Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

… the Nixon informer. What’d you think I meant?!

Yep, just today the identity of this legend was revealed. My hat goes off to you, sir. Thank you.

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So I’m getting my ND account (I’ll post it when I’m done filling all this out), and I read the following:

“Computing resources may only be used for legal purposes and may not be used for any of the following purposes or any other purpose which is illegal, immoral, unethical, dishonest, damaging to the reputation of the University, inconsistent with the mission of the University, or likely to subject the University to liability.”

haha. George Wang has shifted my paradigm.

UPDATE: smann1@nd.edu
OR
mann.25@nd.edu

And yes, I’m signing up for Facebook as I type this.

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Following the first execution in Connecticut in 45 years, Athenae has this to say about the so-called “Culture of Life”:

How can I compare a convicted killer to Terri Schaivo, by all accounts a nice girl who did nothing wrong? Isn’t that false, unfair, asymmetrical?

But, culture of life, they said, during the long month or so when all we did was talk and talk and talk about Terri Schaivo. It’s about valuing life, it’s that simple. Life. Life. Life. Just life. No matter what kind, no matter of what quality, no matter the patient’s will or that of her kin. We value life. We err on the side of it. We want life.

Michael Ross led, by all accounts, a vile and reprehensible life. A life, however. A life. On which side did we err in his case?

In fact it’s the idea, the assumption of innocence we truly value, not life. It’s the innocence we confer upon embryos as we condemn their mothers for being poor or scared or desperate, it’s the innocence we confer upon the old and the sick and the persistently vegetative, not for a moment knowing a single thing about their lives. It’s the innocence that allows us to stare at an underpass stain that looks like the Virgin Mary, and walk past a homeless man to do so, without so much as a backward glance. Because we know, don’t we, who deserve that culture of life and who doesn’t. We know who deserves a tax break for making a million and who gets his panhandling cup shoved away because, after all, he’ll just spend it on booze. We know what others’ lives are like, and we know who deserves our time and attention and news conferences and prayer vigils, our unsolicited advice, our human compassion, our love.

We wailed and gnashed our teeth over Terri Schaivo and we ignored Michael Ross because we know who deserves to live and who deserves to die.

All emphasis/italics mine. Go read the rest.

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Via First-Draft, we have the story of a man protesting in an unoffensive, pointed manner:

He considered using a foghorn but decided on a bell because of its simplicity.

A solitary ding every minute for more than 26 hours, one ring for each of the 1,594 U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq.

[snip]

“I’m just trying to give people the idea, without shoving it down their throats, that there are too many people dying,” said Blackburn, a part-time Web designer. “I just kind of got fed up with it.”

Well done. I salute you, sir.

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What Kind of Elitist Are You? My results:

You speak eloquently and have seemingly read every
book ever published. You are a fountain of
endless (sometimes useless) knowledge, and
never fail to impress at a party.
What people love: You can answer almost any
question people ask, and have thus been
nicknamed Jeeves.
What people hate: You constantly correct their
grammar and insult their paperbacks.

What Kind of Elitist Are You?
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Via First Draft:

US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld paid a secret visit to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and offered him freedom and possible return to public life if he made a televised request to armed groups for a ceasefire with allied forces, a media report said.

Wow. Just… wow. So… wait. I thought we went into Iraq to free the Iraqi people from Saddam… or maybe it was those WMDs… war crimes… breaking UN resolutions… oil… something?… this is all so confusing…

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