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TITLE="Quark Watch (July December 2002)"><U>Best Novelette</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>July 25, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id331.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (July 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the silly, widespread view that recent stock market moves demonstrate investors' appetite for more government regulation.</div> <div> <B>July 24, 2002</b></div> <div> Added my ratings of the Hugo Award Best Novella nominees to <A HREF="id332.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (July December 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>July 22, 2002</b></div> <div> Added this week's <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>Hunt Watch</U></A>. This time Al berates Democrats who don't hew the McCain-Feingold-Hunt line on <STRIKE>regulating free speech</STRIKE> campaign finance reform.</div> <div> <B>July 20, 2002</b></div> <div> Added my ratings of the Hugo Award Best Short Story nominees to <A HREF="id332.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (July December 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to the <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>Enron Mythos</U></A> on the contrived "accounting scandal" surrounding Halliburton Co. and Vice President Cheney.</div> <div> <B>July 17, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id331.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (July 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on left-wing sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein's pipe dream of inevitable American decline.</div> <div> <B>July 15, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to the <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>Enron Mythos</U></A> on the silliness of finding the cause of corporate scandals in the accounting treatment of stock options.</div> <div> <B>July 12, 2002</b></div> <div> Added this week's <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>Hunt Watch</U></A>: Al Hunt flails away againt the President's speech on corporate fraud.</div> <div> <B>July 10, 2002</b></div> <div> Added more about the International <STRIKE>Court of Criminals</STRIKE> Criminal Court to <A HREF="id331.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (July 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> and updated the July 6th entry.</div> <div> <B>July 9, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id331.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (July 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Chris Patten's self-refuting defense of the International Criminal Court.</div> <div> Added an item to the <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>Enron Mythos</U></A> on why promised corporate reforms aren't likely to comfort investors.</div> <div> <B>July 8, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a report on this year's Westercon to <A HREF="id332.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (July December 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>July 6, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id331.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (July 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on insider trading as a victim-friendly crime.</div> <div> <B>July 4, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U><I>In hac lacrimarum valle</I></U></A> on what "normal times" mean for the Christian Church.</div> <div> <B>July 2, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a new issue of <I>ERISA Whirled</I>.</div> <div> <B>June 30, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on a loony left Web site that claims to be promoting the Democratic Party, with no contradiction from the official Dems.</div> <div> Added this week's <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>Hunt Watch</U></A>: Facts show that welfare reform has been a success, so Al Hunt plays the "child card" against it.</div> <div> <B>June 29, 2002</b></div> <div> Introduced Worldcom to the <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>Enron Mythos</U></A>, where it has taken up residence in many commentators' minds.</div> <div> <B>June 26, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the Ninth Circuit's Pledge of Allegiance decision, plus additional comments on the Bush plan for Palestine.</div> <div> <B>June 24, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on President Bush's proposal for the transformation of the Palestinian Authority into a constitutional democracy as a precondition for statehood.</div> <div> <B>June 23, 2002</b></div> <div> Added the <A HREF="id329.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Scraps Archive"><U>Scraps Archive</U></A>, to which Scraps will be sent after they are two weeks old.</div> <div> Added this week's <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>Hunt Watch</U></A>: Al Hunt calls for a great national filibuster of overthrowing Saddam Hussein.</div> <div> <B>June 21, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id302.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (April December 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on why soccer doesn't appeal to American sports fans and the strategy that its promoters could use to find an audience.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the outcome of the latest Yale trustee election and the doubts about democracy that it has inspired in a liberal politician.</div> <div> <B>June 19, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id317.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Querulous Notes (20022003)"><U>Querulous Notes</U></A> on the relationship between Shakespeare's life and the "Fair Youth" sonnets.</div> <div> <B>June 17, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on why the Watergate scandal was good for conservatives and Republicans.</div> <div> Added an item to the <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>Enron Mythos</U></A> on the verdict in the Arthur Andersen trial.</div> <div> Added an overview of this year's Best Novel Hugo nominees to <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>June 14, 2002</b></div> <div> Added this week's <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>Al Hunt Watch</U></A>: trite thoughts on Al Gore's prospects for a political comeback, interesting chiefly for the news that Tom Daschle is thinking of retiring from politics!</div> <div> <B>June 12, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the latest "civil libertarian" hysteria over America's treatment of its avowed enemies.</div> <div> <B>June 10, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id302.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (April December 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on an apparent historical fraud that deserves more notoriety than that of Michael Bellesiles.</div> <div> <B>June 9, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on a Cardinal's allegation that the American media are engaged in a "witch hunt" against the Roman Catholic Church.</div> <div> Added comments on the alleged role of clerical celibacy in the priestly sex scandals to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U><I>In hac lacrimarum valle</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> <B>June 8, 2002</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id328.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Skeptic Tank"><U>"The Skeptic Tank"</U></A> by Dean A. Grennell to <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> Added a new, less frivolous (but equally meaningless, I realize) on-line poll.