Once Bitten
Karl Rove, the power behind the throne, is being blamed for the treaso nous smear campaign agains t the CIA investigator J oseph Wilson who called him on hi s Iraq-Nig er-Uranium fantasies. I...
Monthly Archive: September 2003
Deep In It
The focus on Rove brought an odd twist to Bush’s travels. When the president boarded Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, he walked up the steps and waved —...
Making Out Like Bandits
How rigged is the bidding process in Iraq to reward almost exclusively US companies with tens of billions of dollars of cash? Very, according to Iraq Revenue Watch. Time and again the bidding qualifications...
Evolution In Action
Eating red meat introduces a potentially dangerous molecule into the body tissues … Humans cannot produce the molecule – a type of sugar – but it occurs at high levels in lamb, pork and...
Inglorious Revolution
You must make voters hate the government. There’s a danger that working-class families might see government as their friend: because their incomes are low, they don’t pay much in taxes, while they benefit from...
They’ll Buy That For A Dollar!
Clever idea – make an ugly SUV with more faults out of the factory than any other available consumer vehicle, name it after a slang term for blowjobs, then ensure it qualifies for a...
More Vanishing WMDs
Discovery of such remnants of Iraq’s drone program since U.S. forces seized Baghdad in April has left Air Force officials feeling vindicated. They argued before the Iraq war that the drones were never meant...
Coals to Newcastle
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime last April, Iraq’s resuscitated oil industry has been unable to produce enough gasoline, cooking oil and other petroleum products to meet the country’s needs. Houston-based Halliburton Co.,...
Edward Said Dead
One of the most astute commentators on the Middle East, Edward Said died today of leukemia. I will miss his insight, and the looney racist desperation of his detractors. Aside from the obvious physical...