Last night, Keith Olbermann gave another special comment on his show, telling it like it is, about President Bush signing the Military Commissions Act and the loss of Habeas Corpus. You can watch it in WMV, QT or read the transcript from Crooks and Liars.
The highly anticipated Battlefield 2142, from Electronic Arts, is quickly coming under fire all over the Internet. What was once a must have for many gamers is turning into a fiasco where thousands of gamers are demanding their pre-order money back and vows of never buying another EA game. At the heart of the matter [...]
Last week, Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project, was attacked while speaking about illegal immigration at Columbia University. While many feel that his speech was bigoted, it does not exclude the behavior of the students who attacked him, nor does it excuse the behavior of the Minutemen who resorted to violence. It started [...]
President George Bush will sign into law the Military Commissions Act on Tuesday, abolishing many rights that were specifically given in the US Constitution. Anyone that the American government now deems an unlawful enemy combatant will be jailed. Right now, this only applies to non-US citizens. If you are a permanent resident in the United [...]
A lenticular cloud over Mt Fuji. From Wikipedia, Lenticular clouds, technically known as altocumulus standing lenticularis, are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction. Where stable moist air flows over a mountain or a range of mountains, a series of large-scale standing waves may form on [...]
This is my list of free and legal stuff online that I’ve collected over the past few years. eBooks Project Gutenberg is my personal favorite for free reading material. They currently have 19,000 books online, ready for you to read. Baen Free Library has many free copies from Baen books’ collection of Science Fiction and [...]
Buck O’Neil died Friday night at a Kansas City Hospital. He was 94. He was a goodwill ambassador for the Negro League and missed out on the Hall of Fame by one vote. This past July, he even batted in a minor league all-star game, making him the oldest man to ever do so. O’Neil [...]
This post originally started out as a letter to my nephew, however, these are practical tips that just about everyone could learn from. When you first move out on your own, you think that you know everything and there’s nothing anyone can teach you. This often leads to traps and pitfalls that could have been [...]
Email me a question at rantingnewyorker(at)just-a-webpage.com and I’ll answer it for you. How do I uninstall google from my computer? From Kay in Omaha Well, Kay, you can’t. Google is a deep and evil thing that will track anything you do. The only thing you can do is to buy a new computer as google [...]
