Monthly Archives: July 2004

Pay attention to the road, you idiots 4

Years ago, while driving around Anchorage, I glanced to my right and saw a couple guys driving around with a portable DVD player sitting on the dashboard of their car, quite happily watching a movie as they motored around town. Well, the inevitable has finally happened: two people in Alaska were killed by a driver watching a movie on a dash-mounted DVD player.

9/11 commission: Everything we knew was wrong 1

But 19 months later, the commission has released a final, unanimous book-length report that, in calling for a overhaul of the way the government collects and shares intelligence, showed that much of what had been common wisdom about the Sept. 11 attacks at the start of the panel’s investigation was wrong.

Gagging and swallowing 2

Blacks are gagging on the donkey but not yet ready to swallow the elephant.

Alan Moore interview 2

There’s a stunningly good interview on Salon with Alan Moore, creator of the extremely well-regarded graphic novels ‘From Hell’ and ‘The Watchmen’ (unfortunately, I’ve yet to read any of his work, though I’ve heard many good things about them). A definite must-read.

Power corrupts… 1

There’s one particular short conversation in the book that’s stuck with me since I read it the first time. At this stage in the book, seventeen year old Julie Katz — only begotten daughter of God, born of the virgin Murray Katz — is having a discussion with Andrew Wyvern — the Devil.