Month: December 2006

  • Eating Out 2

    Eating Out 2 is about as funny as the first movie which is to say in fits and starts. The movie does retain the erotic malleability of the first movie and introduces us to Marco Dapper, one of the handsomest and hunkiest guys to appear in a gay-themed film in a long time. Where the […]

  • 100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year

    From BBC: 2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales. 20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood. 73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree. 76. The day […]

  • Interspecies Cooperative Hunting

    Totally cool: The giant moray eel is normally a lone hunter in the dark. Now scientists find these eels may at times hunt in the daytime in the Red Sea, and surprisingly cooperate with another predatory fish, the grouper, which is also normally a solitary predator. This is the first example of coordinated hunting seen […]

  • Veggie Out

    Ron: I’m not going to go to the gym today. I’m just going to veggie out.

  • Americans: The Sorest Losers of All

    Mark Morford: It’s still our most favorite idea, the thing our own childlike president loves to talk most about, burned into our national consciousness like a bad tattoo: We always win. We’re the good guys. We’re the chosen ones. We’re the goddamn cavalry, flying the flag of truth, wrapped in strip malls and Ford pickups […]

  • Light Holiday Reading

    My holiday reading list: Guns, Germs and Steel: When I kept talking about American Theocracy (oil panic, crazy debt, crazy Christians) everyone kept thinking I was talking about this book. So I got a copy. I want to read it before we get the PBS special which I hope is available on DVD. Collapse: How […]

  • The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: McKinney Introduces Articles of Impeachment in the House

    From David Swanson Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has introduced articles of impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice. In doing so, she alone has spoken for the 51 percent of Americans who Newsweek says want Bush impeached. Read McKinney’s remarks.  McKinney charges that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld manipulated intelligence and lied to justify war, […]

  • Iraq War Could Cost $1 Trillion

    Another gem from the Iraq Study Group report (order yours yet?) The Iraq Study Group report included many other notable facts and recommendations: the US embassy in Baghdad has only six fluent [Arabic] speakers out of a staff of one thousand; The US government has significantly underreported the number of attacks in Iraq; and that […]

  • Leahy and Specter Introduce Bill to Restore Habeas

    Leahy and Specter Introduce Bill to Restore Habeas (from TalkLeft) Sen. Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy on Tuesday introduced S. 4081 to eliminate the habeas corpus- stripping provisions of the Military Commissions Act. The text of the bill is available in the Congressional Record and follows below. This Act may be cited as the “Habeas […]

  • Pentagon Underreports Violence in Iraq: It is 10 Times Worse

    Panel: U.S. underreported Iraq violence The panel pointed to one day last July when U.S. officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. “Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence,” it said.