Monthly Archives: September 2004

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God Speaks to Florida Voters!

This entry was posted in Election 2004 on September 22, 2004 by Steve

Hey, if this map is accurate it is a clear message! (click Through the link)
Update (9/23): Reader K Welch notes that Snopes has done a bit of debunking on this one. And, of course, those of you who paid any attention to Frances will remember that it was extremely large, with an eye 50-85 miles in diameter and a total breadth of some 250-300 miles, so the narrow line on the map is a bit misleading.
However, if those narrow lines are a true representation of the path of the center of each hurricanes eye, then can the map be considered accurate?

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Banned Book Week 9/24-10/1/04

This entry was posted in Education on September 21, 2004 by Steve

Tegan and Trash Heap have the goods and Tegan links great poster of Batgirl at her day job.
I’ve read 22 of the books on the ALA’s list of The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1999-2000 and will read Of Mice and Men again to commemorate the week.
How about you?

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Gmail Stuff

This entry was posted in Gmail on September 21, 2004 by Steve

All you folks with those new Gmail accounts might find some useful tools here.
Via The Presurfer.

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The Marlboro Man

This entry was posted in Culture Economics Marketing on September 21, 2004 by Steve

Was originally the Marlboro woman.

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Government Failure…

This entry was posted in Capitalism Domestic Terrorism Drug Laws Economics Law Enforcement Libertarianism on September 21, 2004 by Steve

Radley Balko summarizes a set of statistics about the government’s efforts to suppress the market for recreational drugs:

By nearly every metric — drug use, spending, availability, purity, price — the drug war has failed. Throughly. And that’s before considering the trespasses on our civil liberties our government has undertaken to achieve that failure.

Read the rest. The magnitude of the failure is really quite astounding.
So, who is benefitting from the $60 billion being spent annually by local, state and federal governments?

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