Kevin’s jonesing for a second round of the Great Porn War of 2001, citing studies to the effect that porn is the root of all evil:
Of particular interest is a study cited that details the negative consequences of pronagraphy on marriage:
Repeat after me: correlation is not causation. Thank you, drive through.
Peter Pribik offers a contribution [...]
This just in from CNS: France Surrenders to Texas High School
Paris (CNSNews.com) – What began as a six-day chaperoned music tour by a group of suburban Houston teenagers ended in an epic conquest in the pre-dawn hours of Friday morning as French military and government officials offered their unconditional surrender to students of the Aldine, [...]
I never cease to be amazed by the amount of total bullshit on the Internet. I built an aquarium stand recently, so I naturally searched the net for clever plans. To my abject disappointment I found a seemingly endless array of plans that shared one thing in common: they wanted you to support a structure [...]
I set off the alarm while passing through the metal detector in an airport today, and the TSA guy made me take off my shoes, empty my pockets, and submit to a very careful hand scan. When he was done, he told me: “after we invade Iraq we won’t have to do this any more”.
So [...]
Via Matt Welch, U.S. to Make Iraq Intelligence Public (washingtonpost.com)
“The United States possesses several pieces of information which come from the work of our intelligence that show Iraq maintains prohibited weapons,” Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said in an interview published yesterday in an Italian newspaper. “Once we have made sure it can be [...]
ABC News reports: EU Increasingly Divided Over Iraq Issue
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was “making a charade of inspection,” signaling that the United States’ closest ally had only drawn closer. Straw said “time has almost run out. If this failure to comply continues, then Iraq will have to face serious [...]
Jeff Jarvis has awarded me the prestigious Jeffie Award for being the Most Curmudgeonly Blogger. I consider this a slight, because I deserve the Lifetime Achievement Award for Curmudgeonly Blogging, not just some little annual prize, so once again we have evidence that Jarvis, the people of New York, media hacks, and all people associated [...]
MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte’s article Creating a Culture of Ideas may be one of the most fanciful things ever written on the subject of invention. It’s a paean to diversity:
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), [...]
Oakland Raider fans rioted after their team’s humiliating loss in the Superbowl, causing almost as much damage as the peace demonstrators who trashed the INS and several businesses in San Francisco recently in the course of urging a path of non-violence on President Bush and Prime Ministers Blair, Howard, et. al. As Superbowl violence goes, [...]
Following up on the Iraq War column we mentioned previously, Tom Friedman has a fresh virus alert:
Unfortunately, when it comes to enlisting allies, the Bush team is its own worst enemy. It has sneered at many issues the world cares about: the Kyoto accords, the World Court, arms control treaties. The Bush team had legitimate [...]
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