Naked man terrorizes Los Angeles Starbucks:
“Morning coffee drinkers got more than they bargained for in a jolt of “wake up.” A naked man recently attacked a Starbucks in a local Whitley Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, using a gym sock for of rocks to crash in the windows. The man now known as “scone man” [...]
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Naked man terrorizes Los Angeles Starbucks
Published by September 27th, 2006 in Miscellaneous. 0 Comments
Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
Calvin Trillin
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128 pages
The Old Viking looks at the facts and they aren’t pretty so far as Bush and the Republicans are concerned:
Published by September 27th, 2006 in Middle East, Miscellaneous, Politics and al Qaeda. 1 CommentThere is constant debate over Bush’s alleged failure to pursue an anti-terrorism policy in the first eight months of his first term. The (9/11 Commission report notes that the Bush administration had three (count them-three) meetings prior to 9/11. The first was in May, four months into Bush’s term and the third was the week [...]
Audrey Hepburn - Back in Black
Published by September 26th, 2006 in Arts & Leisure and Fashion. 2 CommentsNot long ago our webmaster found himself with a lot of time on his hands, so he started making changes to the site and submitting content of his own.
He added the “fashion” category, and I must admit I gave him some shit about that.
But now… well here is my first fashion post.
This has got [...]
Clinton was Right
Published by September 26th, 2006 in Iraq, Middle East, Politics and al Qaeda. 0 CommentsHere’s what Keith Olbermann had to say about it:
Bill Clinton did what almost none of us have done in five years.
He has spoken the truth about 9/11, and the current presidential
administration.
“At least I tried,” he said of his own efforts to capture or kill Osama bin
Laden. “That’s the difference in me and some, including all [...]
Bill Clinton was interviewed last Sunday on Fox News by Chris Wallace. Clinton was in no mood to take accusations of him not doing enough to stop Osama bin Laden during his presidency. His response was emotional and factual. That’s something Fox News is unfamiliar with… A Democrat with facts and spine. Clinton had the [...]
The October issue of Uncut features a photo of Kurt Cobain on the cover, and the magazine features a series of articles about the Seattle grunge scene that took off fifteen years ago. There are interviews with Eddie Vedder, Mark Arm, Mark Lanegan and many more.
Here’s a sidebar piece appearing next to the article about [...]
The following is a portion of the waiter’s rant about his customers and their Puttanesca:
‘Do you make Linguini Puttanesca?’
‘No Madam,’ I reply, ‘We don’t have it on the menu.’
‘Well,’ the lady harrumphs, ‘The chef made it for me the last time I was here.’
God – I hate when customers use that line.
‘Really?’ [...]
Karma has a strange way of working itself out.
Today’s installment comes from Thinkprogess.com which is reporting that global warming looks to submerge the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport.
One “treasured place” in extreme risk is the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport (noted by the yellow arrow below). The area in orange shows land that will be [...]
Cartoon via Harper’s.
Late yesterday the White House came to an agreement with the three renegade Republican senators about the U.S. complying with the rules of the Geneva Conventions. Bush was all about legalizing his “alternative” interrogation techniques, and McCain and company wanted the U.S. to leave the rules intact.
Here’s what The New York Times reported:
The [...]
Happy ‘One Web Day’
Published by September 22nd, 2006 in Arts & Leisure, Fashion, Miscellaneous and Music. 0 CommentsSeptember 22 is ‘OneWebDay’. It is a day to celebrate the global interconnectedness of the web.
For example let’s say you are listening to Gwen Stefani sing about ‘Harajuku Girls’, well you can go to this Japanese Street Style website and check out today’s street styles for some of Tokyo’s districts, including Harajuku.
This is just one [...]
