Daily Archive: January 9, 2002

Bummer, those high-intensity electron beam irradiators the USPS is zapping the mail with erase and damage camera memory cards, photo film, contact lenses, and so on. That’s it for a lot of mail-order businesses....

Good op-ed here, illustrating the dangerous absurdity of conflating individuals’ actions with collective punishment against entire countries. Reminds me of how World War One stemmed from a single assasination of a royal guy by...

So Karzai’s US-backed government in central Afghanistan is attempting to exert its authority over the warlords by issuing an ultimatum that all non-authorized armed men (ie, Northern Alliance militia) quit Kabul. Good luck, especially...

Dave sent me email, pointing out he’s from an Adventist, somewhat veggie/abstemious background, and that various of his gramps lived to be around a century. But that not eating cows hasn’t really stopped India...

This is much fun, I’ve gotten some hate mail from aggrieved Polymers. And much of it, as expected, is expressed in anal-genital terms “asshole”, “shithead”, “cocksucker”, and so on. This fits in with my...

Big Meat, not satisfied with killing the planet, is now killing hedgehogs!?!?!? Is nothing sacred? When will the hedgehog army rise up to avenge their apocalypse? What will my mutant dwarf army be able...

Almost a Darwin candidate here: guy shoots self practicing quick draw on snowman.

Yes, Somalia is definitely on the Pentagon’s shit list.