tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83119692011-11-08T09:23:05.891-06:00Writings and commentary on the state of the world, especially stuff relating to politics, science and technology. I may also occasionally indulge myself and talk about political, scientific and technological meta-issues. Neato!ckenoreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-51713828772860797722011-06-14T15:50:00.000-05:002011-06-14T15:51:53.111-05:00

While getting caught up recently on my readings at The Last Psychiatrist, I came across this excellent piece on autism treatment:What Should Really Be Done For Autistic Children?That perfectly exemplifies why I've been reading that blog, off and on, for....well, it's been several years now. I've actually lost track. Earlier in my life, I spent a good deal of time immersed in the bullshit known

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Pet peeve of mine: People who seem to believe that the best way to address any problem is by passing a law.Example: In the area of Green Bay, with escalating gas prices, there has recently been a problem with people pumping gas and then driving off without paying for it. At roughly $4/gallon, even small cars are typically paying more than $30 for a fill up, so this is not an insignificant

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Food Inflation Kept Hidden in Tinier BagsThis has been going on for years. Probably forever. Ever wonder why cans and packages of food come in such oddball sizes? When the product was new, it came in a nice, even size, but over the years, companies need to increase profits, and they know people watch prices. It's especially easy to watch prices considering the irritating way so much

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Some interesting comments on the idea of reverting the US to a gold standard instead of fiat currency:Another Case Of Severe Recto-Cranial InversionThe title is a bit inflammatory, I admit. :) Basically, though, the article makes sense. To summarize, proponents of the gold standard posit that it would alleviate inflation due to replacing fictitious fiat money with "real" money, i.e. gold.

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You Want Small Business to Start Hiring? Here's What To DoI like the way this guy thinks. Sign me up.

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Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion (w/ Video)Interesting, if true. Which it probably is not.This, in particular, rings an alarm bell:Further, the scientists say that the reactor is well beyond the research phase; they plan to start shipping commercial devices within the next three months and start mass production by the end of 2011.It sounds like an elaborate investment

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While surfing today I came across a blog named IQ & PC, which contained the following quote in the sidebar:Socialism makes the individual the slave of the state – capitalism frees them.It occurred to me that it would be more accurate to say, Socialism makes the individual the slave of the state, capitalism makes the individual the slave of the corporation. In either case, the solution is obvious

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Yes, I am in a bit of a derogatory mood today. But can you blame me?Read:I Fought The DMV To Keep The World's Greatest License PlateHe lost.In question was a Virginia "Kids First" license plate belonging to the automobile of Garth Yeaman, and cleverly adorned with the words "Eat the". (Or, more accurately, "EATTHE".) Very amusing, and a lot of people felt that way too. He claims to have

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Whoops--turns out Blogger actually does have a limit on the length of subject lines. How lame. Anyway, getting to the point at hand:It amazes me that people get paid to write stuff like this. Behold:Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know [...]Video tape: Starting this year, the news stories we produce here at Money Talks have all been shot, edited, and distributed to TV stations without ever

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I had a crazy idea this morning. I wondered how deeply we'd be buried if the United States national debt was converted into one dollar bills and spread evenly across the entire area of the United States. I fully expected the answer would be that we would be several inches deep in dollar bills.Boy, was I wrong.To start with, the national debt as of this writing stands at $14,027,641,085,848.11.

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A while ago, I commented on the idiocy of spending $3.2 billion a year to save the lives of 103 people. At the end, though, I noted a problem:Yes, I know my math ignores the injured people. I thought about this for a while and couldn't figure a reasonable way to allow for it. "Injuries" is extremely vague, and could include anything from a cut requiring stitches to full-on, almost-fatal

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-20950409769394475462011-01-05T13:47:00.001-06:002011-01-05T13:51:14.576-06:00

"The Senate will be a much poorer place without Russ Feingold in it ... Feingold every day and in every way had the courage of his convictions. I think he is one of the most admirable people I have ever met in my entire life." - Sen. John McCain, Arizonavia WisOpinion.com

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Kiss your 100-watt lightbulb goodbyeStarting in 2012, new nationwide efficiency standards for incandescent light bulbs go into effect. However, in California and Nevada, they're already going ahead, a year early. Energy savings are expected to be about 25 to 30 percent, with the bulbs supposedly costing about the same amount. No mention was made of whether the bulbs will last a comparable

