Posts from — October 2004

Takin' My Country Back. I don't know much about country music, so I can't tell if this song is any good, but I like the idea of it… And here's a one-minute remix of Bush's performance at the first debate. The remix is called “Hard Working George.” (Thanks, Mike O'Dell for the first link and John Driscoll, for the second.)… [Joho the Blog]

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it is good enough.

this is a very handy site covering all manner of professional and research codes of ethics.

Juris my diction crap. The smoking of Cuban cigars has been illegal in the US since the time of Kennedy – though the day before he signed the law into effect he did have Pierre Salinger buy up all the Petit Upmanns in Washington… [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent]

A new US Treasury ruling states that US citizens cannot consume Cuban goods anywhere in the world. Full stop. Travel abroad and smoke them there, and youâll still go to prison.

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the bush regime is crazy…..

Hersh: bullet in your back.

A chilling account of a recent talk by the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, describes a phone call he received from a first lieutenant in Iraq. The lieutenant's platoon had been stationed outside a quite agricultural town for some time, near a granary. The granary owner had hired a bunch of guys to protect the grain; the soldiers and the guards got to know each other.

More details from UC Berkeley, where the talk was delivered.

[Mark Bernstein]

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this is not the way war is supposed to be fought…. it isn't about murder for body count… it is about holding territory… wait, i guess the war is over, that's what bush said, this must be about pacification or something, but this strategy… where you kill kids parents and peoples friends for the sake of bodycount, is not pacification, it only leads to more hate and terror.

Researchers Say They're Denied Access to E-Voting Records. Political-science professors say their attempts to analyze online voting have been hamstrung by organizations that have withheld data from elections that were held online. (Associated Press) [Chronicle.com - The Wired Campus]

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this is not surprising, not at all. suddenly public records are privatized?

a wsj reporter explains the situation to a friend in private email, it is mae public, she is sent on mandated vacation until after the election. welcome to censorship central. the letter is a must read.

why not take some time for humor, some of which is very wrong…..

What is the internet for, anyway?. This song answers that question. Thanks to Mud for sending it to me, and Ender for introducing it to … [Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane]

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interesting perspective on the use of the internet……

Too Depressing.

This is just too depressing. It’s really amazing – and doubly depressing – that this kind of thing isn’t even surprising anymore. Can anybody plausibly say, “No, it’s just not credible that the US would do that”?

[Crooked Timber]

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yes, making people disappear is not the american way… it is unconscionable.

National Security Scholars Give Bush an 'F'. Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy includes more than 650 foreign affairs specialists in the United States and allied countries. They have signed an open letter opposing the Bush administration's foreign policy and calling urgently for a change of… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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not surprising, not suprising at all.