Archive for May, 2007

Medication as a Form of Discipline

It’s no secret that more and more children are taking medications to control their behavior. Although I long ago stopped subscribing to Time and Newsweek, both those magazines had practically annual articles asking whether we’re medicating our children to death. In the magazines, the anti-medication consensus is always that the fault lies with [...]

Famous Last Words Deptartment

CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) — As thousands of students marched in the streets in support, a Venezuelan television channel denied accusations that it was inciting violence against the government.
President Hugo Chavez’s administration shut down one station that was critical of him, and has opened an investigation into the remaining opposition station, Globovision.
Globovision’s director, Alberto Ravell, was [...]

Death of the Old Media

The AP reports today that the San Francisco Chronicle is bracing for major downsizing in the wake of its managing editor’s departure:
The San Francisco Chronicle’s managing editor is stepping down as the Hearst Corp.-owned newspaper braces for a round of deep editorial job cuts.
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Rosenthal’s departure comes two [...]

Women: Pass The Nuts

The anti-war activist thought the cause would be better served by turning on the Democrats who have, at some point, turned their backs on them. She now knows the truth.

Ben Affleck Proves the Point

His rant was directed toward the Democrats. My question is, if you live in fear of something doesn’t that pretty much make you a coward? If you live in fear of being called a coward, what does that say about you?

Clear and Imminent Danger, Do You See It?

McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario is the former haunt of Adnan el Shukrijumah, thought to be the next Mohammad Atta and head of a terrorist cell intent on attacking America with suitcase nukes … American Hiroshima. McMaster is also known as a ‘nest’ for many of the Canadian terrorists. Oh yes, McMaster has a 5-megawatt [...]

It’s All About Us!

I was in the car this morning at the dreaded 8:30 time, when there’s really nothing to listen to on the radio, news-wise, except for NPR’s Morning Edition. That’s the reason I found myself listening to a radio bit profiling the New Jersey mosque which three of the Fort Dix six attended. It was a [...]

Fred Thompson to announce in July

Politico.com reports that Fred Thompson will announce he is a candidate for President of the United States on July 4th. I can’t think of a better day for him to announce. However, Thompson’s camp says that is not true. He will announce in July but NOT on the 4th of July holiday. He doesn’t want [...]

Cool Google URL Hack For Image Search

I owe this tip to the awesome Lifehacker website that covers computer based technology for the ultimate computer geeks (me).
You can restrict Google image searches to images of faces by adding the following &imgtype=face to the end of the search string.
Suppose you want to search for pictures of Paris. You go to google images and [...]

Flight 327, I Have One Question…

I have one question about Flight 327 … If the incident with 14 Syrian “musicians” was completely innocent, why was 99% of the original report redacted? What’s to hide if their intentions were so innocent? Hmmm?
Airlines don’t want to admit these “dry runs” are happening, but they are. It’s bad news for airlines, Homeland Security [...]