i'm guessing most of yall have read 'alice in wonderland' or seen the disney translation and will remember the croquet game in which the rules were constantly being redefined according to royal whim? the progression that led to our current quandry in guantanamo proves that life imitates art. first of all, let's consider how it is we have a base in guantanamo...and how it became a prison. after 'liberating' cuba from its spanish colonial masters, the us forced (as in there ...
the argument that we invaded iraq in order to take advantage of its oil resource cannot meet the results test. nobody is benefitting much from iraqi oil because it iraq is only producing slightly more than half the oil it did prior to the invasion. even if seen as a consequence of (or even more evidence for) an abysmal lack of planning by the administration, the fact is we're being hurt rather than helped. we? well not all of us. to keep us from goin...
is there anything more evocative of the good old summertime--the kinda summers we used to have back before everything went to hell--than a good old cream truck rolling slowly along the street, it's cheery nursery rhyme melodies and jingling bells calling kids of all ages forth from their yards and houses? judging from events being reported in papers throughout the country and as far away as rural india, the good humored vendor of yore is disappearing faste...
the united states senate showed its true pitiful self yesterday when it permitted a democratic minority to prevail in a symbolic gesture and pass a resolution that effectively ended senate tolerance of a tradition dating back to precolonial times. in so doing, they slammed the door shut, effectively denying millions of deserving ameicans any chance of achieving parity with a grossly over-represented--and dismaying ungrateful--ethnic minority group. 42 of the 44 democrats in the senate (in ...
BIG BASH TONITE....BYOB (BRING YOUR OWN BOY)
about damn time too! scroll down no the original image is notta pic of the aftermath of an attack. according to the source: The example picture above shows a throng of Iraqi Shiite Muslims who cut their heads with swords in a ritual of shared suffering with Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq. Source: A. B. Woodall, Washinton Post, April 23, 2003.
as fiercely as it disputes the left being the political faction which represents all mankind, in the depths of its frozen solid stone heart, the right knows this to be the truth. the evidence is overwhelming and undeniable. as those on the right stagger from one episode of debilitating overwhelming outrage to the next--an infliction that seems to strike on average seven times in any 24 hour period--a little-undestood autonomic self-pr...
gulag. amazing that one small word can be so powerful or evoke such a horrific response. i first became familiar with the concept while reading 'one day in the life of ivan denisovich' by alexander solzhenitsyn when i was still in grade school (clearly my recreational reading tastes were a bit precocious as well as extreme). for a week during the summer between 7th and 8th grade, i shivered in the heat and humidity of late july in da motah city as ivan and i--convict slave la...
i lost my copy of your autobiography--"Will"--about 10 years ago, so you're gonna have to bear with my paraphrasing. i was very much struck by several of your revelations. for example, you described being present at a meeting with some under-assistant something or other to turkey during a time when nixon was determined to pressure the turkish government into halting the production of opium as part of his 'war on drugs'. whoever the guy was and whatever his position mighta be...
gary lynn sterling is a self-confessed murderer who was, until last wednesday, scheduled to be executed by the state of texas on may 25, 2005. in 1989, after he was arrested in connection with the murder of two elderly brothers, sterling volunteered to help clear up another case and led authorities to a location at which two bodies were found. he was subsequently charged with one of those murders (no prosecution was initiated for the other for which sterling is the chief suspect), convicte...
the old joke about how to stop fish from smelling (cut off their noses, course) may be taking on new dimensions of meaning and import. dr. charles wysocki of the monell chemical senses centre in philadelphia believes he has found more evidence that human sexual orientation is genetically determined. dr wisocki has published in the journal Psychological Science results of scientific tests he performed while investigating the importance of body odor as a sexual attractant. the...
although this may appear to be a response to gideon's declaration of independence from euphemism Link , it's actually something i've been meaning to do for a while, and owes its inspiration more to a recent flurry of rants, screeds and harangues by some strident self-proclaimed voices of the sorely oppressed majority. as strange as this may seem, i feel a strong connection to--if not an actual bond with--of all people, moses. i'm almost positive i know now how he felt upon se...
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according to the daily telegraph, a 23-year old woman, whose name was regrettably not disclosed, received 9 months in the slam for raping a man in bergen, norway. she was also ordered to pay him 40,000 kroner ($6,380 dollars) in damages. the victim claimed he'd been drinking with the woman's boyfriend, passed out and awoke to find her going down on him while her boyfriend took pictures. falling back on one classic rapist defense, the perp claimed the guy was awake and&nb...
okay the title is misleading. george said hey abdullah, it's time we were frank & earnest with each other. abdullah agreed but 'only if i get to be ernest this time.' is this just a shameless ploy to get the crown prince to give him another $130,000 in jewelry...or a clue as to why that same sex marriage amendment seems to have slipped between the cracks?