Edward Said I was at a memorial to Edward Said tonight at UCLA, organized by the United Arab Society of UCLA with support from many other organizations, including ANSWER. Said was fearless, a towering intellect, and his influence was felt everywhere…

More doublethink from DC George Orwell coined the word, ‘doublethink’ Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them Fittingly, this news report is from those masters of doublethink, FoxNews Reports…

Not your mother’s Presidential candidatesThe California Peace and Freedom Party is running Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier as candidates for President in the March 2004 primary.From their newsletter: Two men convicted of murder whose cases have become international political causes…

Greenquake in San Francisco Poll: Matt Gonzalez leads Gavin Newsom in SF Mayor’s race Supervisor Matt Gonzalez is the front-runner, according to an exclusive CBS 5 poll. Matt Gonzalez is a Green, who confounded pundits first by getting elected to…

How Belkin routers spammed users From NetSurfer Digest VeriSign had this year’s Esteemed Award for Technical Marketing Evilness (EATME) all locked up with its attempt to redirect DNS queries to its own search server, but all of a sudden we…

Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Underground In 1968 Vaclav Havel, then a dissident, later to become President of Czechoslovakia, “sat down and, knowing that he’d likely be imprisoned for his efforts, wrote an open letter to his dictator, Gustav Husak,…

CDs ‘could be history in five years’ Via the Dead Media mailing list Compact discs could be history within five years, superseded by a new generation of fingertip-sized memory tabs with no moving parts.

National Guard pay delayed, denied GAO report: 94 percent of those in six units had pay problemsIn one Colorado unit, soldiers had their checks docked, to pay off $48,000 each in debt they did not owe. “They were mad, and…