Month October 2002

Some seriously good John Perry Barlow rants John Perry Barlow is “a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation”, as well as a long time cyberspace activist, and all…

Your daily terrorism and bombing news Shooting reported in suburban Va.Five die in Phillipines bombings.Moscow blast ‘could have been terrorist attack’.Copycat sniper in Ankara.Indonesia suggests cleric had no part in Bali attack.

A surprise to absolutely no one I.R.A. Rejects Blair’s Disarmament DemandThe Irish Republican Army was reported today to have delivered a sharp rebuff to demands for its disarmament by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, in what was taken here…

Germans Greens endorse coalition agreementAh, to live in a country where Greens are major political players… Maybe it’ll happen here one day too. After several hours of intense debate over a nuclear power plant, the Green Party rank and file…

Ancedotal evidence My parent’s are in their 80’s and live in a retirement home in New England. Most people there are life-long Republicans with backgrounds in the corporate world. They of course lived through WWII. They overwhelmingly favored the Afghanistan bombing…