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Unbelievable:U.S. to Require Rear-View Video on CarsWASHINGTON—The Obama administration moved Friday to effectively require all passenger cars and buses to be equipped with rear-view video cameras to help prevent fatalities caused when drivers back over a child hidden in the blind spot behind a vehicle.The technology, already offered in some models in the U.S., involves a small camera attached to

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-72127126389574223032010-12-23T01:02:00.005-06:002010-12-23T01:13:30.642-06:00

In September, bowing to pressure from multiple state attorneys general, Craigslist.org agreed to remove all advertisements for "adult services" from its United States listings. It was big news at the time.More recently, to virtually no fanfare whatsoever, and with no explanation, all adult services listings were removed from Craigslist, worldwide:The ouster of the controversial section was

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-18716832280411687632010-12-15T09:00:00.000-06:002010-12-15T08:58:43.976-06:00

Feminist blogger Jessica Valenti, in an op-ed piece for the Washington Post, has broadly hinted that the presumption of innocence for defendants in rape cases should be reversed--to a presumption of guilt:Swedish rape laws don't ban "sex by surprise"...but they do go much further than U.S. laws do, and we should look to them as a potential model for our own legislation.In fact, some activists and

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More interesting news relating to the Gawker hack:FBI Investigating Gawker.com HackNEW YORK – Investigators from the FBI were expected to meet with Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton Monday following the massive weekend hack by a group called Gnosis that paralyzed the media company’s website and temporarily forced it to stop publishing.Unfortunately that's kind of vague, and there's no further

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As suggested by this article, it is possible to dream up a way to have a unique password for every site you use, and not have it be a total nightmare. How it works is that you come up with a base password, then devise a way to modify it based on which site you're using. So, for instance, if your base password is "34cheese!", and you are logging in to Gawker, you would add a letter "g" to the

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Some details from the group who pulled it off (article here)--they aren't willing to disclose exactly how they were able to hack the site, only that they have access to lots of passwords. They also commented at length on the poor security of the site. For instance:We have had access to all of their emails for a long time as well as most of their infrastructure powering the site. Gawkmedia has

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-24891080322593691532010-12-12T19:50:00.004-06:002010-12-12T19:56:09.705-06:00

Digging out after AidenWith Blizzard Aiden officially on its way out, it is now clean-up time across Northeast Wisconsin....One question...SINCE WHEN have blizzards received official names?Another--wouldn't that massive windstorm that blew across the entire eastern half of North America a couple months ago qualify for a name?Just wondering.For myself, this has proved to be a waste of a day. I

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From earlier today:Democrats fight to save DREAM Act immigration billBackground: The dream act would allow any illegal alien who was brought to the United States while under the age of 16 to obtain legal status (i.e., a legitimate green card, meaning they could later apply for full citizenship) if they have been in the country at least five years, are under age 30, pass a criminal background

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I have to hand it to Zero Hedge, they do have a way with words over there:Sarah Palin Claims Site Hacked, Credit Card Details Stolen, But Doubts Surface This Is Merely Attempt At Attention WhoringI am primarily amused by seeing "Sarah Palin" and "whore" in the same headline. Yes, I am a nasty, nasty person. ;)I suppose I should be nicer to the next President of the United States of America, eh?

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I had been planning on writing up a quick summary of this issue, providing some links to other pieces which I felt covered it in better detail than I was inclined to, and offer some comment.I've decided not to do that.Why?Because, I realized yesterday, the entire Assange rape hoopla is distracting everyone from the real issues, namely the leaked information itself, and the attempted suppression

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A really, really, really excellent piece by Stoneleigh of the Automatic Earth, on diet and nutrition:December 6 2010: Our Daily Bread, or Not, As the Case May Be...If you value your life, read it.

