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Entries from November 2003

Unhealthful

November 15th, 2003 No Comments

This graph, taken from a New York Times article on the uninsured, reveals some important dynamics of the upcoming 2004 Presidential Campaign.
We are warned time and again that Universal Coverage will undermine the present system. Costs and waiting lists will stretch into the infinities. Quality of care will fall the other direction. [...]

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Stop Straying, DMCA

November 15th, 2003 No Comments

It looks like the noxious swarm of bullying legal action emanating from that putrid law, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act[PDF], has been momentarily halted.
Wired reports a judge has ruled on Chamberlin Group’s lawsuit against Skylink Technologies. Chamberlin, maker of garage doors, had argued that Skylink, maker of universal garage door openers, had violated [...]

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California 54, Washington 7

November 15th, 2003 No Comments

Every time I forget they exist they prove me mistaken. At this point maybe the Washington Huskies wish they don’t exist. The University of California, Berkeley football team wolloped, creamed, smashed and mangled the Huskies today.
Geoff “#2 in the Nation” McArthur caught a 79-yard touchdown pass on the first play. [...]

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They’re on NO sleep, NO sleep

November 14th, 2003 No Comments

I never thought an article on the Republican’s “reverse filibuster” could be so entertaining. This article from the Washington Post is hilarious.
Its Author recounts the whole episode through a highlight timeline. He cannot help but end with this dig, helpfully provided by an attending Police Officer:
“They should get a life,” the cop says.
Sharp [...]

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No synagogue parking

November 13th, 2003 No Comments

As you can tell, Ryland Sanders has created a cool Church Sign generator.
You can just type in text, and it will create a picture like the one above.

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He’s a Suitor

November 13th, 2003 No Comments

As further proof that some people just don’t get it comes this story from CNN.com.
A Chinese clothing manufacturer has been trying to get Former President Clinton to act as their spokesman.
It has offered Clinton US$2 million to be its spokesmodel and sent repeated e-mails to the White House — where Clinton no longer lives — [...]

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Play the Percentages

November 13th, 2003 No Comments

In this post on TAPPED regarding the Republican’s judicial confirmation filibuster Matt Ygelsias reveals an interesting statistic.
a whopping 2 percent of Bush’s nominees (as opposed to 20 percent of Clinton’s) have been blocked
Obviously nefarious Democratic Senators are politicizing the process and interefering with the right of the majority.

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Cult Personality

November 13th, 2003 No Comments

David Greenberg discusses the ascendance of Ronald Reagan mythologizing now sidling about the Republican collective consciousness.
Freshly finished spiking a middling CBS docudrama about Mr. Reagans presidency, Republicans are eager to further enshrine their glorious leader.
Republicans see Reagan equal in stature to the towering figures of American history like Washington, Lincoln or Jefferson. Grover Norquist [...]

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The interconnectedness of things

November 13th, 2003 No Comments

From my unintentional tradition of talking about random Israel related stories from the BBC website, comes this story about the recall of a suspect baby formula.
The real story about the story is the story within the story that goes almost unspoken within the story. The story facade being that a soy based baby formula [...]

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Obligatory Gentoo rulez post

November 12th, 2003 2 Comments

My well-tuned sense of superiority likes nothing better than continual confirmation of its eternal righteousness.
In that vein, I can only marvel at the continued existence of Linux distros that aren’t Gentoo.
Yet other distros do exist. Eugenia Loli-Queru reviews one of the newest, Fedora Core 1. Mrs. Loli-Queru seems fairly unimpressed. She encounters [...]

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