Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Unemployed Argentines Stage Protest [AP World News] Thousands of unemployed Argentines concluded a peaceful three-day protest Wednesday demanding jobs, food and social benefits from their cash-starved government. Further evidence that some people are simly incapable of learning from their mistakes. Unfortunately, Argentina may well show us what the US will be like within the next century. comment () trackback ()  3:53:28 PM     I've noticed that Mozilla has a bit of a problem with memory leakage. After running all day, the available memory on my PowerBook (including memory actually in use by the System) will drop from 256 MB to around 128 MB. That's not good, since it means that I have to restart every few days. In normal useage, with Internet Explorer, restarts occur only every few months. comment () trackback ()  3:49:29 PM     Harvard welcomes an anti-Semitic poet after all. Plus: Did Jim Jeffords offer to switch again? [OpinionJournal] "China has launched a campaign to stop Westerners referring to the world's tallest peak as Mount Everest and instead start using its official Chinese name, Mt Qomolangma, by next year," London's Daily Telegraph reports. "British colonialists raped the sacred mountain of the Tibetans by giving it a false name," says a Chinese newspaper report. "Until today the world is still persistently humiliating Mt Qomolangma with English-language hegemonism." Why? Because it's there. So the Chinese colonialists are responding to "English-language hegemonism" by giving a mountain in Tibet a Chinese name. I wonder what the Tibetans think of that? comment () trackback ()  1:51:06 PM     Palestinians Welcome Call for Talks [AP World News] Palestinian Cabinet minister and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said he hoped "the Israeli people elect a leadership that will take them on a path of peace, not a leadership that will lead them to more settlements and reoccupation." But Sharon's Likud Party is the heavy favorite in the Jan. 28 general election, and some Palestinian officials said there was little the Palestinians could do to swing Israeli voters toward Mitzna. There is one thing they could do--they could try giving up terrorism! comment () trackback ()  12:34:01 PM

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