Month February 2003

From the land of the absurd Smuckers claims a patent on crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and is vigorously defending it. They say the patent only applies to businesses and that homemakers are still allowed to make them. How considerate of…

                  And this just in “President Bush praises Prime Minister Blair’s praises of President Bush’s praises of Prime Minister Blair to assembled network photographers.”

Student mails peace rice to Bush! And gets pulled out of class and hassled by dimwitted police unable to identify a packet of rice as being just that. “Sarah Gobbs was halfway through a three-hour chemistry lab Tuesday afternoon when Montana…

Synchronicity From CounterPunch “As we are on the precipice of a war with Iraq, the whole Arab world screams that it is not Iraq but America’s relationship with Israel and the Palestinian crisis that is the root cause of all…

Plagarized text in Powell’s speech! From an ever alert friend, “Read all about it.  One of the texts Powell quoted to make his case to the UN was plagerized from an article written by a post-graduate student from Monterey, California – ‘Even typographic…