Author: mike

A former student at an all-girls Catholic high school claims she was sexually assaulted more than a decade ago by a nun who taught morals and religion and was in charge of recruiting young...

I read this report that the US bribed one of Iraq’s senior generals to hand over Baghdad with minimal resistance, then faked his death while they put him into some kind of witness protection...

The longer that the interzone-formerly-imagined-as-Iraq exists in a state of postwar chaos and rapine, the more likely it is that simple Darwinism will throw up a generation of strong men who will “restore order”,...

Danny Glover is appealing and likable. He’s honed to perfection the character of a trustworthy buddy, a genuine guy. But Danny Glover’s image is under revision. It’s being revamped on cable TV and talk...

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world – a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power...

As economic libertarians, these people believe that markets should be free, formed by the rational actions of rational agents – who need only to be provided with perfect information about goods and services in...

I think their fundamental weakness stems from the undoubted fact that Bush et al are profoundly regressive and hierarchical people. Thus, they think in terms of cohorts and divisions, leaders, and roles. They think...

So which was more pivotal for the swiftness of the US invasion of Iraq? The 20th-Century industrialised warfare style routines of concerted fire-and-manoeuvre, or the refreshingly 19th Century imperialist conquest style of bribery and...

There’s a standard carnivorist theory that a transformation around 2 MYears ago of hominids from omnivorous, opportunistic scavengers to dedicated, meat-eating Home Erectus hunters was the necessary and sufficient condition that drove the evolution...

So this person died when hir arse leaked injected silicone into hir bloodstream, causing an embolism. Apparently low-rent FtM transsexuals attend “pumping parties” (not this sort of pumping!) where pretend-doctors inject their marks’ bodies...