Who Were the Sea Peoples?

OK, is there a sillier sport than competitive walking? I mean, walking is what you do when you're too tired to run. Who in the world thought of the idea of walking races? It's like a race to see who can drive their car the fastest with the parking brake is on.

Have you noticed that, when you hear this from a voice mail system, you could pretty much always add, "so important to us that we're not going to answer it for the next 15 minutes or so"?

The mail has been really mixed in response to my LRC article mentioned below, recommending that readers don't vote. But the silliest response is the cliche I've received half-a-dozen times, claiming, as one reader put it, "if a citizen doen't vote he has no right to bitch about illegal wars or tax n'spend." That has it exactly backwards: If you do vote you have no right to bitch -- by voting, you've agreed to go along with the outcome of the election.

I pitch the case for not voting at LewRockwell.com.

Well, as I mentioned a while back, my political career is in ruins . Here's a record of that one night of reckless abandon that doomed me:

The charge that the media is biased against the US in Iraq is absurd. Look at the language they use: the members of the puppet government are called "Iraqi leaders," and the peoplee fighting the occupation are called "terrorists."

Just ran across this, from a "G. Cooper" posting at Samizdata during the invasion of Iraq: "Stop Press: Even as I write, a BBC reporter in Baghdad is 'sounding a note of caution' as he opens the next phase of the war, predicting a tide of anti-US feeling from Iraqis, weeks more fighting, more civilian casualties. This relentless spew continues, even as Uday's palace burns and the reporter's voice-over is broadcast to pictures of Iraqis rejoicing, celebrating and proving him a fool."