Month: July 2006

  • Drunken Mel Gibson Rants About The ‘Fucking Jews'

    Mel Gibson went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. TMZ has also learned that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps. The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I’m going to […]

  • Arab Linguist Kicked Out of Army for Doing Community Theatre

    A decorated sergeant and Arabic language specialist was dismissed from the U.S. Army under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, though he says he never told his superiors he was gay and his accuser was never identified. Sounds like a witch-hunt atmosphere to me. On Dec. 2, investigators formally interviewed Copas and asked if he […]

  • Bush Pushes for Indefinite Detention, Barring Civil Course – for US Citizens Suspected of Terrorism

    U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill. A 32-page draft measure is intended to authorize the Pentagon’s tribunal system, established shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks to detain […]

  • Hard Pill

    Finally. A well-acted, well-written, engaging, suspenseful, honest, intelligent and altogether fantastic film. For the gay men and women reading: If you could take a pill that made you straight, would you? Could you turn back years of family friction, workplace tension and social pressure? Would you opt to live a more ‘normal’ life? That is […]

  • Gonzales Asks for Protection from ‘War Crime' Statute

    An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts. Senior officials have responded by drafting legislation that would grant U.S. personnel involved in […]

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Israel/Palestine for Dummies

    Paul over at Brainshrub does a fantastic, pretty balanced, thumbnail sketch of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Highly recommended for those in the United States of Amnesia. Quote: Or, to boil the whole thing even further – The I/P conflict is bastards fighting bastards who are backed by rich bastards. It’s doesn’t matter who you want to […]

  • Glen Greenwald on Chicken Hawks

    Jeff Jacboy went on a tear about the term ‘chicken hawk’ and how it was a slur. Glen Greenwald responds: Chicken-hawkism is the belief that advocating a war from afar is a sign of personal courage and strength, and that opposing a war from afar is a sign of personal cowardice and weakness. and aiming […]

  • No One Stunned: ‘NSYNC's Lance Bass Comes Out of the Closet

    After all that pomade you have to know something was up. Alright Timberlake, you’re up.

  • War Mongering Roundup

    Condi calls this ‘birth pangs’ of a new middle east. Lebanese Presdient accuses Israel of using white phosphorous (neo-napalm). Israel using clusterbombs on civilians (break int’l law). US testing laser missile defense in Iraq. 900,000 Lebanese refugees displaced from their homes. US supplies Israel with a whole new arsenal of weaponry to continue bombing. UN […]

  • Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

    For all those panicky folks out there – from Dune, the Litany Against Fear from the Bene Gesserit, the nun-like religious sisterhood: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And […]