Andymatic

Month: March 2005

  • SUCKER!

    I find one of the best ways to really absorb the culture of a city is to ask the locals what they think. It has worked for me in Europe, so why not Portland, Oregon? Because of Shiz-Net that is why! While my husband was trying on pants in a vintage/gently used clothing store, I […]

  • FBI Assisted in Post-9/11 Saudi Evacuation

    Score a point for Michael Moore: The New York Times reported that the documents show Federal Bureau of Investigation agents gave personal airport escorts to two prominent Saudi families who fled the United States, while several other Saudis were allowed to leave the country without first being interviewed, citing newly-released US government records.

  • Chinese Mobilize Justice with Death Vans

    Several Chinese provinces are using “death vans” to carry out court-ordered executions – in some cases, 15 minutes after a death sentence has been imposed.

  • Problem From Hell, A: Chapter 5

    Notes from Chapter 1-3, 4. Lemkin needs the 20 UN members that voted for the genocide ban in the general assembly to now take that legislation home and ratify it domestically. Many assumed the U.S. would be among the first to ratify (we were among the first to sign the pact). U.S. grievances to law: […]

  • Reverend Patrick Mahoney and the Christian Defense Coalition

    You see that slobbering, screaming maniac on the telly? I thought he looked familiar: This is the same Patrick Mahoney that asked the IRS if church praying for Bush’s re-election was legal. The same guy whose organization said that the Secret Service banning crosses at the Inauguration was censorship. He’s at the forefront of that […]

  • Bush Really Didn't Want to Sign Schiavo Legislation

    So… PATRIOT ACT – no late night session of Congress as they rammed through a draconian bill that no one even read. “Bin Laden Determined to Attack United States” – no need to return from vacation and ‘clearing brush’ in Crawford, TX. Exactly how much brush is on that ranch! Christ – that man is […]

  • Real Estate Instead of Dot-Coms

    Everybody’s favorite bubble is looking familiar.

  • Phil Donahue on Media Control

    I’ve always had a great deal of respect for Phil Donahue. I watched his talk show a lot when I was a kid and still would love to someday have my own talk show and ask that age-old question: Is the caller there? I didn’t get to catch his comeback a few years ago on […]

  • Easter Sunday

    How the hell can you receive Communion through a feeding tube?

  • Easter Vigil

    I think the saddest thing about the whole Schiavo case is at the center you have a family that is so afraid of accepting death. The desperate appeals up and down the judicial hierarchy get more and more selfish each time. This is not about Terri’s wishes or her husband’s custody as her legal guardian: […]