Month January 2004

Big fun with Windows XP After getting home late last night from the fundraiser (see above posting), I discovered my main PC, which runs XP, was running sluggishly, and that normal actions like cut-and-paste and drag-and-drop weren’t working at all,…

This is madness Mentally ill man executed in US. The state of Arkansas forcibly medicates a convict so he is well enough to be executed. Charles Singleton, 44, was forcibly given anti-psychotic drugs which made him lucid enough under court…

Why weren’t they arrested on criminal charges? 3 reservists discharged from Army after abuseAbuse? Brig. Gen. Ennis Whitehead III, the acting commander of the 143rd Transportation Command, found the three soldiers had maltreated prisoners at Camp Bucca, southern Iraq, on…

Respected pollster John Zogby sees 2004 election as 50/50 From a Zogby interview Q. What are Governor Dean’s chances to beat President Bush? Will he be able to carry some southern states? John Zogby: I think that any Democrat starts…

Conservatives launch deeply clueless TV attack ad on Dean The conservative Club for Growth Political Action Committee said their 30-second spot against the Dean will begin running in Des Moines today. In the ad, a farmer says he thinks that…