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Archive for March, 2007
« Previous EntriesGeorgetown advances to the Final Four. Elsewhere in the same country, the UChicago basketball team goes 20-6 and makes it to the Div III tournament
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007This past Sunday, the Georgetown men’s basketball team advanced to the Final Four for the first time since 1985. The game was downright amazing, as anyone who watched will attest. The Hoyas were down by TEN points with seven minutes to go, and still came back to tie in regulation and, ultimately, win […]
Court rules that government may not censor the internet. Government immediately begins censoring court.
Friday, March 23rd, 2007A federal district court in Philadelphia ruled yesterday that the government may not censor the free exchange of information between adults.
The case, ACLU v. Gonzales, concerned a challenge to the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which was designed to keep minors shielded from commercial communication that is “harmful to minors” unless a […]
Slash, Perry Farell, Les Claypool, and Tom Morello all doing something together that is not Tawny Kitaen
Monday, March 19th, 2007I don’t quite know what constellations had to align for this to happen, but at the SXSW festival in Austiin, TX (one of THE great music festivals anywhere in the world) the following all took the stage together on March 16: Slash (formerly of GNR), Tom Morello (fmr. of Rage Against the Machine), Perry […]
Mark and the giant “peach”
Monday, March 19th, 2007On the way back to DC from a wedding in Atlanta, I passed through Gaffney, South Carolina. There, I saw this:
Gaffney Peach Tower
I don’t think I need to explain any further. What I want to know is WHY the council approved this design. Why? Why?
(picture from Neubrainerinc.com)
9/11 Mastermind confesses to World Trade Center bombing, killing Daniel Pearl, kidnapping Patty Hearst, fathering Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, clogging arteries
Friday, March 16th, 2007(Satire) In a stunning report released by the Totally Constitutional And With Actually Pretty Luxurious Suites Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp, Al-Queda officer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted today to a slew of offenses that have bedraggled the American people and the world.
“We’re ecstatic,” said Sgt. Mark D. Sade, “he came clean after only a few years […]