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Month: April 2004

  • Sibel Edmonds Allegations

    Sibel Edmons, a 33-year-old former FBI translator alleges that she read intelligence reports from the summer of 2001 that al Qaeda operatives planned to fly hijacked airplanes into U.S. skyscrapers. This directly conflicts with Rice’s testimony. Her allegations and the reportage on it so far point out very distinct differences between American media and the […]

  • TV May Rewire Kids's Brains

    Arcim Perri blogs this nugget: For every hour of television watched daily, two groups of children — ages 1 and 3 — faced a 10 percent increased risk of having attention problems at age 7. Unrealistically fast-paced visual images typical of most TV programming may alter normal brain development. “The newborn brain develops very rapidly […]

  • Bush Takes a Month Off

    Please redact this post. My conservative watchdog – Flounder! – found I didn’t check my dates. Thnx!I know that creating humanitarian disasters, dissembling international law and peace and erecting strawmen would make me plum tuckered out. That’s why a leading Democrat criticized President Bush on Tuesday for planning to spend a month at his Texas […]

  • Queen and Queen

    Two gals make their wedding announcement in the motif of Super Mario Brothers with two princesses. Congratulations Kate and Jenny! (via Kottke)

  • Ashcroft Declares War on Porn

    Ashcroft (ex-Pentetcostal minister) has begun his latest War on X. This time x = porn. Solve for censorhip: [Pornography] invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet, [and has] strewn its victims from coast to coast. Victims that choose to pay millions and millions of dollars every year to […]

  • Illinois Bill to Bar Youth From Tattoo Parlors

    This is so goddamn stupid. A bill moves to the State Senate (it passed the House 103-13) that would ban anyone under 18 from entering a tattoo parlor. [Rep. Jerry] Mitchell’s bill also would exempt minors from criminal charges if they tattoo another youth outside of a tattoo shop. He said teens who rig their […]

  • $14 Steadicam

    I want one! Johnny figured out how to make your own Steadicam on the cheap… you’ll recognize the Steadicam’s influence – first lauded in The Shining… remebmer those maze sequences that were so smooth and the camera seemed to just float? That’s this. Makre your own for fourteen bucks!

  • Air America Radio

    As any left-lib worth their salt knows, Air America launched last week – an effort to bring a liberal talk show radio channel to the masses. I am glad to know that liberal commentators can be just as abrasive as conservative talkies. I think Al Franken is so much better in print than heard. Randi […]

  • Clinton Brokers AIDS Drugs Deal

    Four companies that produce generic Aids drugs have agreed to reduce the cost of the drugs for millions of people in developing countries under a deal brokered by former US President Bill Clinton.

  • Kerry's POW Cover Up

    The Village Voice reports: An abundance of evidence had come to light that the North Vietnamese, while returning 591 U.S. prisoners of war after the treaty signing, had held back many others as future bargaining chips for the $4 billion or more in war reparations that the Nixon administration had pledged. In the [Congressional] committee’s […]