meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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All Quiet On The Middle Eastern Front

So just as King Bush is getting his (not)victory on, I read about a revenge grenade attack in Fallujah. I note from this article that the occupying US troops barracked within the local (ex)Baath...

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Emphasizing

So Krugman has also noticed the extraordinary “I am not a crook!“-like chutzpah of a White House that obviously feels it can now never be held accountable, when it dismissed Presidential lies as “as...

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A Fallujah Too Far?

So I mentioned yesterday that US troops in Iraq had been shooting demonstrators again, this time in Fallujah. I see they shot more today. Way to build democracy! Anyway, it turns out that Fallujah...

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Guilt By Association

So the Feds have finally got around to charging Mike Hawash, perhaps prompted by the very public campaign against his internment. I can think of a few people who were falsely imprisoned for decades...

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Justified Homicide

So Colin Powell, the My Lai apologist, has produced another opus. Contradicting the eye-witness accounts of literally hundreds of experienced war journalists and live footage from a French TV crew, he claims that the...

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Salad Days For Japan’s Pee Drinkers

So according to this person, Japan’s second-highest ranked politician Taku Yamasaki is a closet pee drinker, and a bit of a randy old sort. Apparently, in Japan this sort of thing doesn’t cause many...

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Mmmm, This IS A Tasty Burger!

No pulp fiction here when a guy chomped down on a Burger King Whopper and got a mouth full of poo. He’s suing, of course. “I took a bite out of it,” the truck...