Monthly Archive: October 2003

Fear triggers the strict father model; it tends to make the model active in one’s brain. What conservatives have learned about winning elections is that they have to activate the strict father model in...

Even the snows of Kilimanjaro are vanishing. “The mountain’s ice field, which Ernest Hemingway called ‘as wide as all the world, great, high and unbelievably white in the sun,’ lost more than 80 percent...

Colin Powell was making the case in the Security Council that the United States had no imperial ambitions in Iraq … saying that “the United States never acquired territory by conquest.” “There was a...

The United States has now given the Iraqis six months to conjure up a constitution and President George W. Bush has admitted that U.N. help will be needed in this formidable task because the...

One of Schwarzeneggers boldest moves, however, will be to enter into quick settlements with about a dozen energy companies accused of manipulating the states electricity market during the height of the states energy crisis...

The occupation authority is making preparations to dismantle the food distribution system which gave free rations of flour, rice, cooking oil and other staples to every Iraqi. Described by the UN as the world’s...

So Lisa was very confused last night, watching the results come in. “Who voted for the recall?” “Who voted for Schwarzenegger?” “I don’t know anyone who did!” Considering the returns from San Francisco County...

So now I read that Israel says it will attack, bomb, and destroy anyone it likes, whenever it likes. I think this is laying the groundwork for an Israeli assault on Iran’s uranium reprocessing...

Apparently, the dumber media outlets are hailing the Bush “victory” in bribing Turkey to send ten thousand troops into Iraq, despite strong objections from the US-appointed Iraq Governing Council, who want the Turks to...

Every two weeks, on average, someone jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. It is the worlds leading suicide location. In the eighties, workers at a local lumberyard formed the Golden Gate Leapers Associationa sports...