d up for GoStats. But you haven't heard from them either. (The mouse in your pocket)
Excellent! Looks like Sgt. Schultz is an armored cavalryman. Can't have a real party without the heavy metal.
Thanks to Bill Quick I've discovered Anthony Woodlief's Sand in the Gears. It is indeed laugh-out-loud funny with turns of a more biting wit.
Woodlief takes a whack at Sovietski.com. Absolutely right. Don't buy anything from those filthy Russian capitalists. Especially their cheap, simple, but well-made amber jewelry. They should be punished forever for their government's misdeeds and their bad taste in merchandise.
One more time
Marc Herold Afghan casualties
Herold Afghan casualties study
Afghanistan civilian casualties
Herold collateral damage
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Afghan casualty figures
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Herold Afghan casualties study
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I'm honored! I've just received a very special email:
I AM MRS. SESE-SEKO WIDOW OF LATE PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE-SEKO OF ZAIRE? NOW KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC). I AM MOVED TO WRITE YOU THIS LETTER, THIS WAS IN CONFIDENCE CONSIDERING MY PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCE AND SITUATION.
Her situation? Well, she's got $30 million bucks she needs to put in my bank account, if only I'll give her the account number. Too bad I can't remember it right off..
Cathy Young's take down of Nicholas Kristof's guns and terrorism article is now available at Reason Online.
Jacob Sullum writes Editor's Links today at Reason and has some interesting news: The drug warriors have discovered the internet.
The [National Drug Intelligence Center] concedes that actual drug dealing is exceedingly rare online, so the Threat consists mainly of inconvenient facts and dissenting speech. Fortunately, the NDIC has discovered the First Amendment as well as the Internet. In a section on "Challenges Facing Policymakers and Law Enforcement," it explains there is precious little the government can do about people who refuse to join the crusade for a drug-free America, even if they use the National Information Infrastructure to spread their heresies.
Incidentally, notice that Editor's Links has, yes links! Reason is one of the few print media that is beginning to employ links on a regular basis to enhance it's online articles. Of course, you get the best of both worlds if you subscribe to the magazine.
I see by the supermarket tabloids that Rosie has come out. I assume this means she saw her shadow?
According to Nando Times: At a conference for women entrepreneurs, President Bush has announced that he wants billions of dollars in new tax breaks to spur America's small businesses. This will be in addition to the business tax cuts Bush signed into law earlier this month.
While other elements of the proposal remain vague, Bush has revived a proposal to increase the depreciation and section 179 expense deduction for small businesses from $25,000 to $40,000 per year.
According to the boilerplate in a federal solicitation for bids that I've got here, Section 52.219-01(a)(2) The small business size standard is 500 employees. By that standard I'm a microscopic business, as I've never employed more than five people. A $15,000 increase in the amount of the section 179 expense deduction could be a great help for me but I wonder how much it will help all those 490-employee 'small businesses.'
Update: Notice that throughout the Nando article linked above the 'cost to the government' of these tax cut proposals has been calculated. One might only wish that the cost to the citizens of government actions were taken as seriously.
No shit, Sherlock
From the Denver Post: Current law makes it "much easier for the government to seize property than to convict you of a crime," said [Colorado Republican State Rep. Shawn] Mitchell, a Broomfield lawmaker. "I have the firm belief it's a dangerous power subject to abuse, and it needs to be restrained." ..
Cash, cars, boats,