all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Hot on the heels that Coca-Cola advertised their Dasani water as “Bottled Spunk” (“Jism” or sperm for USians) comes the revelation that they also managed to pollute the hyper-expensive tap water with carcinogenic chemicals....
The top counter-terrorism advisor, Clarke was briefing the highest government officials, including President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in the aftermath of 9/11. “Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq….We all...
Researchers found that populations of 71 percent of the butterfly species have decreased over the last 20 years, compared to 56 percent for birds and 28 percent for plants. Two butterfly species (3.4 percent...
Paul sent me this amazing web page that describes a “popular” technique in 1980s UK of embedding Sinclair Spectrum computer code into the locked grooves of vinyl records.
Buried in this LA Times puff piece, I noticed a reference that John Kerry and former IRA Chief of Staff Martin McGuinness are apparently such good buddies that they hang out together at the...
A year ago this week, my daughter Rachel Corrie was killed in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. She was run over by an Israeli bulldozer manned by two soldiers. The Israeli government exonerated the...
Of course, Aleksander Kwasniewski is the Polish President, while Leszek Miller is the Prime Minister, but still, it looks like the Spanish uneasiness at the Bush Gang’s incompetent duplicity is contagious… President Aleksander Kwasniewski,...
It’s sadly infrequent that one of the Bush Gang (Rumsfeld) is called during such a flagrant attempted deception. Here’s the text: Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, you’re the–you and a few other critics are the only...
I’ve written before about how the “official” US unemployment rate is massaged to create an artificially low level, especially when compared with posted EU figures. Here’s the latest (March 2004) figures for the US:...
Here’s a roundup of press reaction to the frustrated voters in Spain finally getting a chance to rebuke their former Government’s unpopular and unqualified support for last year’s US invasion of Iraq. If I...