The "You Can't Make This Shit Up" Dept.: Not only is Libya in charge of the UN Human Rights Commission, but Iraq will chair the UN's next disarmament conference. [thanks to Joseph Leitmann for the tip]
The Taxocratic Party: While watching the President's State of the Union speech this evening, I couldn't help but notice that the Congressional Democrats declined to join the Republicans for a standing ovation when the President said
the economy grows when Americans have more money to spend and invest; and the best and fairest way to make sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place.That apparently goes against everything that Nancy Pelosi believes in.
It appears that Ariel Sharon has won a big re-election victory. The Palestinians are condemning Sharon's victory as a heavy blow to peaceful settlement. But they have only themselves to blame for rejecting the earlier peace offers and then launching the wave of terrorism, and thereby persuading the Israeli voters to take a harder line.
Judith Weiss has reports on the Judenrein anti-war movement (here and here)
Gary Williams is selling Axis of Weasels merchandise!
The students at San Francisco's Marina Middle School are getting an unexpected lesson in, uh, biology. (visit the school's home page, then follow the link that says "Youth Power is now online!". The power of youth indeed. (In case the school site gets fixed at a later time, as of this writing it was linking to this ) UPDATE (Jan. 30): Brett Thomas called the school to report the link, and tells what happened.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 28, 2003 08:56 PMThat didn't last long - already fixed.
No, it's still not fixed.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on January 28, 2003 04:16 PMstill a "good" link....so, Mr. Sharkansky, if that is your real name, how did you happen to discover this interesting link? Hmmm....
Posted by: Ipsofacto on January 28, 2003 07:44 PMOh, whoops. I didn't actually go to the link, just floated over it. So "Youth Power" at osom.org is doing the redirect. So this isn't really the schools' fault; it's osom.org's fault. They're not the only kid-related place to link there, either.
Interestingly, I can't get a whois on osom.org right now. If I had to guess, I'd say they lost their reg, and some squatter snapped it up and is redirecting all hits to the porn page. Probably doesn't even know what was there before was kid-related. This honestly doesn't look like mischevious kids at the middle school, this looks like an honest mistake. I'm gonna write the webmaster and let him know.
Geez, I've really become a Dad...
After looking at such sites it's best to run ad-aware, available here:
It gets rid of their cookies and spyware that they might have planted in your while you were looking. It makes a good addition to anti-virus software.
Posted by: Ralf Goergens on January 29, 2003 02:23 PMRalf,
Good tip. I run Mozilla on Linux as my anti-spyware solution. ;)
The whole Marina Middle School webpage is gone, right now, but that was only after many phone calls. Crazy how ineffecient those guys are.
Posted by: Brett A. Thomas on January 30, 2003 11:44 AM