Month October 2003

This ain’t adding up, Rush Rush Limbaugh talkin about golf in July 2003: I’ve played the Bob Hope three times and the AT&T twice. It wasn’t bad. It’s just the game is mental. Once you’ve mastered the physical aspect, not…

Many soldiers, same letter Newspapers around U.S. get identical missives from Iraq Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country. And all the letters are the same. Imagine that, like it…

Gaza raid leaves hundreds homeless Palestinians are calling it a disaster area Up to 1,500 Palestinians have been left homeless by the Israeli army’s two-day raid into the Rafah refugee camp, the United Nations estimates.  A senior UN official who…

Aaargh It’s 87 right now in the San Fernando Valley of L.A. Just over the smallish Santa Monica Mountains from here, near the ocean, they’ve been complaining about the nonstop overcast weather. But not here. Here in the Valley, summer…

L.A. Times discovers meth I’m always bemused by these types of articles, wherein major media discovers that people are, omigod, using methamphetamines, as if it’s something new. It’s not. There were lots of speed freaks in the 60’s (I was…