Archive for the ‘The World’ Category


[BlogEntry] Michael Jackson appears "pale"

It's so bizarre to me to hear (as much as I try to avoid news about this crap) reporters talk about Michael Jackson looking pale, unhealthy, thin, tired, etc. He's a fucking freak that hasn't looked normal or healthy in twenty years! It's like saying a skeleton looks stressed. Pale?!?! He's been snowy white since [...]

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[BlogEntry] Is the Lycos anti-spam screensaver a DDoS?

I was very interested to hear about Lycos' anti-spam screensaver, particularly because I'd already written something very similar a year before. I never released mine for two reasons. The first was the question of legality. I certainly didn't want to go to jail over spam. And the way the world works, it's easier to prosecute [...]

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[BlogEntry] Spam comes in fours

I've noticed that a certain sequence of spam has been coming in a group of four, always in the same order, always at the same time, for the past month or two. Status: U Return-Path: Received: from ornery….9-18-167.dsl.rcfril.ameritech.netpakistans.comfreepro ([219.253.243.234]) by aaron.mail.atl.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1cukwM7kh3Nl3qa0 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:46:55 [...]

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[BlogEntry] Every American has a purple heart

Red-state folks, blue-state folks, green-state folks, it's time to move on. Take a look at this map. In a winner-take-all election, it's very misleading to look at pure red or blue states. The overall election was 51% to 48%, not 100% to 0%. If you were to color the entire country in a single color [...]

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[BlogEntry] To my surprise, I'm coming to appreciate the man for whom I voted

I have to confess that my support for President Bush is not nearly as enthusiastic as it might have appeared during the campaign. I'm no blind follower. It's almost exclusively motivated by the threat of terrorism and the fact that he recognizes that danger more clearly than John Kerry does. Other than that, I've viewed [...]

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[BlogEntry] 10 Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill You

This really tickled me. 10 Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill You

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[BlogEntry] If Kerry wins…

I hope all you Kerry supporters remember this campaign. Remember all the easy criticism and second-guessing of every move Bush made. Remember all the "I have a plan"'s from Kerry and Edwards. Remember all the promises about health care, about jobs, about security, about hunting down terrorists, about the price of oil, about not equivocating [...]

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[BlogEntry] Bill Maher takes a beating

I'm surprised Bill Maher allowed them to air this week's installment of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Former CIA Director James Woolsey made Bill and his two anti-Bush guests look like the emotional, uninformed, knee-jerk liberals they are. Mr. Woolsey was quite frank in his criticism of President Bush's administration where fitting, but he [...]

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[BlogEntry] The (Lack of) Power of the Presidency

It never ceases to amaze me how much gets blamed on Presidents, versus what's really in their power. Kerry, who himself would be President, and who surely knows what a President is and is not capable of, loves to blame Bush for healthcare and jobs, neither of which is under any President's control. Aside from [...]

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[BlogEntry] Kudos to Frontline and PBS for…

…crafting a two-hour commercial for the Kerry campaign that goes down like a documentary. It was so effective that I actually feel like Kerry being elected isn't the end of the world. I can only imagine how swing voters will feel after watching it. After the first hour, I thought, "well, Kerry and Bush were [...]

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