Month: August 2006

Smoking: it’s bad for you. So what?

(cross-posted at Deny My Freedom and Daily Kos) For some time now, it’s been known that smoking is bad for your health. More than 4,400 kids start smoking each day. It’s been proven for some time that advertisements...

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Does Anyone Still Read History?

…What gets left out of most of the reports on the Lebanon invasion is that the original act was the capture of some Israeli soldiers to use as bargaining chips for the return of thousands of Palestinians rotting in Israeli...

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Open Thread

As you may have gathered from his lack of posting today, BooMan is off exploring the wilds of of a certain mysterious island (Manhattan is what the natives refer to it, I believe). In his absence, I and Chris have done our best...

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