Month: April 2004

  • Partisan reporting is only HALF the story….

    But the WHOLE story is no story! My post about UNSCAM has gotten too long, with far too many updates, but as the story-about-the-story-that-will-not-be-reported continues to metastasize I thought it was time for a new post. Let me start by saying that I’m beginning to think my initial suspicions were wrong. Well, half wrong. I…

  • More Mepis — in overdrive

    Just trying out the Mepis Linux CD on the Athlon 2100. Everything is incredibly fast. The sound card configured, all networking, the browser fired right up, and everything works. All from a CD, which of course means no hard drive is needed. You can just run on a “disposable” (maybe even “sterile”?) OS any time…

  • Are your private contracts the government’s business?

    I can’t believe that Virginia wants to limit the rights of two parties to enter into contractual arrangements, but read this: A civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage is prohibited. Any such civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement…

  • Is this election about the UN?

    Not for long! Why isn’t the full UNSCAM affair being reported in most newspapers? True, the New York Times has reported it, but unless they sneaked it in somewhere in the classified ad section, I can’t find it in today’s [April 21, 2004] Philadelphia Inquirer. (I looked three times, and cannot find it in Sections…

  • 83rd CARNIVAL!

    The 83rd Carnival of the Vanities is hosted by Southern Musings, who covered a lot of ground — especially considering that “the one week I am busy beyond belief is the week I am the host.” I appreciate Anastasia’s hard work! And here are few posts I especially liked: Dissecting Leftism debunks the lie that…

  • SCO, please get your UNCLEAN HANDS off my Linux!

    Because I’m lazier than I should be, I haven’t been keeping up with Linux. Like anything technological, today’s knowledge is tomorrow’s nostalgia. It’s high time I got around to this, actually. It’s been over a year since one of the movers and shakers I’m about to praise even tried to drag Glenn Reynolds (who was…

  • Deep Threat?

    Echoing a common sentiment, Senator John Kerry recently called Bob Woodward a “reputable writer“: “Here we have a book by a reputable writer,” Mr. Kerry told several thousand students at the afternoon campus rally. Have we really? What does Kerry mean by “reputable”? Might he really mean “reliable”? Woodward is consistently reliable where it comes…

  • Sound the alarm!

    The 42d Bonfire of the Vanities is hosted by Josh Cohen, who does such a great job I can’t wait to spoil some of it for you. (By the way, Josh gave me a new idea for literary success.) But I did a bit of a doubletake when I saw the date of April 19…

  • Does this story have legs?

    Clayton Cramer (via Glenn Reynolds) has more on the Oklahoma City now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t unexplained leg: Q. Now, you have done some examination and testing and work on the leg that you have as P71? A. That’s correct. Q. Based on the work that you’ve done, you believe that leg belongs to a female? A. We don’t…

  • Latent sounds

    I think this is an incredibly cool use of new technology to improve upon the old. Physicists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are using the same methods to search for the elusive Higgs Boson particle and to digitally restore audio recordings from the past. Berkeley Lab signed an agreement with the Library of Congress…

  • Fostering paranoia…..

    When I read what Rush Limbaugh said about Hillary Clinton’s plans do do Kerry like she did her lesbian lover Vinnie Foster, I was initially almost as skeptical as was Glenn Reynolds. But then (via Drudge) I read this: FORMER US first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, left Jamaica yesterday after a one-week vacation at the…

  • Spring finally coming into view

    Took a few photos today, and I started with a former Victorian hotel, now converted into a girls prep school. The red color of the building makes the pink cherry tree blossoms seem a little on the dark side. Although it was a nice, if hazy day, somehow this reminds me of the building in…

  • Features War

    This is a test to see whether or not I can use the Movable Type features I want! I can’t, because the little “bold,” “underline” and “URL” buttons do not show. The problem with Linux is that I have to code the links manually, which takes longer. There is no Internet Explorer for Linux, and…

  • Springtime for Linux!

    While nearly everyone in his right mind is enjoying this beautiful day, I decided to try out a new Linux distribution — Mepis Linux. The cool thing about this one is that the CD will work as a demo OS, and then — only if you decide you like it, you can choose to install…

  • Puff is famous!

    My blogfather Jeff put Puff’s sleepyhead picture up — at very top of the blog logo! — at the wonderful new pet blog he has started (in partnership with Michael Demmons), Tarazet. Everyone who has a pet should visit this site. And everyone who doesn’t have a pet should also visit this site. You might…

  • Tainted injections from the BBC?

    Here’s a remarkable piece of personalized reporting by the BBC’s correspondent in Jerusalem: A few years ago, at university, I got a call from one of my tutors. “Come and see me at once,” he commanded. “OK” I said. And I suddenly felt very nervous. I had not been to all that many of this…

  • From neglected child to pyramid scheme!

    It’s a busy day, but it’s still Friday, which is Online Test Day at Classical Values. Each week I am forced to grin and bare my soul, whether I want to or not. I think I’ll rank these from the smallest to the largest, beginning with the baby of them all, my inner child —…

  • Sick of this election yet?

    A funny thing happened on the way to the post office yesterday. Some well-dressed, well spoken people were handing out this leaflet to people standing in line at the post office to pay their taxes. That’s OK. I support free speech. But this is the War Election, also known as the Election War, so I…

  • The Devil may care

    It’s overdue movie review time! Last week I saw a film I normally never would have seen — “Hellboy.” It’s about a genuine devil boy brought into this world through a portal to Hell installed by Nazi occultists, whose plot to rule as Satanic lackeys was foiled at the last minute by US forces under…

  • NO MORE WAR! NOW AND THEN!

    The shifting sands have me very confused. Is this an election war, or a war election? Stubborn thoughts won’t go away. Logic does not seem to apply anymore. But let me go with the flow. Bush did nothing before 9-11. OK, so he should have done more? But….. Bush did too much after 9-11. OK,…