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2000-09-30

• It pleases me to see people achieving their values
• Smith: NY Times a "virtual satellite" of the Democratic National Committee
• Krauthammer on leftist media
• Why isn't there "shock and dismay" over Lieberman's pandering to Farrakhan?
• My personal theory is that large quantities of Ouzo were involved

2000-09-29

• The Jaffoist Ethics
• Bush doesn't need to run "Gore is a weenie liberal" ads -- just let the leftists do it themselves!
• More on the goings on near my hometown in OK (from my mom)
• New participants in the "Fight Club" thread
• New Voter.Com Poll: Bush 43, Gore 40
• Paul Gigot is the most insightful political journalist writing today
• Peggy Noonan on the debates
• Ryan: Do we really want equality?
• Review: Hayek's essay "Religion and the Guardians of Tradition"
• James Lovelock berates "ignorance" of greens
• I wonder where Condoleeza Rice (Bush's likely NSA) stands on Iraqi sanctions?
• The most corrupt governments are always engaged in anti-corruption campaigns!
• Mobile phone shopping with Michelle
• This would be why I'm a private-sector instead of academic political scientist

2000-09-28

• Unbelievable goings on near my hometown (from my mom)
• Pediatrician, Pedophile, what's the difference? (from my mom)
• George Bush, the Big Meanie?!
• Where are the New Democrats?
• John Fund looks at state-level think tanks
• Blaming Gore for the administration's awful Russian foreign policy is probably a stretch
• You just KNOW some lawyer in the US (probably Houston) will read this and sue under ADA!
• I think I'd like to work for Jude Wanniski's Polyconomics Inc.
• Libya now has medium-range missiles
• Gore's Phony Populism
• More strikes in protest of Indian Ragnar Danneskjold
• Ariel Sharon, Israeli warrior
• 10th anniversary of German reunification
• The Williams sisters kick ass

2000-09-27

• The Clinton-Gore foreign policy dream team
• First amendment battle shaping up
• O'Beirne: Time for Bush to pander to informed female voters
• Latest Voter.com Presidential tracking poll
• Book review: biolingual extinction
• You have to admit, snake charming has the potential to improve Olympic TV ratings!
• Kashmir violence
• It's about time to send Madeleine Not-At-Albright to shake her little fist at Saddam again
• Christian-Muslim violence in the Moluccas
• Contemporary justice: begin litigation against someone, determine blame later
• Internal violence in Libya
• Cowlishaw: Cowboys, 49ers only became "nice" when they started losing

2000-09-26

• One of the few Democrats worth a damn on foreign policy (if not much else)
• Good news for Microsoft
• Brooks: Time for Republicans to start spending like Democrats?
• Schaub: Bobos in Purgatory
• Chronicle of Gore "exaggerations"
• Big government or "big oil?"
• Second-rate dictatorship justifies itself by quoting Tony Blair
• Indonesian special forces source of domestic terrorism?

2000-09-25

• A lesson for those who advocated antitrust proceedings against Intel: just build a better, cheaper processor
• Fallows looks at media political coverage
• There is SO much to discuss here it could be a Club 23 Houston topic
• Bartley: Gore, Lodine, and other doubletalk
• Maoist rebels on rampage... in Nepal?
• It will still surprise me if Milosevic goes quietly
• Philippines gets serious with Islamist rebels
• How taco bell keeps things cheap for the college crowd
• Angolan civil war continues

2000-09-24

• Hawkish article on Israeli defense cowritten by a mentor of mine
• Wallace: Expose on E-Prostitution
• Latest voter.com poll: Bush 43%, Gore 38%
• Aikman, rest of Cowboys dreadful in second straight home loss
• Book review: Forced Into Gory Lincoln Revisionism
• Another layman's article on poll methodology (try to ignore the grammatical errors)
• Bush comeback strategy: Gore is Rodham on healthcare
• When liberals start calling Bush a radical and extremist, they must sense trouble ahead
• Postrel: Is the internet bringing the world into sharper focus?
• More Islamic violence in Algeria
• UH should scrap its football program
• Sooners start slowly, still pound hapless Rice

2000-09-23

• Price comparison browser add-on
• Russian vodka is strong stuff
• I hope Gordon Stuber doesn't read this
• It's always discouraging when the army is maintaining "poll security" in elections!
• Shouldn't the Clinton/Gore foreign policy team actually be working on FOREIGN policy?
• Is this a campaign photo op or an old frat party picture?
• I thought from the headline Rodham was referring to the PresidentialPartner's trysts!
• Martin Indyk: another fine member of the Clinton/Gore foreign policy team
• Does this suggest that South African legislators are full of s***?
• Can the dictator prevent another coup in Cote d'Ivoire?

