Truth, Justice, and the American Way

Matt Drudge had a recent story referring to the recent claims of a successful human clone being born under the tagline “DID THIS WOMAN CHANGE THE COURSE OF MANKIND FOREVER?”
Now, I usually like Drudge, but he seems to have joined the general hysteria surrounding human cloning.

I am skeptical that a successful human clone [...]

That’s me in front, blissfully unaware of the guy behind me, about to blow me away. (Don’t worry, I still won the game.)

Btw, the game is Unreal Tournament 2003, which I have just bought, and highly recommend to anyone who likes FPS gaming.

I’ve made two new movementarian banners:

One:

And two:

Apparently, North Korea is going full stream with nuke production—they have removed UN seals and inspection devices, and openly admitted to nuclear weapons production. Apparently, they’re not afraid to take the world with them if they ever go down:The communist party’s newspaper Workers’ Daily declared that “the army and people of the DPRK are [...]

I spent a whole day making a new favorites page. It may look deceptively simple to the untrained eye, but it took me a whole day to get the XML databinding and sorting to work. Also, I think my collection of links is pretty cool. Check out out!

I would like to take this time to brag about the the new layout I did tonight for Laurel’s blogger, inspired by one of Tamara de Lempicka’s art-deco paintings.

I was at Tim’s graduation last night, and happened to be looking through the PhD theses in the brosure, and some of the sociology and english titles reminded me of this quoteYou know, if every “Woman’s Studies” department was closed, and the student loans were used to create businesses that hired women instead of studied [...]

Interesting article on Marxism at the Economist.

Here is the conclusion:Anti-globalism has been aptly described as a secular religion. So is Marxism: a creed complete with prophet, sacred texts and the promise of a heaven shrouded in mystery. Marx was not a scientist, as he claimed. He founded a faith. The economic and political systems he [...]

On October 8, Air Force Academy cadet Robert Kurpiel sent an e-mail to several college professors seeking support for the academy’s annual assembly, which provides a forum for the exchange of political views. His polite request sought advice on publicity for the event and such. One who responded was Professor Peter Kirstein of St. [...]

Here is a quote from MSNBC news:

It seems that Al Gore won’t run in ‘04 after all, clearing the way for (the marginally better candidates) Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, and Lieberman. Either way, as long as the Dems fail to get their act together and find something to stand for, Bush’s re-election should be a shoe-in.
Also, while advertising the upcoming [...]

“We need [Moore’s] noisy, cocky energy, his passion and class consciousness; we need his shticks, we need his stones.”

Anyone who wants more proof that Hollywood/media is commie heaven should note the
13 positive and 0 negative reviews on Michael Moore’s latest manifesto: Bowling for Columbine.

I overclocked my computer a few days ago, disabling its ability to reboot. Last night, it rebooted to apply an automatic update, but becuase of the overclock, it didn’t come back up, and after a few hours, Cox reset my IP address, causing the DNS entry to be erroneous. So, my website will be [...]

Ted Turner on terrorism: “There’s a lot of despair out there. Despair and poverty… these breed anger. And, I think, that’s one of the reasons terrorism exists. There’s so much frustration, anger, and despair..In the Arab view, America doesn’t do enough to help them and that’s why they’re so angry at it,” he said. The [...]

Gray Davis and the California democrats have done it again: California is on the edge of bankruptcy. Apparently all those “progressive” social programs couldn’t survive the recession.
Personally, I’m glad. Those stupid democrats have dug themselves into this hole, and I hope they feel the pain on the way out. [...]

Check out my latest:Google, Censorship, and the Hostage Dilemma“On September 8, 2002, the Chinese government blocked Google, one of the Internet’s biggest search engines. The government of China regularly blocks websites that it considers “dangerous” to its regime, but Google.com is a search engine – it only indexes the Internet without bias or preference [...]

I’ve written a new essay: The anti-war protesters: what are they for?
(shorter version:)
“A recent incident at University of Texas is indicative of the nature of the pacifists opposing a war with Iraq. After the student government of the University of Texas passed a resolution condemning a U.S. attack on Iraq, the Young Conservatives attempted [...]

See if you can spot the difference between two following photos from MSNBC: ....this and this

...I couldn’t.

(A bit of context: both groups were protesting the same topic.)

Interesting story at ArsTechnica:
As this article points out, many consumers are finding themselves presented with odd choices when they return to their favorite websites. Just today I searched on Amazon.com for “writers market”. Now, when I return to Amazon I’m presented with a list of recommendations, all of them books matching my earlier [...]

In a pathetic attempt to find avoid having to work on all the papers I have due this week, I have checked my email, bugged all my friends online, done my laundry, cleaned the apartment, scrubbed the bathroom, and finally, in desperation, I even cleaned the toilet. All to no avail, as my paper [...]