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Buchanan minimizes Serb atrocities
The story is really about how Buchanan wants to dialog with
Iraq and Iran. In passing, he says that the Serbs probably
only killed about 2500 ethnic Albanians: "Auschwitz it is
not," he concludes. It's no surprise that Buchanan wants
to reach out to Iraq and Iran - he would feel right at home.
Scheming chitchat
I was sorry when Salon discontinued Courtney Weaver's
Unzipped
column. I liked the way she wrote about sex. So, while
searching for something else in the Salon archive, I hit
a page of links to all the old Unzipped columns,
most of which I hadn't read. I'm rationing myself one
a day. Today's quote: "There is no such thing as the
innocent chat for men."
Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Now that Malibu Ken is unemployed, here's a job for him:
investigate right-wing college president George Roche III,
who had to resign from ultra-conservative Hillsdale College
after rumors of his long-time affair with his daughter-in-law.
Of course, one expects Kenny to be as thorough as he was
with Clinton, don't we? "Conservatives have been rocked by a series of revelations that make
us seem like the biggest collection of hypocrites ever to tred the
earth."
Boston mobster arrested in spite of FBI
A hard case. In Boston in the 1960s and 1970s, the FBI went
after Italian mobsters. Part of the plan involved giving
a leg up to Irish mobsters (the Bulger Group). Local and state police,
DEA and IRS struggled to put Bulger et al. behind
bars, but somehow Bulger was always a step ahead, thanks
to tipoffs from the FBI, who was using him as an informant.
Recently (and finally) two of Bulger's top men were arrested.
"It's a vindication, because we took a lot of heat over the
whole thing," a police detective said.
Malibu Ken's value drops 60%
Kenny Starr's law firm is so glad to have him back, that
they've offered him a big 60% cut in pay. Well, that's
still $800,000 a year, right? To sweeten the deal, they
want to impose a few restrictions: "He's not allowed to come
back for six more months. And when he does become a partner
again he's not allowed to give any more speeches."
And he's got to wipe that smirk off his face, too.
Bush - not a Jeopardy contestant
Geo. Bush Jr. "froze like a yellow rose in liquid nitrogen
when some smarty-pants Boston reporter asked him ... about
foreign affairs.... And finally, Pizza Hut, of all people,
asked the whole slew of [presidential] candidates what their
favorite book was when they were growing up, and [Bush]
cited one that wasn't published until the year after he
graduated from Yale.... Dan Quayle [is] probably holed up
somewhere laughing his dumb ass off."
Banjo frog soothes mankind's ills
While authorities try to eradicate this strangely named
creature from New Zealand, a researcher claims that the
frogs manufacture dozens of rare peptides on their skin.
Seventy percent of these peptides were previously unknown
to science. One "has been linked to a possible treatment
for strokes.... Their skins are a chemical warehouse."
You, too, can be an idiot savant
The idea is that if you can shut off your brain's higher
functions (the ones that filter out irrelevant stuff and
determine signficance) you can learn languages in a snap,
count cards like the Rainman, and tell in a moment what
the day of the week for any date.
16-year-old stumps Buchanan
Pat Buchanan briefly woke, red faced, from his vocalized
intolerance fantasy when a student asked him how he
could guarantee that he "wouldn't follow in Bill Clinton's footsteps."
Catholic Church clamps down on academia
Well, okay, the earth isn't flat, it spins, and isn't the
center of the universe. And yet, the US RC bishops have
decided that they need to run Catholic colleges and universities
with a tighter hand. Make damn sure the dogma is petrified
before it's served! "We're only beginning to
hammer out what academic freedom means in a Catholic university."
Really? And how long have Catholic universities been in
existence? Luckily, all the schools, teachers, and bishops
are not just bending over for this.
CallTheShots.com
Interesting discussion. The Motley Fool guy doesn't like
calltheshots.com
because it lets readers get his content without the
ads and frames and other flotsam.
CallTheShots
lets you set up what amounts to a dynamic website,
where you create pages whose content is yanked from
elsewhere. You take only the parts of the page that
you like and leave the rest.
Thursday, November 18, 1999
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) rejected the US gov't
request that new internet protocols have built-in wiretapping
capabilities. Good for them. Gov't threatens to levy
heavy daily fines if the IETF doesn't give in and say it:
"Love Big Brother. You must love Big Brother."
Once again, get the free account so you can read the
piece.
Richard Jewel settles with ABC
Remember him? The FBI set the world loose on this poor
guy after the Atlanta Olympics bombing.
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