Author: mike

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Only Five Deaths

Some of these people on Slashdot are peeved because I used the phrase “Only Five Deaths” talking disparagingly about the ill-thought out campaign to irradiate mail packages against anthrax. They are ignoring the almost...

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Anthrax Good For Business

So five people died in this anthrax scare, but the electron beams damage sensitive tech gadgets and now cause paper to give off toxic gases, causing the evacuation of a commerce department building when...

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Quelle Surprise

B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, says elements in the Israeli army are knowingly targetting Palestinian civilians. Quelle surprise.

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Turncoat Style

If you’re going to do a turncoat, do it in style. One Lord Peter Melchett, ex head of Greenpeace UK, has jumped ship to work for a corporate PR company, Burson-Marsteller. These are’nt just...

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Impressive Dubya

Dubya continues to impress. Attempting to defuse tensions between India and his newest peace-loving allies in Pakistan, he referred repeatedly to “Pakis“. This is a word roughly equivalent to nigger, dago, or wop. What...

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Ground Zero Lourdes

Here’s a horribly fascinating Breslin column about how Ground Zero at the old WTC site is becoming just another tawdry spiritual tourist site, ala Lourdes, with all the crappy associated knicknacks: All were looking...