Month: October 2006

Open Thread

Our ammo dump at the Baghdad airport caught fire and is blowing up. Lots of fireworks there tonight. Hopefully things are a little less exciting where you are. What’s on your mind?

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Bush and the Group W Bench

“And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty...

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Doc Dump an Embarrassment

Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana de Aviación flight departing from Barbados, via Trinidad, to Cuba. On October 6, 1976 two timebombs variously described as dynamite or C-4 planted on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft exploded, killing all...

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Bloodthirsty Atheists

Originally geeked at Liberal Street Fighter Brother Cavil: Do you know how useless prayer is? Chanting and singing and mucking about with old, half-remembered lines of bad poetry. And do you know what it gets you? Exactly...

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Scandal Roundup

Understatement of the Day: So for a party that crusades against gay marriage and welcomes voters that consider homosexuality a sin or a disease, headlines about a gay Republican congressman lusting after underage male...

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