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Superbowl.com:
1.29.00
"The Voice of Reason": Matthew Sharpe recalls his summer hawking frozen seafood.
"Getting Busy with the Meat Man":
1.28.00
"The Dark Side of the Tax State": Denim, polyester, now bubblewrap.
Bubblebodywear.com: [via memepool] Tom Marshall wants a "fat tax." How about $6 for a Big Mac?
Exploring a Fiscal Food Policy: the Case of Diet and Ischaemic Heart Disease:
[via junkscience.com]
1.27.00
"Black Confederates": After placing third in Iowa, Alan Keyes gets some major media attention. http://www.latimes.com/print/20000126/t000008187.html The Green Bay Packers want to expand Lambeau Field (holy ground for most Packers fans). They want to add 8,000 more seats and a shopping area. It will cost $294 million with part of that to come from a sales tax on Brown County residents. I'm torn. I love the Packers and Lambeau Field, but I know the arguments against taxpayers money going to sports stadiums. One things for sure, if Brown County residents approve the sales tax, I won't be paying anything for the improved stadium.
Lambeau Field Expansion Plan:
1.25.00
The World Turned Rightside up: A New Trading Agenda for the Age of Globalization: Peter Collier blasts the American race industry for its obsession with the stupid remarks of pitcher John Rocker.
"Mark Fuhrman in cleats?": Want to be a liberal democrat? Here are the requirements.
Prerequisites to Being a
Modern Liberal Democrat: [via
What's on it for Me?] Because of the WTO riots last month, the Seattle community of Capitol Hill are thinking about seceding.
"Capitol Hill Threat: Secede from City": The Gates Foundation now has almost $22 billion to give away. Some of that should be spent on organizations that defend Gates' and Microsoft's right to innovate and achieve.
"At Nearly $22 Billion, Gates Foundation now World's Biggest": Iowans held their caucuses yesterday. G.W. won with Steve Forbes in second and Alan Keyes a surprising third. On the democrat side, Gore thrashed Bradley. But Iowa isn't very important. Chip Griffin writes, "No man has been elected president after winning the Iowa caucuses." New Hampshire is the event. Bush and John McCain are in a real battle there.
"So What?":
1.24.00 Help.com is great! I had a problem downloading email with Outlook Express. So I put my question out on Help.com. Tonight, I got an answer, and it WORKED! If you have any problems with computers, go to Help.com. Gertrude Himmelfarb writes about the importance of heros and individual efforts in the 21th Century.
"Heroes and Antiheroes Survive the Millennium's Dawn": With the AOL-Time Warner merger, economist Stan Leibowitz, says the Microsoft antitrust case is now obsolete.
"Hey, Remember Microsoft?":
1.23.00 London's Institute for Economic Affairs published a defense of the fur trade.
Fur and Freedom: Governor "Nature Boy"? Pro wrestler Ric Flair is walking in the footsteps of Minnesota's Jesse Ventura and will run for governor in North Carolina.
"Pro Wrestler Ric Flair Says He Will Run for NC Governor":
1.22.00
"Glory to the newborn."
Roe v. Wade--27 Years of Life Denied George W. Bush doesn't like the Roe decision. "Roe v. Wade was a reach -- overstepped the constitutional bounds as far as I'm concerned." Bush has also said that, if elected, he would appoint Supreme Court justices who strictly interpret the constitution. While not directly saying it, Bush admits he would appoint justices that could overturn Roe.
"Bush: Roe v. Wade Abortion Rule Unconstitutional":
1.21.00 Lance Knobel is running a neat weblog covering the World Economic Forum. The WEF is a big international confab where business and government leaders yap about all things political and economic.
Davos Newbies: metajohn has endorsed Alan Keyes for President. Will this be a trend? Will candidates come to webloggers looking for endorsements? If I were running for office and knew many potential voters were on the Net, I would do a little guerilla campaigning and ask for some endorsements. I like metajohn's choice, but I'll stick with "Flat Tax" Steve Forbes (I've given him $10), but I really wish he would run for the open NJ Senate seat. I thank What's on it for Me? for linking to me.
1.19.00
"The Front-Runner Speaks": Is computer code the constitution of cyberspace? How does this code affect liberty? Richard Epstein and Lawrence Lessig discuss these questions at Slate's Book Club.
The Book Club: Yearning for a good Ayn Rand quote?
