Posted
6/29/2002 10:17:26 PM
by Edward Driscoll
AMERICAN UNILATERALISM: Another nuance of Bush's speech last Monday explored by Steve Den Beste on the newly redesigned USS Clueless
(I like the new "screen" design on the Clueless. It has sort of a Star Trek-retro look to it, as if it should be on Captain Pike's Enterprise. And yes, I'm embarrassed by the fact that I'm enough of a Trekkie to know what the different viewscreens on the various Enterprises look like.)
Posted
6/29/2002 09:51:07 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE FAT TAX: Coming soon to a McDonald's near you, according to SpinTech.
Posted
6/29/2002 09:20:33 PM
by Edward Driscoll
BRITISH GUN CONTROL RUN AMOK, as discovered by Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.
Posted
6/29/2002 09:13:04 PM
by Edward Driscoll
ANOTHER EU DOUBLE STANDARD discovered by Andrew Stuttaford on National Review Online's The Corner.
Posted
6/29/2002 08:31:19 PM
by Edward Driscoll
VEILED THREAT: religeon meets government at the DMV in this article by Jacob Sullum.
Posted
6/29/2002 08:25:55 PM
by Edward Driscoll
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS: Marvin Olasky on Republicans and Hispanic voters.
Posted
6/29/2002 08:18:24 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE BEERS ACROSS AMERICA CARAVAN (AKA the Blogger formally known as Sgt. Stryker, and his family) has made it to Travis AFB in Northern California.
Posted
6/29/2002 08:16:06 PM
by Edward Driscoll
JOHN FUND has some thoughts on the Supreme Court's school choice decision.
Posted
6/29/2002 04:51:53 PM
by Edward Driscoll
YOU DON'T SPIT INTO THE WIND: Ananova reports on a first-time flyer on China Southern Airlines who tried to a open the plane's emergency exit to spit after it had taken off.
Posted
6/29/2002 04:00:21 PM
by Edward Driscoll
TELEMARKETER SAVES HIKER'S LIFE, according to this post on BoingBoing.net. (And yes, it really does feel silly typing "BoingBoing.net".)
Posted
6/28/2002 05:43:11 PM
by Edward Driscoll
ARE JUDGES POLITICIANS? Ruth Bader Ginsburg says they're not. Orrin Judd disagrees.
Posted
6/28/2002 05:33:42 PM
by Edward Driscoll
WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY: The Who will continue their summer tour, as The Who, despite John Entwistle's death yesterday, and the fact that only two of their members (Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry) are left, according to Eric Olsen, who has posted a press release from Bill Curbishley, The Who's longtime manager.
At least they waited a while to go back on tour when Keith Moon croaked in '78.
Posted
6/28/2002 01:13:55 PM
by Edward Driscoll
AN ENGLISH REPERTORY COMPANY IS CHANGING the name of Victor Hugo's classic "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" for their stage adaptation, so as not to offend the handicapped. The new title? "The Bellringer of Notre Dame".
Take it away, Group Captain Mandrake!
Posted
6/28/2002 01:10:38 PM
by Edward Driscoll
DOES THAT MEAN THAT DEMS NOW BLAME THE 1980s ON CLINTON? Gore Bashes Bush Policy As Cause of Biz Scandals.
Posted
6/28/2002 10:36:20 AM
by Edward Driscoll
SEATTLE SEEN AS 'EASY TARGET' by terrorists, according to the FBI.
Hey, it's relatively near a coast, has a high crime rate, it's had to call in state troopers and the National Guard to ward off scads of globalization protestors, and it's the home of Starbucks.
Say, I wonder what these guys think about all this?
Posted
6/28/2002 10:20:32 AM
by Edward Driscoll
COLOR ME RED: Nick Shulz looks at doctored global warming documents designed solely to scare the public.
Empirical science, rest in peace. We hardly knew ye.
