Religious zealots look to be winning substantially more of Pakistan’s equivalent of Congress. Read about it on NSMBC.com. Obviously this is bad news. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will have his work cut out for him to keep that country moving in the right direction. There are two things to think about in this. First, for…
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Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Former President Jimmy Carter has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Read about it on MSNBC.com. For a man marked by a terrible presidency, Carter has made a much greater impact on the world out of office. He deserves the award. On the other hand, Gunnar Berge, the Nobel committee chairman, deserves a New York…
Convicts Voting Rights
Should ex-cons be allowed to vote? On such Floridian thinks so. Read the Washington Post story. Those interested in law and order must necessarily shudder at what and whom this demographic would vote for. But do they have the right to vote? It seems that if they have indeed paid their debt to society, this…
NASA’s Glory Days
Dave Scott recently re-capped his Apollo 15 space flight on-line. Read the CollectSpace.com article. One has to wonder where the can-do, American spirit has been the last three decades. NASA is an embarassment, not for its mistakes, but for its complete lack of support from within Congress and from the American people at large. Recently,…
High Court Allows NJ Senate Sleight of Hand
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear the case regarding the Democratic candidate swap in the New Jersey Senate rate. Read about in on Yahoo.com. One presumes the black eye many perceive the Court to have received over ending Al Gore’s perpetual re-count strategy two years ago to have been a factor in this…
Songwriter Decries MP3s
Songwriter Diane Warren penned a different ditty this week: an impassioned indictment of music “piracy” via MP3 downloads. If anyone is entitled to an opionion, Diane is. Read a bried bio on-line. Unfortunately, she is dreadfully wrong. Ms. Warren works in an industry in which barriers to entry, in the form of monolithic recording companies,…
Falwell Outbursts Inflammatory
Jerry Falwell’s stirring the pot of religious zealotry again, calling the founder of Islam a terrorist. Read the AP story on Yahoo.com. Luckily, one doubts if many Muslims take Falwell seriously, assuming they’ve heard of him. Muslim/Christian wars have been going on for centuries around the world. But they have little to do with worship;…
New Jersey Ballot Muddle
New Jersey’s Supreme Court unanimously decided that Democrats could replace Robert Torricelli on the Nov. 5 ballot. Read about it in the Star-Tribune. This despite the law prohibiting ballot changes close to the election. How can the state Supreme Court ignore the law? The disregard for ethics and standards of law in this case is…
Kids Murder Adult
A gang of children and teenagers beat a man to death in Milwaukee earlier this week. Read about it in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. As asked on NPR, where were these little monster’s parents? The MJS story is all sympathy for the killers. “He didn’t mean it,” sobs one culprit’s sister. That’s a lie. Ten…
CD Pricing Fixing Found
Universal Music Group, Sony Music, BMG Music Group, Warner Music Group, EMI Group, Musicland Stores, Trans World Entertainment and Tower Records settled a lawsuit alledging price fixing of CDs over a 6 year period. Read about it in the Yahoo News. Of course, they admit no wrongdoing – who does these days? But any tracker…