Monthly Archive: January 2003

So apparently the record companies, in a rare legal defeat concerning price rigging, have agreed to pay to settle a class action suit. So if you swear that you bought recorded music between 1995...

Let nobody ever doubt again the wisdom of Regular Movements. My Dad was admitted to hospital in New York with extraordinary abdominal pain. Initially they thought it might be appendicitis, but it turned out...

I note an interesting article that analyzes how Israel’s Sharon is shaking down the US Treasury for $14 billion to ensure “compliance” with US Middle Eastern policy. How much money in total has the...

I’ve looked at Gnod before, but I didn’t notice that it also does clustering for writers. I was intrigued to learn that people who read Clark Ashton Smith also tend to read TS Eliot,...

So I came up again in this incredibly itchy rash. Last time I thought it was from shrimp, but this time I can’t find any shellfish in my recent dietary past so unless some...

Every so often I get really annoyed by ritual male genital mutiliation, or male circumscision, and the unthinking way millions of otherwise vanilla parents in the US seem so avid to subject their infant...

Believe it, pal.

This made for interesting reading. The British Government in the early 1970s, faced with a virtual civil war in Ireland following the imposition of military rule, seriously examined two tactics which worked well for...

Two remote, low-lying Pacific Islands are believed to have been deluged by one of the strongest hurricanes on record. This is of course only a precursor, as global warming raises sea levels, kills coral...

This fine Scheer article sums up all that is currently grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented about the Bush Gang’s current excuse for a foreign policy.