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With the ticking clock leading to the presidential election this November, there has never been a better or more urgently felt opportunity (at least in my lifetime) to become involved in the political process. This election represents two very starkly… Continue reading
Updated: Read Devin's interview with John Cusack here It's not such a shock if you haven't heard much about John Cusack's new movie, War, Inc. A Google news search yields an anemic handful of hits. There's no "arg" for it, unless you count real life. But for… Continue reading
But first, some comic relief… One of the most powerful essays to have been published on the Bush presidency was sparked by the Bush speech before Israel's Knesset, brilliantly parroted by conservative talking head Kevin James in the clip above. Here are… Continue reading
The problem with the news today seems to be that the corporate news networks have a dictum which states that world events are too complicated for the average viewer and therefore they only scratch the surface in their reportage, or even easier: just repeat… Continue reading
When Dick Cheney visited Saudi Arabia to talk about oil and the Middle East in general with King Abdullah, the Doomsday Clock ticked one minute closer to midnight. Cheney and the neocon cadre have long set their sights on Iran and have worked every angle to… Continue reading
+ ÷ = It would be cute if it wasn't so scary…From Gizmodo Continue reading
While no detail has been left behind in the mainstream press' prurient "probing" into L'Affair Spitzer, what's not known is that there was another breathless and no less illicit tryst going on in the same town at the same time. Greg Palast reports: While New… Continue reading
Identity theft is a big story these days. Someone goes an a spending spree in your name to the tune of thousands of dollars; your credit rating gets trashed; you're stuck with hefty bills you don't feel responsible for, yet there they are, accruing interest… Continue reading
… … wherein I cast runes and read chicken guts to tell you what will happen in October… Let's see now… Getting something… From Esquire: Just as [William] Fallon took over Centcom last spring, the White House was putting itself on… Continue reading
Having a short, common name is good for privacy in the internets age. Commonness is about the only protective covering available for those of us on the paranoid side, in fact. But it's not without fallout. Take for example having an email account in your… Continue reading
… wherein I cast runes and read chicken guts to tell you what will happen this November. OK, come on, Lady Luck! Wait … getting something… But when McCain huddled with his closest advisers at his rustic Arizona cabin last weekend to map out… Continue reading
When the White House allegedly pressured CBS not to air its 60 Minutes report on the Don Siegelman case, the report had about as much hope of seeing the light of day again as its subject. Well, CBS ultimately did air the report … opposite the Oscars… Continue reading
