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—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Archive for May, 2004
Monday, May 31st, 2004
The “problems with fingerprinting” have been highlighted in one recent essay on Slate (Printing Problems - The inexact science of fingerprint analysis by David Feige, 2004/05/27) and one article in the NYT (Can Prints Lie? Yes, Man Finds to His Dismay by Benjamin Weiser, 2004/05/31). The problem with the problems with fingerprinting, though, is [...]
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law,
musings.
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Thursday, May 20th, 2004
Salon.com’s WarRoom blog had this posting on the 14th, based on an LA Times op-ed piece by Lawrence Weschler (registration required, grr). The author goes through the G.W. Bush reelection website. He looks at the various tabs — economy, health care, compassion — and then looks at the compassion tab and the attached [...]
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politics,
bush, compassionate conservatism, election 04, Microsoft, politics, website design.
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2004
The intense photomosaic of G.W. Bush - comprised of the faces of the dead American servicemembers. Originally published on American Leftist.
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blinks,
excerpta, politics.
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
The governator has gone ahead & filed the suit against Ohio Discount Merchandise for making bobble-head dolls, claiming his right of publicity was violated. See the NYT article.
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blinks, ip, law, trademark,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, bobblehead dolls, litigation, right of publicity, trademark.
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
Same-sex couples got married yesterday in Massachusetts & somehow the institution of marriage has survived. So far. See NYT, 5/18/2004.
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blinks, law,
queer.
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
More reporting from Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker (2004-05-24 issue, posted 2004-05-15). This one begins by noting:
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly [...]
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state,
abu ghraib, crime/punishment, excerpta, human rights, international law, politics, POWs, prisoners, torture.
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