I just put a pair of white ankle socks in my mailbox. You probably don’t want to know why. I just hope they get picked up before the mail-person sees them and fears what the future might hold…

There were tons of anti-war protests all over the world this past weekend. Here in Austin (supposedly Bush-country) one of the largest political rallies in the city’s history was held. Here are some great pictures.

This new DVD player is going to drive me to the poor house. I have terrible impulse control when confronted with movies I want…so far, the damage includes the movies Amadeus, Memento, The Fisher King and Witness and a box set of …

Wow - further signs that Bush and company have ADD.

The United States Congress has stepped in to find nearly $300m in humanitarian and reconstruction funds for Afghanistan after the Bush administration failed to request any money in the latest budget.

Remember all those quotes about how America was going …

Here’s another article about the denial of AIDS funds to organizations that support/talk about abortion as an option. Essentially, the current position states that if an organization has separate financial divisions for family planning and AIDS help, they can get the money. This way, the Bush can impose …

Ah, yes. How predictable. There are some strings attached to that AIDS money that Bush talked about in his state of the union address:

President Bush has decided to allow organizations that promote or perform abortions in poor countries to qualify under some circumstances for part of the $15

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And I thought the Patriot Act was bad…Patriot Act II is in the works. Here’s what Dr. David Cole, Georgetown University Law professor had to say about the “secret” and proposed legislation:

This proposed law, he added, “would radically expand law enforcement and intelligence gathering authorities, reduce or eliminate

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Here’s a wonderful interview with Kurt Vonnegut - a long time favorite of mine.

I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened,

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To make things even worse (read entry from earlier today), every time I try to reinstall Netscape (the standard first attempt to fix any windows problems), it causes a “system error” and the install stops.

There just aren’t enough words for how ticked I am at Microsoft right now. Last night, I did the standard Windows updater thing (because god forbid they write good, secure code the first time). One of the items on the list was a patch that would offer “better support for …