Hooray, a listing on Snopes!

I am to some extent responsible for the creation of this web page:

http://www.snopes2.com/sex/kinky/cowheart.htm

Snopes rocks. Read it for a while, and some stories will trigger a sense of recognition that will send you scurrying there for a devastating refutation...

That Taliban story, redux

It seems there may be something to the story about "humanitarian aid". Jesse Berney, a fierce critic of the Bush regime who runs the Wage Slave Journal, http://www.wage-slave.org/ including the George W Bush Scorecard of Evil, http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html has written an article debunking claims that this is a special evil of the Drug War or the Bush Regime. I'm not 100% convinced - partly because I find it easy to believe that the last administration were just as evil as this one when it comes to supporting repressive regimes and doing breathtakingly immoral things in the name of the War on Some Drugs - but it's worth sharing.

http://www.wage-slave.org/bites/2001.05.html#29

"Scheer's article missed some important points. He didn't mention that the aid to Afghanistan was not a new policy; the United States sent $114 million in similar aid last year. He didn't mention that a good portion of the aid was food that went to feed starving people. "

"Friends" is a bad name for the feature

because it suggests you're *not* friends with the people whose journals you don't watch.

Anyway, I'm going to reduce the number of people in my "friends" listing so I can follow the listing better. Hope no-one is insulted, no insult is intended!

I've toned down the Mornington Crescent article

I received some good commentary from players.

http://www.cluefactory.org.uk/paul/mornington.html