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Archive for March, 2003

Saturday, March 1st, 2003

Bosses from Hell

at the FBI:

In an effort to ensure that all FBI field offices respond to a war in similar fashion, each office was ordered to send its plans to Washington. After those were reviewed, FBI management sent a plan back to the field offices with a list of things to do, said the official.
“We said, ‘These […]

Saturday, March 1st, 2003

A Fanboy’s Notes

InQuest Magazine will have a 72-page pullout preview edition of the new Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game in its April issue, which should be on sale this week. Such facts as are known about the game so far sound very promising.

Saturday, March 1st, 2003

The Evidence is In

Radley Balko put together an entire series of “Ashcroft Sucks” posts. Scroll up from this one to the conclusion:

Seems to me, one could have made one of two conclusions vis-a-vis Ashcroft at the time: either he’s a racist, or he’s a principled “states’ rights conservative,” willing to weather the racist label in order to uphold […]