</div> <div> <B>June 7, 2002</b></div> <div> Added this week's installment of <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>Hunt Watch</U></A>, appraising Mr. Hunt's criticisms of John Ashcroft's anti-terrorist performance.</div> <div> <B>June 6, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the real lesson of the energy market manipulation in California.</div> <div> Added a review of <A HREF="id327.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="His Red Eminence at War"><U><I>Richelieu's Army</I></U></A> by David Parrott.</div> <div> <B>June 5, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a new feature, Scraps, which is more like a traditional blog than what I usually write. The name "Scraps" is stolen from <A HREF="http://silflayhraka.blogspot.com/2002_06_02_silflayhraka_archive.html#77270292" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://silflayhraka.blogspot.com/2002_06"><U>proto-blogger Rudyard Kipling</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>June 4, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a new issue of <I>ERISA Whirled</I><I>.</I></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on explanations for yesterday's stock market decline.</div> <div> <B>June 2, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (June 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Arafat's proposal to "reform" the Palestinian Authority by adding terrorist groups to his cabinet.</div> <div> <B>June 1, 2002</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id324.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Was a Teenage Octogenarian"><U>"I Was a Teenage Octogenarian"</U></A> by Harry Warner, Jr. to <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> <B>May 31, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the adverse economic and political impact of the Administration's steel tariffs.</div> <div> Added a frivolous on-line poll.</div> <div> <B>May 30, 2002</b></div> <div> Added this week's <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>Al Hunt Watch</U></A>, taking note of Mr. Hunt's belief that no one can do good without the impetus of government.</div> <div> <B>May 29, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id302.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (April December 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on the Fall of Constantinople, along with a culturally insensitive Methodist hymn.</div> <div> <B>May 28, 2002</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the claim that the estate tax is a patriotic measure and Eric Alterman's implicit defense of the Nuremberg Laws.</div> <div> <B>May 27, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id302.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (April December 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on alternative outcomes of Southern secession.</div> <div> <B>May 26, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a new feature, <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>"Al Hunt Watch"</U></A>.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id321.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Feud of the Century"><U>"The Feud of the Century"</U></A> by Marion Zimmer Bradley to <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> <B>May 25, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the blogosphere's teen sex controversy.</div> <div> <B>May 23, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on a Labor Department report blaming companies for excessively generous pension plans.</div> <div> <B>May 22, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id302.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (April December 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on vacationing in the wake of 9/11 and how "homeland security" isn't keeping the terrorists from winning.</div> <div> <B>May 16, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a <A HREF="id302.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (April December 2002)"><U>vacation notice</U></A>. There will be no Stromata updates from May 17th through 21st.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the "warnings" that preceded the 9/11 attacks.</div> <div> Added a new issue of <I>ERISA Whirled</I>.</div> <div> <B>May 14, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on a new liberal attack line.</div> <div> <B>May 13, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Likud's rejection of Palestinian statehood.</div> <div> <B>May 11, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an obituary of Bruce Pelz to <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id319.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Fan Who Hated Quotecards"><U>"The Fan Who Hated Quotecards"</U></A> by Terry Carr to <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> <B>May 9, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on a "Palestinian Studies" course at Berkeley.</div> <div> <B>May 8, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>update</U></A> to yesterday's blast at Chris Patten.</div> <div> <B>May 7, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Chris Patten's defense of Europe against American criticism.</div> <div> <B>May 6, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (May 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the assassination of Pim Fortuyn and Europe's response to Moslem immigration.</div> <div> <B>May 5, 2002</b></div> <div> Added some Easter thoughts to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U><I>In hac lacrimarum valle</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> <B>May 4, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an obituary of George Alec Effinger to <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>May 1, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U><I>In hac lacrimarum valle</I></U></A> on the "intelligent design" hypothesis.</div> <div> Added an update concerning <A HREF="id20_chicon_2000.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Science Fiction"><U>Chicon 2000 memory books</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>April 27, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id317.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Querulous Notes (20022003)"><U>Querulous Notes</U></A> on Joseph Sobran's application of the conspiracy theory mentality to the Shakespeare authorship controversy.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the the "religious" element in the debate over therapeutic cloning.</div> <div> <B>April 25, 2002</b></div> <div> Added new links to <A HREF="id22_file_911.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Public Policy"><U>File 911</U></A>. Regular writing has taken second place to packing for a short vacation but will resume tomorrow.</div> <div> <B>April 23, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the political balance in France following the first round of the Presidential election.</div> <div> <B>April 22, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U><I>In hac lacrimarum valle</I></U></A> on the Roman Catholic sex scandals and their roots in modern non-judgmentalism.</div> <div> <B>April 21, 2002</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id316.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Per Ardua ad Fanac"><U>"Per Ardua ad Fanac"</U></A> by John Berry to <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on this year's election to the Yale Corporation.</div> <div> <B>April 20, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on how the Department of Labor guards its own political interests at the expense of Enron's creditors.