Month: May 2006

  • Muffin Monday

    Happy Monday to ya. Top of the Muffin To Ya. Remember, it’s not Top o’ the Muffin TO YOU, it’s Top o’ the Muffin to a ya. One of my famous quotes from my corporate gig was when Kelly emailed me about breakfast and I informed her: It’s Muffin Monday! I’ve been muffin all day! […]

  • 1 in 136 Americans Incarcerated

    Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer. Of particular note was the gain of 33,539 inmates in jails, the largest increase since 1997,

  • Andymatic 016 – Gay podcast

    Andymatic 016 Gay Podcast – Includes your guide to the 2006 and 2008 elections, FISA, NSA and a lesson in Tagalog.

  • Listening vs Datamining

    In all the hub-bub about the NSA, FBI and God knows who else spying on ordinary American citizens, peace groups and journalists, keep mindful of the use of ‘listening’ or ‘wiretapping’ – Bush says that the US is Not Listening in on Domestic Calls. The hair to split here is an active analyst listening to […]

  • CIA Used UAE Planes in Global Kidnapping

    (Via Newsvine) To all those who thought that the UAE cannot be trusted to run American ports or help in the fight against terrorism, more evidence of the the close behind the scenes cocoperation between Dubai and Washington. After the DP World fiasco, America needs to take better care of its friends, especially those who […]

  • CDC Moves to Routine HIV Testing

    Glimmer of hope/integity: [A}n expected move by the Centers for Disease Control to make HIV testing a part of routine physical exams. This is a dramatic shift from the current standards, and it would have implications for current barriers to testing as well as the ever-present debate about anonymous HIV testing. Via Law Dork via […]

  • NSA Expert: 'Be Terrified”

    Mmmm. Spread this on some toast: We should be terrified that Congress has not been doing its job and because all of the checks and balances put in place to prevent this have been deliberately obviated. In order to get this done, the NSA and White House went around all of the checks and balances. […]

  • China Lifts Yuan

    What imploding US dollar? The world’s most significant trading relationship took a psychologically important turn Monday as China moved to make its exports more expensive.

  • Murtha: Marines Deliberately Killed Iraqi Civilians

    My Lai Service Pack 2: Murtha, a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, said at a news conference Wednesday that sources within the military have told him that an internal investigation will show that “there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because […]

  • Foil

    It is Wednesday. Dad just called and said that we should catch this week’s Frontline that is about the retirement system in America. They feature some employees of United and dad just said that the whole show made him so angry hearing about how senior executives treat pensions as the first thing to go. Do […]