Entries from September 2004

Actions speak louder than

Date September 25, 2004

The “new line of attack”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45672-2004Sep23.html from the Bush-Cheney camp has entirely changed my mind. It just hadn’t occured to me how dangerous John Kerry really is, and how bad he would be for America. Especially in this dangerous time. Consider:
*Kerry’s words “embolden the enemy.”* My gosh, we can’t have that. Why, if Kerry were president [...] Read more »

Revolting development

Date September 24, 2004

I just deleted some blogspam from a site I host. This blogspammer included the URL of legitimate sites along with the spam sites, presumably to discourage automated updating of black list entries. Read more »

Don’t miss out on this amazing offer.

Date September 22, 2004

OK, so I’m doing the get-a-free-ipod thing. Basically, if you haven’t heard about it, the way it works is like this: you sign up for one of several services (you can cancel if you like) including a subscription to the New York Times, trying out Blockbuster’s new by-mail rental service, a coffee subscription, etc, then [...] Read more »

New Smithsonian

Date September 22, 2004

Hey, does anyone know there’s “a new Smithsonian museum on the National Mall”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39949-2004Sep21.html?
The “National Museum of the American Indian”:http://www.nmai.si.edu/ opened yesterday. It’s located next to the old Air & Space Museum. There are four main galleries.
The first, “Our Universes,” is dedicated to cosmologies and traditions of various tribes. These are presented in a series [...] Read more »

Hatchet job or fair and balanced?

Date September 22, 2004

I’ve been reading (_listening to, actually_) Kitty Kelly’s new book _The Family:The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty_. I’ve never read one of her books before, but I thought I knew what to expect — a full-on hatchet job. I mean, we all know that Kitty Kelly is nothing more than a gossip-monger, right?
Now I’m [...] Read more »