Monthly Archive: July 2002

Prisons are big business and now, in these recessionary times, have to downsize like any other business. Facing a cash crunch, the States simply can’t affo rd to transfer as much cash to the...

This local paper just about summed it up.

RobotWisdom pointed out that this Onion piece from wayback was weirdly prophetic: George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally...

So Plastic has this nice story about these anti-Semitic Christian Rapture novels and how amazingly popular they are. Now if only all those damn fundies would get beamed up into outer space or whatever...

Pretty heavy story here that the UN is finalising its report on the recent Afghan Wedding Party Massacre. According to “UN sources”, a special US cleanup team disposed of much of the evidence and...

So maybe there’s some substance behind Michael Jackson’s newfound ethnic heritage and his readiness to battle those Satanic meanies at Sony? According to this story, he’s broke, owes hundreds of million of dollars, is...

The 8th Amendment to the US Constitution inconveniently enough prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment”, including torture. The fact that US investigators have been secretly transferring some of its prisoners to countries that routinely practice...

So apparently, Saudia Arabia is descending further into the shitter, with Islamist protests spreading, Westerners living in armed compounds, and internal dissent rising. It’s eerily reminiscent of the last days of the Western-supported Shah...

So this woman overfed her 3-year-old child until he was “morbidly obese“: 120 pounds at age 3. Then, when he was taken into protective foster care, she brought him McDonalds during a supervised visit....

So this article about Iran’s nuclear power plant (now nearing completion with Russian help) puts the recent curtailment of tacit support for Iran’s “reformist” regime into perspective. Under the new Bush Gang’s first-strike policy,...