+ 3 - 1 | § ¶Eat an Animal for PETA Day
Today is Eat an Animal for PETA Day, at least as proposed by HeraldTribune.com columnist David Grimes. Sounds like a good idea to me. To show my support for ending the xylemy slaughter of millions of defenseless plants, today I have eaten or plan to eat:- Sausage
- Chicken
- Pepperoni
- Cheese
Although I wish I could stick to an all-meat diet, I must reluctantly admit that a few plant-based products do appeal to me. I am responsible for eating processed potatoes, wheat, and tomatoes, but I strongly hope that they all died of natural causes, rather than being slain in captivity as so many of their brethren have.
davidh
+ 0 - 4 | § ¶Mosaic, and how it affected my life
If you're using most versions of Netscape, Internet Explorer, or Mozilla, you're using at least some code written ten years ago and first released to the public on April 22, 1993 as NCSA Mosaic. Though certainly not the first web browser, Mosaic's offspring now account for over 99% of browsers in use today, and was key in making the World Wide Web a part of international culture. I think it's safe to say that if not for Mosaic, Psi Phi wouldn't be half the site it is today.(*) (more)+ 2 - 2 | § ¶Tax Evasion Foolishness
Irwin Schiff is a fool. An apparently charismatic leader, but a fool nonetheless. And the people who follow him are to be pitied, but not too much. This man has gone to jail because he broke laws, doesn't understand that the law that put him in jail is still in effect and still applies to him, and yet some people think this makes him an expert on what the law does and doesn't say. Yeesh! How can people believe a word out of his mouth (or fingers)?I think the trick is that he mixes in a verifiable little truth with his unverifiable big lie, and by mentioning the little truth in just the right spots (say, that income tax law does not include the word "liable"), he is able to get someone who goes the the trouble of verifying that to believe the unverifiable big lie (say, that nobody is liable for income tax). He jumps to unwarranted (and untrue) conclusions but omits the steps that he takes from a to z. He points out true thing a and implies that therefore b must be true, though it's really not.
More on this later, perhaps. Time for a three-day weekend.
davidh