cutting through the fat of this world
According to Channel 5 News in Minneapolis, six friends were arrested while walking and dancing in the streets of Minneapolis. The friends, in goth makeup, were taken downtown by police on suspicion of being in possession of “simulated weapons of mass destruction.”
They were carrying backpacks with wires hanging out of them…
“Given the circumstance of them [...]
Republican Senator George Voinovich was the sole GOP member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to balk at President Bush’s nomination of John Bolton to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. His opposition, along with that of every Democratic member of the committee was based on well founded fears that Bolton’s [...]
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Yesterday Bush vetoed a bill for the first time since he’s been in office. He vetoed Congress’s bill to increase funding for embryonic stem-cell research. According to news reports:
Officials say about 400,000 frozen embryos are stored at fertility clinics in this country. The vast majority await disposal because the couples that produced them have completed [...]
So has the latest Israel/Lebanon war got you down? Are the Holy Wars making you a wee bit anxious?
War here. War there. People killing people everywhere.
Relax…
Some people see it as cause for celebration. All this death and destruction is glorious! They say:
I am excited beyond words that the struggle of this life may be over [...]
Even for those of us who have always believed that the Bush administration’s foreign policies were simplistic, naïve, misguided and ultimately doomed to failure, the present foreign policy shambles is shocking to behold. The litany is depressing.
The hole we have dug for ourselves in Iraq just gets deeper as the chaos there continues unabated. Not [...]
Robert Novak:
…said publicly for the first time Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
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In a syndicated column to be released Wednesday, Novak says he told Fitzgerald in early 2004 that Rove and then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow had confirmed information about [...]
Mr. Fish’s comics are posted every Friday on the Harper’s website. Brilliant stuff. Check it out.
And Ken Silverstein has been contributiong to the site almost daily for a few months now. It’s all good. Go read it.
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There’s been a whole lot of great music released this year, so I thought I’d throw out a list of what I think are the best releases so far. Here they are in order of greatness.
The Duke Spirit - Cuts Across the Land
Neko Case and Her Boyfriends - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Cat Power - [...]
Melanie Morgan, a right-wing radio talk show host, said that if Bill Keller were to be tried and convicted of treason, she’d like to see him die a slow and agonizing death in a gas chamber, and to clarify her remark, she said this:
…the best solution that I can think of to deal with any newspaper editor, [...]
