Archive for July, 2004

Two Movies

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

I, Robot: basically it kinda sucked most of the way through, but the ending was decent (thanks in largest part to Asimov, who wrote the ending). Overall, it was too much of a Will-Smith-in-da-house vehicle to be credible as a police story or science fiction. It was Men in Black without coming right out and […]

Two Gems

Saturday, July 17th, 2004

Okay, I found two very nice links on MeFi today that I’d not yet seen elsewhere:

Major found-photo fix. Probably not safe for work. The green squares at top/bottom are additional pages. Knock yourself out!
thank hama7

Advice for Children from Patrick Huges.
thank keswick

UN Rules Against Israeli Apartheid Wall

Friday, July 9th, 2004

Finally. Thank you.

Not that Israel gives two shits about UN resolutions. They’ve been living in violation of Resolutions #194 and #242 for years. I’m sure the US will support this disregard as it has in the past. It’s just nice to see the absence of legitimacy for Israeli policy in broad daylight. Israel’s policy, it […]

Michael Moore’s “Call to Arms”

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

A young, conservative filmmaker noticed that campaign finance law sets limits on what private Americans can donate toward campaign ads. He then thought to himself, “But that’s so unfair. There’s no spending limit on Michael Moore! This guy’s hurting democracy!”

So he did the logical thing: he stalked Michael Moore for 4 days, with a camera, […]