Posted
6/27/2002 10:31:44 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE FRIEDKIN/STONE SMACKDOWN: The Internet Movie Database says:
Oscar-winning movie-maker William Friedkin has hit out at Oliver Stone after Stone defended Palestinian suicide bombers. In a recent interview with Daily Variety magazine, Stone called Israeli settlers "vigilantes" and suggested a third party is sent into the area to restore peace. But his comments incensed Friedkin, who - according to gossip website Pagesix.Com - immediately fired off a letter to the Variety editor. The letter reads, "If Mr. Stone and I were in a land dispute, I would not be justified in murdering him or his friends and relations." And in response to Stone's third party idea, Friedkin snipes, "Will Mr. Stone volunteer his son or daughter to become part of this force?"
Posted
6/27/2002 07:50:40 PM
by Edward Driscoll
MORE ON THE OX: Glenn Reynolds and Orrin Judd were kind enough to link to my early news about John Entwistle’s death, however, I said very little that’s personal in that post. And invariably, when a celebrity dies, the writer feels compelled to mention how that celebrity affected him. It’s seemingly especially important in a Web log!
But I’m always a little reticent to discuss rock music on my blog, for fear that I’ll end up sounding like a bad parody of Creem or Circus magazine (the worst of all possible worlds). And like my father and his endless and authoritative collection of ‘30s through ‘50s Big Band music, I feel like I’ve become stuck in my own musical Mobius loop, as very little of what I hear on the radio these days inspires me to buy new music. And also, there’s a little bit of a Groucho Marx syndrome—since I played and recorded rock music for much of the 1980s, it’s tough to get that excited about a genre that I can actually play! (While I’m primarily a guitarist, I have played bass from time to time, and recently brought my old Fender Precision Bass back to California from my parents’ house to record with. And naturally, I restrung it with Rotosound strings, because that’s the brand that Entwistle helped develop.)
As a teenager, The Who were an exciting band for me. In my pre-teens, I quickly went through both the 1960s’ and the 1970s’ cartoon bands: The Monkees and Kiss (although the Monkees did have good songs, and Mike Nesmith in particular was a talented musician—but that’s an essay for another post). Then, when I was about 12, I figured it might be a good time for me to check out those Beatles fellows—they seemed popular at school (this was the mid-‘70s), and wrote lots of songs I heard on the radio. And I think the TV movie version of Bugliosi’s Helter Skelter aired a couple of times around then. This began my long fascination with 1960s and '70s English rock groups (paralleled by my later interest in late '50s and early '60s cool jazz.)
In 1978, The Who released Who Are You, with its best selling title song, Keith Moon died, and their documentary The Kids Are Alright was playing the midnight movie circuit (back when there was a midnight movie circuit). I wouldn’t see the movie until the early 80s (I think I spent a little high school graduation money on the videotape), but buying the double LP soundtrack and reading the hagiographic liner notes of the accompanying illustrated booklet was definitely a fascinating experience.
These four musicians had fundamentally changed what rock and roll should sound like: Pete Townshend experimented radically, first with feedback and “power chords” on his guitar, and later with song structures far beyond the typical I-IV-V chord progressions and verse/chorus/bridge/solo/verse/chorus progression of most rock songs. His material also forced Roger Daltry to develop into one the great singers in rock. And Daltry's solo albums, unlike Townshend's, have never equalled his best moments with The Who.
Keith Moon of course was the quintessential madman drummer, seemingly never repeating a bar of music that he played.
And Entwistle completely transformed the bass. Having to fill the huge instrumental holes that a power trio typically has, he somehow, intuitively knew that he had to play the bass very differently from its typical background role. He pioneered three key changes in its sound: he plugged it into some of the first Marshall Amplifiers, and then strung it with roundwound, instead of the more traditional flatwound strings. The result was an instrument that was not quite a guitar, but also was far, far removed from the traditional thump thump thump warm thudding background role of the bass. It was now the bass as a bright, distorted, trebly sounding lead instrument. (Paul McCartney was playing some of the first melodic bass playing with the Beatles around the same time, but he still used a very traditional sound. Entwistle’s sound began precisely where Townshend’s distorted SGs and Les Pauls ended, especially live.)
