Monthly Archive: January 2002

In the land of the first amendment, the normal rules of discourse are now blurred. The possibility of civilised people, all sharing the same loyalty, disagreeing about the right way forward is much attenuated....

Stephen King declares he’s giving up writing books… trees everywhere heave a sigh of relief.

She hung up and told me the news. Cliff Baxter, the well liked former vice-president of Enron, had been found in the early hours of the morning, slumped over the wheel of his black...

So some guy tested positive for nitro on his shoes in SFO, but disappeared during the confusion of the ensuing bomb alert. Why the security guards had handed the man back his shoes and...

This is a great essay on the state of the UK’s “Constitution”.

Googlewhacking… So I was bored.

This is great. I saw these great photos of the Kandahar Drag Scene in a recent New Yorker article. Ah Kandahar, where birds fly over the city using only one wing, the other covering...

A nice, long Seymour Hersh piece on clandestine Pakistan support for Taliban evacuation using Pakistani helicopters and safe air routes. Of course, the sources are mainly Indian, so there is that.

I think that fires are good, especially in hell. San Francisco was not a clean city, like Chicago and Boston, she was nasty.

So we have one Andreas Weigand coming in to talk to us tomorrow, about some connectionist stuff he does. But I bet he wishes he could take back this Usenet article. Or maybe not.