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Jason Kottke

September 21, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: “If the gov’t is allowed to wildly accuse people of things they didn’t do in the name of heightened security and the media isn’t going to call them on it (and instead do pretty much the opposite and participate willingly), we might as well all grab our ankles and kiss our personal freedoms goodbye because the terrorists have already won.” Bingo.

In other sad news

September 18, 2001 by Michael Boyle

, Mr. Dressup has died following a stroke last week. Join all Canadians in mourning our first (when we were kids) cultural icon.

OK, these are trying times

September 18, 2001 by Michael Boyle

for everyone, but I think that I may have a reliable report of the sighting of a clear sign of the apocalypse…

Rush Limbaugh has (very publicly) chastised Falwell for his ignorant comments, even going so far as to call him “Osama bin Falwell”. According to my very reliable source, the gist of his message was that, “even though Rush himself doesn’t like gays/feminists/left wingers, it is their right as citizens of the US to say and do as they please, and for Falwell, Robertson et al. to blame them for the ‘armageddon’ is ignorant and incendiary.”

Noam Chomsky

September 18, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: The Radio B92 Interview.

King Kaufman

September 18, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: Rally round the flag? “There are two kinds of patriots: The ‘God Bless America’ kind and the ‘This Land Is Your Land’ kind. I’m the latter. […] Here’s one of the verses school kids don’t sing: ‘As I was walking, I saw a sign there/And that sign said ‘No trespassing’/But on the other side, it didn’t say nothing/Now that side was made for you and me.'”