Archive for July, 2004

Ken breaks $1MM

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

Ken Jennings has done it. He has won over $1 million on Jeopardy! He’s on a 31 day tear. His current winnings are $1,022,460. He’s had guest spots on several talk shows and even helped deliver Letterman’s Top 10 list. That’s pretty good for a guy whose day job is as a software engineer in [...]

Ken Jennings is my hero

Friday, July 9th, 2004

I was channel surfing at my friend’s place a couple days ago and happened upon Jeopardy!. I haven’t watched Jeopardy! much in the past few years, but there was a period of time where I used to watch it pretty regularly. I even had friends in college who were serious enough to consider trying out [...]

Michael Moore, Deceiver Extraordinaire

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

This article confirms in painful detail what many people already know. Michael Moore has gone beyond satire and ventured well into full-blown deceit in his film Fahrenheit 9/11. Dave Kopel enumerates 56 of Michael Moore’s deceits in his article: Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911, Dave Kopel, Independence Institute.
See this article, also: Fahrenheit 9/11: The [...]

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