Does anyone else watch Letterman because the show is a clusterfuck wrapped in a trainwreck?
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Considering the sad state of cycling in New York City, this should be a very interesting little shindig tomorrow night: OPEN FORUM: THE FUTURE OF CRITICAL MASS AND NYC CYCLING The Urban Center at the Municipal Art Society 457 Madison Ave. (bet 50th and 51st Streets) Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Doors open 6:00 p.m. Come to this [...] Just to put this cancellation in perspective, it was over a salary cap. The “last ditch” offer from the league was a $42 million salary cap (per team). The “last ditch” counter offer from the players was a $49 million salary cap (per team). That means $7 million cancelled the NHL season. Good job guys. Can you say [...] Armstrong to Go for 7 After much speculation, the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team’s Lance Armstrong today announced his initial 2005 racing schedule, one that will include this summer’s Tour de France where he will go for a seventh straight victory. In 2004, Armstrong made history by becoming the first cyclist to win six Tours de [...] $82 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Don’t bet on it… Yahoo! News – War budget request loaded with extras Some $22 billion of the proposed $82 billion supplemental funding that President Bush has requested for the war on terrorism would go toward projects not directly related to U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. The [...] A recent study conducted rips into 44 local news affiliates for not running enough coverage on Iraq. Sorry. Let me repeat that in case you misread it the first time. A recent study conducted rips into 44 local news affiliates for not running enough coverage on Iraq. Got that? Here’s the typical breakdown of a local newscast as [...] Think bloggers would never be subjected to the stupidity that is the federal government? Wrong. They want you to shut up before the next election:
FEC May Tighten Restrictions On Internet Political Activity The Federal Election Commission next month will begin looking at tightening restrictions on political activities on the [...] You think mentioning creation is a bad thing? You think calling evolution a (gasp!) theory is bad? You think we got problems? Think again: David’s Daily Diversions The potential problem has arisen in teaching about Muhammad. The exam board requires that every time Muhammad is written, the letters “pbuh” in parentheses be placed after it. This [...]
I know they’re unrelated, but when I saw them this morning together in my newsreader, I chuckled… var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, twitter, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’; Boing Boing, which is really becoming my favorite all around blog, put an analogy up comparing Napster to Go to milk. Here’s the analogy: What if Napster To Go were Napster The Grocery, and milk you bought could only be consumed from proprietary square mugs (known for continually sprouting holes you have to patch [...] I’m all for tightening security efforts in the interest of protecting public places from terrorism. What I am not in favor of is the complete absense of common sense in doing so. I saw this story this morning on Boing Boing, and I was taken aback. It’s such a repugnant abuse of authority, particularly [...] Evangelical Christians battle evolution | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz Most Americans believe in some form of creationism, according to a CBS poll conducted ahead of last November’s election. 55% of Americans believed God created humans in their present form and a further 27% believed humans evolved, but God guided the process. 65% of all Americans favoured [...] Mike Whitney writing for Al Jazeera, the press arm of Al Qaida for many years now, came up with the dumbest quote ever uttered in a major publication: Two years ago Bush loyalists were bucketing their French wine into America’s gutters, while vitriolic Congressmen derided the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”. Oh really? I never heard [...] Color me stunned. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, twitter, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’; For years we’ve been told that HIV / AIDS is an equal opportunity offender. That everyone is at risk. The impression is made, in the news, that every blonde-haired blue-eyed all american girl is at risk from contracting the disease from heterosexual sex and that a heterosexual is at the same risk as [...] I think I was the only one (with maybe the exception of a few other of the Wingnuts who realized that Howard Dean being chair of the DNC was not a good thing. For all the bravado spewing forth from the mouth of the conservatives in this country, you would think they were waiting for the [...] I was the last of the wingnuts to regularly use an RSS reader. I won’t go into long boring stories and silly details, but suffice it to say I had tried a lot of RSS readers (probably in the neighborhood of 20). FeedDemon was probably my favorite, followed by Sharpreader, but they were [...] My Way News By SANG-HUN CHOE (AP) North Korea’s spent nuclear fuel rods, kept in a cooling pond, are seen at the nuclear facilities… SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea on Thursday announced for the first time that it has nuclear arms and rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime [...] Yahoo! News – Palestinians Attack Israeli Settlements By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM – Palestinian militants on Thursday fired dozens of mortar shells and homemade rockets at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip (news – web sites), prompting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to order his security forces to move quickly to preserve a [...] Use this score instead… I did a bit better
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