2000-09-22

• West Alabama Icehouse gets a "Hall of Fame" best as well!
• The future of local music commerce, right here in Houston
• Club 23: Highest Common Denominator, part deux
• West Alabama Icehouse makes Best of Houston 2000
• Russian weapons used in MI6 attack
• More on Dworkin rape: the last paragraph is harsh!
• Brave New World "removed" not "banned" from Alabama high school
• Dying is outlawed in this town! Really
• Is Rupert Murdoch a less classy Gail Wynand?
• A layman's explanation of discrepancies in political polling
• Junkscience.com -- "All the junk that's fit to debunk"
• Just another "Junk Science" Joe
• RNC release on Gore's energy track record
• Bennett blasts his old friend Lieberman on a silly issue
• Gigot: Republicans are winning the debate on entitlements when they actually bother to debate it!
• Noonan: Dumb-good versus Evil-Smart?
• Memo to any grownups in the Clinton/Gore DoD: medium-range missiles are NOT used to lift satellites!
• The French inferiority complex always drives them to do dumb things
• Any Montenegrin attempt at secession will be bloody
• Germans rule out cutting energy taxes
• I think I'll celebrate "International Car Free Day" by driving to Galveston
• Myanmar the latest to laugh at Madeleine not-at-Albright as she shakes her little fist
• A better Bush response: "Gore should ask for a repeal of his gas tax"
• African war over DR Congo winding down

2000-09-21

• Return of IRA violence in UK?
• A Bob Knight impersonator
• Ray: Insufficient evidence to prosecute Clintons in Whitewater probe
• Real feminists should denounce Hillary's "I'm a victim, vote for me" tripe
• Lawless Clinton/Gore foreign policy
• Nun practices "tough love"
• More Basque violence
• Time for grownups to run US foreign policy: what is "real democracy?"
• What are the odds elections take place in Cote d'Ivoire as scheduled?

2000-09-20

• Wav (256k): Multiple concussions have reduced Troy Aikman to saying "Uhhhh" every 5 words!
• An historically accurate poll that few sources are reporting (I wonder why?)
• No headline. Just go read Jaffo's entry
• Another reason to vote for Bush
• The country has gone to hell when an idiot like Oprah Winfrey matters politically
• Overzealous antitrust chief leaving (and not soon enough)
• Indian cable operators shut down in protest against bandit kidnapper
• Oklahoma State University, hotbed of music piracy!
• Military dictators are so predictable!

2000-09-19

• More DSL horror stories
• 2000 Corruption Perceptions Index released
• Al Gore has trouble with reality
• Kaus: Why the Clintons should love Drudge
• Bartley: The law and civilization's future
• Myanmar: Suu Kyi a "devil" and "traitor!"
• Government, academia -- it's all the same racket
• Cote d'Ivoire dictator: "We will not condone disorder"
• Nigeria: sorry we blew up your town
• Pakistan bomb blast
• Cowboys win their first game

2000-09-18

• The invitation
• From the archives: Manhole problems in the Philippines
• The family hasn't decided whether to sue Southwest or its passengers?!
• Paul Johnson reprint on the rule of law
• Blockading oil depots will certainly ensure better distribution!
• Peru should be careful what it wishes for, II
• Attack on dictator in Cote d'Ivoire

2000-09-17

• I guess UT was overrated?
• Bush may not be inspiring, but his future National Security Advisor is (from John)
• Interview with Christina Hoff Sommers
• Negative political ads serve a purpose
• Peru should be careful what it wishes for
• Nigeria pays women not to be prostitutes

2000-09-16

• "Maybe every family needs an Uncle Jaffo"
• Economic advice for Argentina
• Thomas Sowell blasts Gore & Bush for proposing new welfare programs
• Reinvented Democrats: Gore returns to tax and spend
• Saddam laughs as Madeleine Not-At-Albright shakes her little fist
• Russia lies about Kursk lies
• A journalist is welcomed to DR Congo
• Aquarium owner dies with her bar

2000-09-15

• My mom proposes Callie use this approach to "encourage" me on my dissertation
• Rodham's 30-year record
• Gigot on Gore's "reincarnation as a 21st-century Cotton Mather"
• Noonan analysis of Lazio-Rodham debate
• National Review grows more idiotic, contending Bob Knight was a "victim" of political correctness!
• Transcript of Lazio-Rodham NY Senate debate
• Maoist violence in Nepal

2000-09-14

• Clinton/Gore administration doesn't meet its own proposed internet privacy standards
• Microsoft launches last version of MS-DOS with graphics (i.e. Windows)
• Houston civil rights crusader Edward Blum
• Are videogames art?
• Contemporary academic history's "divorce from the larger world"
• A post-postmodern look at Al Gore (strange)
• If Cheney's record at Schlumberger is an issue, why not Gore/Lieberman's records as slumlords?
• Reductio "ad" Absurdum
• A "blood fight against evil"
• Would trigger locks have helped here? Probably not
• Note to journalists in Canada: Don't write an expose on organized crime
• Ethno-centrism in Cote D'Ivoire
• Zimbabwe doesn't quite understand democracy
• The Dallas Cowboys need more than God right now -- try some talent and coaches

2000-09-13

• Something I'm not open enough to do
• Here's an idea for Bush or Gore: propose abolishing the FCC!
• Microsoft figures out that Democrats don't necessarily have its best interests in mind
• Clinton-Gore corruption makes Nixon look like a saint
• Old news: women hate Rodham
• Typical Christian hypocrisy

