Monthly Archives: February 2005

Genocide archive

Nicholas Kristof’s piece today on the genocide in Darfur is just harrowing. Pictures really do have an impact that words don’t, you know? But, at the risk of seeming unduly cynical – does Sudan have oil? [THX to Brian Angliss of Daedalnexus for passing this along.]

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Steadman on Thompson

Long-time co-conspirator Ralph Steadman has a nice piece remembering Hunter in The Independent online edition today. He was in a hurry. “Drive your stake into a darkened heart in a red Mercedes-Benz. The blackness hides a speeding tramp. The savage breast pretends. But never mind the nights, my love, because they never really happened anyway.” Read the story…

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Fear, Loathing, and Great Reporting

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is most remembered for over-the-top writings and personality. But it’s worth remembering that he was also a damned fine reporter, with a gift for details and one of the best crap detectors in history. (February 21, 2005) – One of the brightest lights in the American firmament blinked out Sunday. Word of Hunter Thompson’s death arrived

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Moore files suit

I’ve been waiting to see what was going to happen here, and finally Steve Moore has announced that he’ll be filing suit in his attempted maiming by Todd Bertuzzi. Some thoughts: 1. I’m no lawyer, so it will be interesting to see how the decision to file in Colorado plays out, since the actual assault took place in Vancouver. 2.

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New words

Ah, yes. The first three explain about 95% of my life these days… ___________________________________ The Washington Post’s Style Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s winners: Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas

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Update on the Summers case

Okay, I have now done something that most of the people calling for Harvard President Lawrence Summers’ head have not done – I have read the transcript of his actual comments at the NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce. If you recall, this controversial speech included remarks some took as suggesting that women simply lack the same

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Millennium Challenge – how could Rummy have expected that them damned Injuns wouldn’t fight fair?

On Thursday Lt. General William Wallace, commander of US Army forces in the Persian Gulf, said “The enemy we’re fighting is a bit different than the one we war-gamed against”….As Slate’s Fred Kaplan pointed out on Friday, however, Wallace’s statement simply isn’t true. “Militia fighters did play a crucial role in a major war game designed to simulate combat in

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Read my lips – no new draft

Bush swears that there will be no draft on his watch, period, and I continue to be skeptical. If I buy all I’m being told, and then do some basic common sensing around some things the administration is pointedly not saying – out loud, anyway – I can’t help concluding that we probably don’t have the manpower we need to

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ChoicePoint debacle

ChoicePoint Inc., a national provider of identification and credential verification services, says it will send an additional 110,000 statements to people informing them of possible identity theft after a group of well-organized criminals was able to obtain personal information on almost 140,000 consumers through the company. According to a statement on the ChoicePoint Web site, the incident was not the

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