Day October 15, 2004

Platoon Defies Orders in Iraq. “A 17-member Army Reserve platoon… is under arrest for refusing a ‘suicide mission’ to deliver fuel,” the troops’ relatives told the Jackson Clarion Ledger. “The platoon could be charged with the willful disobeying of orders,…

Email from Scarlet Pimpernel of Freeway Blogger, who organized nationwide antiwar postering on Wednesday.Hey Bob, for a guy with a pickup truck driving around sticking up signs for two years wondering why he was alone, Wednesday was a great, great…

The Pentagon plans to promote Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former head of military operations in Iraq, risking a confrontation with members of Congress because of the prisoner abuses that occurred during his tenure. Among his duties in Iraq, Sanchez…

Miss Monica says the L.A. Times Business section should be renamed “Crime Blotter.” Indeed. Here’s an illustrative selection from today’s Business section front page. SEC chief tells business to clean up act Insurance broker scandal alleged New York “filed a lawsuit…

This is truly amazing An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such…