Month: November 2005

This is probably going to be an unpopular diary, but here goes… Isn’t Bird Flu being hyped in the media the same way that WMD’s were being hyped a few years ago?  That doesn’t mean Bird Flu...

Some politicians dither (Jean Schmidt). Some do (William Delahunt). Some oil companies ignore the poor who will freeze to death (EXXON, BP, Shell, etc.). Some help the poor (CITGO via Venezuela). “The Boston Globe is...

by Patrick Lang (bio below) Well, we’ve come a long way since Galileo was shown the instruments of torture. In the last few days the Vatican astronomer, a Jesuit of course, and the cardinal archbishop of Vienna (formerly a...

So what does a poodle and a stopped clock have to do with this? This is a picture of folks at work at  al-Jazeera.The   would be Tony Blair.* And the “stopped clock” story would be this: that he talked Bush...

Originally written as a comment on emmajoe’s fine diary It was Bush, where she/he/they wrote a very well reasoned analysis of Bob Woodward’s statements on the Larry Cringe Show last night. An analysis leading to the...