The third major change that Entwistle brought to the bass was a fearless ability to improvise and solo (“Can You See The Real Me” from Quadrophenia
is his classic recorded solo While Townshend bashes out fairly pedestrian chords, Entwistle’s fingers traverse the entire range of his bass’s fretboard—and then some. Few bassists were willing to go as far up their instrument’s neck as Entwistle was). As I said in my previous post, watch any concert footage of the Who, and try to spot the confusion in the cameraman or the director, when he can’t figure out who’s actually soloing—Townshend or Entwistle. There’s something that sounds like an electric guitar, but lower, but it’s certainly not a traditional bass!
I saw The Who live only once—on their first Farewell Tour, in 1983, from the bleachers at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia with several friends from my senior high school class. (Classic rock concert moment: sometime during the afternoon, not too long before The Who went on, an unspeakably stoned teenage girl wandered over to an open spot in our row, sat down, and prominently tossed all of her cookies, and probably all of the cookies of every Keebler elf onto the concrete in front of us. You won’t get excitement like that when you see Bobbie Short at the Carlyle!)
With Kenny Jones replacing the late Moon on drums, by then the Who were pros—the excitement and raggedness of the Keith Moon days were long gone, but it was a good show nonetheless. And they were still a working band in those days—recording new music and touring, unlike what they became in the late ‘80s and ‘90s: a nostalgia act, exciting to be sure, but musically static.
The Who’s career long seemed effectively over, and was, with the release of their last studio album in the early 80s. Like a dying sun, we were simple witnessing the afterglow of their glory. Entwistle will be missed, but his place in rock music history is secure. And hopefully he and Keith Moon are reunited, both to play as one of rock’s great rhythm sections, and to destroy hotel rooms in the great Continental “Riot House” in the sky.
UPDATE: Brink Lindsey reminisces about meeting Entwistle personally and watching him perform an impromptu jam. And Eric Olsen, himself a music producer, has some thoughts.
UPDATE: Brink Lindsey, who was at the same concert I attended, says it was September of '82. Hey, at least I got it within a year!
Posted
6/27/2002 06:36:23 PM
by Edward Driscoll
BILLBOARD'S EDITOR DIES AT AGE 50. Timothy White, the bow-tie wearing editor of Billboard, and the author of several books on pop music, also had a heart attack.
Posted
6/27/2002 05:15:38 PM
by Edward Driscoll
TWO IRANIAN UN WORKERS EXPELLED, according to ABCNEWS.com:
Sources told ABCNEWS that the two Iranians were seen five days ago videotaping the Brooklyn Bridge, the entrance to the tunnels into Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. The men, who have been in the United States only four months and are described as security workers for the mission, were stopped and questioned by New York police, sources said, but were not arrested because of their diplomatic immunity. U.S. officials plan to expel the men for suspicious activities, some of which are related to irregularities in their identification documents, sources said.FLASHBACK: Peggy Noonan has written about other suspicious New York videotaping, way back in October. No word yet from ABC on when Peter Jennings will be expelled back to Canada, however.
Posted
6/27/2002 05:06:04 PM
by Edward Driscoll
NEED SUMMER READING MATERIAL? Check out this list, from the Brothers Judd, plus their guest comments.
But after reading to the article they link to that does a pretty good ex post facto Fisking of John Steinbeck, you might want to skip The Grapes of Wrath.
Posted
6/27/2002 04:10:22 PM
by Edward Driscoll
HATE THE HAMSTER DANCE? Put the little buggers out of their misery!
(Link courtesy of my wife. God knows where she found it...)
Posted
6/27/2002 03:56:39 PM
by Edward Driscoll
JOHN ENTWISTLE, legendary bass player for The Who, was reported dead on local San Jose/San Francisco radio stations while I was in the car. He was 57, and died in Las Vegas, of causes not yet reported. The Who were apparently planning to begin a tour of the US tomorrow.
