Month: August 2005

Truman to Republicans: Put `em up! (The following is a political séance with Elizabeth and Harry S. Truman.) “This is Bess Truman.  I have a message for Mr. William O’ Reilly.” “Little man, if...

Via the coalition casualty count, 14 American soldiers have so far been reported killed in action during the week starting August 14, 2005. According to figures pulled from Reuters’ Iraq report, at least 123 Iraqi deaths...

In a new report released today, over 700 Missouri schools have failed to meet the Adequate Yearly Progress standards of the draconian No Child Left Behind bill. That number was up from around 400 last year. No great man fails to...

The facts about the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes continue to get even worse for the London police. Today, it turns out that the surveillance team had concluded that de Menezes was not a threat – that he was not...

A sign we spotted today on the well-traveled Old Olympic Highway, in the country near the Dungeness River and near a highly popular game farm. The land owner — a farmer who grows turf for lawns — has repainted the...