Monthly Archives: April 2004

Just had to ask

April 29, 2004 – 3:24 pm

I’ve avoided raising this, because it’s such an obvious point. But I guess that’s me all over, so… The Bush/Cheney unit appeared before the 9/11 commission today. Most reports of the event have noted in passing that they were not under oath, but none of them seem to have extended that to its very immediate, [...]

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Law and Sausage

April 28, 2004 – 12:54 pm

The Supreme Court took a look yesterday at the hidden discussions between The White House and the energy industry on the government’s energy policy. Andy has pointed out that a) we don’t have a (new/good) energy policy, and b) there are things happening that suggest we should, and that the fact we don’t is…interesting. Slate [...]

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Episode II: A New Hope*

April 27, 2004 – 4:25 pm

I took a minute to do a quick design refresh at lunchtime. Nothing much, just adding in the header image from the photo gallery and tidying a couple of things. I may do a little more later. I should also mark the end of Gregg Easterbrook’s blog over at The New Republic; I shall move [...]

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April 22, 2004 – 11:06 am

It may not surpise our regular reader to learn that I’m not a big fan of Bill O’Reilly. So when I was reading a transcript of his interview with the son of a 9/11 victim you can imagine where my sympathies were. Let’s put that aside for now, however, and look at an interesting use [...]

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April 21, 2004 – 12:02 pm

Here’s a little something that causes me no end of irritation. Apparently Midsize sedans fail SUV side-impact test. These normal, perfectly usable, perfectly decent cars are “failures” because when some behemoth urban assault vehicle hits it the car gets a dent. Yes, there’s a failure here, but the failure is with the SUV. These are [...]

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