Ayn Rand Says...: Regardless of what Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman has said about safety for at-home workers, she has not said OSHA doesn't have regulatory authority over home offices. The Heritage Foundation's D. Mark Wilson writes: The Department of Labor's retreat does not end the debate about the extent of OSHA's reach into homes. Despite withdrawing the compliance interpretation letter, Secretary Herman has refused to answer questions regarding an employer's liability for safety and health violations at home work sites and did not offer any assurances that such a policy would not be reissued in the future. This cloud of uncertainty places nearly 15 million employees who work at home, as well as their employers, in legal limbo and is likely to curtail the expansion of telecommuting opportunities for millions of parents struggling to meet the demands of family and work.
"OSHA's Retreat Does Not End the Threat to Working at Home":
1.18.00
"New Datacomm Research Report:
Smart Phone, PDA Shipments Will Soar to 350 Million Units by 2003": Dissent Magazine's current issue has a symposium looking back at the 10 years since the fall of the Soviet Union. I love reading how socialists are still clinging to the futile hope of a socialist world.
Dissent Magazine: NY Times editors comment on the White House drug czar altering scripts of prime-time programs: Whatever its impact on particular shows, exchanging content for dollars is a bad idea, as ABC-TV has acknowledged by ending the arrangement with the White House this season. In allowing government to shape or even to be consulted on content in return for financial rewards, the networks are crossing a dangerous line they should not cross. On the far side of that line lies the possibility of censorship and state-sponsored propaganda.
"Television's Risky Relationship":
1.17.00 Has Whitney Houston ever waited to inhale? Last week, she was caught at a Hawaiian airport with 15 grams of marijuana. Airport security confiscated the weed, but Whitney boarded the plane before the police arrived. The case is now in the hands of the local prosecutor. I wonder if Whitney has a good brownie recipe?
"Report: Airport Guards Find Marijuana in Bag of Whitney Houston": Jesse Jackson has gone too far in defending the thugs who were expelled from a Decatur, IL high school last year after a fight at a football game. Jesse's invoking Martin Luther King, Jr., saying MLK would be defending the Decatur 6. He also called the expulsions the biggest civil rights issue in America today. Jackson's biggest problem is too many black students are getting expelled in Decatur. He said 82% of expelled students are black while blacks make up 46% of public school students. I guess Jackson would support a hard quota for expulsions. For every 4 blacks expelled, 6 non-blacks should be booted. Of course, this is ridiculous! This isn't a question of group rights. Individuals get expelled, not groups. Blacks (or whites) don't act in stupid ways that deserve expulsion, individual blacks (or whites) do.
"Jackson Holds Weekend Rally for Expelled Students":
1.16.00
ElianWatch:
1.15.00 I've been getting groovy at the Beta Lounge. Go Sammy K, Oliver, and David Mejia. Since I've been so obsessed with the story of Elian Gonzalez, I'm going to have to set up a separate page with the latest news and commentary I find. Maybe, I can do it tomorrow night. 100,000 Cuban mothers marched yesterday demanding Elian be returned to Cuba. Reuters' Andrew Cawthorne wrote, "Both Elian's grandmothers, hundreds of pregnant women, thousands of children, and Castro's sister-in-law, took part in the government-organized march along Havana's picturesque seafront Malecon boulevard." Cawthorne also mentioned how involved the Cuban government is in the protests. "Friday's march was again meticulously organized by the authorities, with buses bringing the women in from homes and workplaces, and march organizers lining them up along the Malecon in carefully choreographed blocks." This isn't some spontaneous uprising by the Cuban people. Sure, there's definitely a lot of sincere nationalism, but it's being stoked by the awesome propaganda machine of Fidel Castro.
"Cuba Mothers March on U.S. Mission in Elian Protest":
A slick, but tiny website has been set up for people to support Elian staying in the U.S.:
Gramna is Cuba's official propaganda, oops, I mean, news agency. Their website claims
Elian has been "kidnapped" and is a "hostage of hatred." Only economics geeks like me will appreciate this, but the Ludwig von Mises Institute has just finished putting Mises' magnum opus, Human Action on the Web. For those of you unfamiliar with Mises, he was a firm defender of laissez faire capitalism. Human Action was the book where he systematically analyzed economic behavior starting with the simple fact that people act.