Entwistle was an extremely talented bassist (and horn player) who helped turn the electric bass into a lead instrument with The Who. The lead bassists of the late '60s and '70s (Stanley Clarke, Chris Squire, etc.) built on the concepts of melodic soloing, high powered amplification and distortion that Entwistle was an early pioneer of. (Many times during early Who videos or films, the cameraman would unthinkingly keep their lens aimed at guitarist Pete Townshend, while Entwistle would actually be soloing on his bass.)
I'll be curious as to the causes--I never thought of Entwistle as a hard partying, hard drinking and drugging sort of fellow, unlike his partner in rhythm in the early days of The Who, Kieth Moon.
UPDATE: Here's an AP article that says "Entwistle died of a heart attack – 'nothing suspicious,' Clark County fire spokesman Bob Leinbach said."
My dad is tremendous fan of big bands of the 1930s and '40s. In the past few years, I've begun to understand how he must have felt in the 1960s and '70s when so many of heroes (Duke, Basie, Crosby, etc.) started to drop in fairly regular succession.
Posted
6/27/2002 01:47:45 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE SUPREME'S SCHOOL CHOICE DECISION, analyzed by Joanne Jacobs.
Posted
6/27/2002 01:33:11 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE DIGITAL BITS REVIEWS the DVD collection of Star Trek: The Next Generation's third season.
Posted
6/27/2002 01:30:48 PM
by Edward Driscoll
COMING TO DVD: A restored version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Posted
6/26/2002 11:30:01 PM
by Edward Driscoll
UNDER GOD AND DIVISIBLE: Joshua Clayborn of The Hoosier Review's take. He also has more on his own blog.
Posted
6/26/2002 09:34:14 PM
by Edward Driscoll
HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES GUNS IN COCKPITS, says FOXNews.com But...look who's blocking it in the Senate:
In the Senate, the task has been made more difficult by the opposition of Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., whose panel has jurisdiction over the issue. But proponents say they will try to bypass the committee and offer the provision as an amendment to another bill.
Posted
6/26/2002 09:22:35 PM
by Edward Driscoll
WHY DOES THE LEFT SUPPORT PALESTINE? Dennis Prager has some answers.
Posted
6/26/2002 05:40:03 PM
by Edward Driscoll
FOOD FIGHT! James Taranto, in the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web, finds a slightly different kind of warfare going on in the Middle East:
The Lebanon Daily Star reports on the latest clashes between Israel and Hezbollah on the Israel-Lebanon border:Israel's Maariv daily reported Tuesday that Israeli soldiers based in the massive concrete compound on the summit of Sheikh Abbad Hill hurled eggs Monday at two Hizbullah fighters manning an observation post on the other side of the fence. . . . The egg-throwing was preceded Saturday by four Lebanese hurling Ping Pong balls at the outpost. A few days earlier, a suspected Hizbullah member fired a paint gun through the fence at an Israeli soldier.Good thing "zero tolerance" hasn't come to the Middle East.
Posted
6/26/2002 04:44:32 PM
by Edward Driscoll
ADVANTAGE: UTHANT! Back in the beginning of January, the mysterious, not to mention hilarious Uthant wrote an article headlined "BUSH TO FLORIDA: YOU'RE EITHER WITH US..."
Today, Josh Devon and Evan Kohlmann want to know why Florida is such an incubator of terrorism.
Posted
6/26/2002 04:19:52 PM
by Edward Driscoll
SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION AGAINST PLEDGE RULING, according to CNSnews.com. Even Daschle and Boxer!
Members of Congress also react.
Posted
6/26/2002 02:33:40 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE BAD NEWS BEARS: In lighter news, Yahoo! Sports says don't expect the Monsters of the Midway to be monsters this year.
