Monthly Archive: June 2003

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;...

“What are we getting into here?” asked a sergeant with the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division who is stationed near Baqubah, a city 30 miles northeast of Baghdad. “The war is supposed to be...

So the Pentagon is pinning its anti-Saddam hopes on yet more DNA testing of the organic residue from its Mob-style hit on a bunch of SUVs in Iraq last week. Officials said they had...

Specialist Corporal Michael Richardson added: “There was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, I just pulled the trigger. “It was up close and personal the whole time,...

The astonishing ineptness of the various smear campaigns and forgeries promulgated by the pro-war propagandists during the Iraqi invasion has been astonishing. Or perhaps disinformation campaigns were always this bad, but knowledge and access...

Back from Hawaii, tired. More later.

Jerry Springer has officially launched his RunJERRYRun political activism website. He wants to be one of the Senators from Ohio, and apparently is counting on bringing out his core vote to achieve victory: slack-jawed...

Grrrrrr, DSL is down. MCI Worldcom, the bankrupt crooks I buy my DSL from, are now apparently so cheap that they have no backup routers available. So when a single router goes down, they...

Media Jukebox just finished batch converting all my old, gnarly ID3v1 MP3 tags into ID3v2 super-fast MP3 tags. So now I can embed album art and lyrics in them. The operation took over 24...