Bush Running Scared Of UK Democracy
I read that despite overwhelming security measures (more armed troops on London’s streets than at any time since World War 2) and a cordon sanitaire around his august person, King Bush is afraid of...
Monthly Archive: November 2003
UK Refuses Bush Killing Zone
[Britain] has refused to grant diplomatic immunity to armed American special agents and snipers … The issue of immunity is one of a series of extraordinary US demands turned down … These included the...
Florida Suspends Due Process ‘Temporarily’
The Florida Supreme Court’s chief justice ordered Thursday that guarantees for speedy trials and court hearings will be suspended temporarily in Miami-Dade County because of next week’s free trade meetings.
There’s a Difference At McDonald’s
Item Calories Fat (grams) Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese 770 47 Super Size French Fries 610 29 Super Size Chocolate Triple Thick Shake 1150 33 TOTAL 2530 109 For an adult or child over...
The Jackals’ Wedding
In Southern Iraq, on a summer’s night, in order to recover from the day’s heat, people in the village often sleep in the open air, underneath a starlit sky. Their peace is sometimes disturbed...
Smarter Than The Average Bear
This morning I listened to a spectacularly erudite and informative interview with Tariq Ali, pimping his new book Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. Unfortunately, the interviewer Angie Coiro wasn’t so smart and,...
PhDs In Evangelical Imperialism
The US Congress is poised to transform the relationship between [international] studies and the US government … The government, when the President signs HR 3077 into law, will now create an International Education Advisory...
And You Think You Have Problems?
Lund has a rare condition that prominent sexual medicine researchers have just “discovered” and begun to document. They have given it a name — Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome — and are trying to develop...
Mmmmmmm – Bacon Tonight
The animals are in a pitiful condition. Many are confined to tiny pens, struggling to move; some look terrified, others have ulcerated lesions or cuts on their flesh. The corpse of a piglet rots...
Hide The Silver!
UK’s Buck House Even Better Photo Op Than Aircraft Carrier! Bush’s trip can hardly be described as routine. He will be the first US president to come here on a state visit – with...