Flexible Reality
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Unsure of what kind of jobs you'd be good at? Need to evaluate your skills, temperment, preferences? Go here to MAPP for an assessment.
Friday, October 17, 2003
Bay Area Chemist offers one way to get ahead in track and field competition.
United States anti-doping authorities said Thursday they had uncovered widespread use by track and field athletes this summer of a new and previously undetected designer steroid, linking its development and distribution to a Bay Area nutritional supplement laboratory already under investigation by a federal grand jury in San Francisco.
Thursday, October 16, 2003
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center in December 2002, there are some unusual statistics in a worldwide survey that asked "how important do you consider religion to be in your life".
Find the countries where the survey respondents considered religion not important in their lives, and then compare to countries where it is reported to be very important.
The Bush Administration's push toward criminalizing a wide range of behavior has some unintended consequences. In the area of computer software security, with provisions of the Patriot Act, and with the continued detention of prisoners of war at Gitmo. Amnesty International has stated the concerns of many to the Administration's unlawful and damaging detention of foreign nationals; but has not received any reply.
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Halliburton is accused of overcharging the US Government for delivery of gasoline to Iraq.
Still downloading music with Kazaa or Morpheus but concerned about the RIAA subpeonas?
Sunday, October 12, 2003
Did you read the LA Times article about Arnold's "Groping" history?
Let's see, there were large groups of people who were agast about Clinton's consensual sexual episodes with Monica Lewinsky; but either thought the allegations against Arnold were false, or did not matter. If it happens again when he becomes the Governor, will it matter? Is there any difference between unwelcome sexual advances with fondling of subordinates, and what occurred in the Clinton/Lewinsky affair?
At least two Army Generals have raised issues about the leadership abilities of Gen. W. Clark.
Worse yet, there are dozens of weblogs reporting portions of Gen. Clark's Pulaski County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner address, on May 11, 2001 which the Drudge Report and others have fashioned into an indictment of Gen. Clark by fabricating quotes that sound as if the General was a staunch Neo-Com Republican. What he actually said, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal is here. Reading the address one gets an entirely different sense of what Clark knows about the World when compared with a lot of the blog fabrications.
This follows other reported comments by former US Military Officers about Gen. Clark's focus on his upward mobility. Ok, a question: "What position in Business, Government, or the Military is the Apex, the highest one can go in America?" If he becomes President, how will his charged penchant/passion for self-enhancement hurt the Country?
