Monthly Archive: November 2003

[Bush] admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips to Thailand and Hong Kong at least five years ago. The women, he said, simply knocked on...

Charles sent me this excellent visual history of the obesity epidemic in the US. Also an animation. Earlier here.

If you’re hankering for a movie about an awkward yet lovable “outsider” type who wanders into a pastel mock-up of Middle America and cajoles the straights to get saucy, you’re in luck. It’s called...

The increasing size of American food portions is linked to the U.S. food industry’s growing reliance on value marketing. Value marketing is a technique used to increase food company profits. It encourages the customer...

I read a lot about how music companies are attempting to put copy controls (or “DRM”) into music tracks. My friend Barbara was faced with this very issue when she tried to get a...

It appears that tacked onto the recent $87 billion Iraqi funding installment was a secretive rider allocating some $8m to the Miami police force to “disperse” protestors during an economic summit there. Apparently the...

The tradition of free speech exercised with enthusiasm is alive and well here in London. We have that at home too. They now have that right in Baghdad as well. American soldiers handcuffed and...

Gunners in an armored column responded to a roadside bomb blast by opening up, apparently indiscriminately, with heavy automatic weapons on traffic moving in the opposite direction on the other side of the highway...

So I read various reports that part of the Pentagon’s new “strategy” to fight the Iraqi reistance is the wholescale demolition of civilian homes ‘connected’ with alleged resistance figures. This is, of course, in...

Healing Iraq Something funny is going on. There hasn’t been any power for 21 hours and water supply is very very weak. I heard something like air strikes last night and choppers where flying...