John Moore | April 18, 2003
Today was a sad day in central Arizona. One thousand people turned out for the funeral of Lance Cpl. Mike Williams, a Marine killed in Iraq. On 9/11/1991, Mr. Williams owned a small business. After the events of that day, Mr. Williams decided to help his country any way he could. Consequently, he sold his [...]
John Moore | March 12, 2003
Join Blogsofwar in celebrating “International Eat an Animal for PETA Day” on March 15.
If you’re a vegetarian, just feed one animal to another.
John Moore | March 7, 2003
An Arizona Republic headline: “Child waiting for bus with dad hit by swerving SUV.”
If this had been a Volvo, I don’t think we would have seen “swerving Volvo” in the headline!
further…
Fire department officials said: “A car ran off the roadway and struck him.”
Swerving? That doesn’t sound like swerving.
But we all know from media [...]
John Moore | March 2, 2003
Today your blogger was called a racist on the, ahem, technical forum slashdot.org.
I have committed the mortal sin of suggesting that young arabs be given a higher terrorist risk rating in the new airline passenger profiling system (CAPPS-II).
The accusation was:
When I say intolerance, I mean intolerance of everything but your own race. With [...]
John Moore | February 26, 2003
Once again, Arizona is going for the multicultural fools-gold. This time the legislature is considering providing driver licenses to illegal aliens.
The logic goes something like this: they’re here and they drive, so we should give them licenses. I suppose as long as they are doing this, they will be allowed to register to vote, since [...]
John Moore | February 24, 2003
Viruses are normally named after a landmark near where they were first discovered. Thus Ebola is named after the Ebola River, near the home of it’s first case. Marburg (a relative of Ebola) was first discovered in Marburg, Germany. Hantavirus was first discovered during the Korean War and was named after the Hantaan River.
In 1993 [...]
John Moore | February 24, 2003
I guess a few idiotarians have something more important on their minds than the upcoming war: eliminating the word squaw.
Yep… that’s right! Arizona House Bill 2424 would prevent the word “squaw” from being used to name any landmark, street, highway, historical site, park, recreation area or other publicly funded facilities.
So the historic Squaw Peak, 2 [...]
John Moore | February 22, 2003
Mathematics is the same everywhere in the world. It is a true universal language.
But some folks are upset about it, because of its Western roots.
So now we get Ethnomathematics!
From the New York Times (free subscription required), we learn:
The only possibility of building up a planetary civilization depends on restoring the dignity of the losers.” Robert [...]
John Moore | November 15, 2002
Some days, the lunacy is just too much!
From the LA Times:
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a rule saying the government’s new airport security screeners must be U.S. citizens.
The portion of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act barring non-citizens from the positions is unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi ruled.
Let me get this straight… [...]