Andymatic

Month: January 2007

  • US Storms Iran Consulate in Iraq

    US forces have stormed a building in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six people said to be Iranians, prompting a diplomatic incident. Iranian and Iraqi officials said the building was an Iranian consulate and the detainees its employees.

  • Responsibility Without Consequences

    It is easy to say that you accept all the responsibility when something goes wrong – especially when there’s no consequences for your actions.

  • Tell Your House Rep: ‘Pull Funding for the War'

    Got 2 minutes? Go to house.gov and find your house rep. Call them and say: I support pulling funding for the war in Iraq. Hang up. Everyone will be scared of the sacred ‘You don’t support the troops.’ or even better ‘Why do you hate the troops?’ or even better ‘Why do you hate America?’ […]

  • America's Next Top Bottom

    The Tivo sucked us into a marathon of America’s Next Top Model last week. There should be a gay porn star search show or bondage submissive show called America’s Next Top Bottom.

  • Typhoid, Mary

    Back from the doc. Ron has had a raging case of something in the past few days running fevers of 100 to 103 degrees (Fahrenheit, y’all). He rarely gets ill (I think it is from building up resistance to bugs as a flight attendant, my parents were the same way as elementary school teachers). But […]

  • What Books Changed Your Mind in 2006?

    I chronicled my favorite business-y books of 2006 on my business-y blog. Here’s the political books: Whose Freedom?: The Battle for America’s Most Important Idea by George Lakoff. Lakoff is a Berkeley linguist best known for introducing the concept of ‘framing’ into political discussion. You also know it as ‘marketing’. His most accessible book is […]

  • Gays Make Great Cannon Fodder

    As existing troops have a third or fourth tour overseas and Bush plans to not listen to anybody except his own arrogance, the need for more troops looms large. Former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff TWO weeks ago, President Bush called for a long-term plan to increase the size of the armed forces. As […]

  • FBI Reports ‘Baptizing' at Guantanamo

    interrogators wrapped a bearded prisoner’s head in duct tape “because he would not stop quoting the Koran,” … a civilian contractor laughed about the treatment and was eager to show it off. one interrogator bragged to an FBI agent that he had forced a prisoner to listen to “Satanic black metal music for hours,” then […]

  • UK Passengers Flying to US Have Credit Card and Email Accounts Inspected

    (via Slashdot.org) Britons flying to America could have their credit card and email accounts inspected by the United States authorities following a deal struck by Brussels and Washington. By using a credit card to book a flight, passengers face having other transactions on the card inspected by the American authorities. Providing an email address to […]

  • Proto-Fascism Makes Me Horny

    To celebrate the new year, I’m adding a collection of 14 new categories to this blog. The fourteen points of fascism first authored by Lauren Britt. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. Disdain for the importance of human rights. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. Rampant sexism. A […]