Posted
6/26/2002 12:01:45 PM
by Edward Driscoll
NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THIS.
And it couldn't have happened in a more appropriate city. Way to go, you nutty atheists.
UPDATE: Consider the court. (And scroll up from there, for more opinions from NRO.)
UPDATE: Here's an updated article from AP, with some thoughts on what happens next.
ORRIN JUDD WEIGHS IN, with the actual text of the Constitution, something the 9th Circuit Court may want to re-familiarize themselves with.
Here's CNSnews.com's take.
UPDATE: Don't laugh too hard, because based on today, this could happen.
Posted
6/26/2002 10:19:12 AM
by Edward Driscoll
AMERICA DOESN'T NEED AMTRAK, according to blogger Patrick Ruffini, in a Guest Comment in National Review Online.
Posted
6/26/2002 10:13:14 AM
by Edward Driscoll
BIPARTISAN SMACKDOWN: All seven living former Solicitors General just gave Patrick Leahy a stern rebuke when he tried to access secret Justice Department documents regarding Miguel Estrada, nominated for a seat of the federal court of appeals for the District of Columbia. according to Byron York on National Review Online, who writes:
Last month, apparently dissatisfied with examining that record, Leahy made an unprecedented demand. He asked the Justice Department to hand over the internal legal recommendations that Estrada wrote while in the Solicitor General's office from 1992 to 1997. A few weeks later, the Justice Department declined, calling the documents "highly privileged." Now, all seven living former Solicitors General have written Leahy a letter warning him of the dangers of such an inquiry. The letter, delivered on Tuesday, was written by Seth Waxman, who served as Solicitor General under Bill Clinton. It was sent to Leahy on behalf of not only Waxman but of Walter Dellinger and Drew Days III, who also held the post under Clinton; Kenneth Starr, who held it under the first President Bush; Charles Fried, who was Solicitor General under President Reagan; Robert Bork, who served under President Nixon; and Archibald Cox, who served under President Kennedy.Meanwhile, York also writes that Republican maverick John McCain has joined the Democratic war on Bush nominees.
Posted
6/26/2002 08:51:04 AM
by Edward Driscoll
RANDALL CUNNINGHAM, who had some great years as a quarterback for the Eagles and Vikings, is planning to retire, according to this ESPN.com article.
Posted
6/26/2002 08:47:56 AM
by Edward Driscoll
MELANCHOLY PHOTO SEQUENCE of the USS Coral Sea being retired and scrapped is linked to by Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.
Posted
6/26/2002 08:45:37 AM
by Edward Driscoll
NOAM ALONE: Pejman Yousefzadeh smacks down Noam Chomsky in TechCentralStation.
Posted
6/26/2002 07:32:27 AM
by Edward Driscoll
THE BOSS MEETS 9/11: Bruce Springsteen has a new album in the works, with the E Street Band in tow and a single that tries Springsteen says tries to capture "an emotional feeling … in the air at that time." (That time being September 11.)
Posted
6/26/2002 07:28:11 AM
by Edward Driscoll
NEW DIABETES TREATMENTS: This New York Daily News article says that there could be an end to needles.
Posted
6/25/2002 10:01:17 PM
by Edward Driscoll
EXCLUSIVE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE COLORADO FIRE: online at VodkaPundit.
Posted
6/25/2002 09:18:42 PM
by Edward Driscoll
WHITHER NATO? On TechCentralStation's new European branchline.
Posted
6/25/2002 06:46:56 PM
by Edward Driscoll
W-CDMA: Another interesting wireless technology that's coming soon to the US.
Posted
6/25/2002 05:53:53 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE GREATEST FILM NEVER MADE: Stanley Kubrick's plans for Napoleon to be published.
This would have been the follow-up to first 2001: A Space Odyssey and later A Clockwork Orange, but Stanley could never get funding sufficient to do it on the scale he envisioned. (Using some of the research he gleaned in planning Napoleon Kubrick eventually made Barry Lyndon, a historical film of a (slightly) smaller scope--as rich looking as Napoleon no doubt would have been, but not needing the zillions of extras and endless vistas that Napoleon's battle scenes would have required).
