Monthly Archive: March 2002

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Counterpunch

So Counterpunch ran the Taliban Alamo thingy, and within minutes I had this wild set of emails, some people telling me Osama was innocent (!), some that I was a Taliban sympathiser, some distasteful...

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Afghan Alamo

In 1836 in the Alamo Fort, 1400 Mexican soldiers surrounded 189 Texans. The Texans were concerned that the Mexicans were going to initiate a program of ethnic cleansing to reduce the Anglo population. The...

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A Spot Of The Old Ultraviolence

So this bit where I said girls generally used social rather than physical violence, well, that was “mostly“. A counselor at a Mount Pleasant center for troubled teens was in serious condition … yesterday...

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Ancient Humans Desperately Horny Shock

I for one am not surprised. Alan Templeton of Washington University in St. Louis used the Geodis java program (that codes for the cladistic nested analysis of the geographical distribution of genetic haplotypes) to...

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Oedipal

href=”../Webstore/Weird%20Sexual%20Mother’s%20Day%20Gifts/Mother’s%20Day%20Lingerie.html”>ECommerce You really have to wonder about the mental state of whoever drew up this page of charming gifts for Mother’s Day.

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Quorn Rules

US FDA has finally approved Quorn for sale in the US. If you’re a big corporation, you can fuck around with DNA and proteins all you want to create Frankenfoods, but just try releasing...

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How Bin Laden Got Away

The Christian Science Monitor (how did a bunch of kooks manage to create such a great paper?) has this excellent account of how Bin Laden and the other Taliban leaders easily eluded the American...

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Bubbling Frenzy

With echoes of cold fusion, a group of Tenassee scientists claim to have induced hydrogen fusion in pressurized containers, using sound waves.