Day May 23, 2003

I’m gone (again) I’m off to Joshua Tree National Park this weekend. I’ll be back Sun afternoon. Mormons who went looking for a place to call home thought Joshua Trees looked like the prophet Joshua with his arms outspread. I…

Blix casts doubt on WMDs “The chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said he was starting to suspect Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction in advance of the war on Iraq, a German newspaper reported today. “I am obviously…

Stop the FCC “We are barraged with advertising. Journalism has become dumbed-down entertainment. The range of news analysis and debate is shrinking along with the diversity of media ownership, placing an extraordinary degree of economic and social power in a…

Howard Dean video site “All Dean, All The Time. Howard Dean’s strategists “are hoping their all-video site will provide just the fix political news junkies crave,” Wired reports. The site is “a low-budget version of a dedicated television channel.” Meanwhile,…

Whoops, sorry we scared you to death Alberta Spruill, 57, was peacefully in her Harlem apartment on May 16. Police raided the apartment with a no-knock warrant, detonated a flash grenade, handcuffed her – and Alberta died of a heart…