Author: mike

So despite the US saying it wouldn’t take Kabul and the Northern Alliance agreeing as recently as a few hours ago, in the end it was too much to resist so they went in....

Aaaagh! I’m trapped in work late into the night writing ebuzz marketing-speak drivel sentences that make no sense. Who said all the dotcom madness had ended???? I… try… but… I can’t resist for much...

There definitely is some sort of weird conspiracy going on in Nepal. First there’s that weird story about the Crown Prince Dipendra going postal and taking out his family, before conveniently killing himself and...

And again, the Bush Gang demonstrate their mendacity. Bush signed an Executive Order attempting to revoke the Presidential Records Act, the post-Nixon safeguarding law that stops a President from treating the White House and...

How cool! Someone’s doing a movie version of Philip Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, and the director’s main influences are Babe Pig in the City and Dark City. Excellent!

So chicken and bison farmers are benefitting from the terrorism stimulus act. Apparently, the US is a safer place if chicken waste gets more federal subsidies… But what’s really interesting is how big investment...

And, as a final feather in his anti-civil rights cap, Ashcroft has repealed lawyer-client privilege. We no longer have a right to expect privacy from Government eavesdropping even when consulting with legal representation. Even...

Just how bad is this new PATRIOT Act? It strips US citizens of protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and was so dodgy that the Bush Gang refused to distribute it in advance to...

The hypocrisy of carnivores never ceases to amaze me. Why is it okay to eat cows and sheep but somehow not okay to eat dogs and cats? That’s just plain dumb. Dogs and cats...

What exactly did Bin Laden say about nukes?