Volume 2 Issue 64
May 1, 2003
May Day!
The workers holiday is upon us, worms from space, and Greg is so tired he forgot to put the title in the e-mail version!
Sorry short today, a meeting at work took a chunk out of the day, plus the allergies are still running at full blast...
May Day!: The great workers holiday of May Day is upon us. And in Europe, it began with some riots!
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/05/01/europe.mayday/ind ex.html
May Day has traditional been a socialist holiday, but one economist argues it should be a capitalist holiday -
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-664908,00.html
Outbreak: Is fear a good thing for controlling the SARS epidemic?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2082308/
Bad news for W: Will George W. Bush be the only president other than Herbert Hoover to preside over an administration in which the economy lost jobs? Looks like it -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2082321/
Wow: As they sift through the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia, NASA has found that worms in one of the experiments have survived -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/04/30/shuttle.worms.ap/in dex.html
Um...bad: You know that whole nuclear power resurgence thing? How after Enron and the Oil problems, nuclear power was going to save us? Yeah...um, well maybe not -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/national/01NUKE.html?pagew anted=all&position
Look Who's Running for President: Joe Liberman's staff is brushing up on their Jewish studies -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/politics/campaigns/01LIEB. html?pagewanted=all&position
Look Who's Running for President 2: Bill Clinton is staying out of the Howard Dean - John Kerry spat, after both tried to drag him into it. I'd look for more of these appeals to Clinton as the campaign drags on -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62253-2003Apr30.html
More problems with chads: Florida is trying to figure out what to do with the ballots from the 2000 presidential election...throw them away or save them for history?
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030430_2267.html
More NJ Nepotism: Another New Jersey pol has disclosed that he has hired a family member...but again, no one has really proven why this is bad -
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-0/105177641540440.xml
Here's a list of those involved in the scandal so far -
http://www.politicsnj.com/oink.htm
It's a wonder this hasn't happened before: The new Borgata resort in Atlantic City won't have Bibles in the hotel rooms. You know, because after a day of gambling, sex, and glitz everyone wants to curl up with their bible -
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jer sey/5756126.htm
I pity the fool who has to stand in line at Best Buy for 2 hours! Mr. T is suing Best Buy -
http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/01/news/companies/mrt_bestbuy.r eut/index.htm
Rich People's Problems: Ah, to be rich. Like the Pritzker family, heirs to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, who are fighting over who gets what share of the fortune -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/04/30/chicago.heirs.ap/in dex.html
