Just as we had moved to Mozilla to flee the security nightmare that
is Internet Explorer, a potentially dangerous flaw is discovered in Mozilla, too. Details and fix here.
This is an argument you'd wish
both sides would lose:
People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals has selected the gadfly filmmaker as one of its
“Flab Five” and is treating him to a Veg Eye for the Fat Guy makeover. “Looks
like the ‘Downsize This’ author has been doing too much supersizing,” notes
PETA.
Yes, it is an ancient story, but I found it now, because some guy just
googled me for the odd phrase "Michael
Moore has HIV". No, not as far as I know, he hasn't, and the target page
just says he's an
asshole. We have that on good authority
The search for the moderate muslim continues, and Scott Burgess finds out that Yusuf al-Qaradawi certainly isn't it.
Would leftists welcome, say, a Christian "moderate" who advocated death
to gays, that women had to wear specific clothes, or that "apostates"
deserve death?
California Education Secretary Richard Riordan said something very stupid to a little girl, but the NAACP was a bit quick to play the race card. When the girl proved to be white and blond and not black as they first thought, a protest rally was cancelled.
The NYT is attacking the other side.
It is a bit convenient that Bush's service records were destroyed,
isn't it? It is probably more damaging than whatever was in those
records, though.
Humanity has existed for half a million years or so, but for most of
that period we were essentially bipedal animals. Until very recently,
relatively speaking, we had no complex societies, cities, written
language or significant increase in population. So what caused the dramatic change in the late stone age?
Now scientists have found that 30,000 years ago, there was a dramatic
increase in human lifespans, and far more humans reached what we would
call old age.
The findings support the so-called grandmother hypothesis, which posits
that older women no longer responsible for their own children help
support the group by strengthening social bonds and providing greater
opportunities to pass on specialized knowledge.
The secret of humanity's success may well be grandparents.
The Norwegian anti-American daily Dagbladet follows the war on terror,
siding unambiguously with the terror. Few things has riled up European
leftists more than the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, and today journalist Carsten Thomassen celebrates
that Swedish al-Qaeda fighter Mehdi
Muhammed Ghezali, caught by Pakistani forces in the border region
between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been freed and returned to Sweden. The headline says
Finally free from Bush's dungeon
Ghezali's
father actually thanks both the Swedish prime minister Göran Persson
and president Bush. The press has no thanks for the American
president.
Neither is the press going to ask pointed questions about what the
young Swede was doing there, and what kind of regime and organisation
he was fighting for at Tora Bora. To the Euroleft, America is the only real enemy.
And the enemy of that enemy is, if not their friend, at worst a group
of over-eager freedom fighters who are celebrated at their safe return
home.
She siphons attention from a husband who has a hard enough time getting
it. Yesterday, she distracted the audience when she seemed to be trying
to get young Jack Edwards to stop sucking his thumb. Sometimes she'll
laugh and smile in inappropriate places — she once chuckled while her
husband talked about curbing tax breaks for the rich.
It is almost unbelievable that this op-ed ended on an anti-Bush note, but it did.
I have received questions about why I didn't blog about the couple who had sex on stage "for the rain forest"
during a concert in Kristiansand (not Oslo), Norway. Well, the story
was frontpaging all the newspapers here (plus center pages, and goodamn
half the rest of the paper. Did I mention TV?). Such stories all follow
the
same pattern, and they bore me.
The media feigns moral indignation while spreading the most explicit
pictures they can get away with over the front pages. Note that the
major moral outrage was over the poor 15 year olds who would see two
young people having sex, but children much younger than that read
newspapers and see frontpages. Hardly anyone was really offended, but
the media of course managed to find some old/xtian/conservative people
who were, at least for the sake of the newspapers, expressing how utterly horrible this is. Yawn!
People pretend it's a "shock", but the frontman of the band Kristopher
Schau is known to do things like stuffing his willie into a fish,
putting it in a bun to attract dogs (!) and god knows what else I don't
know about because I hardly ever watch TV. And what the hell do you
expect when you go to a concert with a band called "cumshots"
anyway?
The police has dutifully observed the law, which bans sex in public,
and fined all the involved NOK 10,000 (~US$1,500) each. Schau has
received that hundredfold in free advertising, and so has the couple,
Tommy Hol Ellingsen, age 28, and Leona Johansson, age 21. The two members of "Fuck for forest"
(not work safe) will be able to shag away their 15 minutes of fame to their hearts'
content, undoubtedly saving a whole tree in the process, or at least inspire some wood.
The Rev. Romano Ferraro has been sentenced to life in prison for child rape. Why he did it?
While on the stand, the Roman Catholic priest was asked why he
performed these acts on his victims. His answer, according to [DA press secretary] LaGrassa,
was, "I did it to please the children."
This almost makes me wish the RCC was right about hell.
