Day July 27, 2005

Blowback: The unintended, negative consequences of one’s actions. The phrase came from WWI when poison gas launched by one side blew back upon them when the wind shifted.  The document proposes an explicitly Islamic state with a strong Shiite Muslim identity…

An elaborate re-creation of the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown, staged on a vacant lot in Granada Hills by the LAPD with help from Hollywood experts, casts doubts on a central justification for the shooting: that the officer…

Something has gone seriously wrong in the garden! “It lives, Dr Frankenstein, it LIVES…”