8/3/04-- Disneyland, Fun with sociology, Fahd Dies

You hate that it's funny but it kind of is...

Disneyland is accident-prone. You hate to see people getting hurt, but there's an appealing kind of irony to the whole thing, I'm sorry to say.
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15800309&method=full&siteid=106694&headline=15-hurt-in-disneyland-roller-coaster-crash--name_page.html

Disney's fireworks may be also be dangerous. Environmentalist are rallying against the happiest place on Earth.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Metro/GH04Ak02.html

And if you mistype Disneyland, you might make something really happy, if it's not your childlike sense of wonder...
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=99380&section=News

You always suspected but need a study to prove it...
Was the Iraq war caused by testosterone? Apparently, men who are told they are feminine are more likely to modify their opinions in support the Iraq war. Interesting.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/soc.gender.dea.html

Random liberal author confirms writes an essay talking about how Iraq and masculinity are interlinked. Mostly, he talks about the sexualization of war. The only thing I don't find sexy is cantelope mold, call that what you may.
http://www.eurowrc.org/06.contributions/1.contrib_en/52_contrib.en.htm

Sociologists are full of other information. For example, increases in threat level are linked to increases in Bush's popularity.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041004193120.htm

Saudi Arabia
Overall, King Fahd seemed like a good guy. Not a perfect guy, but a good one. For a monarch.

Here's a BBC timeline. The poor man's history of Saudi Arabia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/820515.stm

Interesting profile of King Faud from the perspective of a U.S. ambassador
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=67955&d=4&m=8&y=2005

A website about King Faud. Propagantastic!
http://www.kingfahdbinabdulaziz.com/

Of course, I do think the whole not allowing anybody but Muslim men into the funeral is odd. To quote the WSJ Best of the Web: "King Fahd has a proud legacy. He helped lead his country into the seventh century."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050803/ap_on_re_mi_ea/king_fahd