Monthly Archive: August 2003

All the recent hoopla about some Brit trying to flog a surface-air missile ignores the fact that thanks to the sterling efforts of mostly US-based weapons manufacturers and trickle-down information economics, it’s possible to...

This inside account of Iraqi resistance cells is startlingly similar to similar accounts by journalists of Northern Irish PIRA cells in the 1970s and 1980s. The PIRA originally used a broad hierarchical organization that...

I noticed a cute little entry in this month’s Harper’s Index, which perhaps explains why Afghanistan is increasingly becoming hostile and ungovernable… Ratio of UN peacekeepers to population in Kosovo… 40:1 Ratio of UN...

This is fashion model Morgan Featherstone. She is blonde, seductive… and eight years old. With her long tresses, heroin-chic eye makeup and sexy stare, Morgan presents like any other magazine model, except on her...

According to the OnionAV DVD commentary reviews, this line just about sums up John Boorman’s commentary on his magnificent, terrible Zardoz.

Spent a good partion of the weekend finding and fixing things for Burning Man 2003. It’s amazing how much playa dust still remains from Burning Man 2001!

Oh fortuna! Oh mores! The ailing former President of Uganda Idi Amin Dada is seeking a kidney to keep him alive … [his] regime was one of the bloodiest in African history, with up...

So according to a new genetic study, humans are more similar to rodents than to cats. And there’s definitely something funky going on with all the “junk” DNA coding that’s not incorporated into any...

So that’s it for the polar bears. A new study seems to confirm earlier theories that within a couple of generations the North Pole ice will completely melt during summer. Two things I see...

Previously, I mentioned how low-rent transsexual quacks were injecting people with industrial-grade silicone. This guy/girl found an even cheaper silicone source and injected hir clients with brake fluid. At least one person is dead....