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February 2003

What Have We Done to our Classrooms?

If you care at all about the state of our schools, you have got to read this. And don't say:...

France: Back Atcha!

I was flattered to have a French visitor respond to my post about French strategic decisions in Yugoslavia. He's a...

"Free-Floating" Morality

Apparently, somebody's been accusing Deb of being a moral absolutist. Ah, one of my favorite hot-buttons has now been pushed,...

Yesterday's Protests

Once again Lee has done a great job covering the "peace" protests on the Left Coast. I've very grateful for...

Ask Yourself: Why Do We Hate You?

I have. I've carefully catalogued each and every reason I've heard that they hate us. I have friends from Asia,...

More BBC/NPR Bias

Today the BBC and NPR has a join call-in show from "all the world". Message: All the world is against...

Benjamin Disraeli

As usual, I can't seem to confine my interest to any coherant boundaries. Today, I'm learning a little bit about...

Price of DVDs vs. CDs

The last time I returned a DVD I racked up quite a bit in later charges. Bad Tim. So last...

Autobahn Trivia

We all knew Germans are allowed to drive as fast as possible on the autobahn highway. But I didn't know......

Iraq Bans WMD!

In a move expected to garner broad international praise, Iraq promises to pass legislation banning weapons of mass destruction next...

Fanning Francophobic Flames

Frequent visitors to Random Observations (both of you) know that I like to do a series of posts on related...

"Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys?"

Okay, as a Wisconsin boy, I've got to take some umbrage with the first part of that term. I eat...

Not a Dream Date

... but who knows, since we don't know the end of the story, perhaps she actually liked it? Armed Liberal...

Iditarod Moved!

For the last several years in a row, the Anchorage area has had insufficient snow for the traditional start of...

A&E on Israel & Palestine

Tonight I saw about half of the A&E documentary about suicide bombers in Israel, and their potential threat to the...

An Open Response from a "Warmonger"

Okay, so I'm not a warmonger, but undoubtedly I'll be cast as one. Since I suspect I will have visitors...

Iraqnophobia

I've been dutifully sorting my bloggages into various categories, on the theory that sometime I'll learn Movable Type well enough...

Don't Hawks *Eat* Doves?

Best quote I've seen in a few days, from a London Times article brought to my attention by Deb, the...

More on Smoking Guns

A while ago I made my own case about why our intelligence community could not come forth with everything they...

Bill Gates' Cash and Butt-Spiders

Am I the only person in the world with common sense and access to Google? Sometimes I ask this while...

The Loss of the Columbia

"Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts one...

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