Month: May 2005

Doping Racehorses with —- Viagra?

As we all need a dollop of weirdness ere now & again. Sports  Illustrated is reporting from the CNN website the Italian Mafia was attempting to fix races by doping horses with … Viagra.  This unique...

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Playing Chicken with Nukes Again

[From the diaries by susanhbu] While the Bushies do nothing but bluster, Iran is calling their bluff, as did North Korea last week. It’s a dangerous game of nuclear chicken, set against the background of the...

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US ‘backed illegal Iraqi oil deals’

From the UKs Guardian: http://tinyurl.com/c2cht The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation. A report released last...

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Republicans: The "Me" Party

[Cross-posted from DailyKos] The Republican party has recently put a lot of effort into painting us as the “Party of No.”  They have taken great pains to tell Americans what to think about us, but what should we...

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