Monthly Archive: December 2003

Ohio is cold, Michigan is colder…

It turns out that one of the paradoxical effects of human-directed climate change is that even as the earth’s average temperature increases, the intensity of direct sunlight hitting the surface is decreasing due to...

Boasting a marble hearth, a built-in family-room entertainment center and a view of the ocean, the two-story hillside structure will be the residence of the Salvation Army’s Santa Monica captain. Officials have spent nearly...

San Francisco’s local bus company, the “Muni”, often features notoriously suicidal and reckless drivers… Seventeen people were injured Monday night when a Municipal Railway bus swerved off Mission Street and crashed into an adult...

Fintan emailed me a nice parallel concerning the display of the Enola Gay in a US national museum. Apparently this airplane has no distinguishing features aside from the fact that it conveyed the first...

We rely on Europe?Old and New?to finance our private companies and … our government … the United States’ biggest exports today aren’t movies or software programs. They’re paper products?stocks, bonds, and other securities. The...

I’ve read several reports that the Undoubtedly Most Wicked Tyrant Of Our Age Hussein was caught due to a tip off by an underpaid flunky, but I’ve also seen this unusual angle – Hussein...

Private corporations have penetrated western warfare so deeply that they are now the second biggest contributor to coalition forces in Iraq after the Pentagon … While the official coalition figures list the British as...

In Hollywood, “celebrities” get to charge charities to make appearances at fund raisers. And there I was thinking they were doing it out of generosity… Many celebrities appear at these events not solely out...

So I keep seeing, over and over, tv clips of the captured Saddam Hussein (who in his bedraggled condition bears an uncanny resemblence to the Unabomber). They keep showing him opening his mouth wide...