The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band have reformed and will be touring!

Ooooh, how I'd luv to see 'em!

Jimmy Carter puts down his hammer and writes again.

Hell gets a new level.

Dante's gonna hafta rewrite the Inferno.

Kenneth Lay died.

Not sure if it's exactly "good" news as much as WTF?

I knew he'd never serve a day of that sentence.

If someone that rich can't fake their own death, who can?

Man, I think that's bad news. I was looking forward to the part where they put him in stocks on the back of a flatbed semi and drove him from around the USA to be publicly humiliated and pelted with rotten fruit in the town squares... or is my imagination playing up again as to what his sentence was going to be like?

Actually, I was waiting for him to be escorted from the court building only to have an irate club-owner/Enron share-holder shoot him with a .45 in the stomach.

History tends to repeat itself, after all.

Gives even an atheist jerk like myself warm fuzzies for modern religion when a church makes some moves toward basic equality.

Of course...

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But Sentamu, the Church of England's first black archbishop, warned that "It would become more difficult for Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox to regard a church with women bishops as part of the universal Catholic Church."

...makes me wince again. Maybe the "universal Catholic Church" needs to fix itself if it can't get over a moral curb that low.

The 101st Airborne is on its way back from Iraq, though apparently at a rate of 50 at a time...

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Originally posted by Justy:
The 101st Airborne is on its way back from Iraq, though apparently at a rate of 50 at a time...

It's nice to see the torch party hitting ground. Generally they arrive about three months in advance to prepare for the return of the brigade. Since 101st is a division, there's likely a number of different torch parties, but it's only one set of 50-or-so per subordinate unit. The next group that will come back is generally ADVON, which is a much larger subset of those who arrived early to perform battle handoff and set up in-country. Ours went home about three weeks early, though none of my guys got to go because MI always leaves with the command group. The major push in August-September will take several weeks and should move back everyone but the trail party composed mostly of latecomers and lower-ranking who babysit gear during transshipping.

All of which means I should get to see my girl's bald head in fewer than 90 days.

Microsoft fined for "defiance".

quote:

"The EU Commission cannot allow such illegal conduct to continue indefinitely. No company is above the law. Each and every company, large or small, operating in the EU must abide by EU law"

It is good in my view. I might disagree if I had Microsoft stock...

José

DC's true nature is showing.

I was wondering when they'd start the cold war up again...

Awesome! Now we can go back to being scared of the Russians and the terrorists. We'll all have heart attacks by 45.

Feminism in the sciences makes some progress

When they're done, we'll never have to think again...

never another thought...

quote:

Police Sgt. Scott Fear

Now there's a name for a policeman.

What's funny is how they linked his name to other "fear" related topics...i.e:

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Topics related to fear:
culture of fear
lack of fear
freedom from fear
State of Fear
element of fear

Social Integration in the U.S. is surging.

"A powerful interrracial tide has transformed friendships, dates, cohabitation, marriages and adoptions in just one generation. If the wave continues to grow, it could sweep away racial sterotypes and categorization, as well as the rationale behind affirmative action and other broad minority protections."

"...the wave is so far-reaching that the average American today, young or old, is 70% more likely than Americans were a generation ago to count a person of another race among his or her two or three best friends, according to an article in the current issue of American Sociological Review. The same percentage of applicants tells Match.com, that they're willing to date someone of another race."