February 10, 2003

The Monreal Gazette has an excerpt of the prepared text of a speech by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney at the opening of an international conference on anti-Semitism in Toronto last night. Reading about Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie-King’s views makes me sick. 11:24:27 PM

Scientist believe that one of the key workers on the ancient Stonehenge monument could have been from the European mainland. Tests show that the teeth of the man known as the "archer" because of the arrowheads buried near his body have chemical components linking him to what is now the area of Switzerland, or possibly to southern Germany or western Austria. 11:14:42 PM

Television Without Pity has a complete set of recaps of Joe Millionaire. 11:11:07 PM

A repost of my report on the naming of Palestine, Texas. 11:09:21 PM

The special effects budget of Daredevil was only $6 million. That probably the catering cost on some films. Lets hope that less costly does not mean bad. 1:16:55 AM

If you are a Grade 12 student in Ontario make sure you have completed your mandatory 40 hours of volunteer time. Most people call mandatory work, well work. 12:40:39 AM

The United States is planning to attack the peaceful world of Jupiter with the nuclear powered space probe Galileo. All joking aside, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory decided that after nine years of orbiting Jupiter and investigate its moons the craft is likely to soon fall victim to Jupiter’s intense radiation fields. To prevent it from being disabled and potentially crashing into Europa or another moon that could contain life the space probe will be directed at Jupiter which is much too large to be affected by the probe. Or we hope. 12:37:28 AM

Concordia rioter Samer Elatrash was suspended for three years from Concordia University for his part in the September 9th riots that prevented former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking on campus. Elatrash was found guilty all five charges against him under the school's code of rights and responsibilities. 12:29:20 AM

Olivia Ward looks at why Saddam Hussein will not comply with any UN resolutions or give up his weapons of mass destruction even if the smartest thing to do is to give them up and restart his weapons programs in the future. He believes he will win. Saudi royal family military expert Sunil Ram says: "Saddam is actually wrapped up in the belief that he is going to win, because he has in the past," Ram added. "After the Gulf War he was amazed that he wasn't dead — and was still in power. So in a way he was correct about winning that war. Every government he opposed is out of power, and because of sanctions and the military presence of the U.S. and Britain he's been able to gain greater control of Iraq." 12:23:52 AM