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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

For John Gardner , great fiction needed to test values against “real-life consequences” in the world. It needed to be moral... [Arts & Letters Daily] 5:10:40 PM  Permalink  comment []

Cheney Target of Criminal Investigation. "French law enforcement authorities have made Vice President Dick Cheney the target of a criminal investigation for his role in a massive bribery scandal during his time as CEO of Halliburton. Le Figaro, one of France's biggest (and most conservative) newspapers, reports 'an investigative judge is looking into allegations of corruption during construction of a natural gas complex in Nigeria by Halliburton and a French oil company.'" Yet this story is virtually ignored in the American press, the author writes. —AlterNet. "The investigation is the first of its kind in France under laws introduced as part of an international convention on cross-border corruption signed in 1997 by some 35 countries, including the US." —Guardian.UK [Follow Me Here...] 5:01:10 PM  Permalink  comment []

Mars Moon Hoax. Bush's proposal is a bit like the Raelian announcement that they had produced a clone--it's a hoax. What's the evidence? To fulfill this not so grand vision, NASA's budget is being boosted by a piddling $1 billion over the next 5 years. A single space shuttle flight costs half a billion dollars! Also, Bush aims to land on the moon again by 2014--that's 10 years away. The first moon landing took only 7 years to achieve after Kennedy announced it. The speech (which was delivered with Bush's characteristic drabness) is just a cynical way to generate feel good news in the runup to the State of the Union. Sigh. [Hit & Run] 1:39:46 PM  Permalink  comment []

The Perils of Government By Moron. In these heady days before Paul O'Neill, like John DiIulio, recants and signs a sworn renunciation of his heresies, Brad... [The Poor Man] 11:21:09 AM  Permalink  comment []

PC World's recap of products at the Consumer Entertainment Show in Las Vegas. [lawrence's notebook] 9:47:54 AM  Permalink  comment []

Gusev Crater, Annotated. A QuickTime VR panorama from a high resolution, 360° photo taken from MER-A (Spirit). [More Like This WebLog] Fantastic! 9:17:23 AM  Permalink  comment []

Larry David / Curb Your Enthusiasm Profile. [tv] Angry Middle-Aged Man -- a Larry David / Curb your Enthusiasm Profile ... [via Reenhead] [LinkMachineGo] 8:53:46 AM  Permalink  comment []

Rev. Moon advocates genocide. The Genocidal Moon "There will be a purge on God’s orders, and evil will be eliminated like shadows," the Unification Church leader Rev. Sun Myong Moon, the owner and primary funder of money-losing right-wing Washington Times, said last week. (The comments were posted online by Rev. Moon’s webmaster and picked up by blogger John Gorenfeld.) "Gays will be eliminated, the 3 Israels will unite. If not then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring but this is what happens. It will be greater than the communist purge but at God’s orders." How should the media be responding to this call for genocide? Have any major media outlets been covering this story? Why not? [MetaFilter] 8:50:04 AM  Permalink  comment []

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