BY TOM TOMORROW
Imad Khadduri, the Iraqi physicist who escaped to Canada in 1998 and did everything he could to expose the Bush administration’s lies before the invasion, writes from Amman: Yesterday, I received an Email from a friend citing a very touching obituary for a young Iraqi boy by the name of Ali who died of leukemia …
There’s one thing we know about Doug “Fucking Stupidest Guy on the Face of the Earth” Feith: he’s not afraid to make stark moral judgments. For instance, here’s Feith in a 2002 speech: However much the language of morality elicits sniffs from some of our sophisticated critics abroad and at home, we don’t flinch from …
At the end of a rough week for everything good and nice, Dennis Perrin has combed through YouTube to bring us some of the best sketches from Mr. Show, Exit 57, The Dana Carvey Show, and Fridays.
I certainly agree with Señor Mañana’s views below about the new Save the Children report on U.S infant mortality rates. It is obscene that the only industrialized country we’re beating out is Latvia. However, I think our host actually lets the U.S. off a little easy. America has favorable conditions matched by no other nation …
Did you know high schools and even middle schools have started using tasers on students? I didn’t. There’s a brewing controversy on this now in Wichita, Kansas, which I learned about from Jake Lowen of the excellent organization Hope Street Youth Development. Here’s the timeline he sent: February: Wichita Police introduce tasers into schools. Early …
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