The New Scientist has an article up with 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense. In this article the author is listing thirteen scientific problems that point at large gaps in our understanding of the basic principles that are the foundation of our being. Do read the article, it is very well written and you [...]
First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there [...]
If a government forces its subjects to perform in a certain way and cites “secret laws” as the only reason, the people in that country are officially fucked. It seems that the Bush administration is seriously making the argument that they can’t tell us why we have to show IDs at the airport because the [...]
From IOL via the Daily Kos: “US forces bomb Iraq’s Euphrates bridges Baghdad – US-led forces have bombed eight bridges on the Euphrates River in western Iraq to stop insurgents using them, US military spokesperson Major General Rick Lynch said Thursday. “We have been taking out portions of bridges with precision strikes,” he told a [...]
It seems that all of us have completely misunderstood what the desaster of New Orleans is all about… Thousands of dead people are not the problem – the message is the problem! At least that’s what seems to be going through the mosquito-sized brains that control the White House nowadays. Since it became clear that [...]
Memo: Tell the President to stop smiling when he mentions the war in his speeches. It creeps the rest of us out.
So much for staying away from politics… One of Baghdad’s water mains has been blown up by the insurgents and more than two million of the residents have been without drinking water for the last two days… one would think that this is pretty big news, considering that it is now summer in Iraq, but [...]
OK… here’s a little test for you. Read this paragraph and then tell me what country this seems to describe: On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food, or water. Most times they urinated or [...]
So Thomas Friedman of the New York Times had a sudden revelation about Guantanamo Bay: Just Shut It Down Yeah… we fucking told you so! After spending the last couple of years cheerleading the Bush administration in its race to destroy the international image of the US as a beacon of freedom and peace, Friedman [...]
Associated Press writer Patrick Quinn has filed this report today: 40,000 Iraqis to Form Shield in Baghdad Among the usual daily litany of bombings, murders and every imaginable kind of violence under the sun, there is this astonishing passage: In Baghdad, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told a small group of Western reporters that next week’s [...]