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« March 2003 | HOME | May 2003 » April 2003 You may be a Republican if... Take the quiz.... April 29, 2003 Lies The theme today is lies. Robert Scheer writes about lies. Paul Krugman writes about lies. Oh, and as far as I know, the Bush Administration keeps telling them.... April 29, 2003 Open letter to pro-warriors At Blogcritics.... April 23, 2003 Skyline April 21, 2003 Department of Empire Can't decide if it's good or bad that the word "empire" is being spoken more openly with regard to the United States' radical new foreign policy. Thoughts and links at Blogcritics. ...it doesn't do any good to engage in the... April 19, 2003 Well, there goes Blogcritics Eric Olsen and Phillip Winn have given Blogcritics a new look. I'm very disappointed that the "Et Cetera" section, to which I post most often and to which the political content on the site is most often posted, has now... April 18, 2003 "Rescue," my ass Another view of the Jessica Lynch story. It may not have been a "rescue" after all, and the real hero of the story may be an Iraqi doctor who risked his life to save hers.... April 17, 2003 My window, 8:15 p.m. April 16, 2003 Weapons of mass disappearance If the U.S. military isn't able to find or credibly plant WMD in Iraq, does that mean we have to invade Syria, so we can find chemical weapons there and claim they were moved from Iraq?... April 16, 2003 Noam Chomsky interview From Znet, of course. Excerpt: The message is that the Bush administration intends its National Security Strategy to be taken seriously, as the "test case" illustrates. It intends to dominate the world by force, the one dimension in which it... April 13, 2003 Learn from history, get fired U.S. propaganda ministries are in a tough spot. On the one hand, they want everyone to remember the lessons of Hitler when thinking about Saddam Hussein (you know, the guy with the ineffectual army who never had a prayer of... April 13, 2003 Fisk "A civilisation torn to pieces"... April 12, 2003 Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election Saw an excellent movie today at the Laemmle Sunset 5. "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election," a compelling documentary by Richard Ray PÈrez and Joan Sekler. Posted a review at Blogcritics. The noxious RAVE Act passed while most people weren't looking.... April 12, 2003 Dementia 9-11 "And the flag--it was on the Pentagon when it got hit on 9/11. That was the same flag, and me being from New York, it kind of all goes together a little bit." --Corporal Edwin Chin, United States Marines... April 11, 2003 Pray for Halliburton George W. Bush promised the people of Afghanistan over $3 billion, then forgot to include anything in his budget (oops!). Now Vice President Dick Cheney's former and current employer Halliburton has been promised as much as $7 billion. I wonder... April 11, 2003 The gloating of the pro-warriors Blogcritics roundup: Proving that some pro-warriors are un-embarrassable, Eric Olsen revels in his own (and Christopher Hitchens') gloating here. And to think I predicted this on Monday. I also posted an article today called "What do the Americans want from... April 10, 2003 Dennis Kucinich speech, April 5, 2003 Finally put together the photo story on Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's appearance in Los Angeles.... April 09, 2003 The dead At least six men from California have died in the war on Iraq. Two of them were immigrants. Diane Feinstein read a moving statement about them on the Senate Floor March 27.... April 07, 2003 Oakland April 07, 2003 Somebody warn Eddie Vedder's mother For the U.S. military, it apparently isn't enough to rely on the intelligence gathered by the undercover agents at protest rallies. The campaign against dissent may now have added a common tactic--the use of investigation as intimidation. Actually had a... April 06, 2003 Chomsky on the Iraq attack This doesn't usually happen, but reading an interview with Noam Chomsky actually made me feel better. Click below to read it.... April 04, 2003 Me and religion Posted a longish essay to Blogcritics today, called "Me and Religion." Also, some professors at the University of Chicago have managed to form a conclusion, and then make up some assumptions that lead to it. This magical process resulted in... April 04, 2003 The Onion shoots and scores As I mention on Blogcritics, the Onion has a fine editorial titled "I Should Not Be Allowed To Say The Following Things About America". It is required reading, as well as copying and email passing-on-ing. Also on Blogcritics, Al Barger... April 03, 2003 Bat Boy: The Musical has new website First non-war item in weeks, but I gotta mention it: BatGirl has put together the new Bat Boy: The Musical website, and it's fantastic. Now you can see when any new productions of Bat Boy are happening, and there's also... April 02, 2003

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