From wounded Army Staff Sgt. Jamie Villafane on being tossed out of his Humvee when Iraqi soldiers, clothed as civilians, hit it with an rocket-propelled grenade: Getting shot at really wasn't that bad. It's the getting shot part that sucked. After being thrown from the Humvee, a wounded Villafane singlehandedly captured four Iraqi soldiers.
I won't be posting a lot over the next week or so as I prepare to move into my new condo. Posting will ramp up when I can find the time.
I say that because I just read the following Associated Press bulletin: Jacques Chirac says France will not authorize a U.N. resolution allowing the United States and Britain to administer postwar Iraq. Jacques, how many battalions does the U.N. have? If, for some reason, it had escaped your notice -- this isn't a U.N. operation. […]
According to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's latest tirade, the relatively modest Bush tax cuts (you know, the $300 rebate, elimination of the marriage penalty, etc.) are responsible for wreaking fiscal destruction like that created by anyone stupid enough to cast Pauly Shore in romantic comedy opposite J. Lo. The new study, carried out […]
Over at The Agonist Sean-Paul is doing yeoman's work when it comes to compiling all war-related information at a breakneck pace. Go check it out.
Is the escalating war with Iraq a diplomatic failure, as identified by Senate minority leader Tom Daschle? According to U.S. News & World Report's Michael Barone, Daschle is disingenuous to say the least.
Only in the Bay Area can you get that rare mix of political/protest activism and the vanity of maintaining a slender figure. In a unique form of opposition, some protesters at the Federal Building staged a "vomit in,'' by heaving on the sidewalks and plaza areas in the back and front of the building to […]
The guys over at brain-terminal.com have up their latest video from last weekend's San Francisco protest. It's not as comic as the last one, but the wacko guy who tries to explain the interplanetary and interdimensional evils done by President Bush is kinda amusing -- if it wasn't so sad.
Head on over to any news site, turn on any TV station, and you'll see the worst of American and world journalism right now. At this point, we've launched a few missiles at "targets of opportunity" -- hopefully Saddam Hussein and some of his top aides. That's all there is to report, but news organization […]
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