by Dave McGowan | Aug 25, 2004 | Newsletters
It’s quiz time, ladies and gentlemen, so please take out a pencil and paper and get comfortable so that we can get started. Today’s topic is, believe it or not, serial killer and mass murderer trivia. The answers follow the questions. Give yourself one... by Dave McGowan | Aug 17, 2004 | Newsletters
Whoa, Dude! Are We Peaking Yet? “The Club of Rome, a non-profit global think tank, said in the 1970s that we’d hit peak oil in 2003. It didn’t happen.” So said Kevin Kelleher, writing for Popular Science magazine in August of this year. But it... by Dave McGowan | Aug 9, 2004 | Newsletters
It is my understanding that the infamous Patriot Act (and various other reactionary bits of ‘anti-terrorist’ legislation that have become the law of the land) makes it a crime – and a serious crime at that – to provide funding for terrorist... by Dave McGowan | Aug 2, 2004 | Newsletters
irony n. 1 expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense. ~ Webster’s New World Dictionary Memo to some of my Canadian readers: Please read the above and then go back and reread Newsletter #61. Second memo to... by Dave McGowan | Jul 28, 2004 | Newsletters
Girlie Men Edition As more than a few impatient readers have brought to my attention, these newsletters have become increasingly rare. This particular one, if I’m not mistaken, is only my second offering in over three months — and it’s not even a...