Month: March 2004

  • March 20, 2004: War Protest, Chicago

    Going downtown to the protest. They don’t have a permit for it. It’s in the middle of the Magnificent Mile on a big shopping Saturday. If you see me in a cloud of tear gas, wave “hi!” Update:Over 20 million people marched for peace worldwide. Having trouble getting the pics off my cellphone and to […]

  • The Passion of William Hung

    Jimi Izrael analyzes the popularity of American Idol reject William Hung: (via Angry Asian Man From the bookbag and pocket-protector to the bad haircut and the buckteeth, he looked like a plant, someone who dressed up to do this on a bet. Because that shtick is gonna be funny for about 30 more seconds before […]

  • Krispy Kreme Goes Low Carb

    Blasphemy: (via Low-Carb Blog) Krispy Kreme is jumping on the low-carb bandwagon. The sweet treat company is creating a low-sugar doughnut. Krispy Kreme hopes that the low-carb alternative will attract dieter and diabetics.

  • Iraq By the Numbers

    570 Number of American men and women killed in Iraq 430 Number of American men and women killed in Iraq after Bush declared ‘Mission Accomplished’ 29,000 Number of American men and women so injured as to require evacuation out of Iraq 0 Number of funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan Bush has attended […]

  • Disquieted American

    Chalmers Johnson’s Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Empire really burned my brain a year or so ago and got me on my own fact-finding mission to see and find out what I wasn’t being told about recent American history. He reaches past administrations, past political parties, past mere pop politics and mucksrakes the […]

  • The Al Queda Vote

    A commenter on Daily Kos makes an inflammatory, though compelling case: Al Qaeda wanted Saddam removed from power, Bush removes Saddam from power. Al Qaeda wanted US military out of the Saudi peninsula, Bush removes US military from Saudi peninsula. Al Qaeda wanted to be treated seriously as a world class player locked in a […]

  • MoveOn.org Nails Rumsfeld to the Wall

    I really think that journalists should have a searchable archive of all the press conferences and presidential speeches on their laptops so they can do exactly what this journalist did on Face the Nation. Flash video (50k). Also: California Congresscritter Henry Waxman commissioned Iraq On the Record which cites over 200 lies that Bush and […]

  • Voicemail of the Dead

    I would be remiss if I didn’t write about the Madrid bombing in a little more detail. The most haunting image that stays with me is the dozens of cellphones heard ringing inside the wreckage – the loved ones calling the dead ones to see if they are still alive. It sticks in my head […]

  • LGBT Federal Workers Lose Job Protections

    Gay and lesbians in the entire federal workforce have had their job protections officially removed by the office of Special Counsel. Bloch said that the while a gay employee would have no recourse for being fired or demoted for being gay, that same worker could not be fired for attending a gay Pride event. But […]

  • The Soup Nazi (Seinfeld)

    The Soup Nazi episode may be a perfect episode of television sitcom. A handful of Frasiers and Seinfelds hit the heights of farce and rejoice in being the heir to Moliere as well as the Restoration comedies of manners. Ron and I are giddy every time we see the Soup Nazi episode. From the opening […]