</div> <div> <B>April 19, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a new issue of <I>ERISA Whirled</I>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id302.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (April December 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on the sequel to my copyright law adventure.</div> <div> Added list of <A HREF="id224.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Candidates for Best SF Web Site Hugo"><U>Best SF Web Site</U></A> Hugo Award nominees.</div> <div> <B>April 17, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an update to the <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> item on CAIR's polling practices.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id314.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Incorporation Is Too Restrictive"><U>"Incorporation Is Too Restrictive"</U></A> by Sam Moskowitz to <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> <B>April 16, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the Islamic approach to polling.</div> <div> <B>April 15, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on the Great Ant War in Europe.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on who pays income taxes.</div> <div> <B>April 14, 2002</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id313.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shaggy Science Fiction"><U>"Shaggy Science Fiction"</U></A> by Kenneth Newman to <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> Added an update to the <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> item on the Arafat statement regarding terrorism.</div> <div> <B>April 13. 2002</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id311.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chapter 24"><U>Chapters 24</U></A> and <A HREF="id312.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chapter 25"><U>25</U></A> of <I>A </I><A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>, completing the story.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Yasser Arafat's pseudo-condemnation of terrorism.</div> <div> Added a <A HREF="id310.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Topical Index"><U>Topical Index</U></A> to the short essay pages (Ephemerides, In hac lacrimarum valle, Quark Watch, Querulous Notes and Et Cetera).</div> <div> <B>April 12, 2002</b></div> <div> Added another anti-Stratfordian <A HREF="id26_anti_anti_stratfordianism__2_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>letter of comment</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>April 11, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U><I>In hac lacrimarum valle</I></U></A> on the potentially dire consequences of an innocent young heifer.</div> <div> Added an anonymous but determinedly anti-Stratfordian <A HREF="id26_anti_anti_stratfordianism.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>letter of comment</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>April 10, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the prospects for a Second Cold War.</div> <div> <B>April 9, 2002</b></div> <div> During this site's forced hiatus (explained in <A HREF="id302.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (April December 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A>), I continued to add material. There are several new items in <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A>, <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chicon 2000 Photographs"><U>more Chicon photographs</U></A> (thanks to Mike Jencevice), a new issue of <I>ERISA Whirled</I> and many additional links in <A HREF="id22_file_911.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Public Policy"><U>File 911</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>April 3, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U>In hac lacrimarum valle</U></A> on how Islamofascists manipulate Christian symbols for their own ends.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on the media's strange view of what constitutes media bias.</div> <div> <B>April 2, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a review of <A HREF="id300.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Players the Thing"><U><I>Shakespeare the Player</I></U></A> by John Southworth.</div> <div> Added a <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U>Norwescon report</U></A> and <A HREF="id301.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Norwescon 25, March 2002"><U>photos</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>April 1, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (April 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Bill Clinton's April foolishness.</div> <div> <B>March 31, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a letter of comment on <A HREF="id26_fixing_social_security_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>Social Security reform</U></A>.</div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the next phase of the war against terrorism.</div> <div> <B>March 29, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.</div> <div> <B>March 28, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on why secret consultations between business and government are good for policy making.</div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the prospect of waging war without allies.</div> <div> <B>March 26, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on the virtues of not diversifying investments.</div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on airport insecurity and what to do about it.</div> <div> <B>March 24, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an update to <A HREF="id287_march_12_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> item on Hispanics and the Republican Party.</div> <div> Added links to more <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>blog parlor games</U></A>.</div> <div> Added a Letter of Comment from <A HREF="id26_september_11th_and_the_palestinians.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>Erwin S. Strauss</U></A> on the sundering of the Europeanized and non-Europeanized worlds.</div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the Illinois gubernatorial race.</div> <div> <B>March 23, 2002</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id296.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Mind of Chow"><U>"The Mind of Chow"</U></A> by Charles Burbee and <A HREF="id297.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gafia House"><U>"Gafia House"</U></A> by Robert Bloch to <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> Added to <A HREF="id288.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Querulous Notes (March 2002)"><U>Querulous Notes</U></A> the second part of my analysis of Roger Stritmatter's study of Shakespearean authorship.</div> <div> <B>March 21, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on smoke-without-fire in the post-Enron media.</div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the liberarian version of <I>realpolitik</I>.</div> <div> <B>March 20, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on a truly bizarre claim that elections are no better in the U.S. than in - Zimbabwe!</div> <div> <B>March 19, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Republican responses to the defeat of the Pickering nomination.</div> <div> <B>March 18, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on France's contribution to the war effort.</div> <div> Added <I>ERISA Whirled #02-2</I><I>.