Thursday, August 15, 2002 :::
And in local news, the Daily Power Struggle has reached its wheezing conclusion, where personal issues were not at all ever brought into play. The merciful hand of the ASUC swayed its mighty judgement, refraining from smiting the Cal for another semester at least. Tensions have been high at the Daily Cal ever since By Golly It's What The Hell Is He Doing In A Hampster Ball Wally suggested booting the Cal from its Eschleman throne. It was only by a slim majority that the Daily Cal will be allowed to remain at the Cal, albeit with less elbow room.
No word yet on whether this will make the Daily Cal suck less, or more. Reports as I get 'em.
Also, check out Calstuff's Kevin for more.
::: posted by Andrewski at 12:05 AM
Interesting report here about sneaky traffic cops. Well, the numbers of crashes seems to drastically decrease when these guys are disguised as construction workers, and if it's saving lives it's a relatively small price to pay. Big Brother, or just smart management of the road?
::: posted by Andrewski at 12:03 AM
Tuesday, August 13, 2002 :::
It's amazing what Daily Cal writers will do to make it to their minimum word count. Rooney Rooney Rooney...
::: posted by Andrewski at 5:56 PM
Sunday, August 11, 2002 :::
It seems Dr. Hatfill has become the Richard Jewell for the year 2002. He's considered one of the top two dozen or so suspects the FBI has from last year's anthrax mailing cases, a case which is no closer to being solved than when the antrax-ladden letters were being received around October. The evidence is entirely circumstantial: he wrote a paper once saying how easy it would be to coordinate a biological attack through the US Postal Service. Also, Time reported that bloodhounds with the scent of the tainted letters went out of control barking at Hatfill when they first came across him (bloodhounds are the only dogs whose reactions are admissable as court evidence).
Two lie detector tests and house-searches later, Hatfill has been fired from his jobs and his name has been effectively ruined. While I want the FBI to catch the perp as much as anyone, it just seems that all that talk about less mistakes in the bureau seem like a lot of hot air.
Also, I'm not saying that I somehow know Hatfill is completely innocent. I sure don't. But what we keep seeing is the same thing over and over- the FBI making generous assumptions about people that end up being false. As government continues to have more power to suspend civil liberties (For example, Ashcroft detaining the alleged "dirty bomber", an American citizen, without his lawyer), the mistakes our government agencies can make seem more and more threatening.
::: posted by Andrewski at 2:57 PM
