] NEAR NASSIRIYAH, IRAQ, 6 April 2003 — The Kuwaiti
] government is in charge of deciding who will be allowed
] to enter Iraq, and all journalists’ attempts at getting
] permits there are being met with resistance from Kuwaiti
] officials.
]
]
] Undaunted, a team from French TV and Portuguese
] journalists, along with Arab News, decided to get in our
] own way — avoiding checkpoints.

They dug under anti-tank walls to get in! That's core!

ArabNews: Exclusive: Arab News Digs Its Way Back Into Iraq

] April 1 may forever haunt Colin Crawford, Los Angeles
] Times Director of Photography, and Brian Walski, a staff
] photographer covering the war in Iraq for the paper.
]
] That was the day Walski was fired, after it was revealed
] that a photo he submitted on Sunday was actually a
] composite of two images he had captured.

I don't understand why he altered the image. What on earth was his point?

Photographer Fired Over Altered Image

] Fans of the excellent Cowboy Bebop anime series have been
] eagerly awaiting the movie, released on Friday in major
] U.S. cities. The critics seem to like it overall, and,
] skimming through the reviews, the ones who dislike it
] seem to do so for the usual reason: it's a cartoon.
]
]
] First impressions: It's quite good, good enough to show
] even non-anime fans. Visually very pretty, plot is
] perfectly adequate, entertaining yet moderately deep,
] it's about all I ask for in an anime movie: it's fun.

Slashdot | Review: Cowboy Bebop

] What started as an April Fool's joke involving bad
] grammar landed seven people in jail Tuesday.
]
] Sturgis police arrested seven Sturgis men for placing
] more than 20 threatening letters on various businesses,
] schools, banks and at the post office. At least 12 signs
] were posted Monday morning. Another 20 were put up
] Tuesday evening, according to Sturgis police.
]
] The letters all read "All your base are belong to us and
] you have no chance to survive, make your time."

ALL YOUR BASE signs land 7 in jail.

] In rural Small Town, U.S.A., it would be simple. The
] nation is at war, the boys and girls are fighting and the
] folks want them home.
]
] So in support of their troops, folks tie yellow ribbons
] around street lamps -- a straightforward and sentimental
] gesture.
]
] Just like in Burlingame -- a small town on the Peninsula
] -- where people are hanging yellow ribbons.
]
] But hardly anything is ever simple or straightforward in
] the Bay Area. Instead of good will, the ribbons are
] drawing hate mail and death threats

Bay Area: The land of open minds and 'tolerance'.

] A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the
] first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved
] virtually intact from the surface of the ocean. [...]
]
] "Now we can say that it attains a size larger than the
] giant squid. Giant squid is no longer the largest squid
] that's out there. We've got something that's even larger,
] and not just larger but an order of magnitude meaner."
]
] This squid has one of the largest beaks known of any
] squid and also has unique swivelling hooks on the clubs
] at the ends of its tentacles. This combination allows it
] to attack fish as large as the Patagonian toothfish and
] probably to also attempt to maul sperm whales. [...]
]
] "It's only half to two-thirds grown, so it grows up to
] four metres in mantle length." By comparison, the mantle
] of the giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is not known to
] attain more than 2.25 metres. [...]

Super Squid Surfaces in the Antartic!

] An Oregon anti-terrorism bill would jail street-blocking
] protesters for at least 25 years in a thinly veiled
] effort to discourage anti-war demonstrations, critics
] say.

Yahoo! News - Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists

Bowling fails the first requirement of a documentary: some foundation in the truth. In his earlier works, Moore shifted dates and sequences for the sake of drama, but at least the events depicted did occur. Most of the time. Bowling breaks that last link with factual reality. It makes its points by deceiving and by misleading the viewer. Statements are made which are false. Moore invites the reader to draw inferences which he must have known were wrong. Dates are transposed and video carefully edited to create whatever effect is desired. Indeed, even speeches shown on screen are heavily edited, so that sentences are assembled in the speaker's voice, but which he never uttered."

...

Well, when I watched Bowling for Columbine I thought it was pretty hard hitting. This article is a well needed second opinion. I'll have to take anything Michael Moore says with a few more grains of salt.

He's working on a documentary about the connections between the Bush and Bin Laden family called "Farenheit 911." I was hoping for something good but if it's up to the standard of deception that "Bowling for Columbine" used, I think I'll pass.

Shame on *you* Michael.

Stupid Academy Award

] A combination photograph shows fashionable masks worn by
] people in Hong Kong to protect themselves against the
] Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in this April 2,
] 2003 file photo. Residents of Hong Kong, always quick to
] spot a fashion trend, are turning to colorful surgical
] masks to beat the blues as a deadly virus stalks the
] territory.

Fashionable Face Masks!

] Is Sodomy Patriotic?
]
] Where naughty gay sex in Texas meets the rigid U.S.
] Supreme Court. Hide the children

Is Sodomy Patriotic? / Where naughty gay sex in Texas meets the rigid U.S. Supreme Court. Hide the children