</I></div> <div> <B>March 17, 2002</b></div> <div> Began adding material from <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Best of Fandom 1958"><U><I>The Best of Fandom - 1958</I></U></A>, an anthology of SF fannish writings and art from that year.</div> <div> <B>March 16, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id288.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Querulous Notes (March 2002)"><U>Querulous Notes</U></A> on Roger Stritmatter's new anti-Stratfordian tract.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on controversy about this year's Worldcon.</div> <div> <B>March 15, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the Bush Administration's period of "wobbling".</div> <div> <B>March 14, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on why Andersen's collapse shows the need for tort reform.</div> <div> <B>March 12, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on why Hispanic immigration is not a threat to the Republican Party, unless Republicans make it so.</div> <div> Added a quote to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on why Republicans should not respond to criticism, Clinton-like, by urging the country to "move on".</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U>In hac lacrimarum valle</U></A> on Attorney-General Ashcroft's alleged "insensitivity" toward Islam.</div> <div> <B>March 11, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on dubious prosecutorial tactics against Arthur Andersen.</div> <div> Added a new section, <A HREF="id288.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Querulous Notes (March 2002)"><U>Querulous Notes</U></A>, on literary topics. The first installment discusses the notion that Will Shakespeare of Stratford was too contented and <I>bourgeois</I> to have penned Shakespeare's sonnets.</div> <div> <B>March 10, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on leftist wishful thinking.</div> <div> Updated my exchange of barbs with Diana Price in <A HREF="id26_shakespeare_s_unorthodox_biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>Letters of Comment</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>March 9, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a link to an <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>ice sculpture tribute</U></A> to New York City firefighters.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on a horrifying AIDS story from mainland China.</div> <div> Added information about the Australian Design Group to <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wargaming"><U>Wargaming</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>March 8, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on why Court of Appeals nominee Charles Pickering is being punished for his good deeds.</div> <div> <B>March 6, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the dubious utility of therapeutic cloning and the dangers of forming the wrong alliances against it.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> linking to the personal account of a foot soldier in the war on terrorism (uniform courtesy of Brooks Brothers).</div> <div> <B>March 5, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the need for trade war pacifism.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on empirical evidence that "mixing" audit and consulting services makes audits better, not worse.</div> <div> <B>March 2, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id287.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (March 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on ending hunger in North Korea.</div> <div> <B>February 28, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id281.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (February 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Senator Daschle's incoherent complaints about the war effort.</div> <div> <B>February 27, 2002</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id286.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tory Songs By Sundry Hands"><U>Tory Songs by sundry hands</U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on the continued journalistic malpractice of the <I>Wall Street Journal</I>''s Ellen Schultz.</div> <div> <B>February 26, 2002</b></div> <div> Reported further symptoms of <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>Paul Krugman's Enroneurosis</U></A>, which is more serious an affliction than I had thought.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id281.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (February 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on growing media attention to eco-terrorism.</div> <div> <B>February 25, 2002</b></div> <div> Added, in <A HREF="id26_shakespeare_s_unorthodox_biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>Letters of Comment</U></A>, a response to Diana Price's comments on aspects of my review of her book <I>Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography</I>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U>In hac lacrimarum valle</U></A> on tactical alliances between Christian conservatives and ecological extremists.</div> <div> <B>February 24, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a note to yesterday's <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>blast at Paul Krugman</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>February 23, 2002</b></div> <div> Added my Ethical Philosophy Selector test results to <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on Paul Krugman's Enroneurosis.</div> <div> <B>February 22, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id281.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (February 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Danny Pearl's last words.</div> <div> Added a small remembrance of <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>George Washington's birthday</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>February 21, 2002</b></div> <div> Added <I>ERISA Whirled #02-1</I>.</div> <div> <B>February 20, 2002 (first palindromic date of the new millennium)</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on the effect of the litigation explosive on audit quality.</div> <div> <B>February 19, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id281.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (February 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the European Union's persecution of non-metric grocers.</div> <div> <B>February 18, 2002</b></div> <div> Added more about Christianity and antisemitism to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U>In hac lacrimarum valle</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>February 16, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id281.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (February 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the sudden, but thoroughly predictable, shortages of standard medications.</div> <div> Added an <A HREF="id284.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Gray Lady Flirts With the Earl of Ox"><U>essay</U></A> on <I>The New York Times</I>' foray into the Shakespeare authorship controversy.</div> <div> <B>February 12, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on the postmodernist character of Enron-driven campaign finance reform.</div> <div> <B>February 11, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id281.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (February 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on who is responsible for civilian casualties in Afghanistan.</div> <div> <B>February 10, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> comparing Princess Margaret to her nephew.