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From Reuters:
Afghanistan produced 93 percent of the world’s opium in 2007, up from 92 percent last year, the annual UNODC report said.
“No other country has produced narcotics on such a deadly scale since China in the 19th century,” a UNODC statement said.
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I have been thinking about yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the company responsible for the current demolition project at the Deutsche Bank building in NYC.
First, a little background on the Deutsche Bank building. This building was originally damaged during the events of 9/11/2001 and is currently being deconstructed/demolished. Just a [...]
That looks like Bob but that’s not Bob. That’s Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan during the Blonde on Blonde years from the upcoming film I’m Not There.
Other actors playing Bob in this film are: Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw. David Cross shows up in the film as Allen [...]
In what appears to be the world’s worst case of Beer Goggles, a Serbian man at a beer festival over the weekend apparently thought he was about to get lucky with a couple of ladies. He stripped naked and climbed in to an enclosure thinking it was a “Beer Cage”. He was promptly eaten by [...]
Today’s edition of This Modern World reminded me of how I felt when I returned from a ten-day trip away from the good old U.S. of A.
I checked the blog when I got home and found that N.J. Barnes had put up a post about how the Democratic congress caved into the Republicans’ name calling [...]
As the 6th anniversary of the September 11th attacks approaches, we can prepare ourselves for an onslaught of partisan vitriol and claims of personal victimhood. The Republicans will bend over backwards to remind us that we were attacked by Iraq on that day and that Democrats are tearing the country apart with calls for appeasement [...]
Patti Smith at The Showbox on Saturday, August 11th. Peter Buck joined the band for the second half of her mind blowing two-hour set.
Patti Smith performs with more intensity than most people less than half her age.
The highlights of the evening were “Southern Cross,” a song she dedicated to Jackson Pollock who died on August [...]
From John Nichols’ latest column describing remarks by Carl Bernstein about how Bush’s presidency is far more damaging to our country than Nixon’s presidency.
Unlike the often crude and conniving but unquestionably intelligent and highly-engaged 37th president, Bernstein says of Bush: “He’s lazy, arrogant and has little curiosity. He’s a catastrophe…”
But that is not the worst [...]
Last Sunday night AT&T “sponsored” a live webcast of Pearl Jam’s performance at Lollapalooza. Pearl Jam reports on their website that:
After concluding our Sunday night show at Lollapalooza, fans informed us that portions of that performance were missing and may have been censored by AT&T during the “Blue Room” Live Lollapalooza Webcast.
When asked about the [...]
One of the more dire warnings repeated endlessly by George W Bush and other war supporters is that if the United States withdraws, al-Qaida will gain a safe haven in Iraq. It should not surprise us to hear this nonsense from Bush himself; I mean the man will say almost anything to justify his policies in Iraq –even something [...]
