Day April 9, 2005

Police brace for Temple Mount violence Bracing for possible violence, Jerusalem police will be on the highest state of alert Sunday on the Temple Mount, barring both a group of Jewish ultra-nationalists and Arab men from entering the bitterly contested…

Jeremy Jaynes, 30, is the first person in the US to get a prison term in a spam case. He is said to have been the world’s eighth most prolific spammer.

Calls for sainthood as Pope laid to rest THE LA Times this morning had about twenty pages this morning on the funeral, complete huge photos and in-depth articles on anything even tangentially related. Um, aren’t the calls for sainthood just a…

A raging Maoist insurgency. A wobbling, increasingly dictatorial government. For now, the cities are relatively calm, the countryside less so. Getting news is difficult. Here’s two good sites for Nepal news

I just rediscovered this song by Motorhead. It’s one of the truly great rants in rock and roll, plus the music is the band at their most ferocious, and that’s saying something. Orgasmatron I am the one, Orgasmatron, the outstretched…