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What’s A News Octet?

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

One of my peeves is the phrase “news byte”. A “news bite”, I can understand: it’s a bite-sized, i.e., small piece of news; something that fits on a napkin. But a “news byte”? What is that? A news item that can only take on one of 256 values and fits into a C char? The same goes for […]

“Do you even know what intelligent design is?”

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

On the Pensacola News Journal’s letters page, one John Pasquale writes: Do you even know what intelligent design is? Does your child?… Look into the work of biochemist Dr. Michael J. Behe or go to www.ICR.org (Institute for Creation Research). At the ICR site, we learn that The first human beings did not evolve from an animal ancestry, but […]

Bill Clinton Bitchslaps Chris Wallace on Fox News

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Crooks and Liars has the video. Go watch it. It’s beautiful. Basically, Chris Wallace asked Clinton why he didn’t do more to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. Clinton went on a tear, explaining why the question is a load of dingo’s kidneys, how the GOoPers were whining about Clinton obsessing over bin Laden instead of […]