Andymatic

Month: June 2005

  • Hearts and Minds (1974)

    During the height of the opposition to the United States involvement in Vietnam, director Peter Davis unleashed this startling documentary. Blending reports from the front lines, the protest movement, soldiers returning home, rows of silent Vietnamese watched solemnly as their villages are burned to the ground, POWs speaking at schools and even a high school […]

  • Electrical Thingy

    Pop-quiz – what would a thing be called that I could put on the floor to guard an electrical cord that was running across a doorway. I have my left rear surround sound speaker and the cord crosses the bathroom mid-room doorway (well, before kitty chewed through the cord). I want to know what a […]

  • Women Soldiers

    I was reading an essay about women in combat situations and had a strange thought – I don’t think I’ve seen any pictures of female soldiers coming back to the States missing limbs. Maybe I missed some recent reports or this is a function of women being limited in combat exposure…? I’ve seen plenty of […]

  • CPB Gutted by House Bill

    What Newt Gingrich began years ago is finally coming to a head: House Appropriations Committee has voted to zero-out funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We’re talking about $1.20 per person in the United States of America to support Public Broadcasting. … [O]nce stations start to go off the air, those stations in the […]

  • Halliburton Lands $30M Deal in Guantanamo

    Salt on the wound: A Halliburton Co. unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense Department announced on Thursday.

  • Moving Towards Realtime

    Back home after dinner with Ron and Gilbert. Ron is going home to Milwaukee tomorrow and will be back Sunday night. I’ve already got my work load for tomorrow. I was noticing something the past few days: That since I don’t have any furniture, my default action is to work. Even when I watch the […]

  • Chicago Named Dirtiest U.S. City

    (via Chicagoist) Chicago named dirtiest city of the top 50 US metros. I will say that Chicago is a smelly city. From a baby diaper left on a bus to seeing a grown woman urinate – through her skirt – while standing – and smoking – and talking… And on warm summer nights you can […]

  • Nagasaki Aftermath Journalism Released

    When the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, journalists accounts of the carnage were heavily censored to prevent Americans from realizing the scope of the destruction. The stories have been released: The U.S. government at the time wanted to play down the effects radiation had on health and feared that Weller’s story would affect […]

  • 30+ Congress Members Attend Conyers Downing Street Memo Hearing

    The hearings were pretty good – I caught most of them – looking to see what happens next (if anything): Yesterday’s public hearing was held in a cramped room in the basement of the Capitol. The Republican-led House scheduled 11 votes to be held that same afternoon – more votes than House members cast all […]

  • Scott McClellan and The Last Throes

    (via Kos, via Editor and Publisher) This journalist asks the same question seven times and never gets a clear answer: Q Scott, is the insurgency in Iraq in its ‘last throes’? … Q But the insurgency is in its last throes? … Q But they’re killing more Americans, they’re killing more Iraqis. That’s the last […]