Month: February 2004

  • Top Twelve Reasons Not to Support Gay Marriage

    I came across “Top Twelve Reasons Not to Support Gay Marriage” at Neurosophy and would like to include it here, since the list seems to be in the public domain. (The only one I disagree with is #8.)

  • The "Children's Online Privacy Protection Act"

    One of the main reasons the Internet has been so successful in the last decade is the fierce resistance given in response to meddling politicians who want to protect us from ourselves. Most of the laws that have been passed to regulate the web have either been ruled unconstitutional, or were completely useless and ineffective.…

  • Go CIA!

    I can’t say how true this is, but it’s certainly a great story: In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according…

  • Anti-China Protest in Taiwan

    Wow: More than 2.5 million people joined hands to form a 500-kilometre (310-mile) human chain stretching the length of Taiwan in a huge anti-China protest ahead of the island’s presidential elections next month, organisers said.

  • Limbaugh warns of danger to free speech

    Well, I never expected this from the conservatives, but I’m glad that one of them finally had enough sense to say it: The nation’s top radio host Rush Limbaugh warned of growing government intervention in broadcasting content. Limbaugh made the comments after his parent company clear channel dropped Viacom’s Howard Stern from its stations. ‘Smut…

  • Comanche Helicopter Scrapped

    The Comanche helicopter program was scrapped today after $6.8 billion, 20 years of development, and not a single operational model. The helicopter was intended to oppose non-existent Soviet super-weapons, and after 1990, a non-existent Soviet empire. It took 13 years for the program to catch up with political reality. The helicopter has been featured in…

  • Flying Around

    I probably won’t be doing much blogging in the near future. In addition to my usual hectic life, I got MS Flight Simulator 2004 yesterday, and will be spending most of my free time up in the clouds. Once my dvi-vga adapter comes in, I’ll be flying with 4 monitors.

  • Drudge has a review on the new book “Rumsfeld’s War.” Drudge picks out the primary reason why pacifists of all flavors despise him: “Rumsfeld changed the rules of fighting against terrorists, focusing on one primary goal- killing them.” Amen! Update: The Washington Times has another good story on the book.

  • Gay Marriages in San Franscisco

    Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to take a stand against the orgy of gay marriages coming out of San Francisco City Hall. Whatever one thinks of the legitimacy of gay marriage, I think this is a brilliant move for City Hall and a win-win situation for everyone. The San Fran authorities obviously have a wonderful PR…

  • "polluting our minds with unnecessary greed"

    I ranted last month about the socialist rag produced by the business student council at my school. I had hoped that this was an anomaly, until I opened up the latest issue. Here is a quote from “Can’t Buy Me Love,” an editorial from a freshman business major: Gullible consumers rush to the stores, confident…