all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
McDonald’s Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Cantalupo died of an apparent heart attack on Monday in Florida … Cantalupo, 60, died while attending a franchisee convention in Orlando … He also recognized the...
Cicadas are a low-carb, low-fat rare treat apparently best served sauteed in butter and parsley. Some, however, prefer to go more upscale: The soft-shelled cicada, it’s done just like a soft-shelled crab,” says executive...
In Japan every cow is tested for BSE before being chopped up for human consumption. Compare this to the US approach, where a cow probably has a greater chance of being struck by lightning...
In Fallujah’s darkened, empty streets, U.S. troops blast AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells” and other rock music full volume from a huge speaker, hoping to grate on the nerves of this Sunni Muslim city’s gunmen and...
Some Iraqi nuclear facilities appear to be unguarded, and radioactive materials are being taken out of the country, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency reported after reviewing satellite images and equipment that has turned up...
From Atrios, apparently the Bush Gang illegally diverted money meant for Afghan economic aid to spend instead on Iraq invasion planning… “President Bush, after a National Security Council meeting, takes Don Rumsfeld aside, collars...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that he never expected so many American troops to be dying at this point in the war in Iraq. Maybe, like his King, he makes a habit of...
George J. Tenet and his deputies at the CIA were presented in August 2001 with a briefing paper labeled “Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly” about the arrest days earlier of Zacarias Moussaoui. Mr Tenet...
Bush, in fact, does not read his President’s Daily Briefs, but has them orally summarised every morning by the CIA director, George Tenet. President Clinton, by contrast, read them closely and alone, preventing any...