Monthly Archive: July 2002

So Kuroshin has this story about a new report saying prison rapes are now a leading vector for AIDS and Hep infection in the general populace. Sadly, it only addresses the general economic cost...

So Segway’s apparently managed to “convince” some tame Congressman to push through Cali legislation to enable them to be driven on paths, while motorized scooters and suchlike are still relegated to duking it out...

So it has come to this. Dr Marten’s Boots are being “de-emphasized” by their makers in favour of wussy, friendlier styles. Prozac gets part of the blame, apparently. Bye bye Docs, we hardly knew...

So now I’ve got a couple of emails from people saying they found my site through that skinmag FHM and can they have password to some of the “good” stuff. What the hell? I’m...

So this article reveals that the US compensation payments to the civilians wrongly killed during the recent attack on a wedding party put a value on dead Afghans that’s a minute fraction of the...

So two congressmen with no shame have drafted a nutty bill that would allow movie and music companies to hack into people’s personal computers and networks to erase or destroy “copyrighted” material. Most notably,...

So it’s not just me that finds it extraordinary that the US has joined with notable Axis of Evil members such as Libya, Syria, and China to oppose an international ban on torture. I...

So not content with recycling the fruity, vaguely disturbing corporate realist propaganda posters from the 1940s, the Bush Administration has gone slogan crazy recently. Hey, it worked for those guys in Italy and Germany,...

Did so many firefighters have to die during the collapse of the World Trade Center? This article says no. Unregulated heroism is part of the U.S. firefighting culture, Klein said. In large part, it...

The London Times has an interesting story about how, apparently, the European negotiations with the Palestinians were within hours of producing a ceasefire when the bizarre and shocking F16 rocket attack on a Palestinian...