all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
So Karzai’s US-backed government in central Afghanistan is attempting to exert its authority over the warlords by issuing an ultimatum that all non-authorized armed men (ie, Northern Alliance militia) quit Kabul. Good luck, especially...
Dave sent me email, pointing out he’s from an Adventist, somewhat veggie/abstemious background, and that various of his gramps lived to be around a century. But that not eating cows hasn’t really stopped India...
This is much fun, I’ve gotten some hate mail from aggrieved Polymers. And much of it, as expected, is expressed in anal-genital terms “asshole”, “shithead”, “cocksucker”, and so on. This fits in with my...
Almost a Darwin candidate here: guy shoots self practicing quick draw on snowman.
Yes, Somalia is definitely on the Pentagon’s shit list.
And oh, first mention of Osama Bin Laden, in 1993: Many investigators say a key figure is Osama ibn Laden, a wealthy Saudi businessman with ties to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. For years, he...
Amazing Google post from 1995 with first press dispatch talking about the Taliban: A GROUP OF AFGHAN RELIGIOUS STUDENTS, KNOWN AS TALIBAN, HAVE EMERGED AS A NEW FORCE DURING FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN. THE STUDENTS...
So I posted a vaguely cautionary article about meat in Plastic and I get all these loony red meat yanks dissing me — most lacking even the vaguest hint of a sense of irony....
A new Buffy tonight. I am pretty excited. This is sad, but true.