Month: June 2004

  • Amy Goodman Dresses Down Bill Clinton

    Republicans, this bud’s for you. I’d read about indepedent journalist Amy Goodman’s notorious interview four years ago with Bill Clinton in her new book Exception to the Rulers but was trying to find it in their audio archives. They brought it out of the vaults yesterday. He called in right before a broadcast was beginning […]

  • Jack Ryan's Sex Club Antics

    You know it’s a story if I hear about it – I don’t read any Chicago newspapers and get everything online and still don’t really consider my self a Chicagoan but Jack Ryan, the devout Catholic Republican candidate for Senate is going through a rather nasty divorce and this gem exploded onto the front pages. […]

  • Jack Ryan's Sex Club Antics

    You know it’s a story if I hear about it – I don’t read any Chicago newspapers and get everything online and still don’t really consider my self a Chicagoan but Jack Ryan, the devout Catholic Republican candidate for Senate is going through a rather nasty divorce and this gem exploded onto the front pages. […]

  • Thank God That's Over

    Wow. What a strange couple of days it has been as a legion of commenters voiced their distaste, distrust and just plain disgust with my views, my hairstyle, my job title – even suggesting that maybe if I had my head cut off I’d understand why I was dumb as dirt. It was enough to […]

  • Yuppies Hit Dry Land

    The overzealous residents of the Dakota condo complex, situationed next to Circuit nightclub aren’t satisfied. They managed to kill Circuit’s business by making them turn their music down and installing soundproofing. Note that the condo complex was built long after this strip of Broadway became partyboy central. Now they want to make the whole precinct […]

  • U.S. Diplomats Urge Bush's Removal

    An unusually strident public critique signed by 26 former military and foreign-service officials – says Bush’s policies have proved ineffective and left the United States isolated internationally, according to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post on Sunday. The signatories include officials appointed by presidents of both parties, who have served on every continent, […]

  • U.S. Diplomats Urge Bush's Removal

    An unusually strident public critique signed by 26 former military and foreign-service officials – says Bush’s policies have proved ineffective and left the United States isolated internationally, according to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post on Sunday. The signatories include officials appointed by presidents of both parties, who have served on every continent, […]

  • Catholic Church Outsources Prayers to India

    (via BoingBoing via Zed) With Roman Catholic clergy in short supply in the US, prests in India are now picking up some of the work of saying special-purpose Mass for North American churches.

  • Rumsfeld's Secret Prisoner

    Rumsfeld ordered that one Iraqi prisoner be held “off the books” � hidden entirely from the International Red Cross and anyone else � in possible violation of international law. […] Rumsfeld passed the order on to Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, to keep the prisoner locked up, but off […]

  • Saddam/Al-Queda Meme Struggles Onward

    A senior Iraqi intelligence officer reportedly made three visits to Sudan, finally meeting Bin Laden in 1994. Bin Laden is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded. There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda also occurred after […]