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San Francisco After a weekend in SF, I see why people love it. Usable public transporation. Subways, buses, and trolleys can get you anywhere in the city, and they run frequently (unlike here in LA). Real neighborhoods with real neighborhood stores. No…

Weblogs as a useful police tool The Boston Globe:  This is amazing.  Billions are being poured into the FBI and other governmental organizations and they can’t even get the basics right. The FBI in Washington state interviewed a witness last…

FBI theory on anthrax doubted A significant number of scientists and biological warfare experts are expressing skepticism about the FBI’s view that a single disgruntled American scientist prepared the spores and mailed the deadly anthrax letters that killed five people…

Mexico won’t back US Iraq resolution. Why is it that all of Bush’s international “friends” are abandoning the US? Because he’s alienated all of them, that’s why…

Leftie becomes President of Brazil in a landslide Brazil exit polls pointing to Lula victory. Early exit polls in Brazil’s runoff election Sunday indicated that voters in South America’s largest nation had chosen a former metalworker and leftist as president for…