Month: April 2005

Or how to make it through the day without Cheers and Jeers to make you laugh. More below the foldThere has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over at the C+J Cafe chatroom all morning. People are having a hard time coping...

ISN, the Swiss news agency, reports that “the US has agreed to supply Israel with 5,000 ‘smart bombs’ in a US$319 million weapons deal announced on Wednesday,” immediately prompting speculation...

I figured we’d tackle this one first, get it out of the way. The left side of the blogosphere (and maybe the right too) has been going through convulsions recently over the topic of religion, lots of words thrown about,...

When I first saw the images and read Seymour Hersh’s  now-legendary article describing in horrible and terrifying detail the barbarous practices that some members of the US military were carrying out on Iraqi...

[From the diaries by susanbhu.] Cross-posted at DailyKosThe NYTimes reports this morning that Mexican president Vicente Fox has backed down in his confrontation with Mexico City mayor Andres Lopez Obrador.  Here are some...