Posted
6/25/2002 05:13:50 PM
by Edward Driscoll
PICKING UP THE PIECES OF THE DOT.COM BUST: Sorry for the lack of postings today. Nina (aka Mrs. Edward Driscoll) is in New York for a few days while her mom gets out of the hospital after recovering from a nasty fall. Meanwhile, a friend and I picked up some furniture and a couple of used PCs from an auction in San Francisco. Nina needs some extra gear as she's moving her office in early July.
This auction, which ran through most of last Friday was astonishing. Apparently, it's all from one failed dot.com startup--which probably failed because they didn't do any work. Judging by the gear being auctioned, some poor venture capitalist is probably thinking "Jesus! That's where my money got pissed away!"
Why? Imagine a business start-up with: a multi-person Jacuzzi, 20 ab-rollers (the kind sold on late-night TV infommercials), a ping pong table, a BMX mountain bike(??!!), multiple sets of steak knives, numerous high-end pieces of Herman Miller furniture and God-knows what else.
I always thought a business was lean and mean and hungry until it went public, or at least was self-sufficient. No wonder so many dot.coms tanked in the '90s: you don't start living large until you've had some success. (Pick up the DVD of Startup.com to see this kind of fuzzy-headed business thinking in action. Of course, those guys were at least smart enough to get a fairly successful documentary out of their tanked business.)
UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg has some thoughts on the Go-Go Nineties and the dot-coms that came, bought hot tubs and ab-rollers and went in his latest column.
Posted
6/25/2002 05:00:37 PM
by Edward Driscoll
COMMUTING WITH THE J-LO WANNABES: Breakfast of Champions had an interesting trip into work today...
Posted
6/25/2002 12:19:27 AM
by Edward Driscoll
WOBBLIE WATCH: Stephen Green says it "isn’t dead, but it is on life support" after Bush's speech.
Posted
6/24/2002 09:19:04 PM
by Edward Driscoll
OLIVER STONE MEETS HAPPY FUN PUNDIT. As does Norman Mineta.
Need I say more?
Posted
6/24/2002 07:39:21 PM
by Edward Driscoll
MISSING IN ACTION: Craig Schamp says the Chronicle is MIA on a great story right in front of their noses. And he's right.
(Link via the omnipresent InstaPundit.)
Posted
6/24/2002 07:37:09 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE BUSH PLAN: Lots of good stuff on Bush's very pro-Israel speech from Steve Den Beste. Check this post out, and this one.
Posted
6/24/2002 04:46:26 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE PROGRAMMING SOVIET, aka "Command Line Zealots", from Tech Central Station.
Posted
6/24/2002 02:28:18 PM
by Edward Driscoll
HOW GOOD NEWS MAY HAVE KILLED THE MESSENGER: Pim Fortuyn and radical environmentalists in Tech Central Station.
Posted
6/24/2002 01:55:20 PM
by Edward Driscoll
SAN FRANCISCO POLICE LET SUSPECT GO, citizen collars him.
I can't help but think that a Guliani-like mayor could achieve wide support in San Francisco, a city that more and more seems to resemble Bonfire of the Vanities-era New York.
Posted
6/24/2002 01:19:31 PM
by Edward Driscoll
LARRY SUMMERS, CLOSET CONSERVATIVE? Asks this National Review Online essay.
Well, no. But Harvard's president doesn't sound like the stereotypical leftist academic, either.
Posted
6/24/2002 10:31:45 AM
by Edward Driscoll
PART III OF ERIC RAYMOND'S SERIES ON RADICAL ISLAMISM IS NOW ONLINE. Click over to his blog to read it.
Posted
6/24/2002 08:57:33 AM
by Edward Driscoll
WELL, IT TAKES CHUTZPAH TO EVEN SAY IT: Arab News likens the Palestinians to Anne Frank. Click over to Group Captain Lionel Mandrake to see the article--and then look at the photo below that post.
