CLASSIC DIRT

First reference to Y2K in the Daily Dirt! Date: March 2, 1999 Two respected senior government officials have added more fuel to the already raging Y2K fire. On CBS' Face the Nation, Senators Chris Dodd (D-Conn) and Robert Bennet (R-Utah), ranking members of the Senate Special Committee on the Y2K Problem, freaked out the panel by calling the glitch "one of the most serious and potentially devastating events this nation has ever encountered." The Senators went on to claim that the millennial chaos could include lives lost to malfunctioning medical equipment, erased banking records, massive blackouts and missiles from other countries automatically launching themselves (our missiles having already been Y2K-proofed). "Any responsible household would prepare and have on hand a two- or three-day supply," Dodd said. Personally, I think this whole Y2K thing is a load of hogshit devised by Jesus-drunk authoritarians in government with the sole purpose of fucking up what would otherwise have been the ultimate New Year's Eve party. And, seeing as it looks like most people will be staying home on the night of Dec 31, shotguns at the ready to defend their 30-lb containers of Minute Rice and their bathtubs full of spring water, it seems as if the party-pooping finger-sniffers have succeeded.