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CNBC senior editor John Carney:The War Against WikiLeaks Is Worse Than WikiLeaksThe entire editorial is well worth reading, but I want to draw particular attention to one paragraph:But it's a mistake to ignore the effect of this. It makes it appear as if the Free World is rapidly becoming a Closed World, in which dissenters are hounded out of public life. It only makes matters worse that it is

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-85616856112891432612010-12-07T09:03:00.004-06:002010-12-07T09:40:57.947-06:00

Just noticed something in the tail end of the article I linked in the previous post:MasterCard Worldwide is also choking payments to the site.I had mentioned depeering as an effective method of control, well, here's another method. The fact that there is no practical way to pay cash online is a significant advantage for authoritarians, possibly even more significant than depeering. Not being

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Anon takes up the Wikileaks battle:Wikileaks defended by Anonymous hacktivistsA group called Anonymous has hit sites that have refused to do business with the controversial whistle-blowing site with a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks.It mirrors similar attacks aimed at the Wikileaks site.Targets include the Swiss bank that froze founder Julian Assange's assets and PayPal which has

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Found this morning, a ray of hope on the corn-ethanol stupidity:Ethanol on the RunIt's been well known for a long time that utilizing corn to produce ethanol for usage as an automobile fuel is basically a stupid idea, because it results in a net energy loss. Massive government subsidies aren't even enough to keep it going, the government actually has to mandate a particular level of consumption:

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Some interesting details are coming out on the "Do Not Track" idea:Q: How would the proposed "Do Not Track" feature work?A: As envisioned by the FTC, it would be a universal setting. Instead of having to seek out the websites or individual marketing companies to ask them not to track you, you would be able to turn on a setting in your browser that would broadcast that message to any and all

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The Guardian has been kind enough to post a transcript of Julian Assange's recent chat/interview with Guardian readers:Julian Assange answers your questions: The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, answers readers' questions about the release of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cablesDefinitely worth a look. Of particular interest:rszopa:Annoying as it may be, the DDoS seems to be good

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Republicans threaten to shut down Senate until deal reached to extend tax cutsRenewed partisan fury engulfed the Senate on Wednesday, as Republicans threatened to block all legislation until a deal is reached to extend expiring Bush-era tax cuts, potentially derailing the Democrats' busy, end-of-year agenda.You know what? Just setting aside for the moment the question of whether these tax cut

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Netflix is a bandwidth hog. Who will pay? (Hint: You.)The traffic that Netflix is creating at this point is only the beginning--as a Netflix member myself, I can confidently state that they are doing everything they can to push their membership away from DVD-only usage and towards the "view instantly" option, which means their overall bandwidth usage is likely to continue to increase above and

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A detail I failed to notice the first time, on the "do not track" list idea covered in the previous post:The FTC is not yet calling for do-not-track legislation in Congress, but Web browser makers and other Internet companies should act quickly to implement a universal do-not-track list, Leibowitz said. [emphasis added]So it looks, perhaps, like identification of the person who doesn't want to be

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-51308803691435112752010-12-01T15:01:00.005-06:002010-12-01T15:21:39.538-06:00

The FTC is proposing a "do not track" list for web users, which would prohibit ad networks and websites from tracking people's movements as they browse the web:The do-not-track list, modeled after a national do-not-call list targeting telemarketers, would help consumers better protect their privacy because a uniform mechanism for opting out of online tracking does not yet exist, the FTC said in

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I've decided I'm going to take a stab at this blog again. Recent events relating to one of my other blogs somehow managed to spur my interest in this. I've been noodling along on Wordpress.com for a couple years now, but in general I find that platform to be rather frustrating, for various reasons, not least of which is that I can't even choose the damn font on the layout that I like. Also, the

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Let's start with an interesting article in the NYT:High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia UnrestWhat's really interesting is how they carefully manage to avoid mentioning the word "ethanol" anywhere in that article. The closest they come is this, pretty much:Many rice farmers are turning to more lucrative cash crops, reducing the amount of land devoted to the grain.The "lucrative cash crops" are

ckenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-36330322886405147572007-06-20T07:30:00.000-05:002007-06-20T09:27:46.966-05:00

Here's an excellent op-ed pertaining to fair use, hi-definition video media, and so forth:Down With the High-Def DVD Copy PoliceIn particular, I wanted to comment on one thing that the author just mentions in passing:Remember, there's no public space on the Internet. Every Web page, no matter how "public" or "user-generated," is privately owned. This means that every Web page can be attacked by