Posted
6/24/2002 08:53:16 AM
by Edward Driscoll
ABC: ENVIRONMENTAL LAWSUITS HELPED CAUSE COLORADO FIRE. Found at the Media Research Center:
ABC’s Bill Redeker actually specifically listed “environmental lawsuits” as one of the culprits for the huge fires in Colorado. Redeker explained on the June 20 World News Tonight: "The fires this year are large because the forests are a hundred times more dense than a century ago. A policy to extinguish all fires at all cost has kept them from naturally thinning the forests.... Another reason, environmental lawsuits, which have kept the Forest Service from cutting down trees." Viewers then heard a supporting soundbite from U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, Republican from Colorado, of the House Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health: "It isn't the Forest Service sitting on their duff in the office. Frankly, it's the litigation that's going on."
Posted
6/23/2002 04:05:03 PM
by Edward Driscoll
THE HUSTLER is the subject of Roger Ebert's latest Great Movies essay. Read it--and then wonder why Hollywood doesn't make films like this anymore.
Posted
6/23/2002 02:22:01 PM
by Edward Driscoll
CAPTAIN SCOTT FISKS WARBLOGGER WATCH and finds him (or them) cooking the books when it comes to Israeli/Palestinian statistics and their meaning.
Posted
6/23/2002 02:05:36 PM
by Edward Driscoll
SPORTS THEME? I doubt it was intentional, but the weekend version of the USS Clueless sounds like ESPN's SportsCenter. There are posts on world championship soccer, plus crazed golfers and jetskiers!
Posted
6/23/2002 08:03:36 AM
by Edward Driscoll
COMPETITION: Group Captain Lionel Mandrake has blogging competition coming from the same "little one-horse-town-by-the-sea on the English Channel" that he resides in! (Cue the Internet version of "It's a Small World, After All".)
Posted
6/23/2002 07:16:28 AM
by Edward Driscoll
CONGRATULATIONS! It's been nine years since Andrew Sullivan was tested positive for HIV, and today he's not only alive, but:
My bloodwork just came back again from the doc and showed that my CD4 cell count (the rough measure of the health of my immune system) is actually higher than it was nine years ago. And I've been off medications for a whole year! It seems as if my own immune system is managing to keep the virus at bay on its own. It probably won't last for ever, but it's a huge blessing not to be on those debilitating, disfiguring drugs.
Posted
6/23/2002 07:01:42 AM
by Edward Driscoll
THE FIRST DIVORCE LINKED TO SEPTEMBER 11: Found on The Volokh Conspiracy.
Posted
6/23/2002 06:55:37 AM
by Edward Driscoll
WHAT AL-QAEDA WANTS: Part Two of Eric Raymond's series is now online.
Posted
6/23/2002 06:25:45 AM
by Edward Driscoll
AID TO AFRICA HELPS FIGHT TERRORISM, according to Stanley Crouch.
Posted
6/23/2002 05:47:52 AM
by Edward Driscoll
BUSH'S JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS HELD UP FOR 406 days and counting, according to this CNSnews.com report.
Posted
6/23/2002 05:42:59 AM
by Edward Driscoll
NOVAK: MINETA GONE? The Prince of Darkness may have some good news. Bob Novak says:
The most likely member of the Bush Cabinet to be the first to depart is its only Democrat: Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, a former congressman from California. When Mineta was unveiled as a surprise Bush Cabinet member, the Transportation Department appeared a relatively stress-free government agency. It has been near the forefront of the war against terrorism since Sept. 11, and Mineta has seemed overwhelmed, in the opinion of colleagues. At 70, he is not in the best of health. A footnote: Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, unlikely to head the new Homeland Security Cabinet department, is talked about as a successor to Mineta. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson would have preferred Transportation when he resigned as governor of Wisconsin after the 2000 elections.
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