Why no celebrations

I was reading this article and was stuck by this line: In 1991, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died after prematurely celebrating what they believed was their liberation from Saddam after the Gulf War. Some even pulled down a few pictures of Saddam then – only to be killed by Iraqi forces. If we don’t…

Rudy’s

You know I haven’t been all that up in arms about French stupidity. I think they were wrong and caused more problems than they solved. But this is interesting and if I still lived in Austin, I’d go have lunch at Rudy’s. Especially after reading the comments on this story. I think the anti-war people…

Various

Been surfing and thought I share a few links. The covers for the new Harry Potter book are announced. Tremors the TV series starts next week. For reasons I don’t fully understand the Mrs and I liked the original Tremors movie and the sequels weren’t totally bad. Be interesting to see how the TV series…

Delta Force

Interesting article on US special forces working to kill Saddam.

Alterego

Got a whim today to put my name into Google and see what was out there for me. Well I personally don’t even make in onto the first page. But there are Ron Davis’ that play jazz, sell radiators, sell real estate, fight dyslexia and other wild things. I found a Ron Davis I wouldn’t…

Protestors II

I posted previously a short film interviewing anti-war protesters in New York. Well there is a follow-up of a protest in San Francisco.

Cutemeter.com

A blatant Hot or Not rip off, but a refinement of the site. Cutemeter.com actually puts words to the values. You can post comments on the picture. And if you pay you can rate people naked. Hot or not to me is something of a train wreck, but interesting. One thing about it is the…

Dumb ass protestor

Anti-war protester in Washington state locks himself to the wrong building. From Fark.