Candidate’s Skin Blue After Drink
“GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) – Montana’s Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease. “
Kick Music Execs While They’re Down
Betsy Schiffman
“NEW YORK – Theoretically, a price-fixing scheme is a surefire way to maintain revenue–even if it is an efficient way to land in jail. But for such a blazingly simple plan, those clever music executives proved that if anyone can screw it up, they can. “
This article by Charles Krauthammer is valuable not for Krauthammer's support for an attack on Iraq (which I oppose) but with the journalistic games the New York Times is playing in its campaign against the invasion of Iraq. The NYT is an opinionated paper, and this is a good case-study in how it has been going about influencing public opinion not just with editorials (which are a great addition to a paper) but by selectively shading and presenting the facts (which is incompatible with freedom).
We at the Earth Summit are very concerned about making sure the poor do not breed as much, thus allowing us to maintain our own opulent lifestyle. So drive that BMW SUV, eat your Chilean sea bass, but just be sure to send that check to Zero Population Growth on time to maintain your positive environmental karma! Oh yeah, and blame it all on the United States while you're at it. 😉
This guy’s pretty puffed up for a fella who runs a country the size of the average American bathroom.
President Of Turkmenistan Renames Month After Himself
“ASHGABAT (Reuters) – Turkmenistan’s flamboyant President Saparmurat Niyazov, after whom cities, airports and even a meteorite have been named, has proposed a new honor for himself — the month of January will now bear his name.”