Monthly Archive: April 2002

Police were tracking down leads yesterday as to who is the mother of a fetus, probably no more than 28 weeks old, that was found inside a trash can in a San Francisco Financial...

Well, only a scant couple of weeks after it was first noted by British papers, the US media has woken up to the fact that US forces in Saudi are being redeployed to Qatar...

Quite by accident I saw one of my all-time favourite war books namechecked: I plucked Neil Sheehan’s great book A Bright Shining Lie off the shelf the other night, remembering how it described the...

Okay, so Rory has pointed out that for the years 1962 and 1964-69, michael and lisa topped the top ten. I need to go lie down.

Those Teletubbies are just plain scary. Why not Slaughter A Teletubby Today?

What is it with Jacob and Emily? These two names dominate completely.

So it’s not just Lisa… It’s the Confessions of a Spoiler Whore. I could analyze this in terms of metatextual sites of resistance, and individual consumer authorship, and paradoxical carceral networks spontaneously organizing around...

The bouncers will be first against the wall when the revolution comes… Corruption is a central theme of Irish life and politics and human rights standards are below internationally acceptable levels … Ireland has...

So several months ago some media began reporting that US-backed Afghan ruler (and ex-Unocal oilman) Karzai was calling in US airstrikes on “opposition forces”. That quickly developed into either a fight between evil Taliban...

So just how hard would it be to develop an alternative energy infrastructure? It’s already difficult because the country that should be taking the lead here, the US, gets its oil specially subsidized from...