:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 2.18.2003 ::
:: More on the war ::
The following e-mail hoax circulated in the fall of last year, with a quote said to be from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and I thought it worth repeating for kicks and giggles:
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
Great stuff, although not as much as fun as the Nostradamus Village Idiot/Dubya hoax.
If thou wouldst appreciate such foolhardiness, endless cheer awaits thee here.
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:: 12:52:00 AM [+] ::
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