2000-09-12

• Just what we need: the government to bring to cable the mess it brought to DSL
• Horowitz with a less hysterical analysis of Bush's chances
• Disabled people probably shouldn't be camping in a flood plain
• Islamists continue to cause trouble in central Eurasia
• From Lincoln-Douglas to Oprah
• Now all of the Euros have decided to imitate the French

2000-09-11

• Indiana students embarrass themselves and a great university
• A New Paradigm for Thomas Kuhn
• Who else in the press is asking about another Lieberman flip-flop?
• Is this an election about government's role, or Gore kissing Tubby, err, Tipper?
• Bartley: The Press Pack, News by Stereotype?
• New meaning for the phrase "life in the desert is no picnic"
• Arafat can outwait another Israeli prime minister
• Why would anyone be surprised at corruption in Russian politics?
• Even worse than the French are the Belgians imitating the French
• Malawi outlaws "reckless sexual behavior"

2000-09-10

• Suger = Poison
• Indiana University fires a major asshole
• Wither the First Amendment? (from Atlee)
• If only the Bush people would stop the attack ads and start talking about differences in tax plans!
• Why does this merit coverage as a political issue?
• Didn't Rabin START this latest giveaway in Oslo?!
• All the French idiots accomplished was keeping fuel trucks from resupplying stations!
• There's no stopping Venus Williams
• Religious clashes in Nigeria
• Unrest in Uganda
• Forget Tiger Woods. Venus Williams is the most dominant (and compelling) figure in sports

2000-09-09

• More on computer security
• Claremonsters have a word for "new men": squishes!
• Book review: A noted feminist blasts feminism
• If gun control is so popular, why is NRA membership surging?
• Democratic sniping: questions about Gore's "Negro tolerance level"
• Dollarization in Ecuador

2000-09-08

• West of the Moon
• YAF's Dirty Dozen college courses
• Why doesn't the Gore campaign have to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act that was imposed on the rest of us?
• Gigot: Election now turns on the issues, and don't count Bush out
• Noonan: Gore is ducking Tim Russert, who doesn't throw softballs
• Komrade Klinton shakes Castro's hand: Another reason to fire Klinton/Gore in November and let grownups run U.S. foreign policy
• Sharia threatens beer in Nigeria

2000-09-07

• A Montrose institution must go... for bike lanes *sigh*
• Review of In Plato's Cave
• Review of Hegel: A Biography
• Sooner or later, Bangladesh is going to reject BOTH of the women competing for power
• Daily update on French idiots
• Three strikes and no manicure: San Francisco gets tough on criminals
• Congo is disintegrating and Western journalists are worried about the plight of gorillas

2000-09-06

• And the name is... the Houston Texans
• 1997 article by Robert Kaplan on democracy and international politics
• Adam Clymer IS a major league asshole, Pt. 3
• Adam Clymer IS a major league asshole, Pt. 2
• Adam Clymer IS a major league asshole, Pt. 1
• Where is the press coverage of Al Gore's negativism?
• The pentagon is a dangerous place to visit!
• The French continue to be... the French

2000-09-05

• The Trojan that infected my network
• I like people who think this way
• Nietzsche scholars: the will to (mis)interpret
• Norway labor goverment's answer to sagging polls: tax the "very" rich!
• Nude art in India
• Like Steve Young and Roger Staubach before, it's time for Troy Aikman to retire

2000-09-04

• Check out Blar's redesign! Beautiful. Blar!
• Do a thorough security scan on your computer here
• Is Campo the second coming of Switzer: why was Galloway still in a decided game when he got hurt?
• Internet connection sharing simplified
• Check your computer's net security here, then use GRC's advice to improve it
• Aggressive Leisure or non-work ethic?
• Is Qusay Hussein ready to rule, and how will his older brother react?
• For socialists, high fuel costs are something to protest until the government "fixes" the problem!

2000-09-03

• New location, same journal: Khava returns!
• Cowboys dreadful in opener
• Sooners look sloppy, still win 55-14
• Praise the lord and pass the football
• Al Hunt looks at the electoral situation
• Contrary to this poll, Milosevic will not lose
• Could someone explain the purpose of a hunger strike?
• Bombings continue in Pakistan
• Machiavelli would tell the second-rate tyrants to kill her and be done with it
• Is this child abuse?
• Hospitality comes at a price in Niger

2000-09-02

• Continental tries to wrest obese patrons from United, Delta, and Northwest
• Could there be a reason Russia and China don't want a US ballistic missile defense?
• My hometown Pawhuska OK high school football team wins its opener

2000-09-01

• One solution to DSL customer service hell
• Why won't the Gore people agree to a Lincoln-Douglas style debate?
• Another solid piece from Peggy Noonan on the presidential race
• Camille Paglia touts... American Football!
• The "fear profiteers" exposed
• Review of Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime
• The current sad state of political speech
• More Islamic unrest in Central Eurasia
• Greg Norman reveals his bitter, envious, hatred of excellence (in the form of Tiger Woods)
• The Gambia gets traffic signals