Human Action online:
1.14.00
Excerpts From Gonzalez Interview: Bruce Shapiro, writing for Salon.com thinks Cuban-Americans who don't want Elian Gonzalez returned to Cuba need some psychological treatment (like John Rocker?). Why else would he write that they're suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder? One of the characteristics of post-traumatic stress disorder, psychologists tell us, is the persistent, disguised reenactment of an awful, life-changing event. Shapiro goes on to attack Rep. Dan Burton (R-ID) for having the audacity to supoena Elian so Elian's relatives in Miami could make their case in court as to why Elian shouldn't be returned to the communist dictatorship 90 miles from U.S. shores. Shapiro thinks Elian would be forced to attack his own father on the stand before Burton's congressional committee. The odd thing is, earlier in his piece, Shapiro admits Burton's supoena is only a delaying tactic to keep Elian in the U.S. But the most poisonous part of Shapiro's article is the following claim: And while Cuba remains a lousy place to be an adult dissident, it is a better place than many to be a 6-year-old: a country with 98 percent literacy, universal day care, universal health care and free education through graduate school. For Shapiro, lack of basic human rights (free speech, religion), and the lack of any real economic opportunity (Cuba ranked 157 out of 161 countries in economic freedom according to the Heritage Foundation) aren't that important for a 6-year-old. If Elian is sent back to Cuba, he will have a father who is or isn't under tremendous pressure from Fidel Castro to tow the political line and only questions of what-if from his several month taste of freedom. He'll have "free education" and no opportunities to apply it too. The real political child abuse would be to send Elian back into the communist den.
"Political Child Abuse": Global warming scientists released a report explaining the temperature increase discrepancies of different levels of the atmosphere. Land-based temperature recorders report some global temperature increase, but satellite data report no increase in the upper atmosphere. George Taylor, Oregon State Climatologist writes for Junkscience.com: My current bottom line: while human activities doubtless influence climate (on a local, regional, and even a global scale), the human-induced climate change from expected increases in greenhouse gases will be a rather small fraction of the natural variations. I don't foresee global warming causing big problems. I believe that even if we controlled every molecule of human emissions we would still see substantial climate change, just as we always have. Have you ever heard or read about Mr. Taylor in a major media outlet? No? Neither have I.
Comments on "Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change": In a special report for Salon.com, Daniel Forbes discovered that the War on Drugs has deputized prime-time TV shows. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) got the TV networks to include anti-drug plots in various shows in exchange for financial incentives. It may be illegal under the payola laws, and it definitely smells like Soviet-style propaganda.
"Prime-time Propaganda":
"Propaganda for Dollars":
1.13.00 Attorney General Janet Reno said yesterday that the feds won't deport Elian Gonzalez Friday as originally planned. A future jurisdiction battle in federal court is the reason for the delay. Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) blasted Reno's decision to uphold the INS order that would send Elian back to Cuba. McCain said Elian's mother "literally gave her life" so Elian could be free in the U.S. He also added the precedent this would set, "Only criminals up until this time have been returned to Cuba."
"Reno Says Cuban Boy to Go; Miami Kin to Fight":
"McCain Jabs Reno on Cuban Boy, Defends Tax Plan": The St. Louis Rams' running back, Marshall Faulk was named the AP Offensive Player of the Year. Faulk did have a great year. He became only the second running back in NFL history to have over 1000 yards rushing and 1000 yards receiving (Roger Craig was the other). But just last week, Rams quarterback Kurt Warner was named NFL MVP. If Warner was the most valuable player in football this past season, and he played offense, then why wasn't he also named the Offensive Player of the Year? It's because goofy sports writers who vote for these awards think they have to spread the wealth around. The end results look just silly. This "speading the wealth" is also why Mark McGuire lost to Sammy Sosa for MVP honors in 1998 (when he it 70 home runs) and to Chipper Jones in 1999.
"Faulk Overwhelming Choice for AP Offensive Player of Year":
1.12.00
"French Schools Offer Morning-After Pill": In the past few Republican debates, Steve Forbes has been blasting G. W. Bush for breaking a pledge not to propose a raise in Texas' sales tax. While it's true Bush did break the pledge, the sales tax plan was later scrapped and Bush has signed two of the biggest tax cuts in Texas' history. Forbes is trying to get some momentum going into the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and he's trying to make Bush look like a tax weeny. Supply-siders like Larry Kudlow don't like Forbes' attacks, especially since Bush has offered a very large tax cut proposal.
