Remember when you thought Helen Thomas was just a spunky, tough-as-nails, take-no-prisoners White House correspondent in bad shoes? Well, those days are well nigh over. Today, ‘tseems, she’s just another partisan grump, hectoring Ari Fleischer and Dubya with her insistently vapid questions and (more frequently) her inane columns. Here, Helen pulls a Rall out of her ass (or is it a “Moore”), suggesting that President Bush, by dint of his

Remember when you thought Helen Thomas was just a spunky, tough-as-nails, take-no-prisoners White House correspondent in bad shoes? Well, those days are well nigh over. Today, ‘tseems, she’s just another partisan grump, hectoring Ari Fleischer and Dubya with her insistently vapid questions and (more frequently) her inane columns. Here, Helen pulls a Rall out of her ass (or is it a “Moore”), suggesting that President Bush, by dint of his

The New York Times is running a story on the potential flight of C-Dub and Skip Gates from Harvard’s Halloweds to the Tiger Cage of Princeton U. West and Gates are threatening to leave Harvard over (yawn) racial “concerns” — shorthand, in racespeak (vis-a-vis the academy) for something like “affirmative action or bust”: ‘It’s absolutely critical that the president make an unequivocal public statement in support of affirmative action,’ [said

The New York Times is running a story on the potential flight of C-Dub and Skip Gates from Harvard’s Halloweds to the Tiger Cage of Princeton U. West and Gates are threatening to leave Harvard over (yawn) racial “concerns” — shorthand, in racespeak (vis-a-vis the academy) for something like “affirmative action or bust”: ‘It’s absolutely critical that the president make an unequivocal public statement in support of affirmative action,’ [said

UPI: “Acting on U.S. intelligence gathered in Afghanistan, the Singapore government earlier this month raided a “terrorist nest” and arrested 12 alleged al Qaida members suspected of planning an attack on the island nation’s deep-water Navy port, top Pentagon and other government officials said.” (via Drudge Report)

A detailed examination of documents taken from abandoned al-Qaeda houses in Kabul reveal the organization’s plans for chemical weapons “drawn up with large-scale production in mind: each recipe contained a step-by-step guide explaining how to produce batches that would kill thousands of people,” The Times of London is reporting. Many of the pages had the feel of teachers

A detailed examination of documents taken from abandoned al-Qaeda houses in Kabul reveal the organization’s plans for chemical weapons “drawn up with large-scale production in mind: each recipe contained a step-by-step guide explaining how to produce batches that would kill thousands of people,” The Times of London is reporting. Many of the pages had the feel of teachers

House Representative and Hemp Hustler Cynthia Thielen (R-Hawaii) — famous for sowing the first industrial hemp seeds planted in U.S. soil since 1957 (see photo) — has now co-sponsored a House resolution calling for research into technology that can convert wave action into electricity, Wired News reports. Thielen says the first use of this technology in the U.S. will be at a Marine base in Oahu — the most populous

House Representative and Hemp Hustler Cynthia Thielen (R-Hawaii) — famous for sowing the first industrial hemp seeds planted in U.S. soil since 1957 (see photo) — has now co-sponsored a House resolution calling for research into technology that can convert wave action into electricity, Wired News reports. Thielen says the first use of this technology in the U.S. will be at a Marine base in Oahu — the most populous

Hey, all. We’ll be posting lightly today while we reconsider our blogging habits.