Did you hear? There’s a war on? No, not that warmonger Bush’s war against “terror”. What are you, some kind of neocon? This is a real war Against America’s free press! Any doubts about whether the Bush administration intends to imprison unfriendly journalists (defined as “journalists who fail to obey the Bush administration’s orders about [...]
I should have known better. I should have known not to click the link that opened Dan Froomkin’s column. I should have remembered that there was a reason I hadn’t read anything he’d written in the past few months. I just knew that Froomkin would have written something so incredibly obtuse that its sheer existence [...]
Looks like Al Gore’s right on target. WASHINGTON — The nation’s top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy. The former vice president’s movie _ replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating [...]
Want to see an asteroid? If you have a decent telescope and some skill, your chance is coming up soon. An asteroid possibly as large as a half-mile or more in diameter is rapidly approaching the Earth. There is no need for concern, for no collision is in the offing, but the space rock will [...]
An American flies in from a trip to the Dominican Republic. He has in his possession a prescription bottle of Viagra. That bottle has the names of his physicians on it, but not his. This man does, in fact, have a valid prescription for Viagra from those two doctors. The authorities keep the bottle, briefly [...]
Well congratulations, Mr. Daou. WASHINGTON, June 26 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has hired Peter Daou, one of the most prominent political bloggers in the nation, to help disseminate her message in a forum that has not always been that hospitable to her. I think the Senator has hired a good man for the [...]
This isn’t a classified warfighting program, so I don’t expect to see it on the pages of the New York Times. Still, I’d consider it a story worth reporting. Marines here say a lieutenant who was leading Marines and Iraqi soldiers through the volatile streets of Haditha, Iraq, June 14, showed uncommon valor when he [...]
I am not at all impressed with Bill Keller’s defense of printing the SWIFT-monitoring story. I think he’s not only severely wrong about what the First Amendment actually does, but he’s also more than a bit arrogant about the role he, as a member of the press, actually plays in an ongoing war. I want [...]
Somewhere, a dozen Imams’ heads simply exploded. On a Web site for gay South Asians, 27-year-old Syed Mansoor uploaded the following message last summer: “Hi, I am looking for a lesbian girl for marriage. I am gay but I would like to get married because of pressure from parents and society. I would like this [...]
Aw, HELL no! I just saw the trailer for a movie called “Little Man” and I know that Hollywood has completely run out of ideas. I’m not even kidding here. There’s no way, if you’re even a little bit familiar with Bugs Bunny, you can watch that trailer and not know, in the first three [...]
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