Day August 24, 2006

Oopsie

Illinois congressman Danny Davis travelled to Sri Lanka last year, a trip paid for by the Tamil Tigers, a group designated as terrorist by the U.S.

The wonders of capitalism

You can now buy futures contracts on hurricane damage and thus, place bets on how economically destructive you think hurricanes will be this year.

Socialism in the U.S.

Tony Blair calls himself socialist. His party, the Labour Party of Britain, is also socialist. Socialists and Communists hold governmental and elected posts there – as they do in most the rest of the world. Except for the U.S., socialism…

The Stupid Security Awards

BlairWatch brings news of the Privacy International contest for the Stupidest Security measure. “We are running an international competition to discover the world’s most pointless, intrusive, stupid and self-serving security measures.” The color-coded security levels of Homeland Security here in…

Attention dual-booters

Installing Vista will wipe your master boot record This means, for example, that if I install Ubuntu on my laptop along with XP that is already there, that when it comes time to upgrade from XP to Vista, the Vista…