Month: May 2005

Neil MacFarquhar writes about Iran and the bomb: From nuclear negotiators to student dissidents, from bazaar merchants to turbaned mullahs, Iranians agree: the right to develop nuclear power is a point of national pride. Not...

“This is our week before Christmas. Everyone wants their monument finished and set in the cemetery by May 30,” says the president of a Seattle monument company, in a Seattle PI story on the business. While that story...

Newsie’s Week in Reviewsies: GOP Outrage & Keep Sen.Cat Killer as Majority Leader! This regular meta-diary focuses on the best overlooked diaries (didn’t get front-paged or on to the recommended list) from the...

I’ve read various news stories about the Bulgarian nurses “found guilty of infecting more than 400 children with HIV” in Libya. I’ve read that the nurses were tortured into confessing, but that many...

I am not usually given to such behavior, but this is a warning: this is a rant! Oooo… I am so pissed! Today, I go in to give blood at my local Red Cross, like usual. They always have some little enticements for people to...