- California Officials, counties sued over oaths. If the lawsuit is successful, it would remove the governor, the attorney general, and others from office. More importantly, it would nullify any actions taken by them while they were improperly in office, would require them to repay their salaries for the time in question, and may subject them to prison time. For example, SB23, which is described in Upstanding citizen one day, criminal the next might be nullified.
- APB News asks Are 'Smart Guns' stupid? I sure think they are. Would I want a gun that could be disabled by someone jamming the radio in it or by hitting it with an EMP? No. In The trouble with 'smart guns', Joseph Farah has more to say about the issue.
- Wired's A Century of Spectacular Failure is another look back at the 1900s.
- Netizens unite against Big Business over DVDs and the first round of the battle has been won.
- Phew, we made it through Y2K. This is one of the funnier articles I've read.
- Hollywood stars turn against the 'lying' Clintons. Even Hollywood thinks there's been some prevarication coming from the White House.
- Bored with the USA? Try joining one of the Internet-based Nations.
- D'oh! An analysis of the medical care provided to the family of Homer J. Simpson. Maybe this explains why the Canadians have better health care than we in the US do.
- Killer bug sparks new food scare as salmonella enteritidis now infects forty thousand people annually in the UK. In the US, it's one in ten thousand eggs, according to the CDC Report on Salmonella enteritidis Infection. ... by man intentionally eradicating a disease, he simply opens up an ecological niche for another unheard-of illness. The consequences are frightening. Google Search: salmonella enteritidis will point you to more information.
- Yugoslavia Today on Central Europe Online lets you keep track of what's going on in Kosovo. Poland Today is interesting to me, too. No law, little order and not much justice in Kosovo is one of the articles I found. No peace in Kosovo is another article. Things there seem to be headed in entirely the wrong direction.