As a shipping magnate, Martin consistently refused to fly our flag - because flying another country's flag helped him avoid Canadian taxes, Canadian wages and Canadian environmental standards. How much fun was it for Paul? As Finance Minister, he helped the company he owned avoid paying taxes to himself.

Posted by GeeTee at November 06, 2003 09:11 AM | TrackBack 0

In either case, the bottom line is the same: “The Last of Borneo’s Orangutans?” “The Diminishing Elephant Herds of Africa,” and so on. All of it translates into the same message. If you’re planning to see this, do it soon at any cost, because it’s going fast. Thus we have a lethal paradox—if you control something large that is famously, magnetically rare and you toss away half of it for a quick profit, the remaining half becomes twice as valuable. After a certain number of halvings, of course, you reach a point of diminishing returns, of no return, the exponential slide into oblivion. But in the meantime, the squandering gets rewarded because we like our rarity.

Posted by GeeTee at November 05, 2003 09:10 PM | TrackBack 0

We encourage artists to liberally sample from works that would have fallen into the Public Domain by the year 2004 had the Sonny Bono Act failed. Artists are also encouraged to create new works by sampling Sonny Bono's output (or other artists who embraced the notion of copyright lasting forever).

Posted by GeeTee at November 05, 2003 06:21 PM | TrackBack 0

I liked to drive by the clusters around the county and think about the women I placed there. I usually used a landmark to remember a cluster and the women I placed there. Sometimes I killed and dumped a woman intending to start a new cluster and never returned because I thought I might get caught putting more women there.

Posted by GeeTee at November 05, 2003 03:54 PM | TrackBack 0

Last month, NBC ordered 40 new episodes of the hit series. On Tuesday, the net announced that the goodwill mission toward straight men returns to Bravo on November 18. Style victims featured this season include a hippie dad postal worker who dabbles in taxidermy, an ex-marine striving to be both an officer and a gentleman, and a conservative lawyer who is ready to go topless for the first time in 13 years by losing his toupee.

Posted by GeeTee at November 04, 2003 06:35 PM | TrackBack 0

Actor/singer/guitarist Black said the strike would end early one three conditions: if "The Complete Masterworks" goes platinum, if "hunger is solved" or if there is peace in Middle East.

Posted by GeeTee at November 04, 2003 12:33 PM | TrackBack 0

A superfast computing processor that uses light, not electrons, to perform calculations has gone on sale for the first time. Lenslet, the Israeli company that developed the processor, say its light speed calculations deliver the power of a supercomputer in a single device.

Posted by GeeTee at November 04, 2003 12:31 PM | TrackBack 0

This Lilith Fair of literature would be wholly gratifying if not for one major thing: These modern women writers have eclipsed everyone from Jane Austen to Alice Adams. All books about single women have been reduced to a catch phrase; any subtleties and differences are lost in the glare of publicity. A few publishers acknowledge this. Carole DeSanti, vice-president and editor-at-large for Viking, and the editor of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing in the the United States, complained recently about the trend to Publisher's Weekly. "Initially," she said, "women writers were trying to find a way to write about their lived experience that was vibrant and authentic and creative and artful. Now there's a wide range of definitions for chick lit, but the one we seem to be settling in with is the one that trivializes and dismisses it."

Posted by GeeTee at November 04, 2003 06:29 AM | TrackBack 0