Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Is This Still Going On?

BBC
The flag burning amendment comes up and fails once again, this time by only one vote. Given the likelihood that the Republicans will lose a few seats this election, I'm hoping we can put the matter behind us.

BBC
In European news, some German guy wants to start an airline for smokers. I don't really expect this to be a terribly sucessful venture. Who is really willing to pay premium prices just so they can smoke on a plane or to be on a plane where everyone is smoking?

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

We Paid for Slave Labor!

Mercury News

The US State Department confirmed in a recent report on human trafficking that contractors hired by the Department of Defense in Iraq were involved in human trafficking in order to procur workers for menial task. Despite such a strong critique of current policies in Iraq, the report makes no comment on human rights abuses in India, Mexico, Russia, and China, even though all of these nations are known to have major issues with human trafficking.

Monday, June 05, 2006

Movie Madness

Criticker

Found this thanks to Heather. Basically, you rank the movies you've seen and you can compare your ranking to others to get an idea of what movies you might like. I'm "mucow" on the site if you'd like to see my ranking.