Now I want to tell you about this Friday’s [Nightline] broadcast. We’re going to do something different, something that we think is important. Friday night, we will show you the pictures, and Ted will read the names, of the men and women from the armed forces who have been killed in combat in Iraq. That’s it. That will be the whole broadcast.
Categories: Current Affairs,Television
- Published:
- April 27, 2004 – 10:48 pm
- Author:
- By Michael Hanscom
I love whatever algorithms Google uses for their AdSense program. Much of the time they’re dead-on, but every so often, you get some wonderfully bizarre and hilarious combinations. For instance, upon reloading my page after adding my last post, I got the following set…
Categories: Humor
- Published:
- April 27, 2004 – 10:29 pm
- Author:
- By Michael Hanscom
It was bound to happen — and realistically, it probably has been happening, just now we’re getting news stories about it — US intelligence agencies are starting to keep an eye out on weblogs.
Categories: Current Affairs
- Published:
- April 27, 2004 – 10:26 pm
- Author:
- By Michael Hanscom
Okay, so on the scale of stupid things Bush has done, this may not be right at the top, but it’s still a rather sad look at how little respect the man can have for other people when he’ll use someone else’s shirt to clean his glasses while their back is turned.
Categories: Links,Politics
- Published:
- April 27, 2004 – 11:34 am
- Author:
- By Michael Hanscom
A link to a somewhat sloppy article on 9-11 conspiracy theories on Metafilter led to a very worthwhile discussion today, including one of the best comments I’ve seen on there in a while. I’m reproducing it in full here — hopefully mokujin doesn’t mind. 
Categories: Current Affairs,Links,Politics
- Published:
- April 26, 2004 – 11:32 pm
- Author:
- By Michael Hanscom