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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 03 Feb 2000 13:00:00 GMT
Camille Paglia - Wake up! Is this Cloud-Cuckoo-Land?. In 8 pages of Salon commentary, Ms. Paglia touches on the presidential race, gay bashing (she's "an open lesbian"), "those crazy Cubans in Miami", reminds us that "all nine justices of the Supreme Court -- representing the prestigious third branch of the U.S. government -- did not attend President Clinton's State of the Union address", Mary Jo Kopechne, Hillary Rodham Clinton's appearance on the David Letterman show ("She mates, and then she kills"), another page about Hillary ("Do we need Hillary? No. Do we want Hillary? No. How do we get RID of Hillary? Ah, that's another question."), the 'Commander in Briefs', gun control (she opposes it, mostly), Waco, education, the Super Bowl, "Kim Smith ripely popping out of a wet bikini. Sweet Venus, did that give me a mood boost...", The Sopranos ("I despise 'The Sopranos'"). "I'm a progressive, capitalist libertarian. Chew on that!".

Claire Wolfe's web site has changed! Nothing new yet, but the "New" tags are gone and the comment on the den is now, "Closed for remodeling. Re-opening date unknown". Yay! Looking forward to that reopening.

Jacob Sullum - TV Guide: "The problem is not just that the government has been sending these messages clandestinely, in propaganda disguised as programming. It's also that the messages simply are not true."

November Coalition via Cannabis News - Two Million Too Many: "on February 15, 2000. According to The Justice Policy Institute, the prison and jail population in this country will reach 2,000,000 for the first time in our history. More than half of those imprisoned are nonviolent offenders. The largest category of prisoners, by a wide margin, are drug law violators." Vigils are being held across the country on or about Febrary 15.

WorldNetDaily - The law that never was. Is the 16th amendment (the income tax) legal? This article is an advertisement for an interview with Bill Benson on Sunday, 2/6.

LinuxWorld - Torvalds opens LinuxWorld Expo with keynote address.

BBC News - New lead for fireball riddle: "Two New Zealand scientists think they can explain one of the great mysteries of the natural world - ball lightning."

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