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A Federal Appeals court ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance violates the establishment clause of the constitution thanks to the “under God” that was added in the fifties. Maybe now we can roll back the pledge to keep the patriotic stuff and get rid of the religious stuff.

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This Thomas Friedman column is too good to pass up. You have to love the irony of being Iran right now.

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Now that a remote exploit in OpenSSH was discovered, the OpenBSD project has had to update the tag line on the project home page:

One remote hole in the default install, in nearly 6 years!

Still pretty impressive.

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Joining the ranks of companies to commit massive accounting fraud is WorldCom, which also happened to use Arthur Andersen as its auditor. It turns out they lied about $3.8 billion in expenses, claiming them as capital expenditures when they were really operating expenditures. It seems there’s a good chance this will destroy the [...]

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I just saw the footage of Martha Stewart answering questions about the allegations that she made an insider trade while making a salad on some morning show. I have no idea whether she’s guilty of insider trading, but I was amazed at her answer when asked how she felt about all of the media [...]

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Nicholas D Kristof attacks conventional wisdom on sweatshops in a New York Times column today, arguing that working in a sweatshop is better than most alternatives for people in developing nations. I don’t agree with companies from rich countries exploiting the poor in other countries in order to increase profits, but at the same [...]

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For the detailed wrapup of yesterday’s big decisions handed down by the Supreme Court, we turn to Howard J Bashman.

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The administration’s latest peace proposal for the Middle East can be charitably described as a cynical joke. For one thing, it demands that the Palestinians democratically elect new leaders “untainted by terror.” I agree that the Palestinians desperately need new leadership, leadership that renounces meaningless violence and provides a vision for the future [...]

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How stupid is John Dvorak? This stupid. Is he so deeply attached to the PC platform that he feels compelled to mock everyone who appears in their ads? I understand that he’s a columnist and thus his job is to say stupid things that provoke people in to writing things like this, [...]

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Well, here it is, straight from the horse’s ass. A reader sent along that link to the “argument” against the CEDAW, which unfortunately isn’t really an argument at all. The writer, columnist John Leo, spends the whole column tarring PC feminists and talking about the evil ways that people can manipulate the language [...]

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