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I read this with a fair amount of trepidation, as well as anticipation:Revised Desktop, Finder highlight Leopard additionsIn particular, this kind of worries me:OS X 10.5’s new Finder features a new sidebar reminiscent of the Source list in iTunes. The sidebar is organized by Devices, Shared, Places and Search headers; a clickable triangle next to each header lets you close the section if you’re

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Yawn:Text messages harm written language: reportThe most relevant quote:"Text messaging, with its use of phonetic spelling and little or no punctuation, seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing.The report laments that, in many cases, candidates seemed "unduly reliant on short sentences, simple tenses and a limited vocabulary."The whining of traditional grammarians is endlessly

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-82086526758003222452007-04-10T18:10:00.000-05:002007-04-10T09:57:59.280-05:00

I was reading Violent Acres this morning, and followed the link in that post to the New York Times Article, A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs. On the whole, it's only a moderately interesting article about how a bunch of whiners are banding together to establish voluntary codes of conduct among bloggers. I did read all the way to the end of this two-page article, though, and could

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Newt Gingrich Admits To Having Affair While Leading Clinton ProbeFrom the article, In an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, Gingrich (R-Ga.) acknowledged his own personal infidelities during his time in Congress, but insisted he was not being hypocritical in pursuing Clinton for his indiscretions with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.Let's check the dictionary,

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Here's a very interesting piece on intellectual property. It addresses what is the primary problem with today's intellectual property laws, namely that they inhibit artistic innovation, rather than enabling it the way they are supposed to.link

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That's what this article could have been titled:France bans citizen journalists from reporting violenceUnder the new law, it is now a crime in France to film or broadcast acts of violence. For instance, if someone were to film police officers beating a suspect, such as what happened to Rodney King in Los Angeles almost exactly 16 years ago, that act of filming is a crime. Broadcasting that

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So let's see how I did:1) The Amendment passed. I offer my congratulations to all the dumbfucks in the State if Wiskonsin who voted "yes" yesterday. Are any of you idiots, perchance, actually living together without being married? Stupid shits, this amendment was aimed squarely at you. Anyway, looking at what I wrote yesterday, I see I kind of weasled out of making a call on this one. I

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So, tomorrow is yet another election day.I originally started this blog back in 2004, during the runup to that year's presidential election. That particular election didn't go very well.This year looks like it will be at least as interesting. There are a number of hotly contested races that I'll be voting on tomorrow. I thought I'd try something entertaining, and see if I can predict the

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I must link this here, because it is interesting:Sorry, David.I also must comment, because this is something I genuinely give a shit about.Yes, I have heard of David Pogue. In fact, I own several of his "Missing Manual" books, including the one for GarageBand 2 (I was really hoping to see "GarageBand 3: The Missing Manual," but, based on Pogue's comments there, I'm no longer holding my breath).

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LOL - in other news, some dweeb tried to blow up Paypal's headquarters building:An explosive left outside the headquarters of eBay-owned PayPal blew out a window Tuesday evening but caused no injuries, according to eBay.San Jose, Calif.-based PayPal, an online payment system, closed the building on Wednesday as FBI agents and local police investigated, said eBay spokesman Hani Durzi. The blast

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Alas, I see I spoke too soon the other day, when I stated that John Kerry had apparently grown a pair:Kerry apologizes for Iraq remarkWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Thrust into the midst of the midterm election campaign, Sen. John Kerry apologized Wednesday to "any service member, family member or American" offended by remarks deemed by Republicans and Democrats alike to be insulting to U.S. forces in

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Good article on the bullshit that is "e-voting":Pull the Plug on E-VotingWritten by a guy who "spent twenty five years in the financial services industry helping to protect billions of dollars of other people's money." He recommends scrapping "e-voting" completely. He also understands some key points that other people simply fail to grasp, such as the fact that source code is irrelevant to

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Holy fuck. John Kerry, the supposed milquetoast who I haven't heard a peep out of since he so famously and compliantly lost the 2004 presidential election, appears to have grown a pair of big brass testes: Kerry draws White House criticism for Iraq commentFirst, what started it all. Kerry made an offhanded joke while addressing some students in California:Sen. John Kerry is taking heat from

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Wow:Moderates in Kansas Decide They're Not in GOP Anymore

