Monday, July 1, 2002

"Daily Telegraph: Why we should be worried about George W Bush [29jun02]" [Daypop Top 40] 9:49:41 PM

Ashcroft Aggressively Pursues Death Penalty (washingtonpost.com) [Daypop Top 40] 9:48:00 PM

"Don't Trust Microsoft " [Daypop Top 40] 9:46:48 PM

Bush Slashing Aid for E.P.A. Cleanup at 33 Toxic Sites [Daypop Top 40] Yeah, this guy's a biiiiiiig friend of the environment. 9:38:33 PM

The Pledge of Allegiance - Why we're not one nation "under God." By David Greenberg President John F. Kennedy replied coolly that he knew many people were angry [about another court decision ruling institutionalized prayer unConstitutional], but that the decisions of the court had to be respected. He added that there was "a very easy remedy" -- not a constitutional amendment but a renewed commitment by Americans to pray at home, in their churches, and with their families. [Slate] 5:54:05 AM

"Flavors of Fraud" I'm not saying that all U.S. corporations are corrupt. But it's clear that executives who want to be corrupt have faced few obstacles. Auditors weren't interested in giving a hard time to companies that gave them lots of consulting income; bank executives weren't interested in giving a hard time to companies that, as we've learned in the Enron case, let them in on some of those lucrative side deals. And elected officials, kept compliant by campaign contributions and other inducements, kept the regulators from doing their job [~] starving their agencies for funds, creating regulatory "black holes" in which shady practices could flourish. [Daypop Top 40] 5:20:13 AM

E-Mail Deriding Katherine Harris Costs Editor's Job (washingtonpost.com) [Daypop Top 40] 5:18:29 AM

"sums up the Bush/Gates strategy" [Daypop Top 40] 5:16:32 AM

"Speculation: the accounting crisis is going to get much worse, and integrity is about to be rediscovered as a virtue. Politicians think people want security -- more surveillance, more arrests, more patrols -- when they want honesty -- honest effort,..." [Daypop Top 40] 5:15:12 AM

"in texas, only selected portions of history are worth teaching." [Daypop Top 40] 5:13:58 AM

"Steven Berkoff's deported from the US. " [Daypop Top 40] So, what he's asking for is racial profiling. "Since I'm white and from the UK, ignore my visa violations." On the other hand, there clearly needs to be some room for latitude in how we handle immigration and visa issues... 5:12:12 AM

"Microsoft's Digital Rights Management--A Little Deeper" [Daypop Top 40] 5:00:03 AM

"Dave Winer Comments On Microsoft's Palladium. " [Daypop Top 40] 4:27:14 AM

"Textbook Publishers Learn to Avoid Messing With Texas." [Daypop Top 40] Knowing that prostitution was rampant in the West is an important historical fact, it says a lot about the conditions for women in the unsettled West. What more would you expect of the state of the Bushes, Enron, and other crimes... 4:24:20 AM

Microsoft's Grips the Levers, Harder [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 4:20:58 AM

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