Thursday, October 03, 2002

Oh, by the way, everyone say hi to Ann Marie, my friend in Pittsburgh - she wants to be famous, and must have suffered brain damage, since she seems to think that being mentioned on my blog makes her famous. Sucker. =)
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'Random' killings shock Washington [BBC World] As disturbing as these killings are, what's actually freaking me out more right now is the discussion about this at a baseball message board. Alongside concern for board members who live in the area is straight-up racism. The person who started the thread had this to say: "I'm laying one-to-one odds that the two men are of Arab descent, between the ages of 18 and 35, and attend Mosques." He later backs up his theory by pointing out that none of the victims are Arabs, and that al Qaeda's been shooting Christians in Pakistan. I'm only a lurker on this board, but I'm seriously tempted to break my silence solely to call this bastard out as the racist fuck he is. I can't believe that people actually think like this, and that none of the regular posters has called this punk on it. This board goes off my bookmarks.

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posted by agaffin at October 3 12:44 PM. Blue man runs for Senate Stan Jones, the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in Montana suffers from argyria, a condition in which the skin becomes stained a permanent shade of blue. How do you come down with it? You drink lots of colloidal silver. Jones started mixing his own shortly before Y2K to help boost his immune system in the antibiotic-short apocolypse he was sure was coming. No word if he is now engaged in weird behavior involving metal tubes. [MetaFilter] Wow - you need to see this guy. He really is blue - maybe more purple than blue, but that's really just nitpicking.

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Bush vs. Saddam: Iraqi VP suggests a duel. [Salon Headlines] Works for me. Either way, we'd be rid of one bad head of state.
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David Bowie brought back Ziggy Stardust - seriously. He played at the old Hammersmith Odeon Wednesday night - it's now the Carling Apollo - for the first time in 29 years...the last time he was there was the death of Ziggy Stardust, the closing of the Aladdin Sane tour, the last ever appearance of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. At his show last night, he played 'Ziggy Stardust' and 'Moonage Daydream' as Ziggy - damn, I'd've killed to be there for that.

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US envoy in 'evil' North Korea [BBC World] ...who, by the way, are far, far more capable of developing a nuclear arsenal than Iraq, and have the delivery systems available to hit Japan, South Korea...so why are we going down the diplomatic road with North Korea and invading Iraq? Not that I think it'd be a good idea to invade North Korea - I heartily encourage the diplomatic option, and see this as an all-around good thing. The problem is not in diplomatic measures with N. Korea, it's in the avoidance of diplomatic measures with Iraq. I guess Hussein is worse than Kim Il Sung - the North Korean dictator has yet to gas his own people, though his horrendous policies, which led to the mass starvation of his people, are reminiscent of those of Stalin, which conservative pundits and historians argue were at least as bad as Hitler. Actually, that's a good point - if Saddam Hussein can be compared to Hitler (and I argue that he can't - he's evil, but he doesn't have the genocidal mania that drove Hitler) then Kim Il Sung can most assuredly be compared to Stalin. This requires more thought - I've got to run now, but I'll get back to this later...

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'Dazzling' Clinton wows press. The Labour Party conference speech by Bill Clinton is praised in many of the papers¸ claiming he still has the power to seduce his audience. [BBC News | UK] Of COURSE he still has the power to seduce his audience - he's Bill freakin' Clinton. I honestly expect him to run for President again in 2008 or 2012 - he'll get twitchy out of office for too long.
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Lowell to come down on gangs linked to murders. Boston Herald Oct 3 2002 1:19AM ET [Moreover - Boston news] ...and this is why my suburban friends are shocked that I'm voluntarily living in Lowell. But, I try to point out to them, I live a mile and a half from the problem areas. I've got museums, the high school, the theater and auditorium, and the "shopping" district on three sides, with the Merrimack River on the other. I'm perfectly safe. My friend Chris, however, was driving down a street in the Lowell Highlands a few weeks ago, near his apartment. A couple hours later, someone was gunned down on their porch, right where Chris had driven by. Not that shocking, true, but it freaked Chris out - he's from friggin' Northampton, after all. Not many gang-related murders in the Happy Valley. =)

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Welcome msnbc.com readers!. Was alerted to a listing in MSNBC's Weblog Central blog. Is it just me or is the layout of that page funny? I see three sidebars down the right side of my browser window before you get to the weblog. Could be a Mac thing? Joan, the executive producer writing the blog, is off to a great start, doing what she calls "blogspotting." [Radio Free Blogistan] Also, they've been hipped to the wonders of All Consuming, which I've mentioned before and link to with my Now Reading section. Gradually, I'm loading my entire library up there...takes a while, though. I've got a damn ton of books.

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You know you're a jaded PC user when you see the headline Microsoft Reports Progress in Averting Computer Crashes and you think it's another Onion satire. [The Shifted Librarian] I had a very similar thought, but couldn't think of a witty enough response. The Shifted Librarian, however, nails it perfectly.
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