Monthly Archives: September 2003

Storms and Generals

September 21, 2003

Flipping through the Washington Post, just to make sure there wasn't any real journalism going on there (it happens on occasion, they write something good), I noticed an article by a guy named Joel Afenbach or something like that. The article described how trees are urban terrors! ...

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No to Euro?

September 15, 2003

Well, following a sad week in Sweden, the referendum today saw a majority "NO" vote, to join the Euro currency. Citing all sorts of crazy and not so crazy reasons, slightly over 50 percent of voting Swedes did not want to become a part of the single European...

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9-11 profiteering.

September 12, 2003

George Bush's fine performance since 9-11. - Invaded two countries, both still ravaged by civil war. - Rejected international agreements on not-testing nuclear weapons. - Rejected international enviromental accords (actually pre-911) - Presided over the worst financial scandles in recent history: Enron, Worldcomm, Adelphi, etc. - Worst economy in a decade. - Unemployment highest in...

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September 7, 2003

Looking at the calender, this week is the anniversary of Sept. 11th. And perhaps the only thing worse than that terrible occurance is the tasteless, offensive, insulting, ignorant, manipulative and just plain horrible tributes/commercializations that will take place this 9/11. If it isn't showtime showing a rediculous...

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