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I've been absent from this blog for a while. What can I say--politics is a bitch and I need lots of breaks.This, however, simply cannot be ignored:Republican Ad Calls Black Women "Ho's"No one can criticize the GOP for failing to produce sophisticated propaganda that successfully exploits the hopes and fears of white middle Americans. But can the right-wing distraction factory woo minorities with

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1157039793981238522006-08-31T10:41:00.000-05:002006-08-31T11:33:06.583-05:00

Paul Krugman writes about the long-feared crunch in the housing market, which appears to be upon us at last:Bubble, bubble, Toll's in trouble. This week, Toll Brothers, the nation's premier builder of McMansions, announced that sales were way off, profits were down , and the company was walking away from already-purchased options on land for future development.Toll's announcement was one of many

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This is fabulous:Pull the plugI am a computer scientist. I own seven Macintosh computers, one Windows machine and a Palm Treo 700p with a GPS unit, and I chose my car (Infiniti M35x) because it had the most gadgets of any vehicle in its class. My 7-year-old daughter uses e-mail. So why am I advocating the use of 17th-century technology for voting in the 21st century-as one of my critics puts it?

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An interesting article on, essentially, why Wal-Mart's domination of the marketplace is a bad, bad thing:Breaking the ChainA brief excerpt:Examples of monopsony can be difficult to pin down, but we are in luck in that today we have one of the best illustrations of monopsony pricing power in economic history: Wal-Mart. There is little need to recount at any length the retailer's power over

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What the ‘Left Behind’ Series Really MeansIt's a chilling article. This in particular struck me, though, as going above and beyond the simple exposé of these books as hate literature:The Rapture—the time when God takes up all saved Christians before he lets loose slaughter, pestilence and torture upon the earth—is very real to people in whom its glorious and grisly promise was instilled and

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Fucking hilarious:I'm Totally Psyched About This Abortion!And get this: apparently, some wingnut moron actually took that article seriously! (Incidentally, it won't surprise me at all if that link ceases to function in the near future...)Ah, yes. Pro-lifers: Working hard to bring Cyril M. Kornbluth's vision to fruition.

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As an atheist, I really appreciate articles like this:Atheists put their faith in ethical behaviorBy MELISSA FLETCHER STOELTJESan Antonio Express-NewsSAN ANTONIO -- Melissa and Chanse nibble on club sandwiches and french fries at a local coffee shop. To look at them, they're just another young couple enjoying lunch on a weekday afternoon.She wears stylish glasses, and her thick black hair is

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Here's an interesting article on, among other things, the origins of this country's somewhat peculiar interpretation of free speech. Written by fellow blogger Tony Palmeri: From Blackstone To Blogging. The primary focus of the article is on a recent free speech case in which an area website was shut down by a local judge after some anonymous users posted comments about a local elected official

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1144250167490948822006-04-05T09:59:00.000-05:002006-04-05T10:16:08.816-05:00

Yesterday on the DriveWeSaid beta forums, a link was posted to a very interesting book review: The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience. At first glance, this would appear to be a load of hooey--yet another sappy entry in the endless stream of self-help and good-parenting crap that's been clogging up bookstores for decades. However

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Of course, not all actors can be as wonderfully savvy as Mr. Clooney. Witness: Amabassador Blasts Bruce Willis' Comments. Specifically: The actor said the United States should consider "going to Colombia and doing whatever it takes to end the cocaine trade."It ain't Colombia that has the power to end the drug trade, though. It's those so-and-sos in Washington D.C. and their idiotic "war" on "

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I'm referring to George Clooney, not the President, who I truly wish would stop.Read: I Am a Liberal. There, I Said It!Clooney begins: I am a liberal. And I make no apologies for it. Hell, I'm proud of it.Yeah! That is what people need to hear. More: Too many people run away from the label. They whisper it like you'd whisper "I'm a Nazi." Like it's dirty word. But turn away from saying "I'm a

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1142269346836832582006-03-13T11:02:00.000-06:002006-03-13T11:02:27.213-06:00

After fixing the link to Chris's blog, it was only natural to start reading it. This turned out to be a lucky break--check out this post. Looks like the Pope has taken a lesson from the Scientologists, and decided to copyright not only his own words, but to do so retroactively for every Pope for the past 50 years. Cute. I commented on Chris's blog: What's potentially even more problematic

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1142268163510867532006-03-13T10:39:00.000-06:002006-03-13T13:46:37.840-06:00

I just discovered an error in one of the links in my sidebar--the link to Chris Hall's blog, Literate Perversions, went to a specific post (one from nearly a year ago), rather than to the blog itself. Ooops. Anyway, it's fixed now. My apologies.

