Archive for: August 2007

In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the establishment media’s intense aversion to enemy body counts and its fixation on US and civilian casualties.  I also noted how the esatblishment media abruptly abandoned its “Vietnam in the desert” paradigm …

I was looking for some material on the pathology of cruising, the ability of men to engage in random, public sexual encounters with other men while still maintaining their heterosexuality that I had refered to in a previous comment on …

ABC News, to its credit, reports a tragedy on its own terms:
Jeff Hubbard, the retired California police officer who lost two sons in Iraq, spoke to reporters for the first time since the death of his son U.S. Army Cpl. …

 Industrial nations were shying away from fixing stiff 2020 guidelines for greenhouse gases cuts at U.N. talks on Friday in what environmentalists said would be a vote for “dangerous” climate change.
We’re doomed. 

“Redacted” stuns Venice:
Halfway between documentary and fiction, …

Initially it’s a little hot and uncomfortable, and then the lice move in. I was wondering when people were going to start saying what needs to be said. Via townhall.com:
Two years after Katrina, everywhere you turn, there are people …

…that the announcements are almost over. Seriously.

From Red State:
Just want to be clear. This news comes from me and I’m in Germany, but the source is totally solid. Do not expect an official “announcement” today for the public. …

Can be found here.

At least this Packers fan has good taste in deciding which total stranger to grab. Not much for holding his drink, though.  I spared you his shirtless pose, after Brett Farve’s only touchdown pass.  …

Pity the poor lawmakers who are risking their necks, only to be . . .
 ’Slimed in the Green Zone’

For “fuckers.”

Natan Sharansky in the Jerusalem Post: 
“Many politicians and institutions that should be promoting democracy and freedom are cynically reluctant to do it, because Bush raised the agenda,” Sharansky went on. “That’s why I give Bush an “A” for raising …