Andymatic

Month: October 2007

  • Everything's Coming Up Torture

    We don’t torture to get at the truth – we torture to manufacture it.

  • Last One Standing TV Show on Discovery Channel

    Anybody else get a bit grossed out about this show? Members of Western ‘modern’ civilization go out into the bush and learn the warrior ways from Those Who Are Not Us. The idea is to have three American and three British athletes, all from different sports, compete over eight episodes in different kinds of ancient […]

  • Chicago Police Department Steeped in Blood

    Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago’s troubled police department reeling again. The biggest shock came Wednesday when federal prosecutors charged special operations officer Jerome Finnigan with planning the murder of another member of the unit to keep him […]

  • Fundie Christians Consider Third Political Party

    If you’d read American Theocracy, this won’t surprise you at all: Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him. The group making […]

  • National Debt: You Owe $30,000

    That’s okay, Hillary’s baby-bond will save us. Yeah right. $5k towards a college tuition in 2026? Pshaw, y’all. Suck it, ‘fiscal’ conservatives: For the fifth time since 2001, Congress is raising the debt limit, increasing it by $850 billion to $9.815 trillion. The Senate approved the plan on a 53-42 vote Thursday. That’s $9,815,000,000,000.00. The […]

  • Panamanian Man Reads Toothpaste Tube, Finds Poison

    Eduardo Arias did something that would reverberate across six continents. He read the label on a 59-cent tube of toothpaste. On it were two words that had been overlooked by government inspectors and health authorities in dozens of countries: diethylene glycol, the same sweet-tasting, poisonous ingredient in antifreeze that had been mixed into cold syrup […]

  • In the Midst of Investigations, Blackwater Scores Another $92 Million

    What’s a few dead Iraqis anyway? It’s not really a private militia until your face is under the boot. Last Thursday, Gen. Peter Pace told reporters, “Blackwater has been a contractor in the past with the department and could certainly be in the future.” The next day, that future was already here. The Pentagon had […]

  • Woman Strangles to Death Trying to Escape Airport Detention

    The daughter-in-law of one of New York’s top officials screamed, “I’m not a terrorist!” and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, witnesses told the Daily News yesterday. … Carol Anne Gotbaum, 45, of the upper West Side, died less than an hour later, after cops […]

  • In Burma, the Bodies Pile Up, Tossed into Crematoria

    History rhymes: In the three days since Burma’s military junta began its brutal crackdown on anti-government protests, the people who were briefly defiant and proud are again scared and paranoid. … “We heard that one of the victims turned out to be still alive when they started burning them, and began screaming, but the soldiers […]

  • The Flying Naomis

    Alrighty. I fired up the Chimoo Timer app on the Mac Mini and so I’m now doing some speedwriting which I haven’t done in forever. I FedExed the Sony Vaio laptop off to the laptop repair place to have new hinges put in. I think that’ll make the laptop survive a couple more years. The […]