Month: May 2005

In his diary today, Othniel asks us to remember Kent State. I remember. I remember walking past the student union at the University of Texas early that Monday and seeing Jeff Jones and some of the SDS people sitting on the steps...

A 13-year-old’s drawing of an attack on his village:”I am looking at the sheep in the wadi [riverbed]. I see Janjaweed coming – quickly, on horses and camels, with Kalashnikovs – shooting and yelling,...

Bad news, bitch! In a surprise announcement Wednesday, Comedy Central announced that the highly anticipated third season of Dave Chappelle’s will not make its May 31 premiere date. “Comedy Central has suspended...

Cross posted to A Magnificent Wreckage David Neiwert, of Orcinus, has been doing yeoman’s work chronicling the rise of “fascimentalism” (the melding of the American Fundamentalist movement and ur-fascism) in...

Talk about sending the fox to guard the chickens!  According to BushCo. there’s trouble in the UN that needs ‘Murkens to go in, take no prisoners, and clean up.  [Perhaps bring Kofi Annan’s head to DC...