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6.9.2001 6:52 PM Yeah, biotech food will win by default. With so much of it present already and the near impossiblity of preventing contamination, genetically modified food is here to stay. As Professor Jeanne Romero-Severson said, "If your standard is 100 percent pure, you better stop eating right now." "As Biotech Crops Multiply, Consumers Get Little Choice" Sean Hackbarth | 12:21 AM National Review covers Bobby Flay's recent Iron Chef victory. Food Network has just arrived on my cable service, and I'm already hooked. "Grading Bobby Flay" Sean Hackbarth | 6.8.2001 11:50 PM Web content update: Salon's doomed too. Bummer...Not! "Support San Francisco's Finest" Sean Hackbarth | 11:33 PM One half of the biggest governor's race in 2002 has announced his candidacy. Jeb Bush wants another term running Florida's government. Now, we wait for Janet "The Child Hater" Reno to shake and quake her way into the race. "Jeb Bush Says Will Seek Re-Election in Florida" Sean Hackbarth | 11:29 PM Oh the injustice! Suck.com, the web's roving balloon-popping needle, has shut down. Feed (or FEED) is also "on ice." While both sites were permeated with liberals and lefties, they still had intellectual honesty. Feed in particular offered unique examinations of the future of science, technology, and media. Now, they're gone, but Salon.com, the reigning liberal propaganda machine continues to churn out uninteresting blather. "Web's Longest Running Daily Column Shuts Down" Sean Hackbarth | 12:40 AM The latest tragedy in Japan proves a gun isn't required for mass murder. "Man Kills 7 Students at Japan School" [via Drudge] Sean Hackbarth | 12:39 AM Amazon.com is invading the space of MP3.com. There are quite a large number of free (legal) music downloads available. I've been finding some nice dance tracks like D:Fuse's "Bodyshock" and Jondi & Spesh's truly transcendent "We Are Connected." Sean Hackbarth | 6.7.2001 11:54 PM The media orgy over Monday's exectution of Timothy McVeigh makes me sick. First, the death penalty is an immoral, blood-thirsty form of justice. The only justifiable reason to kill another human being is self-defense. McVeigh won't be a threat to anyone if he remains locked up in a prison cell for the rest of his life. Second, the news companies do not need to feed the seemingly insatiable appetite for death. Our culture is enough of a culture of death. Millions of defenseless unborn children are killed every year because they're unwanted. Newborns are abandoned in dumpsters and toilets because raising them would be inconvienent. Kids shoot each other on the streets and in schools. Radical environmental terrorists attack animal research laboratories where work in done to improve human life. Princeton University hired Professor Peter Singer who advocates killing children and the elderly if it will "increase overall happiness." Respect for human life is decreasing at an alarming rate. The networks don't have to add to this obsession with human killing. "Networks Ready for McVeigh Execution" [via Drudge] Sean Hackbarth | 10:56 PM If Microsoft president Steve Ballmer had his way, he wouldn't get Microsoft into the media business. That doesn't mean MS is getting out of MSNBC anytime soon. It does mean we won't be seeing MS turning itself into another AOL Time Warner. Ballmer's comment does point out the two different paths MS and AOLTW are taking. MS mostly focuses on the technology while AOLTW takes the duel technology/content path. Comparing the two companies' stocks neither MS nor AOLTW have been lighting up the market. "Ballmer: Would Not Launch MSNBC Again" Sean Hackbarth | 10:11 AM President Bush should stick to his free market gut instincts. In a move that could lead to trade restrictions that would have wide-ranging economic implications, Bush is asking the International Trade Commission to look into possible "unfair" trade practices by foreign steel producers. Ironically, Bush may be doing this to get the steel industry on his side to push a future free trade pact--expanded NAFTA. Or is he doing it to appear more "moderate" to liberal Senate Republicans? Isn't a little bit of protection for the steel industry all right as opposed to such an extreme stance as free trade? ;-) "Bush Takes Protectionist Step For Steel Industry" Sean Hackbarth | 6.5.2001 10:14 PM John Fund provides another comparison of Sen. John McCain to Teddy Roosevelt. Fund guesses that if McCain ran for President as an independent, the best he could do is throw the election into the House of Representatives where party allegiance would stop him from claiming the Presidency. Fund concludes:
"The McCain Mutiny" Sean Hackbarth | 8:38 PM The arrests of President Bush's daughters for underage drinking stinks. Here's how John Williams put it:
Here are two possibilites. Either the person who made the 911 call did it to get some easy publicity for the resturant, or the person has such indignation toward the President that embarassing Bush's daughters nationally as a way to attack him seems justified. "The 411 on Chuy's Decision to Call 911" Sean Hackbarth | 8:22 PM George Melloan offers this international perspective:
"Socialists Lose Out" Sean Hackbarth | 8:16 PM With churches getting more involved in environmental issues, will Left-wing, anti-religion bigots spew hyperbole that those activists should stop forcing religion into peoples' garages? Or will they only cry out when conservative Christians get involved in public policy (i.e. the now dying Christian Coalition)? "What Would Jesus Drive?" Sean Hackbarth | |
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