Daily Archive: October 24, 2001

So apparently Saudi Arabia is likely to do an Iran and just splinter after the current King pops his clogs (he’s currently a virtual vegetable hooked up to a vast array of medical machinery)....

The Taliban are moving into civilian areas to use them as human shields and have surprised the Pentagon planners by doggedly hanging onto power.

So I see that a Pakistani guy being held by the INS who had “no connection” to the attacks died in his cell. I wonder did he fall or was he pushed?

While in Portland me and Lisa noticed that cones seemed to have taken over great swathes of Oregon. We’re not the only ones to have stumbled onto this attempt at world domination by the...

This is, apparently, what the Israeli army announces over loudspeakers to the inhabitants of Bethlehem and other towns it has invaded. Snipers are at work, picking off those who do not comply: shoppers, children...

The Washington Post increasingly sounds like some sort of Nazi Party ragmag. What’s their best idea to ‘protect freedom’? some are beginning to that say that traditional civil liberties may have to be cast...

Looks like I missed the real fun in Portland: Mind-Numbing Orgy Excess. The monthly orgies I organized and oversaw in Portland last winter and spring created a power dynamic between us that was, for...

So Windows programs crash, this is nothing new. But now with XP, when they crash they can send the contents of your confidential documents directly to Microsoft servers. Now that’s progress!

General Van Tien Dung defeated the US in Vietnam after 15 years of relentless warfare on both sides. He doubts the US/UK alliance can carry through to victory in Afghanistan. War cannot stamp out...

This war’s a weird morass. The Chinese are buying dud, unexploded cruise missiles from Bin Laden for several million dollars a pop, while a Taliban leader, interviewed in a Pakistan paper, is already planning...