Category Archives: politics

QotD

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 07 by Anton

Eve Tushnet People call themselves “liberal” because they feel more comfortable with reluctant Gore voters than with reluctant Bush voters.

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why be just a little bit crooked?

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 03 by Anton

Got a spam today for police-seized cars, and gotta admire the symmetry: using ‘legally’ stolen bandwidth to sell ‘legally’ stolen goods. (They tell you that the cars belonged to “drug kingpins”, which even if it were true would not justify … Continue reading →

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oh yeah, that’ll help – but help whom?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

The latest from that great hypocrite Don Perata: Calif. lawmaker wants 5-cent tax on every bullet to support trauma centers. Perata said there was plenty of precedent for taxing bullets, noting that California has been taxing smokers 50-cents for each … Continue reading →

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those bastards!

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 28 by Anton

Medical marijuana refugees in Canada. So that’s what happened to Kubby! (Link from Alex Knapp.)

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Popshot

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Popshot, a new punk rock magazine, scolds naïve anti-capitalists for getting the wrong end of the stick. (Found in Aaron Krowne’s blog of which I was not previously aware; he was on my list of sites to look at because … Continue reading →

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kick him again!

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 23 by Anton

It’s a guilty pleasure to watch James Lileks devote his awesome talent to shooting fish in a barrel.