Author: mike

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Pre-Emptive Strike Against Iran Looming?

So this article about Iran’s nuclear power plant (now nearing completion with Russian help) puts the recent curtailment of tacit support for Iran’s “reformist” regime into perspective. Under the new Bush Gang’s first-strike policy,...

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Segway In Lawyers’ Crosshairs

So Segway’s apparently managed to “convince” some tame Congressman to push through Cali legislation to enable them to be driven on paths, while motorized scooters and suchlike are still relegated to duking it out...

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Doc Marten’s Selling Out

So it has come to this. Dr Marten’s Boots are being “de-emphasized” by their makers in favour of wussy, friendlier styles. Prozac gets part of the blame, apparently. Bye bye Docs, we hardly knew...

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Poo Shooter Goes Corporate?

So now I’ve got a couple of emails from people saying they found my site through that skinmag FHM and can they have password to some of the “good” stuff. What the hell? I’m...

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Killing Afghans A Cheap Business

So this article reveals that the US compensation payments to the civilians wrongly killed during the recent attack on a wedding party put a value on dead Afghans that’s a minute fraction of the...

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Strength Through Joy?

So not content with recycling the fruity, vaguely disturbing corporate realist propaganda posters from the 1940s, the Bush Administration has gone slogan crazy recently. Hey, it worked for those guys in Italy and Germany,...

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Heroism Has Its Drawbacks

Did so many firefighters have to die during the collapse of the World Trade Center? This article says no. Unregulated heroism is part of the U.S. firefighting culture, Klein said. In large part, it...