8/13    Military exercises good for endangered species:
        http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050808/full/050808-14.html

8/13    How Chinagate Led to 9/11
        http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13516
        Gorelick 'MemoGate': It Just Got Worse
        http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=16201
        \_ From CHRONWATCH? Wtf? I despise the Chron for having an utterly
           loathsome editorial style, but this guy is beyond the pale even
           for all that. Man, I wish I had all the time in the world....

8/13    MY EYES!
        http://www.bpninc.com/evideo/video_mac_hi.mov
        \_ damn those red states.
        \_ keywords: Funny red neck video banjo banjos duet

8/13    Bush is planning another war. Better get ready for the
        draft, students. No way is this going to happen with
        an all volunteer military:
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050813/ts_nm/iran_bush_dc
        \_ Same thing Dubya said six months ago.
        \_ And this is new how?  Maybe you should take a closer look at
           what Iran says internally, that's far more interesting.
        \_ Using force does not mean a full-scale invasion. We could just bomb
           their alleged WMD facilities and ballistic missiles.
        \_ Giving it a second thought, I think this is just a scare tactic.
           Any military confrontation with Iran will likely cause the southern
           Iraq where the majority of Iraq's population lives to descend into
           chaos. Al-Sistrani, Al-Sadr and his boys, and the rest of Iraqi Shia
           population are keeping quiet only because they're being brought to
           power with the support of our guns, and not because they enjoy
           seeing the hordes of armed infidels roaming aroud the holiest shia
           cities.
           \_ I honestly do not think so. Bush is not in the habit of making
              threats that he does not intend to back up with action.
        \_ Super War Preview: http://www.exile.ru/2005-January-27/war_nerd.html

8/13    Awesome Roger Ebert review of "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo"
        http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001

8/14    This ID vs evolution  debate is kind of like those mysterious
        circular patterns that appear overnight in cornfields.  some
        people tried to find the answer as to what created them in
        some natural phenomenon, while others tried to find out if
        it's some jokers who created them.
        \_ Amusingly, a lot of them turn out to be hoaxes created by bored
           teenagers. -- ilyas
           \_ A lot of them?  Does that mean you think there are non-hoax
              crop circles?
              \_ Well some of them turn out to be hoaxes created by bored
                 farmers in their own fields. Ilya only specified teenagers.
              \_ Lafe, is that you?  Do you know what the phrase 'existential
                 quantifier' means? -- ilyas
           \_ Does that come under the heading of "jokers" or "natural
              phenomenon"?
        \_ I saw a whole TV program where a group that goes around making
           crop circles showed exactly how they do it, with some simple
           tools and lots of free time -- why people can't buy this totally
           obvious explanation is beyond me.