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Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is a site that’s getting a lot of detention, and deservedly so. I’m kind of ashamed that nobody has ever sent me a cease-and-desist letter of any kind. Maybe I should change the name of this site to “Coca-Cola Blog” or “Wal-Mart Daily”.

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More from the “this would be hilarious if he weren’t the most powerful man in the world” file: here’s another from President Bush’s Asian invasion, documented by Reuters.

“Hear that?” Bush called out from the camouflage-draped bunker, which sits about 100 meters (yards) from the border. “The axes that were used to slaughter two U.S. soldiers [...]

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The Washington Post has a long story today about the excesses enjoyed by high-riding Enron employees. I wanted to read the whole thing, but had to quit halfway because it just made me want to kick somebody’s ass.

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Nathan Torkington has a funny piece on stone soup and open source. His “all TODO and no diff” coinage is one I’ll be using in the future, for sure.

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So the Olympics are finally over. I really enjoyed the Olympics, and I think I’ve come to the conclusion that I like the winter games better than the summer games, despite the fact that the only winter “sport” I’ve ever engaged in was sledding down a hill one time. I think the reason I enjoy [...]

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I’m a sucker for a good Bush gaffe. Here’s a gem from an article about a speech to Japan’s parliament:

He said he was beginning his Asia trip in Japan “because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.”

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Rogers Cadenhead sent along a link to this seemingly underreported story that lends creedence to the idea (that I’ve floated since September) that the main reason we didn’t catch the terrorists is poor information aggregation and analysis. A British company had dossiers on 15 of the 19 hijackers in their “high risk people” file. The [...]

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Looks like it’s becoming increasingly obvious to Israelis that Ariel Sharon isn’t the answer. The simple fact is that Israel isn’t going to shell the Palestinians into submission, and Ariel Sharon can never create a liveable coexistance with the Palestinians, because he detests them. He intentionally triggered the intifada and rode the ensuing chaos into [...]

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Here’s yet another reason to be disgusted by President Bush and the Republicans in Congress, as if I needed any more.

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The New Scientist has an article on what we know at this point about the anthrax attacks last year.

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