</div> <div> Reorganized <A HREF="id22_file_911.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Public Policy"><U>File 911</U></A> in hopes of making it more useful for reference.</div> <div> <B>February 9, 2002</b></div> <div> Changed the background of the main pages. Why not?</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id281.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (February 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the recrudescence of antisemitism and one to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U>In hac lacrimarum valle</U></A> on its causes.</div> <div> <B>February 8, 2002</b></div> <div> Added another item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> commending sensible media views of Enron, however rare they may be.</div> <div> <B>February 7, 2002</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on reasonable and unreasonable media commentary on Enron.</div> <div> <B>February 5, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>The Enron Mythos</U></A> on the dangers of an Enron-inspired separation of accounting from consulting.</div> <div> <B>February 3, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id281.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (February 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the risks in counting on sympathy from "secular Islam".</div> <div> <B>February 2, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a Letter of Comment on <A HREF="id26_the_arming_america_controversy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>the </U></A><A HREF="id26_the_arming_america_controversy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U><I>Arming America</I></U></A><A HREF="id26_the_arming_america_controversy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U> controversy</U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on how the record of Enron's §401(k) plan demonstrates that no reforms are needed.</div> <div> <B>January 31, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on another sign of the evanescence of the secret ballot.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id280.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Universe Today"><U>Universe Today</U></A>, a service providing scientific and space-related news from around the Web.</div> <div> <B>January 30, 2002</b></div> <div> Added to <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> a eulogy for King Charles I, murdered on this day in 1649 by the English Taliban.</div> <div> <B>January 29, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on the anniversary of the <I>Challenger</I> tragedy.</div> <div> <B>January 28, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the current state of the <I>Arming America</I> controversy.</div> <div> <B>January 27, 2002</b></div> <div> Added review of Terry Pratchett, <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U><I>The Last Hero</I></U></A>.</div> <div> Upgraded Web hosting plan (<A HREF="https://www.tripod.lycos.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.tripod.lycos.com/"><U>Tripod.com</U></A>) to eliminate popup ads. Readers should realize that I'm now spending $4.95/month, plus a $10.00 setup fee, for their convenience, bringing the total cost of this site so far to almost fifty bucks (only $75,000,000 less than Salon).</div> <div> Added review of William G. Dever, <A HREF="id279.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Reality of Ancient Israel"><U><I>What Did the Biblical Writers Know & When Did They Know It?</I></U></A></div> <div> <B>January 26, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on liberal conspiracy theorizing.</div> <div> <B>January 25, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on libertarian passion for cloning.</div> <div> <B>January 24, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on journalistic distortion of the facts about Enron's retirement plans.</div> <div> <B>January 23, 2002</b></div> <div> Added Letters of Comment on <A HREF="id26_professor_krugman_s_changing_views.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>Paul Krugman</U></A> and <A HREF="id26_fixing_social_security.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>Social Security reform</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>January 22, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Paul Krugman's change of heart about Enron.</div> <div> <B>January 21, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an update to the Ephemerides item on the media's slippery handling of document destruction by Enron's auditors.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the relationship between terrorism and holy books.</div> <div> <B>January 20, 2002</b></div> <div> Added Jay Kay Klein's <A HREF="id268.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Convention Annual: Pittcon 1960, Section"><U>con report</U></A> on Pittcon, the 1960 World Science Fiction Convention.</div> <div> <B>January 19, 2002</b></div> <div> Added links to a few of my favorite "bloggers" to Usually Reliable Sources.</div> <div> Removed "Mind-It" icons. This service, which was supposed to inform visitors of when pages were updated, worked but not real well. A new owner has started charging for it, and, even if it improves dramatically, it won't be worth the cost to a little-trodden site like this one.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on whether the Enron collapse could have been prevented by more and better regulation.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on the customer service philosophy of Web merchants. </div> <div> <B>January 16, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a <A HREF="id26_the_first_real_enron_scandal.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>letter of comment</U></A> on the Enron scandal.</div> <div> <B>January 15, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the first <I>real</I> Enron scandal.</div> <div> <B>January 14, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a couple of <A HREF="id267.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The First Chicon Members (LoneStarCon, A"><U>new Chicon photos</U></A>, courtesy of Mike Jencevice.</div> <div> <B>January 11, 2002</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on liberals' fascination with the Internet, calls for limiting employer stock in 401(k) plans and the unfair practice of failing to "profile" airline passengers.</div> <div> <B>January 9, 2002</b></div> <div> Added to <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (January March 2002)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> some reflections touched off by encountering a cat on a leash.</div> <div> <B>January 6, 2002</b></div> <div> Added a review of <A HREF="id265.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reading With Your Ears"><U><I>Frequency</I></U></A>, a science fiction audio magazine.</div> <div> <B>January 5, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id264.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (January June 2002)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on the postponement of Doomsday.</div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the Secret Service brouhaha and the economic proposals of the Senate's Democratic leader.</div> <div> <B>January 4, 2002</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the European "superstate".</div> <div> <B>January 2, 2002</b></div> <div> Added <I>ERISA Whirled 01-11</I> (12/28/01).</div> <div> <A HREF="id260.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (January 2002)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> looks again at the Australian fires as possible terrorist handiwork.