Month: March 2004

The state of abortions rights in America recently got bleaker: A woman accused of murder because she allegedly refused a caesarean section that could have saved her unborn twin denied the charge today, rejecting claims she avoided the surgery because she feared scarring. The implications of these charges are clear enough: Critics of the charges…

I’m sure that you’ve all heard of the Madrid bombings this morning that killed 190 and injured over 1200 people. While the Spanish government initially blamed Basque separatists, new evidence implicates Islamic fundamentalists, possibly cooperating the separatists. I have two observations to make about this: Unlike Islamic fundamentalists, the Basque separatists are not death-worshipping suicide…

In the news: attack of the drive-by porn, Mecha Marines, and the latest DARPA project: AI-driven vehicle race. Apologies to my readers for the lack of content, but I’ve been busy. Coders can find out what I’ve been up to at GotDotNet. I’m cooking up something original for the weekend 🙂

Alexander Marriott has written a good post about Martha Stewart: “Stewart Treated Badly Because She is Successful, Not Because She is A Woman.” Whatever her ideological faults, there is no excuse for the horrendous injustice inflicted on her by the government, or the treatment she is getting from the media. I’ve pondered about ways to…

I think the title says it all: “Iraqi women juggle freedom, ‘moral duty’” And if you weren’t clear enough on what Islam is about: It’s my moral duty to stay in the house,” Hassan says, describing the life of a traditional Shiite Muslim wife. “Going out and being seen outside the house is against tradition.…

Photos of Chernobyl after 18 years. I lived about 100 miles South-West of it at the time.

Martha Stewart has been convicted on all four counts. I have nothing else to add to the matter other than this: a country that destroys its best, most productive minds does not survive for very long. If 30 years from now, all that is left of America is a broken-down starving dictatorship, today will be…

To top off a lousy week, my digital camera broke today 🙁 I’m in the market for a new one if any readers have suggestions for me.

AlJazeera Poll: “Who stands to benefit from civil unrest in Iraq?” Neighbouring Arab country : 13% Neighbouring non-Arab country : 3% Israel and the US : 38% Internal Iraqi groups : 19% Combination of the above : 12% Unsure : 15% Not surprisingly, “terrorists,” “Baathist thugs,” and “Al Jazeera” were not in the list. The…

A wave of suicide bombings and mortar attacks on vast crowds of Shiite worshippers has killed at least 170 people in Baghdad and Karbala. … The near-simultaneous attacks ripped through an annual ritual, banned under Sunni Saddam Hussein, during which Shiites beat their heads and chests and cut their heads with swords to honour a…