Ashcroft Resigns (AP) Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned Tuesday, the first members of President Bush’s Cabinet to leave as he headed from re-election into his second term. Ashcroft, in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush, said, “The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.” So I know these… Read more →
Day: November 9, 2004
Judge Halts War-Crime Trial at Guantanamo
Judge Halts War-Crime Trial at Guantanamo So there are hopeful bits in there like this: The judge also said that in asserting that the Guantánamo prisoners are unlawful combatants and outside the reach of the Geneva Conventions, “the government has asserted a position starkly different from the positions and behavior of the United States in previous conflicts, one that can… Read more →
I could not make this up.
Higly trained assassin? Peanut butter smuggler? Bizarro version of Burke? Look, I can’t really explain this story. Let me just quote three paragraphs for you, and then you decide whether or not you need to follow the link. Interpol recruited Bannon at age 19 while he was serving time in a Korean prison for smuggling peanut butter and Jack Daniels.… Read more →
Are we still fighting about this?
Evolution textbooks row goes to court OK, seriously, this debate was a joke to civilized people in the 1920s. What the hell is it in the year 2004? And for a little extra scare think about this paragraph in light of the election results: In 1987, the supreme court ruled that creationism was a religious belief that could not be… Read more →
Not A Clint Movie
Firefox has released 1.0. Go get it. I’ve been playing with this since the first release of Mozilla, which seems like FOREVER ago, and occasionally have used the various releases along the way for a little while, but since the 1.0 Preview Release I have been using Firefox as my primary-and-almost-exclusive browser. In every important way it is superior to… Read more →
