where’s my millions?

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 November 12 by Anton

I found him! THE MAN IN THIS PICTURE IS BIN-LADEN.

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yet more revisionist criticism

Posted on Friday, 2002 November 08 by Anton

Harry Potter – Pampered jock, patsy, fraud. By Chris Suellentrop. (Thanks to Michael Travers for the link)

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the surreal side of the inbox

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 November 05 by Anton

Oddest junkmail of the month:

The Illuminati Order would like to invite you to visit with us at:
http://www.illuminatiorder.org

This invitation is at the request of someone who cares about you but she wishes to remain ananymous.

Kind regards,

Grandmaster
The Illuminati Order of Bavaria

P.S. as a special gift, invest in [censored]. It is an illuminati stock which will make you a great deal of money if you buy while it is under $1

The website does not exist, though the domain is registered to someone named Allah Satan’s Bitch.

Another odd one:

Hi my name is Angelica Lyximboorg; I am 22 years of age.
I am new to the internet, and I found your e-mail on one of the news groups.
I was just wondering if you would be kind enough and walk me thru on how to post a massage on the board.
I heard it’s to do something with outlook express or something, I am just a little bit confused and all =)
If you can explain to me how to use the news groups forum that would be great.
Here is my e-mail address which I use daily Angelica22_aAfjGf@hotmail.com

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preserve our placebinēs!

Posted on Monday, 2002 November 04 by Anton

Joshua Burton (if memory serves) asks:

By the way, has anyone seriously looked into how the thoughtless overuse of placebos in double-blind research studies dilutes their genuine value in therapeutic contexts?

And shouldn’t the plural of placebo be placebimus?

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the return

Posted on Sunday, 2002 November 03 by Anton

I’m back from two weeks of visiting Dad in Carolina. Hope to have a photograph or two shortly.

Oops, my mailbox quota was filled up Tuesday morning, so if you’ve sent me something since then, please repeat it.

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the wishful thinking of historians

Posted on Saturday, 2002 October 26 by Anton

Bellesiles goes down. Lighten up Clayton, you’re entitled to gloat a bit.

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the unorganized militia

Posted on Saturday, 2002 October 26 by Anton

Gene Healy, whom I had not read before:

Forty armed citizens out of 700 in the audience might have made it quite difficult for the [Chechen] terrorists to secure the [theatre] building. Sure, a lot of folks might have been killed in the firefight, but a lot more would have been able to escape in the chaos. Sixty-seven died anyway in a rescue attempt that might have gone a lot worse.

Al Gore attacked candidate Bush for signing a CCW bill in Texas that didn’t prohibit carrying guns into churches. But if Chechen methods are replicated by Al Qaeda cells here, that looks to me like a solid argument for guns in churches, bars, shopping malls, and schools.

I like to say, whenever someone brings up something like Columbine: “Gun control worked perfectly. Nobody shot back.”

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