Thursday, August 1, 2002
I have a new favorite website: The Morning News

Thursday, August 1, 2002
More Props to editorial genius of Nick Gillespe! Rather than adding another mild condemnation to the heaps of op-eds out there, Thomas Szaz's piece in the new Reason really gives it to the Catholic Church. He chides the forgiving nature of preists who claim child-molester/Fathers have a "disease," and are therefore denying the existance of free-will

The entire psychiatric literature on what used to be called "sexual perversions" is permeated by the unfunded idea -- always implied, sometimes asserted -- that "abnormal" sexual impulses are harder to resist than "normal" ones...

In short, pedophilia is a mental illness only if the actor is distressed by his actions.

It's not yet up online so keep checking the site, or get the print edition, this story has a really cool graphic of satan in a collar.

Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Here's an informal poll: tell me should I include this article in the next protocol?

Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Purrr!

For years, Motorcat and her human riding partner, known to all simply as J. Catman, caused double takes all over the Washington region as they tooled down the highways astride Catman's Suzuki 500, both riders sporting crash helmets. With her ears pressed down under the headgear, Motorcat was the ultimate hepcat, seemingly unflappable, her claws casually sunk into carpeting that lined the motorcycle's gas tank and back seat.

Cat and Catman first hooked up in 1987 at a local garage, where the grime- and grease-covered feline was already showing a proclivity for engines. Whenever Catman watched racing tapes at homes, "she'd be very interested and get up on the chair and start looking at the TV," he recalled in a 1993 interview in The Post.

Tuesday, July 30, 2002
So I've been hiding out in my new house all week, watching big budget sci-fi and listening to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. The logo and design for Protocol are all set and off tha hook! We'll have Flash, Java, all that stuff that I never could see on my Windows 95, which I parted with only a week ago for an XP.

Friday, July 19, 2002
From the Politechbot mailing list: Operation TIPS-TIPS
To combat this menace, we've instituted Operation TIPS-TIPS. If you spot somebody you believe may be a TIPS informant, do two things:

Mark the informant. In a subtle way, place the mark of the all-seeing eye (the eye-in-the-pyramid from the Great Seal, shown above) on their home, vehicle or person. Chalk is best, though it must be renewed. This is like Hobo Signs.

Register them here. : Report TIPS informants

Thursday, July 18, 2002
The Future of Music Foundation has often been dismissed as a Jenny Toomey pet project, but the information presented on the site keeps me on my toes, specifically the work of Peter DiCola, a joint J.D./Economics Phd candidate in a John M. Olin program at Michigan. He's cool too, one of his articles was picked up at insound.com.

Thursday, July 18, 2002
Just a heads up, the Starbucks on U and NH isn't lame. There's a big, infrequently occupied table in the back overlooking the 16th St S2/S4 bus-stop, and the store soundtrack is pleasant with lo-fi classics from Luna, Will Oldham, The Shins and others. I can't think of a better song opener than "gold teeth and a curse for this town/were all in my mouth..."

Thursday, July 18, 2002
This is another reminder to keep reading antiwar.com, specifically Justin Raimondo's column. Today he takes on "Operation TIPS," the Terrorism Information and Prevention System. It's a Justice department designed program starting in several cities and involving an estimated one million lucky citizens. It works basically like the Stasi, US proles-undercover are taught to formally report "suspicious terrorist activity"

A million spies reporting on their fellow Americans – and that's just the beginning! The nation's busybodies are going to have a field day; every crackpot in the country is going to flock to this program, like flies to fecal matter, eager to get in on the fun. Why, just think of the opportunities it affords the nation's nutballs: everyone they ever hated (ex-girlfriends, ex-husbands, ex-friends, and just random victims) will feel their wrath, and their power. It's a blank check issued to America's obsessives, who are going to do their best to make life miserable for the rest of us.

Thursday, July 18, 2002
The 'Rave' Act: Bad Idea

Wednesday, July 17, 2002
You know that commercial that says "you have reached the end of the internet"? That's how I feel today. I've visited all my old haunts and come up with nothing to post ... except for this: Def Leppard to Play at Walmart Opening And no, this isn't from the new Onion

The venue for the concert is the new Wal-Mart Supercenter which is slated to open Wednesday at the corner of Raeford and Gillis Hill roads. The store’s manager, Missi Keith, confirmed Monday that the band would be playing a free concert at 6 p.m. on July 31.

Fields, a 37-year-old fan of ’80s music, said he has seen the band twice in Chapel Hill. He has been reading online about Def Leppard lately and had planned to buy the band’s newest CD, ‘‘X,” which is due out July 30.

‘‘That is cool, good public relations for them and a good chance for me to see them,” Fields said. ‘‘That is an unusual place to be playing the day after a release, though -- Wal-Mart USA.”

Tuesday, July 16, 2002
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