"Fellow Supply Siders Blast Forbes":
1.11.00 Barring any unforeseen obstacles like the deal being rejected by regulators or stockholders (not likely), or even a counter-offer by another company (A rumor that AT&T might try a hostile takeover of AOL is floating around the Net) AOL Time Warner (another clumsy corporate merger name) will have both content and the infrastructure to deliver it on. This deal is coming from a company that 5 years ago only serious computer enthusiasts heard of. As soon as three years ago, AOL was on the ropes with their switch to flat-rate, all-you-can-eat Net service. Busy signal after busy signal signaled (no pun intended) the end of AOL to some. Others thought Microsoft bundling Net service with Windows (via Microsoft Network) would spell AOL's doom. Both were wrong. Steve Case, AOL president Bob Pittman, and the rest of AOL fixed the dial-in problems, built up AOL's infrastructure, and used savy marketing to put AOL at the top of all Net companies. Now AOL has 20 million subscribers paying $21.95 a month. That's $4.8 billion subscription revenues per year. Then there's the millions AOL is getting by letting other companies market their products to AOL customers. Now, AOL will have the vast creative resources of Time Warner to pump over the Net. So, if you didn't think you would see the merger of television, radio, film, video, print, and the Internet, the AOL-Time Warner deal should set you straight. The merger is not coming, it's here now!
AOL-Time Warner press release:
"AOL Buys Time Warner for $162B":
News.com's AOL-TW coverage: On the Elian Gonzalez front: Miami-Dade County Judge Rosa Rodriguez yesterday gave interim custody of Elian to his Miami relatives until a March 6 hearing. The ruling pushes back Elian's return to Cuba past the 2.10 date Rep. Dan Burton set for Elian to appear before a congressional committee in Washington, D.C. Judge Rodriguez said, "This court is not powerless to act when confronted with a petition, as the one pending before this court, alleging that the minor child may be subject to serious and unnecessary emotional harm in returning the child to the custodial parent." Being sent back to communist Cuba would definitely cause Elian "serious and unnecessary emotional harm." But it may not stop the INS from sending Elian back to Cuba and instigating a constitutional crisis.
"Florida Judge Says Elian Should Stay in U.S. for Now": I think some of Elian's supporters are getting a little carried away. A Cuban exile magazine has dubbed him "A Cuban Moses."
"Mania over Elian Rising": Thomas Sowell finds hypocracy in liberals wanting to reunite Elian with his father because of "parental rights": Many of those who are arguing most vehemently for sending the boy back, in the name of parental rights, have no track record of concern for parental rights in the United States. Here are the social engineers--the people who want boys given condoms against their parents' wishes and girls given abortions behind their parents' backs--telling us that parental rights are sacred, even when exercised under the duress of a Communist tyranny. Give me a break!
"Big Government for Fidel":
1.10.00
"China 'Sells Livers' After New Year Executions": Deborah Shapley reviews High Tech High Touch and The Control Revolution, two books that add a bit of realist light on our so-called techno-utopia.
"Megadoubts": Robert Levy, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute takes those anti-Microsoft conservatives (Robert Bork, Sen. Orrin Hatch) to task for supporting the recent antitrust attacks on Microsoft.
"Anti-Microsoft Conservatives: They Just Don't Get it": On the Elian Gonzalez front: Elian watched a parade in Miami yesterday. Also yesterday, Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) was on ABC's "This Week." He said that if the courts rule that Elian must be returned to communist Cuba (the only totalitarian nation in the Western Hemisphere), then "we should live with that." Try saying that to the Cuban exiles in Florida. But CNN is reporting that the INS may thumb its nose at Burton's supoena and send Elian back to Cuba. An annonymous INS official told CNN, "It appears the subpoena will have no impact on the ability of INS to carry out its decision." Since we're a nation of polls, and the only opinion that matters is that of the majority, the American people have decided that Elian Gonzalez should go back to communist Cuba. According to a CNN poll, 56% of respondents want Elian to go back to Cuba and suffer under Fidel Castro's communist dictatorship.
"Exiles Should Accept Court Ruling on Boy -Burton":
Boy's Proposed Return to Cuba Could Go Ahead -- Despite Subpoena":
"Elian Gonzalez Protests Suspended": Enter Stage Right is conducting its own poll on Elian's fate.
