New York City to open first gay high school. I don’t know what to think about this. I’ve got some ideas though: * How to does one determine who is gay enough to get in? Say I’m a geeky straight kid (not much of a stretch, eh?) and I get the snot beat out of […]

Posted on July 29th, 2003 by admin
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I want out, now! Another interesting Salon article detailing a college Republicans convention. I realize the author did her best to find the extremists at the convention, but even the fact that people think this way is pretty scary to me. Even scarier are the excerpts from the Ultimate Warrior’s speech to the kiddies.

Posted on July 28th, 2003 by admin
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Salon has an interesting article on what the new regulations for the telemarketing industry will mean for the economy. I must admit, I had never really thought about the ramifications of the new national do-not-call lists to the bigger picture. While I certainly don’t feel bad for the telemarketers, all of us will feel the […]

Posted on July 15th, 2003 by admin
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In case you haven’t heard…. RIAA to sue file sharers. This was to be expected. There was a lively and interesting discussion on Slashdot about it (for extra credit, find my enlightening posts). In case you don’t, here’s what I think…. The RIAA sucks. No questions asked. They bleed consumers dry (the prices of CDs […]

Posted on June 26th, 2003 by admin
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There’s an article on Salon today about how if any of the Supreme Court justices retire in the next 18 months (a definite possibility) that GW Bush should do the _ethical_ thing and not appoint replacements. Huh? The author’s rationale is simple — if Bush does appoint a new justice, he is tilting the court […]

Posted on June 13th, 2003 by admin
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More Middle East Violence Yessirree, there will be peace in the Middle East in no time. Let me ask the question again: why are we trying to get in the middle of this conflict? And this isn’t a conservative/liberal thing — this is a power thing. Clinton was in the middle of it too, trying […]

Posted on June 11th, 2003 by admin
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It looks as if life can return to normal (did ever leave?). Most of the major news sites have toned down their emphasis on the war in Iraq and said that the major military action is now over and the coalition will now work on rebuilding Iraq. This is great, but where is Saddam Hussein? […]

Posted on April 15th, 2003 by admin
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Salon has an interesting article (sorry, you’ll have to click through an ad to read it) about a new program called CRACK (Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity) that pays drug addicts to take birth control or get sterilized. I’m not really sure how I feel about the whole concept, and it would probably take me […]

Posted on April 8th, 2003 by admin
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This sort of response scares me a little bit. Why would Britain already begin to distance themselves from something like this if there wasn’t a chance it would happen? This is exactly the sort of situation I feared when we started this war. I think the last thing we want to is to be taking […]

Posted on April 2nd, 2003 by admin
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I finally read the editorial I’ve been expecting to read since the war began (sorry, no link, as it was in the print edition of the Post Gazette). The US military has been talking a lot lately of how the Iraqis are mistreating prisoners of war, and how they are dressing like civilians and waving […]

Posted on March 31st, 2003 by admin
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