Archive for September, 2003

Error 404: His Holiness Cannot Be Found

Friday, September 19th, 2003

Bwahahaha!!!

Juniper just posted a true blast from the past up on MetaFilter. The story goes like this: a friend of his owns the domain name “vatican.com.” There’s nothing officially tying this domain name to the real Vatican, world center of Catholicism. It’s just another dot-com domain name someone thought would be funny to own.

The […]

Prop 54

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

You tell ‘em, troutgirl!

“I think it’s good to know whether the Highway Patrol really does pull people over for “Driving While Black”. I think it’s good to know whether companies hire, fire, and promote in a discriminatory way. I think it’s good to know whether schoolchildren are receiving education of widely varying quality levels. And […]

What About Saudi Arabia?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2003

Yesterday I was driving along when all of a sudden it hit me. What the hell are we doing in Iraq? The 911 attackers were largely Saudis, not Iraqis or Afghans. Osama bin Laden is a Saudi.

And Saudi dissidents have a very real beef with us: we support a truly disgusting oligarchy in that country. […]

Hey Arnold!Green Party candidate Peter

Friday, September 5th, 2003

Hey Arnold!Green Party candidate Peter Camejo shows his feelings about candidates who can’t handle an open Q/A debate.