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Here's a "must read": The Raid, a recent post on Riverbend's blog, detailing the coordinated invasion of her neighborhood and home by Iraqi and American security forces.A sample:One of them stood with the Klashnikov pointed at us, and the other one began opening cabinets and checking behind doors. We were silent. The only sounds came from my aunt, who was praying in a tremulous whisper and

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On the Issues - Every Political Leader on Every IssueLooks like it could be pretty useful. It also appears to have data on declared candidates--Robert Lorge (Republican challenger) and Rae Vogeler (Green Challenger) are listed as people running against Herb Kohl this fall. One interesting thing about Herb Kohl--if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there is a little graph, diagramming

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More linkage.Feingold: Alito Would Be "Dangerous Addition" to CourtNot to be lost in the reporting on Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee vote to endorse the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to serve on the Supreme Court is the fact that U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, has voted for the first time in his Senate career against a Supreme Court nominee.More than any other vote by a member of

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Two links today.The New FascismA point-by-point guide to the new political reality in the United States. A reality to which every Democrat in the Senate who refuses to filibuster the Alito nomination is totally oblivious.Over Chrismas, I had a brief opportunity to speak with my mother about political matters. She's hoping Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee in 2008. My feeling is

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Happy New Year. To bring in the new year, I want to post something I just came across on Usenet. I am unaware of the author, but it was posted by someone simply identifying himself as "Makz." Here it is:AgendaEveryone and every organization has an Agenda, or reason for what they doand say. When evaluating news, try and figure out why the information is being presented as it is. Does the writer

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There's been a lot in the news lately about a certain copyright-protection technology that Sony put on compact discs that they sold--the problem is that these CDs installed a "rootkit" onto Windows PCs that resulted in a substantial security risk. Sony got roundly (and rightly) flamed for this, and finally decided to recall the discs.But now, it turns out, this copy-protection scheme is itself

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1132325450127448612005-11-18T08:52:00.000-06:002005-11-18T08:51:20.416-06:00

State attorneys general want smoking warning on DVDsLOS ANGELES - Kids, don't try this at home.With a new study showing that exposure to on-screen smoking prompts many American adolescents to light up, state prosecutors from across the country want Hollywood to slap anti-smoking admonitions on all new DVDs.Attorneys general from 32 states signed a letter sent this week to 10 movie studios asking

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1132176698067239672005-11-16T15:33:00.000-06:002005-11-16T15:31:38.110-06:00

Just a thought as I slave away at the daily grindstone--it's high time that the English language had a gender-neutral courtesy title.What is a courtesy title, you might ask? Examples: Mr., Mrs., Ms., Miss, Dr. Used in business letters, such as, "Dear Dr. Smythe," or "Dear Ms. Hibsch."The problem is that many people are of indeterminite sex. Someone named "Robin" or "Leslie" or "Pat" (or people

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I received an e-mail from a relative of mine. I'll cut out the personal part and just post the generic, chain-letter part:> > Mastectomy Bill in Congress> > It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important ..> > please> > take the time and do it really quick!> > Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important> > legislation for> > all women.> > Please send this to everyone in your address book

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1131658513923352482005-11-10T15:33:00.000-06:002005-11-10T15:35:14.020-06:00

Recently, voters in Dover, Pennsylvania were intelligent enough to vote out of office members of their school board who had wanted "intelligent design" to be taught in high school biology classes alongside evolution.Pat Robertson seems to be taking exception to this:Pat Robertson: Intelligent design rejection was a vote against GodVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. The Reverend Pat Robertson says Pennsylvanians

ckenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1130359326422551012005-10-26T15:32:00.000-05:002005-10-26T15:42:06.426-05:00

