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Jon Stewart vs. Bill Bennett — 8 June 2006; 4:50 am

You don’t want to miss Jon Stewart skewering conservative Bill Bennett over gay marriage. Way to go, Jon!
Stewart: So why not encourage gay people to join in in that family arrangement if that is what provides stability to a society?
Bennett: Well I think if gay people are already members of familiesâ€”
Stewart: What?!

Bennett: They’re sons and [...]

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Anti-corporate prankster group jakes McDonalds at UK games conference — 7 June 2006; 12:25 pm

Andrew Shimery-Wolf of “McDonald’s Interactive” gave a bizarre presentation at the UK Serious Games summit, where game developers meet to discuss games made for corporate and educational use. The presentation focused on the potentially devastating climate changes brought about by shady corporate practices.
According to Shimery-Wolf, the group had created McMarketplace, a simulation of the [...]

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Cornell Univ’s The Fantastic in Art and Fiction — 7 June 2006; 5:47 am

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction - an amazing gallery of illustrations from rare manuscripts. Some really creepy imagery here!

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R.I.P. Billy Preston — 7 June 2006; 2:43 am

Billy Preston has left the studio at the tender age of 59.
A kinder, sweeter man i have never met. He had tons of heart. He saved the Beatles in their last year. Rock music wouldn’t have been so good without this wonderful man. Here’s just a partial list of credits. He also played with Earth [...]

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This weekend. (R.I.P. Mark Hild) — 6 June 2006; 4:38 pm

The funeral for our old buddy Mark Hild was today. The viewing was yesterday. Attended both. Got no sleep. Saw Grandfather. He looks like he weighs all of 75lbs and is sweating like a pig in that inferno of a house. Extremely depressed over both situations.
Yesterday, Mark’s wonderful mother Alice remembered me (my god, the [...]

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Geneva Convention? What Geneva Convention? — 6 June 2006; 2:26 am

I can see it now: “But sir! Nobody told us we couldn’t torture & humiliate suspected enemy combatants!”
Pentagon to omit Geneva ban from new army manual: report - Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - New policies on prisoners being drawn up by the Pentagon will reportedly omit a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly [...]

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New look — 5 June 2006; 6:35 am

Using Rob Ballou’s Styleswitcher, the previous version of which i used on my last site, i’ve uploaded a new PHP-driven stylesheet-switching system. You can see on the left hand side that there are now options for the color scheme, the font size, and the font face (serif or sans-). I also changed the default from [...]

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Today in 1989… — 4 June 2006; 7:39 am

Remember Tiananmen Square.

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site update — 3 June 2006; 12:05 pm

Cleaned up a little bit, tweaked out the CSS, and created some image galleries.

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Mark Hild — 3 June 2006; 1:16 am

An old friend of mine named Mark Hild grew up with Muscular Dystrophy. Word on the playground was that he probably wouldn’t live to graduate from high school. I knew him back when it barely took two hands to count my age.
On Tuesday, he went into cardiac arrest and suffered some really serious brain damage. [...]

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