Now This

This blog is now read by more machines than humans: RSS robots, spam-laying insectopoids, echoes of blog-gathering .edu projects. This essentially is the state of affairs that all human activities w

Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Spartac.us

Goof!

In the article below, I mentioned Flight 92. Of course, it was Flight 93, as M. Simon emailed to remind me. Folks, alcohol and blogging do not mix! Won't someone think of the children!?

And a hello

Big Bullshit in Little Australia

The assholes who consider themselves the loyal opposition are spewing their same old divisive warnings and aiming for national paralysis, as is their wont. The Australian federal government has starte

Déjà Vu All Over Again

While tooling around the Independent, I came across a gem of an article which had this in it:
Aid agencies have warned that one million refugees could flee Iraq if Britain and America do not pull bac

She Blinded Him with Science!

I have purchased, read, and enjoyed several of Richard Dawkins's books: The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, and Unweaving the Rainbow. His illustration of how evolution works and his defe

Déjà Vu All Over Again

While tooling around the Independent, I came across a gem of an article which had this in it:

Aid agencies have warned that one million refugees could flee Iraq if Britain and America do not pull back from war.

Their warnings of a "humanitarian disaster" were echoed yesterday by the International Development Secretary, Clare Short....

So tiresome. As if the Saddam regime were not already a "humanitarian disaster". As if their predictions for Afghanistan weren't totally discredited.

The article also states that 16 million people – more than two-thirds of the population – depend on the already fragile food-rationing system run by the international community. Of course, under the oil-for-food program, Saddam controls food distribution in the south. The international community only controls food distribution in the Kurdish north.

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