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My Thoughts On HST
A number of people have asked me what I thought about Hunter S. Thompson and his recent self-inflicted demise. Mostly, I’ve replied with “I just don’t know, I can imagine he had planned it for a while. I don’t think it was done on passionate impulse.” Then I sort of let it drop. Although we never like to speak ill of the dead. I never actually dwelled to much on Thompson’s writing. I read “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” when I was young. I thought that I had to read it, I thought that I had to read it,…
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We Get Mail…
From the paxtonland contact form: On 2005-02-23 at 20:35:13, The following information was submitted: Name = Riley Ruesan Submitted by = [withheld to protect his stupid yet, innocent friend] comments = Hi. Im using my friends email. But I 100% disagree, For one, Bush is religious. Mabe you need to stop critisizing his christianity and Get some god in your life. Im not saying he is a saint, he has made bad descions, But he has kept my and your country alive.So show some respect. And no I dont agree with the not letting gays marry, but come on! He…
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In Case You Were On Mars Riding The Rover For The Last 3 Days
Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s, “The Gates” went up in Central Park. Flickr has a keyword “gates” for individuals pictures of them. Or, you could do a google image search for them as well. Both should improve over time.
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Terrorism Takes Many Form, Children…
There will be zero-tolerance for random acts of kindness. Two teenage girls who surprised their neighbors with homemade cookies late one night were ordered to pay nearly $900 in medical bills for a woman who says she was so startled that she had to go to the hospital. Frightened, she (the woman) spent the night at her sister’s home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking and had an upset stomach. The article goes on: The teenagers’ families offered to pay Young’s medical bills, but she declined and sued, saying their apologies were not…
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RIAA Sues Deceased Grandmother. That’ll teach her to download music on the internets. Robin Chianumba (her daughter) told the Gazette. “I am pretty sure she is not going to leave Greenwood Memorial Park to attend the hearing.”
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From The “Zero-Tolerance – The New Spiritualism” Dept.
Violent stick-figure drawings put kids in cuffs AP OCALA, Fla. – Two boys were arrested for making pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said. The children, charged with a felony, were taken from school in handcuffs. The 9- and 10-year-old boys were arrested Monday and charged with making a written threat to kill or harm another person. They were also suspended from school. Boy, most of us would be on death row if they ever found our drawings. Mine cover the time periods between 1973 and about 1979. I’m glad they’ve long-since biodegraded.…
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Laws For Them, Not Us
Lawmaker says he shares homes with 2 women. Shouldn’t have to pay support. Meanwhile, he presides over the Tenessee State Senate Committee on Child Welfare. These are the people inventing reccomendations for family court… there just aren’t enough words.
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Sad News
Kennedy who inspired Special Olympics dies. Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest sister of the Kennedy children was born mildly retarted. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, later founded the Special Olymipics. That alone, is a remarkable story. The AP story goes on: But as she got older, her father worried his daughter’s mild condition would lead her into situations that could damage the family’s reputation. Little did he know that several other family members would handle the “reputation damage” part quite effectively and without the benefit of a lobotomy.
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All Apple Legends Aren’t Named Steve
Do check out Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories. Most of the stories are written by Andy Hertzfeld, Apple hacker legend. I find myself reading and reading the stories. Very compelling stuff to the geeks among us.
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Always Fashionably Late
U.S. works on bringing aid to South Asia. 5 days after the fact. Instead of leading the world once again: “The disaster around the Indian Ocean continues to grow both in size and scope,” President Bush said Friday in announcing that the United States would provide 10 times its earlier $35 million offering – an amount criticized as miserly for such a rich nation. God save them.
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The Zero-Tolerance Threat Level Is Red
A 10-year-old girl was placed in handcuffs and taken to a police station because she took a pair of scissors to her elementary school. The scissors were discovered while students’ belongings were being searched for property missing from a teacher’s desk. Now, lets think about this for a second; someone in that school actually called the police for this. Not only that, the cops actually arrested the girl. To their credit, better judgement overcame them and they let her go. The administration, on the other hand typically is not overcome by better judgement or, judgement of any kind. That is…
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Maybe We Should All Keep Our Mouf Shut
Teacher sues lesbian mom for defamation in Louisiana… that is before mom got a chance to file suit herself. The teacher sent this student behavior contract home with Marcus McLaurin, all of 7 years old. The child explained to another that his mother was gay. The teacher blew a gasket, scolded him in front of the class and sent Marcus to the principal. They then decided that the best course of action was to sentence him to “a special behavioral clinic.” where the boy was forced to write “I will never use the word ?gay? in school again.” When gay…
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From the “If You Can’t Substantiate, Litigate” Dept
Movie studios sue file traders or, in other words: We don’t understand our customers any better than RIAA and fully intend to damage our own marketplace by avoiding a shift in business model and trying to recoup a normal economically driven loss of revenue by force. Won’t that be fun?
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Out Of The Frying Pan
Just in case you thought that someone with some global sensibility and an independantly driven policy mind would take Powell’s place: Condoleezza Rice to be named Secretary of State. They don’t look too happy about things:
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Great Bulging Dicks!
So, apparently some photographers snapped a candid shot of Dick Cheney while the V.P. was at full mast of a spontaeous erection. Well, the pic in question is finally out (click for the image in a new window). Wow, public life has got to suck sometimes. Oh well, I’ve said before that the best thing about the next four more years…. is going to be the non-stop comedy gold. On a side note, do you think he was thinking about his portfolio or, what?
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of State Sanctioned Happiness
School talent show draws secret service. “It’s just Bob Dylan’s song. We were just singing Bob Dylan’s song ? If you think it has to do with Bush that’s because you’re drawing your own conclusions. We never conveyed that Bush was the person we were talking about,” said Allysse Wojtanek-Watson, a singer for the band. “Parents and students say they are outraged and offended by a proposed band name and song scheduled for a high school talent show in Boulder this evening, but members of the band, named Coalition of the Willing, said the whole thing is being blown out…
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Further Down Into The Rabbit Hole… Are You Ready?
Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida’s 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these same people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat…
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It Was Inevitable…
So, the stories about election fraud, black box voting scandals and ballot shennanagans are starting to stream in. Like: – Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio – Broward County at it again – Nader challanges black box voting in NH – Evidence is piling up – But, does it really matter? – Not really – However, to some it does and they aren’t going to wait for Ted Koppel to sanction the news, are you? You really should check black box voting for some eye-opening information. No suprises, just evidence. The question is, by bringing it up am I…
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The Good Old Days
How It Works… The Computer, circa 1971 and revised in 1979. Found via linkfilter. I love this sort of thing. Old technical manuals, old hardware, old software. At one point I had so much of this stuff that the garage became unbearable and had to get rid of a lot of it. The gems, I saved.