1.09.00 And even with the mayor's strange genius for attracting negative publicity, the more New Yorkers learn about his genuinely humane and effective homeless policy, the more damaging it will be for Clinton if she makes it an issue in her New York Senate campaign. Foreman goes on to write about one shelter in Harlem, Ready, Willing and Able. "Some 62 percent of those who entered RWA between 1994 and 1996 graduated from the program and still held jobs three years later, according to a study commissioned by the Doe Fund [RWA's sponsoring organization]." Take that! Rosie and Hillary.
"Rudy's Right and Rosie's Wrong": This site's just wrong. Like oil and water or Bob Dole and Jack Kemp on the same ticket, some things don't mix. Battlestar Galactica and the GOP is one such combo.
Battlestar Republica: [courtesy of
memepool.com] The force will be with you come Easter. That's when George Lucas will release Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace on home video.
"'Phantom Menace' Takes Over the World":
1.08.00
"The Economist who Roars": Essayist Umberto Eco thinks the bean is the best invention of the millennium. Eco writes: So when, in the 10th century, the cultivation of legumes began to spread, it had a profound effect on Europe. Working people were able to eat more protein; as a result, they became more robust, lived longer, created more children and repopulated a continent. We believe that the inventions and the discoveries that have changed our lives depend on complex machines. But the fact is, we are still here - I mean we Europeans, but also those descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers and the Spanish conquistadors - because of beans. Without beans, the European population would not have doubled within a few centuries, today we would not number in the hundreds of millions and some of us, including even readers of this article, would not exist. Some philosophers say that this would be better, but I am not sure everyone agrees.
"It was the Bean that Set the Pulses Racing": Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind) deserves high praise for issuing a subpoena to Elian Gonzalez to testify before Congress next month. This move is in response to an INS ruling that would send Elian back to communist Cuba. Also yesterday, Elian's relatives in Miami filed a petition to appoint a guardian for Elian. It appears the goal of these moves is to stall Elian's return until Congress can pass a bill granting Elian U.S. citizenship. All this is happening while Miami prepares for more protests against Elian's return to Cuba.
"Elian Gonzalez Subpoenaed by U.S. House Committee": Joanne Jacobs is right on the money when she says fast food chains will become the next Big Tobacco: FIRST they came for the cigarettes. Now they're after your chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. And they won't be satisfied till you're eating broccoli -- hold the hollandaise -- and trudging on the treadmill to nowhere.
"They'll Tax your Cheeseburger and Lecture you to Boot": The FCC is now in the business of telling religious broadcasters what's "general educational" programming and what is not. If the FCC doesn't like approve of the broadcasters programming, they'll yank their licences.
"Churches Curse Broadcast Ruling":
1.07.00 State control (i.e. funding) devastates science as surely as it does in any other exploration for truth. Money is never given to "science" but always to particular doctrines, theories, or individuals. The State cannot afford to put every scientist and every doctrine on the dole. Who, then, decides? The many (the people) or the few (the elite)? It is no answer to reply, "those with sufficient scientific knowledge will decide" because this merely raises another question. Which scientists will be selected and who will apply which standard in doing so?--the many or the few? Think about that the next time Discovery goes up for another mission.
"State Science, State Truth": A few thousand people in Miami are a little upset that the INS decided to send Elian Gonzalez back to communist Cuba. Yesterday, protesters blocked roads to show their discontent. Many were arrested as a result. This prompted Lourdes Chao-Navarrete to comment, "There are 11 million people in Cuba in a big jail. If Elian is sent back, he will be going to a big jail." And the jailer is none other than the United States government.
"Cuban Exiles Block Miami Roads in Protest Over Boy": The number of legal abortions in 1997 dropped to their lowest levels since 1978. While it's great to hear that the number of legal abortions are decreasing, 1,184,758 children were legally killed in 1997. This doesn't even count the number of legal abortions that weren't reported or the number of illegal abortions performed. Even with this encouraging news, legal abortion still remains a huge black mark on American society.
