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Microsoft = Corruption
So says one principled Hungarian fellow. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer reacted by ducking behind a desk when a Hungarian man unleashed a verbal and egg-filled tirade today during a lecture at a Budapest university.
The Housing Bubble: Eventually Reality Intrudes
Can’t wait to see ALL of Chillhowee Mountain covered with Commercial Development. It’s already a buyer’s market in some places…. BIG TIME! Almost makes one wanna’ be a land baron. Almost. But then, land barons of the slum-lord variety are … Continue reading
Awash in Way Too Many Radishes
Picture courtesy Mariann Wizard. She writes, “Great colors, no? Kate & I visited the American Botanical Society gardens the other day and they were awash in way too many radishes.”
When Will We Become So Ashamed We Stop?
Smiling ex-New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman goes through the motions of searching suspect Sherron Rolax while accompanying Camden police officers on patrol. (AP Photo)[For more about the episode pictured above, click here.]Police make life hell for youth of colorBy … Continue reading
Freaky Fish, Episode 3
This is Mike’s sturgeonHuge “sturgeon ball” in Columbia a mysteryBy Michael Milstein / May 18, 2008 PORTLAND — When sonar surveys spotted a vast pile of rubble in the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam a few months ago, officials suddenly … Continue reading
Singin’ on Sunday – Connie Evingson
Connie Evingson and Pearl Django at Jazz Alley in Seattle, 30 April 2008.Photo by Richard JehnI was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago at the tail end of a wonderful trip to Austin to meet up with all the … Continue reading
The Needle and the Damage Done
The Days of Wine and Oil-Soaked Rosesby Paul Dean / May 17th, 2008 Our valiant Prez once again in a recent interview shared his insight with Americans that we are “addicted to oil.” The solution? Bush says the country needs … Continue reading
Manipulating Highly-Educated Doctors
Pharmaceutical Payola — Drug Marketing to Doctorsby Robert Weissman / May 17, 2008 Last week, a Congressional committee properly raked Big Pharma over the coals for misleading advertising of pharmaceuticals. A hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight … Continue reading
Robert Fisk on Junior’s Words in Israel
Photo by Michael TottenSo Just Where Does the Madness End?All the monsters buried in the mass graves of the civil war have been dug upby Robert Fisk / May 17, 2008 I am not sure what was the worse part … Continue reading
The Astounding Power of Empty Words
Military Matters: Iraq state fantasyBy William S. Lind WASHINGTON — When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent his “army” to fight the Mahdi Army in Basra, U.S. President Bush called it “a defining moment.” It turned out instead to be … Continue reading
Iraqi Women Are Still Suffering the Most
How picture phones have fuelled frenzy of honour killing in IraqBy Patrick Cockburn / May 17, 2008 SULAYMANIYAH — A dark pool of dried blood and a fallen red scarf mark the place where Ronak, who had fled to a … Continue reading
The Time Has Come for Americans to Blink
Everybody Knows.By Sheila Samples / May 16, 2008Everybody knows that the dice are loaded.Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.Everybody knows the war is over.Everybody knows the good guys lost.Everybody knows the fight was fixed.The poor stay poor, the rich get … Continue reading
