Month: August 2007

  • Condoleeza Clinton

    A photo artist has merged photographs of odd couples including our dear Condi Rice and the Hill-dog: Be sure to see the one of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

  • US Military Network Bans ThinkProgress.org

    Of course Fox News and National Review are still getting through the Baghdad firewall: Recently, an avid ThinkProgress reader — a U.S. soldier serving his second tour in Iraq — wrote to us and said that he can no longer access ThinkProgress.org. The ban began sometime shortly after Aug. 22, when Ret. Maj. Gen. John […]

  • Iowa Halts Same-Sex Marriage

    1 couple made it through.

  • Marine in Haditha 'Ordered to Kill Women and Children'

    This is terrible: “I told him there were women and kids inside there. He said ‘Well, shoot them,”’ Lance-Cpl Mendoza told prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Sean Sullivan. “And what did you say to him?” Lt-Col Sullivan asked. “I said ‘But they’re just women and children.’ He didn’t say nothing.”

  • Pentagon to White House: "Here, George. Hold This."

    From DailyKos: “The professional military guys are going to the non-professional military guys and saying ‘Resolve this,’” said Jeffrey White, a military analyst for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “That’s what it sounds like.” White said it suggests that the military commanders want to be able to distance themselves from Iraq strategy by […]

  • Sir Ian McKellen Versus the Gideon Bible

    He tears out that one special page: In a profile by John Lahr, Ian McKellen, confesses that part of his agenda as an openly gay famous person is ripping the page with Leviticus 20:13 out of the Bible whenever his hotel room comes Scripture-equipped. “It’s the one thing I find difficult to defend but do […]

  • Freefall Continues: Tony Snow Resigns

    He’s going to spend more time fighting the cancer that is eating his soul – oh and his colon too: Tony Snow, the highly visible White House press secretary, will leave his job on Sept. 14 and be replaced by his deputy, Dana Perino, an administration official said Friday. President Bush was to announce the […]

  • The World Without Us

    An upcoming book, The World Without Us, charts the development of Earth’s ecology in the face of human extinction: Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists – who describe a pre-human world inhabited by megafauna like […]

  • Iran War Prep Begins Tuesday

    Justin at Antiwar.com points us to the timeline for beginning the marketing roll-out for a war with Iran: They [the source’s institution] have “instructions” (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated […]

  • Iowa Judge Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban

    And same-sex couples are lining up: A Polk County judge has struck down Iowa’s law that bans gay marriage. Judge Robert B. Hanson ruled that couples cannot be denied licenses to marry or marriage certificates or “in any other way be prevented from entering into civil marriage pursuant to Iowa Code Chapter 595 by reason […]