Monthly Archive: October 2001

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...

Yet another reason I don’t eat meat: There’s a good chance your grocer’s meats are tainted with bacterial germs that are relatively invulnerable to antibiotics, a trio of new studies finds. As a result,...

The worst way to fight a war is to routinely kill defenceless women and children – you just create a whole new cohort of active enemies. Independent witnesses have now confirmed that in the...

Just back from a long weekend in Portland, Oregon. God it’s clean. It’s so clean. I think San Francisco may be the dirtiest city in the world. It’s amazing what you get used to....