</div> <div> <B>January 1, 2002</b></div> <div> Added Chapters 22 and 23 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 31, 2001</b></div> <div> Added year-end thoughts to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the inadequacies of today's sunshine patriotism.</div> <div> Added Chapter 21 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 30, 2001</b></div> <div> Added a brief update on the Australian fires to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 29, 2001</b></div> <div> Added a review of C. V. Wedgwood, <A HREF="id255.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Right Man in the Wrong Times"><U><I>Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> <B>December 27, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on suspicious Australian bush fires.</div> <div> <B>December 26, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Kwanzaa.</div> <div> <B>December 25, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Christmas thoughts to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U>In hac lacrimarum valle</U></A>.</div> <div> Added Chapter 20 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 23, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Chapter 19 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on<I>Time</I>'s choice for "Person of the Year".</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on the Potter and Tolkien movies.</div> <div> <B>December 21, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Chapter 18 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 19, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the gap between the old and the new models of libertarianism.</div> <div> <B>December 17, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on Alan Dershowitz's claim that the notorious Osama bin Laden videotape isn't enough to prove his guilt.</div> <div> <B>December 16, 2001</b></div> <div> Added a review of the SF fanzine <A HREF="id250.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fandom in a Neoclassical Vein"><U><I>Vanamonde</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> Added Chapters 15, 16 and 17 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 15, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the relationship between religious faith and terrorism.</div> <div> <B>December 12, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on how President Bush has made a difference in the conduct of the war.</div> <div> <B>December 10, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on how to reform Social Security.</div> <div> Added Chapter 14 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 8, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id245.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In hac lacrimarum valle (20012002)"><U>In hac lacrimarum valle</U></A> on the quest for the historical Mohammed.</div> <div> <B>December 7, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on Martian global warming.</div> <div> Added a follow-up to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the condemnation of Israel by the signatories to the Geneva Convention on Human Rights.</div> <div> Added an essay, <A HREF="id241.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Only Two Ways to Fix Social Security"><U>"The Only Two Ways to Fix Social Security"</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 6, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Chapter 13 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>December 5, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on anti-anti-terrorism under the cloak of human rights.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id221.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (November December 2001)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on two December 5th birthdays: Walt Disney and Strom Thurmond.</div> <div> <B>December 4, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the distasteful topic of economic stimulus sausage making.</div> <div> <B>December 3, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the <I>New York Times</I>'s obituary for an anti-pornography crusader.</div> <div> <B>December 2, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Chapter 12 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> nominating a candidate for the next target in the war on terrorism.</div> <div> <B>December 1, 2001</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id238.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (December 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on an ancient precedent for the war on terrorism and the Portland, Oregon, police department's continuing reluctance to join in the fray.</div> <div> Added Chapter 11 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 30, 2001</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id221.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (November December 2001)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> on a future urban legend and Diamond Mind Baseball.</div> <div> <B>November 29, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on left-wing pundit Al Hunt's claim that conservatives are closet bin Ladenites.</div> <div> <B>November 28, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the non-need for human cloning.</div> <div> Added photos of <A HREF="id235.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Loscon 28, November 2001"><U>Loscon 28</U></A> and the <A HREF="id236.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Loscon 28 Prime Time Party, November 200"><U>Prime Time Party</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 27, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the causes of the new recession.</div> <div> Added a report on Loscon 28 to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>.</div> <div> Added Chapters 8, 9 and 10 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 25, 2001</b></div> <div> Added additional sites to the <A HREF="id224.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Candidates for Best SF Web Site Hugo"><U>"Best SF Web Site Hugo"</U></A> page.</div> <div> Added a <A HREF="id231.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Contents"><U>Table of Contents</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 23, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Chapter 7 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> Added review of <A HREF="id228.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Discarded Victory"><U><I>A Better War</I></U></A> by Lewis Sorley.</div> <div> <B>November 22, 2001</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id227.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prime Time Party at Loscon, November 200"><U>photos</U></A> from last year's Prime Time Party at Loscon 27.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the Taliban's attempt to emulate Bill Clinton.</div> <div> Added a page devoted to possible candidates for the <A HREF="id224.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Candidates for Best SF Web Site Hugo"><U>"Best SF Web Site Hugo"</U></A>.</div> <div> Added Chapter 6 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> Added Kevin Brockschmidt's cartoon "T3: Thanksgiving Day" to <A HREF="id221_thanksgiving.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (November December 2001)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 21, 2001</b></div> <div> Added ERISA Whirled #01-10 (11/21/01).</div> <div> Added further information on <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church (1916"><U>St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church</U></A>, which was destroyed on September 11th.