Flying Spaghetti Monster Evangelizing - with pictures!Basically, there's a corner in Springfield, MO, where a small number of Xtian nutjobs hang out holding ridiculous signs like "Homosexuality is an Abomination". The Pastafarians decided to see if they could get more converts than the nutjobs. Not surprisingly, they succeeded, as documented in the photos.My favorite quote:It's important to

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This just cheeses me off:Hurricane experts say the Atlantic has swung back into a period of heightened storm activity that could last another 20 years. Climatologists also fear global warming could be making the storms more intense.Does anyone other than me notice the bias inherent in these two statements?Over the past several months, I have seen and read innumerable stories in the news about how

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The number of articles on Google News pertaining to the Asian Bird Flu has suddenly shot up to over 1700--much higher than the 300 or 400 in recent days. A sampling of the headlines indicates enough inconsistency and disagreement to suggest a panic is beginning. Needless to say, panicking over the potential spread of a potentially deadly disease could very well lead to some serious problems,

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I thought this was pretty funny.Apparently, the mother of the first female soldier from Wisconsin killed in the Iraq war declined to participate in an upcoming peace rally, scheduled for this Friday in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, when she learned that the rally will likely involve "civil disobedience." The civil disobedience in question would involve a public street march without a permit.[She] said she

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Fellow blogger Richard posted some recent comments from Dan Rather on the state of "journalism" today. A sample:Addressing the Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan, occasionally forcing back tears, [Rather] said that in the intervening years, politicians "of every persuasion" had gotten better at applying pressure on the conglomerates that own the broadcast networks. He called it a "new

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What exactly are these people on? Whatever it is, I want some:The Right VoteIT SHOULDN'T BE necessary to write in praise of the three Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who this week voted in committee to confirm John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice of the United States. Supporting overwhelmingly qualified members of the opposite party for the Supreme Court used to be the norm,

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1127502601201661052005-09-23T14:06:00.000-05:002005-09-23T14:10:29.080-05:00

Friend and fellow blogger Adam speaks out on the evolution vs. intelligent design debate.I found this particularly startling (originally quoted from here):At least 31 states are taking steps to teach alternatives to evolution. A CBS poll last November found 65 percent of Americans favor teaching creationism as well as evolution while 37 percent want creationism taught instead of evolution.We are

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1127501811644349372005-09-23T13:57:00.000-05:002005-09-23T13:56:51.666-05:00

The following is apparently making the rounds via e-mail. Author unknown. I found it posted by Glenn H on the Drive We Said beta site, and found it too choice to not post here:Dear Red States...We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.In case you aren't aware, that includes: Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin,

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1126986962365412962005-09-17T14:53:00.000-05:002005-09-17T14:57:10.880-05:00

Starting in two days, on September 19, access to "influential columnists" at the New York Times online edition will be limited to people dumb enough to pay $50 a year for a "Times Select" subscription. Oh, yes, there's a $10/year discount for early subscribers. Big deal. Whoop dee doo.People can argue that the New York Times is a for-profit endeavor and that they therefore have every right to

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1126550817114097762005-09-12T13:43:00.000-05:002005-09-12T13:50:21.703-05:00

Hee! I was planning on skipping the blogging thing today, but this is too good to pass up. Doing a Google search on the word "failure" yields a top result of "Biography of President George W. Bush." It's even the official biography on the White House website! Hilarious!You might also be curious as to what the 2nd place result is. It is "Welcome to MichaelMoore.com." So those on the right

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I am not sure where the original of this is located, so I am regrettably unable to provide a link. However, this sums things up pretty well, with respect to the Democratic Party's snivelling cowardice:Posted to Mark Crispin Miller's mailing list:An Open Letter to Senate DemocratsSeptember 8, 2005The most costly natural disaster in our country's history will play out in the political arena for

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1126209460244832112005-09-08T14:57:00.000-05:002005-09-08T14:57:40.253-05:00

The linked article is fairly long, but I recommend reading it all. Just a sample: Hurricane Katrina - Our ExperiencesAs we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads. This sent the crowd fleeing in various directions. As the crowd scattered and dissipated, a few of

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In my last post, I had wanted to include some information about how busy this hurricane season has been, compared to previous years, but I ended up removing that part due to lack of hard data. This morning, I just happened to find an article that has precisely the sort of statistics I was looking for:Season could break recordsJust a week into September -- typically the most active month for

