Day May 16, 2003

I’m gone! I’ll be at the national ANSWER conference this weekend in New York City. Hopefully I’ll be able to post to this weblog remotely from there. If not, postings will resume Monday afternoon.

Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq. The following is a brave article in many ways — Scott Peterson defied military orders and risked his own health to check out the radiation from depleted uranium sites in Iraq for himself. What…

Alternative voting systems Kevin McKeown, a friend, Mayor pro tem of Santa Monica and Green Party compatriot, testifed yesterday in Sacramento at the Secretary of State’s HAVA (Help Americans Vote Act) hearings in Sacramento. He says “I focused on voting…

Was Jessica Lynch rescue staged for TV? From Dan Gillmor’s eJournal The Guardian writes about a special BBC report, “The truth about Jessica,” which strongly suggests that the heroic rescue of the American soldier was little more than reality television —…

Baghdad homicide rate soars “The city’s morgue has seen a 60 percent rise in gunshot killings over the past 10 days. Five weeks after US troops entered Iraq’s capital, reconstruction has taken a backseat to security. “There are a number…