More guns equal more murders in U.S. states: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – American states where more people own guns have higher murder rates, including murders of children, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health reported on Thursday.
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Cingular AT&T
What lamebrain at AT&T decided to announce the Cingular name will be retired, the very same week that Apple has introduced the iPhone, which is being promoted with the Cingular logo?
It’s the AT&T brand that should be retired. “Cingular” is one of those mushy, meaningless words, like “Camry”, but how descriptive is “American Telephone and Telegraph”?
Beatles Appetizer
See my previous item about the book Recording the Beatles. The second printing isn’t out yet, but the bonus materials are here!
Dennis, what are you waiting for?? Do you think it will show up on remainder at Barnes & Noble? 😉 (That’s an inside joke.)
Open/Close Exile
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Way back in this blog’s dark ages of embedded video, I posted a brief clip from an Animé series called Last Exile.
For a long time we’ve been meaning to post the opening and closing to the show. And thanks to Santa having given Eric a Last Exile box set for Christmas, here they are.
Storm Trooping
I stopped paying attention to Bush’s speech about his latest plans for Iraq after he said this, because it’s the only part that matters.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/JAN07/BushSpeech.mp3]Going door-to-door to gain the trust of Baghdad residents? Don’t think so. There’s going to be a clamp-down. The residents of Baghdad are already terrified to leave their homes, and now they’ll be terrified in their homes. A lot of civilians are going to get killed.
Bagged in Baghdad
As I predicted, there will be no change in Iraq, except for escalation. Why is this being called a change in policy? It’s a change in military strategy.
We’ve had 160,000 troops there before, with the difference this time being they’ll concentrate on Baghdad. But weren’t there two all-out battles to secure Fallujah? How successful were those, and will the outcome in Baghdad will be any different?