Daily Archive: June 26, 2003
Sharonists Further Implicated In Iraq-Niger Uranium Forgeries
We were saying it back in March, but it’s nice to see some more solid evidence replace rumour: Also feeding information to the Office of Special Plans was a secret, rump unit established last...
Cooking Your Placenta
Work on the basis that each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby’s weight. To prepare a placenta, cut the meat away from the membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the membranes. Roast Placenta...
Placenta Spaghetti Bolognaise
Ingredients: 1 fresh placenta, prepared as above 1 tblspn butter 1 large can tomato puree 2 cans crushed pear tomatoes 1 onion 2 cloves garlic 1 tblspn molasses 1 bay leaf 1 tblspn rosemary...
Self Censorship
This indicates that the Iraqis were hiding heavy weaponry within residential areas. I wonder what the US military’s urban defence doctrine has to say about artillery placement and residential areas? But I digress. Anyway,...
It’s Easier To Go To War
“The administration wasn’t matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They’re making us less secure, not more secure,” said Beers, who until now has remained largely silent about leaving his...
Pollocracy
One of the core postulates of social psychology is that our perceptions of the world are not absolute, but instead constrained and filtered by the webs of discourse within which we exist. The Platonic...
Patterns of Deception
The Bush administration took office pledging to restore “honor and dignity” to the White House. And it’s true: Bush has not gotten caught having sex with an intern or lying about it under oath....
Killing With Subsidies
consider just one provision of the legislation: the subsidy on cotton, which the 2002 law more than doubled, from 35 to 72 cents per pound. The United States is a highly inefficient cotton producer;...