If you go by the words of non-hysterical non-extremists like Michael Reagan and Dean Esmay, Iraq doubters and war critics deserve to be hung. Terrorists listen, we were told. There’s nothing that a terrorist loves more than a little dissent, just ask Scott McClellan, or Dick Cheney, or Ken Mehlman or any other rightwing pundit …
Archives for April 2006
Lethal Injection Apparently Not Painless
This raises a number of questions: Judges in several states have started to put up potentially insurmountable roadblocks to the use of lethal injections to execute condemned inmates. Their decisions are based on new evidence suggesting that prisoners have endured agonizing executions. In response, judges are insisting that doctors take an active role in supervising …
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Dog Bites Man
They say when it rains, it pours. The WaPo has a new scoop on the old ‘mobile bioweapons labs’ story: On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to …
This is Amusing
I don’t know why, but this story made me laugh: NASCAR and Texas Motor Speedway officials were surprised by NBC’s admission that it planted Muslim-looking people in the crowd at last weekend’s DirecTV 500 in Martinsville, Va. “If this is really true and NBC has anything to do with this, I question the mentality of …
Laptop Advice
I am looking for a new laptop, and I need your advice. Two things: 1.) It has to be a Dell. 2.) I need to be able to run Dreamweaver without hiccups or slowdowns. Internal wireless and a cd burner would be a nice addition, too, although I rarely use the one I have for …
Scathing Post of the Day Award
Goes to the Belgravia Dispatch, who has been a proud member of the coalition of the shrill for a long time.
Xena
New ‘news’ about the tenth planet: The 10th planet turns out to be barely larger than Pluto, a new photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope shows. The object — still officially unnamed but currently tagged with the designation 2003 UB313 and nicknamed Xena — covered only 1.5 pixels in the digital image taken by Hubble, …