Archive for 2002

gruesome bastards

Those Argentines were some gruesome bastards in the middle to late 1970s, and into the 1980s, with their death squads and “dirty war.” The dictators were even kidnapping babies from jailed political dissidents. (…)

Map Room Speech

Known as the “map room speech,” Bill Clinton addresses the nation after giving testimony to the grand jury about his relationship with Lewinsky.

Greedy Bunch

The Greedy Bunch rocks! Oh, do they rock. (…)

Vicious Wedgie

Boy, those Brits sure know how to have fun, and on the BBC Web site no less. (…)

Listing mulitiple blog updates

Here is a brief tutorial on how I create the recently updated bar on the left side of my main index template. I have three integrated blogs, with two of the blogs listing their last 5 entries. (…)

perfect capitalism

It cracks me up that the current business mischief affecting the economy are often attributed to a “perfect storm” of events, and not simply as a matter of corporate malfeasance. (…)

New Feature: great song lyrics

First great song lyric is from the self proclaimed “The Only Band That Matters” (The Clash). (…)

blood, guts, music and cops

I don’t know what made me think of it, but I just Googled a search for music in operating rooms, and I happened upon this. (…)

what information?

Our years of Bush and life without information.

Power pointing

The whole story is here, but basically it boils down to an intern dropping a disk that had some PowerPoint files on it . . . from Karl Rove, bloated advisor to our President Emeritus George W. (…)

Gotham Blogs

A cool site: New York City Blogs. It is a listing of NYC based blogs, by subway line and borough. (…)

plutocracy

There is an interesting piece by Paul Krugman in the New York Times titled Plutocracy and Politics. (…)

How radical?

I don’t mean to burst anybody’s bubble, but Eminem is not radical. He never was, and I don’t think he ever will be. Shocking? Nope, not even that. Let’s break it down . . . (…)

al Qaida and progressive politics

I am wondering what the progressive political movement can learn from the organizational structure of al Qaida. (…)

Usama: the perverse incentive

Perverse incentives are creeping up all over the place when it comes to this war on terrorism. (…)