped off the map.” Bush and others in the White House view him as a potential Adolf [...]
From an Time magazine article on rampant and violent homophobia in the Carribean.
In the past two years, two of the island’s most prominent gay activists, Brian Williamson and Steve Harvey, have been murdered — and a crowd even celebrated over Williamson’s mutilated body. Perhaps most disturbing, many anti-gay assaults have been acts of mob violence. [...]
What is the nosend attribute?
It is usually found in an image tag and looks like this: <img nosend="1"/>. It is generally discovered by inquisitive developers by examining a “right-click > view source” on HTML email messages in Outlook. Google generally provides more questions than answers, so I thought I would include what I believe [...]
From a NY Times article on a pre-war memo of a meeting between Bush and Blair.
The memo indicates the two leaders envisioned a quick victory and a transition to a new Iraqi government that would be complicated, but manageable. Mr. Bush predicted that it was “unlikely there would be internecine warfare between the different religious [...]
From Sam Harris’ article advocating taking the religion out of Buddhism.
The Problem of Religion
Incompatible religious doctrines have balkanized our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it has been at any time in the past. [...]
Interesting rant on a professor who was applauded by his peers at the Texas Academy of Science after asserting that “the Earth can only be ’saved’ if ninety percent of the human beings alive today are purged.”
So what if some Piankian disciple–a former student, perhaps, who works in a biological research or weapons laboratory–gains access [...]
This American Life has a great show about Guantanamo including the only interviews of former Guantanamo detainees that I’ve come across.
The only 5% of Guananamo detainees were pick up by US troops.
86% of detainees where handed over by the Pakistan Northern Aliance.
Many prisoners where simply bought [...]
For those of you still under the impression that 9/11 was a plot by bearded, freedom-hating terrorists bent on death, destruction, and 72 virgins, please watch this documentary.
The unanswered questions:
The official story is scientifically impossible. Jet fuel burns at 1,800 degrees, steel begins to melt at 2,700 degrees but can still hold its strength [...]
Is this as blatantly obvious to anyone else? From today’s Morning Papers:
The Washington Post leads with intelligence officials and experts worrying that Iran may coordinate terrorist attacks in response to any military action that the United States might take against the country’s nuclear program. Besides targeting U.S. interests in Iraq, there seems to be agreement [...]
I guess it’s not terribly surprising that the Bush administration is using the Patriot Act to crack down on reporters that blew the whisle on his secret CIA torture prisions. On the scale of fucked up things they do, it’s not even that high. He has broken us in well.
From Bush declares war on freedom [...]