The New York Times’ Frank Rich has written a compelling opinion piece called The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan, with specific emphasis on the (hopefully continued) failure of the Bush administration to contain growing dissent against the occupation of Iraq.
Posted by Chris in Iraq, Politics on August 22nd, 2005 | 1 Comment »
To take my mind of the latest “depressing Shuttle news”:http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12424377.htm, I followed a Google Ad to the “Moon Landing Hoax”:http://www.moonmovie.com/ page. Since “they faked the moon landing” is a running joke at “the office”:http://evdb.com, I figured it would be worth a chuckle. Unfortunately, the assertions were so rhetorical and so easily debunked that it was [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on August 19th, 2005 | 4 Comments »
I have no response to this. (Realized this requires a log-in. To see it, put in YetiCat as username and meowmeow as password)
Posted by Deana in You have got to be kidding on August 19th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I can’t even make up something as ludicrous as “Kidsbeer”:http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20050806a1.htm. Of course, I was a big fan of bubble gum cigarettes as a kid, so I probably shouldn’t throw stones.
Posted by Chris in Oddly Enough on August 18th, 2005 | Comments Off
My current desktop background is a large, beautiful “photo of the ISS soaring over the Earth”:http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/multimedia/fd12_gallery.html, taken by the crew of Discovery. I love the photo, but one aspect of it bugs me: where is it? There are definitely enough landmarks to figure that out (a river, a bay, an atoll off the coast), but [...]
Posted by Chris in World on August 17th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
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