"America's Abortion Rates Drop to Near 20-Year Low in 1997":
1.06.00 I and other anti-communists are not happy with the INS's decision. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-NC) wants Elian's father "to come to the United States to make his case for custody of the boy." He also intends to "proceed with a personal relief bill to give Elian United States citizenship. That way, when he is old enough to make decisions for himself, he will be able to claim the freedom his mother purchased for him with her life." George W. Bush and Republican National Committee chairman Jim Nicholson want Elian's father to come to the United States. Nicholson's even offered to pay to bring Elian's entire family to the U.S. Helms, Bush, Nicholson, and I would agree that the United States is, by far, a better place to grow up than Cuba. The freedoms and opportunities we Americans have are luxuries to those living under the oppressive regime of Fidel Castro. However, others think it's alright for Elian to go back to Cuba. Representative Jose Serrano (D-NY) feels "a parent has the right to be with his child and to make decisions about his child's interests." Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) also thinks Elian is better off living under communist rule and even offered to escort Elian to his father himself. Where Serrano and Rangel are wrong is they care more about familial bonds than human liberty. Elian could still be with his father if his father came to live in the U.S. Here, Elian and his father could live together in a country that cherishes liberty and opportunity. Unfortunately, Castro has used this issue to spark Cuban nationalism and anti-American sentiment, so it is unlikely Elian's father would come to the U.S. Since, that is the situation at hand, the best choice for Elian is to let him remain in the U.S. It's not like he is alone in South Florida. Extended family has been taking care of him since he arrived here two months ago. Elian's mother and stepfather both gave their lives so he could enjoy the freedom and opportunity available in the U.S. If Serrano and Rangel care so much about Elian's best interests and parental rights, they shouldn't forget his mother's dying wish of freedom for her son.
"INS: Cuban Boy To Return Home":
"Mixed Reaction To INS Decision On Cuban Boy": Expect at least two more Blair Witch movies. Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick were the two filmakers that rocked Hollywood with $40,000 "mock-umentary." The film ended up raking in $140 million in domestic box office sales. Blair Witch 2 is expected to be released around Halloween, and the prequel, Blair Witch 3 is scheduled for summer of 2001.
"Blair Witch Serial Deal": Grammy nominees were announced yesterday. Carlos Santana led all artists with 10 nominations.
42nd Annual Grammy Awards Nominations:
1.04.00
"Meltdown Letdown": Reason's Virginia Postrel comments on possible federal regulation of drug web sites. She's sees (rightly) that these new outlets for medications are filling a niche: A significant number of Americans obviously prefer the privacy and convenience of a Web-based medical consultation to the invasiveness and hassle of a physician visit.
"Sometimes the Patient Knows Best": Lee Edwards offers up a review of 1999's worst book, Dutch. I consider it a beatifully written, yet historically worthless tome. The book is more about Morris (both real and fictional) rather than Reagan, the subject he was authorized to write the book about. Edwards concurs:
On balance, Dutch is not an "authorized biography" as advertised but a postmodern, deconstructionist experiment in autobiography. And the experiment is a failure.
"The Quest for Reagan": Acting Russian President Vladimir V. Putin has a huge advantage leading into March's elections. Hours before he resigned, Boris Yeltsin signed an election law that requires any Presidential candidate "to collect the signatures of 1 million registered voters in less than six weeks to win a place on the ballot." If you're really into Russian politics, get to know Vladimir Putin; he'll be in the Kremlin for a while.
"11th-Hour Act by Yeltsin Aids Putin Candidacy": I found this article at Fool.com of all places making the case that individuals should not be picking individual stocks unless they have the "time, training, and temperament."
"The Arrogance of Stock Picking":
1.03.00
Where are the tens of thousands of bodies? I thought there was such brutal atrocities occuring in Kosovo that NATO had to intervene? That is not to say that 9,800 dead is nothing. It is just further proof that Kosovo was a "crisis" induced by a media eager to fill time on their 24-hour networks and a President eager to build any kind of legacy to repair his self-inflicted damage.
FreeB92 Castro's right on one thing, 1.01.00 was not the first day of the new millennium:
HAVANA -- The millennium never arrived in communist Cuba. Vin Suprynowicz actually praises Time for naming Albert Einstein the Man of the Century.
Einstein and his discoveries changed our world unalterably. Which is why the editors of Time magazine are to be congratulated for setting aside the inevitable bickering about whether Lenin or Hitler "changed our world" more than Churchill or Roosevelt, instead announcing their selection as Man of the Century of Albert Einstein -- the kindly, absent-minded professor who wrote to FDR in 1939 to warn that the Nazis might be able to construct an atomic bomb, and therefore urge that America do so first.
"Getting one right":
1.02.00
"Ron to Roses: Dayne, Badgers bowl over Stanford":
"Dayne delivers with 200 yards, TD": While the world's infrastructure remained intact when the year changed from 1999 to 2000, a few slot machines in Delaware decided acted up.
"U.S. gamblers at racetracks bitten by Y2K bug": |
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