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the Portland police department's refusal to cooperate with September 11th investigations.</div> <div> Added one last Florida "recount" item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A>.</div> <div> Added a birthday "well-wisher's" message to <A HREF="id221.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (November December 2001)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 20, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an addendum to the <A HREF="id221.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (November December 2001)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A> item on the Yale-Harvard game.</div> <div> Added Chapter 5 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 19, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Chapter 4 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on the successful test of XCOR Aerospace's rocket plane, a (private) step into space.</div> <div> <B>November 18, 2001</b></div> <div> Added a party invitation to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>, the event being the Prime Time Party, Saturday night/Sunday morning at <A HREF="http://www.loscon.org/loscon/28/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.loscon.org/loscon/28/"><U>Loscon 28</U></A>.</div> <div> Added a further comment to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the proposed military tribunal for terrorists.</div> <div> Added a comment on what went wrong with <A HREF="id220.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Crusades: Right and Wrong"><U>the Crusades</U></A>.</div> <div> Added the first item to <A HREF="id221.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Et Cetera (November December 2001)"><U>Et Cetera</U></A>, on this year's Yale-Harvard game.</div> <div> <B>November 15, 2001</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A>: the last two words on the Florida "recount" and hysteria over military trials for foreign terrorists.</div> <div> <B>November 14, 2001</b></div> <div> Added links to the <I>Daily Telegraph</I>'s Afghanistan situation maps for November 14th and 15th (Kabul time) to <A HREF="id22_file_911.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Public Policy"><U>File 911</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 13, 2001</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about the advance of the Northern Alliance (with link to a nifty map) and phony imputations of racial slurs.</div> <div> <B>November 12, 2001</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about evidence of <I>real</I> ballot discrimination in Florida and the failure of an attempt to paint a Republican candidate as "anti-Moslem".</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id26_windycon_xxviii.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>letter of comment from Steven Silver</U></A> on plans for next year's Windycon.</div> <div> <B>November 11, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on the Asimov-Laden conspiracy theory, Russia's latest contribution to political analysis.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about the newspaper "recount" of the Florida presidential tally.</div> <div> Added a report on Windycon XXVIII to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>, supplemented with <A HREF="id218.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Windycon XXVIII, November 2001"><U>photos</U></A>.</div> <div> Added a photo of <A HREF="id219.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dina Krause and Family, November 2001"><U>Dina Krause and her family</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 10, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Chapter 3 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>.</div> <div> Added to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> a more detailed analysis of Clinton's Georgetown speech.</div> <div> <B>November 9, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on CNN's weasely coverage of Bill Clinton's anti-American effusion.</div> <div> <B>November 8, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about Bill Clinton's endorsement of the idea that September 11th was what the U.S. deserved for its past sins.</div> <div> <B>November 7, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the first anti-war protest of the season.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A> on <A HREF="http://www.fictionwise.com/home.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fictionwise.com/home.html"><U>Fictionwise</U></A>, an e-bookstore.</div> <div> <B>November 6, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about the progressive, and largely unnoticed, demise of election by secret ballot.</div> <div> <B>November 5, 2001</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about bigoted anti-bigotry and the Nicaraguan presidential election (another defeat for America's enemies).</div> <div> <B>November 4, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> arguing that the 18th century counter-Enlightenment did not form a template for modern irrationalist theories.</div> <div> Added Chapters 1 and 2 of <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Worldcon to Win"><U><I>A Worldcon to Win</I></U></A>, a novel about murder and other crimes at a science fiction convention.</div> <div> By popular demand, added photos of <A HREF="id211.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alex and Justice McLeod"><U>Alex and Justice McLeod</U></A> and my nephew-in-law <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sophia Behrens (1)"><U>Rob Behrens</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 3, 2001</b></div> <div> Added two quotations to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the the "climate of intolerance" that liberal observers have suddenly discovered on college campuses.</div> <div> Added a review of <A HREF="id210.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Kind of Fen"><U><I>6 in 60</I></U></A>, a noncezine about Chicago SF fandom.</div> <div> Added a couple of ancient photos of <A HREF="id207.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Virginia Rulison, Bill Seil, Bruce Allar"><U>friends from my law school days</U></A> and <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leta Arndt Behrens"><U>my grandmother with my niece Leta</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>November 2, 2001</b></div> <div> Added items to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on further evidence of the British Broadcasting Company's divorce from its homeland and the generalship of Osama bin Laden.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id209.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tory Party Banquet, 1999"><U>photo</U></A> of Yale University Tory Party Banquet, February 1999.</div> <div> <B>November 1, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id206.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (November 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about how the European news media feed hatred of Israel.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id208.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Westercon 1977"><U>photos from Westercon XXX</U></A> (1977), my first science fiction convention.</div> <div> <B>October 31, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an essay, <A HREF="id205.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Legitimacy and the Democrats"><U>"Legitimacy and the Democrats"</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>October 30, 2001</b></div> <div> Added review of the movie <A HREF="id202.