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[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 27, 2005 The Senate , with Dick Cheney casting the deciding vote, cut $40 billion in funding for foster care, child support, and student loans. Democracy Now!
For all of his computer skills and love of music, commentator Paul Ford couldn't stay in control of all the music in his collection. When his hard drive crashed recently, he lost 10,000 songs.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 20, 2005 President George W. Bush defended his executive order authorizing the National Security Agency to spy on Americans without a warrant; Bush said that he “absolutely” had the right to authorize the program, and that whoever leaked news of the program’s existence had committed a “shameful act.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 13, 2005 Saddam Hussein refused to appear in court to defend himself against war crimes , complaining of a lack of clean underwear . “Go to hell, all you agents of America,” he said.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , December 6, 2005 At the U. S.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 29, 2005 White House photo. General George Casey , the top U.
Commentator Paul Ford has a solution for avoiding the endless distractions a computer provides.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 22, 2005 White House photo. At least 162 people were killed in violence in Iraq , The New York Times where 173 malnourished Sunni Arab prisoners, many of whom had been severely tortured , were found in the basement of an Iraqi Interior Ministry compound.
This woman is 16 or 17 and does indie-inflected Yes/Steve Howe covers (plus one original) in which she plays all of the instruments herself. You want to listen to her cover of South Side of the Sky.
In which I contribute to Business 2.0.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 15, 2005 In Amman, Jordan , 57 people were killed in explosions at three different hotels. “We thought it was fireworks for the wedding,” said Ahmed at the Radisson.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 8, 2005 I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, pleaded not guilty to charges of obstruction of justice , perjury, and making false statements.
When “Curveball” just won’t do.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 1, 2005 The United States military published its first public estimate of the number of Iraqi civilians and soldiers killed by Iraqi militants. The estimate appears as a single bar graph on page 23 of a report to Congress and does not provide actual numbers, but by extrapolating from the graph it appears that insurgents are wounding and killing 63 Iraqis a day, and have wounded or killed 25,902 Iraqis since the war began.
Notes on a big happy smile.
I just discovered Dolly Parton's 1999 album The Grass Is Blue , a collection of sincere bluegrass interpretations of country classics. Sneering poseurs might shake their heads at Dolly, but they can listen to the boring new Death Cab while I listen to Dolly break my heart over and over.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 25, 2005 A warrant was issued for the arrest of Congressman Tom DeLay , who turned himself in and was released on $10,000 bail. Houston Chronicle It was reported that in 2003 Senator Bill Frist was told (in writing) that a significant amount of HCA, Inc.
I have now watched the Quicktime preview to Crispin Glover's self-made, low-budget movie What Is It? at least a dozen times.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 18, 2005 A bovine idyll. The New York Times finally published an account of reporter Judith Miller’s involvement in the Valerie Plame Wilson case.
There are two kinds of distraction, at least.
Just a college anecdote.
Some things just suck.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 11, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. At least 42,000 people died in an earthquake in Pakistan , ABC News and hundreds of people in Mexico , Guatemala , and El Salvador were buried alive in mudslides caused by Hurricane Stan .
Loss as gain.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , October 4, 2005 John G. Roberts, Jr.
Ftrain. com, I’ve been unfaithful to you.
No Business , Negativland's 25-year audiocollage project, soldiers on. Sure, it's familiar now--they're cutting up the music industry's words and putting them back together, going after file-sharing hypocrisy this time--but no one is capable of more subversion on a single CD.
One Saturday night well over a year ago, I went to Williamsburg, Brooklyn—more specifically, to the bar Galapagos—to meet my girlfriend, Mo, who wanted me with her at a modern burlesque show where one of her friends was performing. I emerged from the Bedford Avenue L-train stop into a parallel universe where everyone seemed to be pressed out of the same mold.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 27, 2005 Hurricane Rita , the third-most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, struck Florida , Texas , Arkansas , Mississippi , and Louisiana , killing 36 people and causing flooding, tornadoes, and storm surges, and re-flooding parts of New Orleans. Hurricane evacuations caused miles of traffic jams in Texas, and a bus filled with elderly people exploded when an oxygen tank caught fire, incinerating at least 24 passengers.
What makes the Alphasmart Neo interesting is what it doesn't do. It's a word processor--a full-sized keyboard with a six-line LCD screen--and that's all.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 20, 2005 At least 167 Baghdad residents were killed in 14 separate bombings, with 570 wounded. The next day 40 people were killed with car bombs and guns.
Kim Stanley Robinson writes good, didactic, socially conscious hard science fiction. He's best known for his Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt , which imagined what would have happened if Europe hadn't come out of the plague.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 13, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. Emergency officials in Louisiana requested 25,000 body bags for victims of Hurricane Katrina , and a total evacuation of New Orleans was ordered.
A single paw on the wheel as the bus pulls away.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , September 6, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama , Florida , Louisiana , and Mississippi .
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 30, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. Pat Robertson called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez; Robertson then lied about calling for the assassination (“‘take him out’,” he said, “can be a number of things”), and finally apologized.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 23, 2005 Runaway Raft on the Tigris. Peter Schoomaker, the Army’s top general, revealed that the United States was developing a plan to keep at least 100,000 soldiers in Iraq through 2009.
The woman was printing the hotel bill and she asked me how my stay was. I said, “well, I had a problem.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 16, 2005 The United Nations warned that 2. 5 million people will die of hunger in Niger if the country does not receive foreign food aid immediately.
Thirty-one and focusing.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 9, 2005 A Christian martyr. The world marked the sixtieth anniversary of America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan .
