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What were you thinking!!!
Posted Mar 27, 2003
An occasional series highlighting the inability of people in an organisation - any kind of an organisation whether it be a business, a government, a club, a cult, a rock band, etc - to see beyond the end of their own nose into the real world outside their organisation.
Number 1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2887483.stm
Ok, this a good one to kick things off with because it shows someone doing not one but *two* really stupid things which the rest of would look at and say 
First off, marketing stuff like this to seven- and eight-year-old girls 
Secondly, calling it "harmless fun" 
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
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Civil disobediance
Posted Mar 20, 2003
In Jim Lynn's journal a few days ago there was mention of Hootoo civil disobediance along the lines of not yikesing war-related posts as a passive way of making known our displeasure over the BBC policy regarding discussion of the current Middle East situation.
I've noticed this morning that Dragonfly has reverted to her original Researcher number, and I'm wondering if this is also some kind of protest. I don't see a journal entry about it D, but I don't think I've gotten as far as your fanclub in my more postings page yet.
Anyways, I've decided to make a stand myself and remove my nickname until this is all over. Anyone else with me? I reckon the sig ought to too 
Signing off as Gosho for the duration.
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South Park
Posted Mar 20, 2003
Anyone see SP tonight? It bore more than a passing resemblance to a certain radio series and tv series and book by a certain author whose intitials are DNA 
The premise of the show was... oh, I won't spoil it for you, but it's the one where Cartman says he was visited by aliens and they all think it's just like the time when Cartman got an anal probe, and Chef comes along and says he's been having deja vu all day, and they get all brassed off cos they think it's a repeat 
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Petty Booka
Posted Mar 12, 2003
Well, it's South by Southwest time again in Austin, and we've got almost 50 bands playing at Cheapo from 5pm today until 10pm on Sunday Our biggest draw last year was a Japanese ukele duo called Petty Booka, and they're playing again tomorrow (Thursday) at 4pm.
I just went to their website and found this page http://www.sister.co.jp/pettybooka/pb_e_video.html where there's a .mov clip of them performing at Cheapo last year which you can either play or download 
(it's a big, 4Mb file, but it's worth it )
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I'm sorry, but this is too much
Posted Mar 12, 2003
Many, if not most of you subscribed to my journal and reading this are American. I live in America. It's been my ambition to live in America for at least 15 years, and three years ago I fulfilled that ambition.
America however, in the shape of its President, his administration, and what can only be described as 'American public opinion' is being shown up in the eyes of much of the world as a bunch of drunken yobs (frat boys) out on a Saturday night and spoiling for a fight. It's also coming across as a petulant little child who has had something taken away from it and is stamping its little foot in a fit of pique.
I've just heard that in the American House of Representatives, the word 'French' is to be taken off all the cafeteria and restaurant menus and replaced with 'Freedom'. French fries and French toast will become freedom fries and freedom toast Of course, if it's good enough for the House, it's only a matter of time before the same thing starts to happen at McDonalds, Burger King, Wendys, etc, reinforcing the idea in the minds of many Americans that France is anti-American, that any country which doesn't support America in whatever it does is anti-American. You'd think the people in power would have more sense, right? 
Much more serious though is this news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2842093.stm
Now, unless I'm mistaken, it was the American forces and American government agencies who captured these prisoners and took them to Guantanamo - an American military base under American control. And now an American court of appeal is saying that because they're on foreign (Cuban) soil they don't have rights under the American Constitution? They are either American prisoners, or they are prisoners of war - one or the other. As America is not legally at war, and most certainly won't be if it invades Iraq, they are therefore American prisoners and should be treated as any prisoner in any other American jail.
If that's really how it is, then I don't have words (that I can write here without being moderated) strong enough to express my utter disgust at this situation.
I'm truly sorry if this offends any Americans reading it, and speaking my mind has sometimes gotten me in trouble with my friends, but not enough people are saying this stuff. British politician Tam Dalyell said today that "I don't think it is possible to exaggerate the degree of concern about the illegality of what is proposed." This American president is about to order troops to invade a sovereign nation - an illegal act of war in international law, and none of us have any idea what the consequences will be, or if we'll be around to see them.
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