Month: October 2003

The former Saddam International Airport now houses Iraq’s first Burger King.

I know that it’s the coolio thing to bring up Chappaquiddick whenever Ted Kennedy is mentioned and make smart remarks about his rosacea and overweight alcoholism. But the audio of him gutting George Bush and the Iraq situation to Congress is pretty potent stuff. Excerpts are available via streaming MP3 from Democracy Now’s October 17th […]

“Tarantino is the first white filmmaker to forge a career based on disreputable, underclass taste ? the movie culture that black urban youth were raised on and affectionately viewed as their own. Vernita [Vivica Fox’s character’s] daughter arrives home from grade school in time to watch her mother nailed to the kitchen cabinet by a […]

“The spirit of US President George W Bush has been trapped in a clay pot and tossed into a river in northern Thailand after being cursed by hundreds of farmers protesting US agriculture policy.”

Just awakened Ron from a quick nap so we can go to the bookstore. I’ve tried playing Andrews Sisters as well as the trance music. So I tried screaming in his native tongue: TAYO NA! (Let’s get going!) LUMAKAD TAYO! (Let’s walk!) GUSTO KO ANG LECHON! (I like the roast pig!) He finally got up […]

Ran into Ray and Rey at the Melrose diner and we were talking about movies that make us cry. Evidently, Ray and I are the saps that tear up at movies – he said he starts sniffling just watching Oprah (most recently when a young girl met Condi Rice, her hero for proving to her […]

President Bush’s grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, government documents show. It just gets worse and worse, doesn’t it?

Archive.org has an extensive audio archive that includes free downloads such as: Cab Calloway (1932): The Man from Harlem Bessie Mae Smith (1930): He Treats Me Like a Dog and even the audio archives of Democracy Now, a radio program. Their October 10, 2003 broadcast has a great interview with an expert in military contractors […]

The discovery of an FBI bug in Mayor John Street’s office Oct. 7 and a federal investigation into possible municipal corruption has completely changed the dynamic of the campaign and, in the process, deepened long-existing fissures between black and white hiladelphians.

Doesn’t this sound as polarized and stupid as everything else that comes out of the middle-east? The former commander of Army Special Forces, Lt. Gen. William ?Jerry? Boykin has led or been part of almost every recent U.S. military operation, from the ill-fated attempt to rescue hostages in Iran to Grenada, Panama, Colombia, Somalia. Why […]