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 2, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. As the culmination of its $1.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 26, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. It was hot in most of the United States .
“We are going to listen to some music,” said Scott. “Get up your Russians.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 19, 2005 It was hurricane season. PR Newswire It became clear that Karl Rove had leaked information about Valerie Plame to the press.
Identity theft is becoming commonplace. But commentator Paul Ford says that the identity thief may not be the clever hacker you suspect.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 12, 2005 Visiting Scotland for the G8 summit, President George W. Bush fell off his bicycle after running into a policeman .
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 5, 2005 A bovine idyll. It was the 229th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence .
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 28, 2005 Runaway Raft on the Tigris. Bombs went off in Baghdad and Kirkuk , gunmen killed three people in a Baghdad barbershop, then blew it up, Reuters and suicide bombers killed thirty-three people in Mosul.
I was invited, as a contributing writer for The Morning News, to attend the opening of a new show at the Museum of Sex. But the story needed a hook, because sex without context is kind of boring.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 21, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. In New Delhi, India , children and adults carrying both lit candles and hydrogen-filled balloons marched to mark the World Day Against Child Labor.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 14, 2005 General Motors announced that it will eliminate the jobs of 25,000 blue-collar workers in the United States by the end of 2008; the cuts amount to 22 percent of the company’s hourly work force. Washington Post Twenty-eight bodies were found dumped on the street or in shallow graves in Baghdad .
Another stroll down Smith St.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , June 7, 2005 President George W. Bush said that allegations made by Amnesty International , claiming that the prison at Guantánamo Bay is a “gulag,” were absurd.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 31, 2005 Amnesty International released a report calling the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our time. ” General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the prison camp was “a model facility” and pointed out that 1,300 Korans had been handed out at the prison in the last four years.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 24, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. North Korea needed food .
The New York Times decided that, come September, it will start charging for some of its online content. This twists the knickers of many a blogger, but makes me glad.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 17, 2005 The United States was investigating claims that someone flushed a copy of the Koran down a Guantánamo Bay toilet. In Afghanistan , news of the flushing led to riots, where hundreds chanted “death to America” and at least fifteen people died.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 10, 2005 A papyrologist at Oxford University announced that new techniques in spectral imaging, which make it possible to decipher previously illegible ink on papyrus fragments, have yielded parts of a lost tragedy by Sophocles , a novel by Lucian, and an epic poem by Archilochos; researchers also applied the technique to third- and fourth-century manuscripts of the Revelation of Saint John and discovered that the number of the beast , contrary to popular belief, is 616, the area code of Grand Rapids, Michigan . National Post A Washington woman found a snake with legs, Tri-City Herald locusts plagued Bangladesh , NZHerald and Zimbabwe was at risk of famine.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 3, 2005 In Iraq at least one hundred Iraqis and eleven U. S.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 26, 2005 In Iraq , the bodies of fifty Shiite hostages, some mutilated or headless, were pulled from the Tigris river, and the bodies of nineteen Iraqi soldiers were found in a soccer stadium in the city of Haditha. A suicide bomber tried to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Los Angeles Times and Iraqi militants shot down a commercial helicopter, killing ten passengers; they then shot the sole survivor, the helicopter’s Bulgarian pilot, and distributed a video of the shooting on the Internet.
Filling in the spare forty-five minutes.
On my way to work last week.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 19, 2005 Two suicide car bombs blew up in central Baghdad , killing fifteen and injuring thirty. BBC News A bomb in Kirkuk killed twelve Iraqi guards, Al Jazeera an American contractor was kidnapped north of Baghdad , BBC News and Marla Ruzicka, an activist from California who made it her mission to count the number of civilian casualties in Iraq , was killed in Baghdad by a suicide bomber .
Some thoughts on health insurance.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 12, 2005 Eighteen people died when a U. S.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 5, 2005 Militants in Iraq attacked the Abu Ghraib prison , wounding forty-four American soldiers and twelve prisoners. BBC News Britain announced that it will pull 5,500 troops from Iraq and increase its presence in Afghanistan, to help with the hunt for Osama bin Laden .
A pleasant fellow expires.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 29, 2005 A Christian martyr. In Minnesota , an overweight loner Chippewa neo-Nazi goth teenager shot and killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend, then went to his high school and shot and killed a security guard , five students, a teacher, and himself.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 22, 2005 A Christian martyr. The U.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 15, 2005 A Christian martyr. In Iraq , the director of the al-Furat hospital in Baghdad was shot dead.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 8, 2005 Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. President George W.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 1, 2005 White House photo. A suicide bomber in Iraq killed over one hundred people as they stood waiting to join the Iraqi National Guard, New York Timesimes and four American soldiers and thirteen Iraqis were killed in other incidents.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 22, 2005 CIA Director Porter J. Goss claimed that the war in Iraq is making it easier for terrorist organizations to find new recruits, Washington Post and Sunni Arab tribal chiefs insisted that they be given a role in the new Iraqi government.
I rename my cat every month; this month his name is Abraham Lincoln. He talks to me for hours at a time, and when I do not give him the love he deserves he enters the bathroom, finds a spot in the bathtub that resonates perfectly, and screams until I give in and call for him.
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 15, 2005 It was Lent . The Arizona Republic Deep Throat was dying, Miami Herald and the creator of Dolly the sheep was granted a license to clone humans.
It was a great year for sitting and playing at INTERACTIVE GAMING MONTHLY ONLINE!
[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 18, 2005 Cookie Monster in the Green Room (White House photo). Army Spc.
Hello there. Ftrain is on a hiatus.