Day October 18, 2002

A thing of Beauty indeedBush’s plummenting poll numbers. (click to view full-sized)

Ding, dong, the Dept. of Homeland Security is dead!Yes, I mean dead… Here’s the bottom line: I object to this project on purely etymological grounds. The words “homeland security” evoke a Deutschland uber alles mood that is creepy and un-American.…

People different from us “White supremacists Leo Felton, 31, and his girlfriend Erica Chase, 22, were convicted in July of plotting to blow up landmarks around Boston that had significance for Jews and blacks so that a “racial holy war”…

Judge Orders Release of Cheney Energy Papers A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Bush administration to produce documents from Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force by Nov. 5, rejecting arguments they should stay secret because they relate to…

Terror Turns Real for Horror Site. A message attributed to Osama bin Laden appears buried in the depths of a German horror film fan site. Things turn darker yet when a news service fingers the site as a terrorist mouthpiece.