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Archive for October, 2004

Walter Cronkite finally loses it

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

In case you missed Friday night’s Larry King Live with Walter Cronkite (full transcript here), let me share an unbelievable exchange about the latest bin Laden tape:

KING: OK, Walter. What do you make of this?
CRONKITE: Well, I make it out to be initially the reaction that it’s a threat to us, that unless we make […]

Nashville CATV does less with Moore

Friday, October 29th, 2004

The Nashville City Paper reported this morning that Community Access Television Nashville, based on the Nashville Tech campus, planned to broadcast the leftist hit piece Fahrenheit 911 in two segments tomorrow, three days before the election. Chris Lugo, the outspoken Nashville anarchist who produces “Atheists Talk” and “Left of Center” for Channel 19, […]

bin Laden’s pre-election video

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

More details about the latest terror video have come out in just the last hour, courtesy of Matt Drudge:

The CIA and FBI have authenticated it as coming from al Qaeda.

The video warns of retaliation if Americans reelect Bush, on a scale that “will make you forget all about September 11.”

ABCNEWS, which acquired the tape from […]

Spleen Cuisine doesn’t endorse The Tennessean

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

I’ve cancelled my subscription to The Tennessean after their absurdly partisan endorsement of John Kerry on Sunday. Here are some quotes, and some facts and opinion to go with each one:
“The presidential race that now comes down to the wire has sunk to a new depth of rancor…No matter who is elected, the next […]

A modest technical proposal

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

A friend asked today if I still had a copy of “A Standard for the Transmission of Coherent Logical Unitary Elements,” which I submitted as an individual Internet draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force last January. Indeed I do. Sadly, the standard was never adopted. Perhaps I should start a campaign […]

Why I voted for George W. Bush

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

Last Saturday I walked into the office of the Rutherford County Election Commission with my driver’s license and voter registration card. I walked out scarcely ten minutes later having enjoyed a freedom which millions of my fellow Americans had fought and died to protect.
While I will never surrender that liberty, I gladly surrender […]

Welcome to Spleen Cuisine

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

I don’t know how you found this weblog, but welcome.
I started my first weblog as an experimental web project, without any expectation of finding any useful purpose for it. Shortly thereafter my father went to the emergency room with a life-threatening condition, and for the next several months I used the blog to keep […]