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I begin with this op-ed from the Boston Globe, which dares to speak the harsh, painful truth:Katrina's real nameBy Ross Gelbspan | August 30, 2005THE HURRICANE that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.When the year began with a two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause was global warming.When 124-mile-an-hour winds

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1121437815647036942005-07-15T09:12:00.000-05:002005-07-15T09:38:59.173-05:00

UK Muslim leader barred from USBritish Muslim leader Sheikh Dr Zaki Badawi has said he has been refused entry to the US without explanation.The head of the Muslim College said he flew from London to New York to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York but was turned back.I'll skip most of the details of the article because they are not germane to the point I want to make, and

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I had mentioned in my previous post that I was considering moving some of my older posts from this blog to my other two blogs. This would be limited to posts here that were specifically not related to politics or world affairs, and which seemed to fit better in one of the other blogs. Some posts that were specifically commentary on Chunks, Eggs en Prix were left here, even though they have

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1117653474485153122005-06-01T14:17:00.000-05:002005-06-01T15:27:01.026-05:00

A bunch of right-wing dipwads have put together what they claim to be the "Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries". Looking at the list, as well as the "Honorable Mentions", I'm thinking it would make a pretty good reading list (with one exception):1. The Communist ManifestoAuthors: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels2. Mein KampfAuthor: Adolf Hitler3. Quotations from Chairman

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I've missed most of this story, or at least all the recent developments in it, due to some major personal stress in my life--a painful breakup of the sort that transforms anything relating to politics into some far away, abstract realm having nothing to do with the immediate reality of personal disaster. But things are calming down now, so let's see if I can get back into this thing:Recent news

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I was originally going to post this on [my other blog, which is no longer active], but then I realized it's related to an important political issue that is truly dear to my heart: intellectual property.A while back, Glenn H on Peoplesforum.com posted a link to a trailer for the upcoming movie Serenity. Tonight, I finally remembered to actually watch it, and midway through, I decided it rated

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Recently I've decided to focus this blog more exclusively on politics and world affairs type stuff, indicated by a change to the description up at the top that I implemented last week (or maybe it was the week before).Consequently, a need arose to create another blog where I could post items that no longer fit the focus of this blog. So I did, a few days ago. I haven't remembered to post a link

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Good news! Mexico City Mayor Cleared of WrongdoingMEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's government has cleared the capital's mayor of wrongdoing, conceding defeat in a nasty political fight that ousted an attorney general and raised criticisms that President Vicente Fox was unfairly targeting his top rival.Federal prosecutors dropped all charges against Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday.

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I was getting started on reading Paul Krugman's column today, when my mind suddenly went off on a tangent. Says Krugman:American health care is unique among advanced countries in its heavy reliance on the private sector. It's also uniquely inefficient.America has a unique obsession with privatization--so much so that even our money supply is privatized (American money is issued by privately

ckenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311969.post-1114633582124180212005-04-27T15:28:00.000-05:002005-04-27T15:28:01.563-05:00

Elaine Supkis over at Culture of Life News II has put up a very interesting post on recent developments in China/Taiwan relations. I recommend reading the whole post to obtain the context, but, contrary to what has recently been reported in the western press:Taiwan is being divided: do you want war with mega big China or reunification? The sane choice is obvious. The axe is going to be formally

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Government hopes we'd flip for new dollar coinsWASHINGTON -- American pockets could one day jingle with dollar coins engraved with the faces of presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton if a plan to mint presidential dollars gets the OK.Hoping to cash in on the popularity of the state quarter program -- which has generated $5 billion in revenue -- the House of Representatives began debate

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This time their target is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who dared to publicly question the official dogma that the 9-11 attacks occurred because "they hate us for our freedoms":Actress stirs up new firestorm with comments questioning U.S on 9/11NEW YORK (AP) - Maggie Gyllenhaal has waded into sensitive political waters by raising questions about Sept. 11 and American foreign policy.The 27-year-old

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An interesting development in Mexico: Mexico City's mayor back on job after favorable court rulingMexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador was back on the job yesterday after being banished from his office for 18 days by a congressional vote to impeach him.[snip]López Obrador was accused of violating a 2001 court order to stop building a hospital access road on private land. The dispute is

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