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HighTech Buddies"><U><I>Startup.com</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id203.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Wonders of Dittography"><U>"The Wonders of Dittography"</U></A>, a reproduction of a four-color ditto image from <I>The Best of Fandom 1958</I>.</div> <div> Added brief addendum to review of Kathryn Lindskoog, <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kay Lindskoog, Detective: Not Sherlock "><U><I>Sleuthing C. S. Lewis</I></U></A>.</div> <div> <B>October 28, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (October 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about the supposed "stubborn resilience" of the Taliban.</div> <div> Added more photos than I care to list, including a new non-Chicon <A HREF="id197.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SF Fandom Photo Album"><U>SF fandom photo album</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>October 27, 2001</b></div> <div> Added review-essay on the <A HREF="id180.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Solacon (1958 Worldcon) Program Book"><U>Solacon (1958 Worldcon) Program Book</U></A>.</div> <div> Added ERISA Whirled #01-2 (1/29/01) and ERISA Whirled #01-1 (1/15/01), thus completing the posting of all issues published so far this year.</div> <div> Added story, <A HREF="id178.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Monkey and the Amazon"><U>"The Monkey and the Amazon"</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>October 26, 2001</b></div> <div> Added ERISA Whirled #01-9 (10/26/01)</div> <div> <B>October 25, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (October 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about the rise and decline of <I>The American Spectator</I>.</div> <div> Added story, <A HREF="id174.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Fire at the End of Time"><U>"A Fire at the End of Time"</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>October 24, 2001</b></div> <div> Added item to <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (October 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about Senator Biden's criticism of American "bullies" in Afghanistan, plus an update on multicultural sensitivity in Florida.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sophia Behrens (1)"><U>photo</U></A> of my great-niece with her great-grandmother.</div> <div> Added ERISA Whirled #01-4 (5/10/01) and ERISA Whirled #01-3 (4/30/01).</div> <div> <B>October 23, 2001</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id26_review_of_the_knarley_news__90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>Letter of Comment</U></A> from Henry Welch</div> <div> Added reviews of <A HREF="id171_aztec_blue__5__september_2001__22_pp_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tachyon Sightings"><U><I>Aztec blue #5</I></U></A> and <A HREF="id171_the_knarley_knews__90__october_2001_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tachyon Sightings"><U><I>The Knarley Knews #90</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (October 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on a Florida school district's refusal to be "insensitive" toward Osama bin Laden.</div> <div> <B>October 21, 2001</b></div> <div> Added reviews of <A HREF="id170.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fannish Facts and Fancies"><U><I>The Old Fan's Almanac, 2000 (Stet #9)</I></U></A> and <A HREF="id168.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paene Aureum"><U><I>Argentus #1</I></U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (October 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the new look in airport security.</div> <div> <B>October 19, 2001</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id166.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sales of Stock Options to Family Limited"><U>"Sales of Stock Options to Family Limited Partnerships: Caveats"</U></A>.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id167.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Light Through the Glass"><U>"Light Through the Glass: More on Discounted Options and the Tax-Exempt Executive"</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>October 18, 2001</b></div> <div> Added ERISA Whirled #01-5 (6/7/01) and <I>ERISA Whirled #01-6</I> (7/11/01).</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wargaming"><U>AC-130 H Pave Spectre gunship</U></A> schematic.</div> <div> Added half a dozen poems (or facsimiles thereof) to <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Verse"><U>Verse</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>October 17, 2001</b></div> <div> Added <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Interview with Bob and Anne Passovoy, Ap"><U>interview with Bob and Anne Passovoy</U></A>.</div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (October 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> on the happy ending to the Wisconsin Pledge controversy.</div> <div> Added <A HREF="id26_quark_watch__101501_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters of Comment"><U>Letter of Comment</U></A> from Leah Zeldes Smith.</div> <div> <B>October 16, 2001</b></div> <div> Added review of <A HREF="id160.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="As Others See Us"><U>Camille Bacon-Smith, </U></A><A HREF="id160.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="As Others See Us"><U><I>Science Fiction Culture</I></U></A><I>.</I></div> <div> Added <I>ERISA Whirled #01-8</I> (10/15/01)</div> <div> <B>October 14, 2001</b></div> <div> Added Ditto 14/FanHistoricon con report to <A HREF="id133.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quark Watch (October December 2001)"><U>Quark Watch</U></A>.</div> <div> <B>October 12, 2001</b></div> <div> Added an item to <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (October 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> disputing the notion that understanding why terrorists hate us is essential to ending the threat that they pose.</div> <div> <B>October 11, 2001</b></div> <div> Added note to <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides (October 2001)"><U>Ephemerides</U></A> about Ronald Reagan's status as the longest-lived U.S. President, plus a prescient statement about fighting terrorism that he uttered 21 years ago</div> <div> Added Chicon 2000 photographs, "<A HREF="id158.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Interviewing Bob Tucker"><U>Interviewing Bob Tucker</U></A>" and "<A HREF="id159.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GoHs Waiting for the Show to Start"><U>GoH's Waiting for the Show to Start</U></A>"</div> <div> <B>October 10, 2001</b></div> <div> Today being "Ten-Ten Day", regarded as lucky among a large portion of Earth's population, I am going to declare the "shakedown cruise" complete. I'll now stop fiddling with the design of <I>Stromata</I> and will record changes (to content, that is, not every correction of typos) in this log.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#________home" TITLE="Whats New Archive"><U><B><Return to Top of Page></b></U></A></div> <div> <B>  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">var site="sm8Stromata";var g_frames=true;</script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=sm8Stromata"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=sm8Stromata" target="_top"> <img src="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=sm8Stromata" alt="Site Meter" border=0></a> </noscript>    </b></div> </td> </tr></table></body>