Month November 2003

I am the Prince of Darkness. I spit on your foolish laws War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that…

Winning their hearts and minds? From Baghdad Burning, a “Girl Blog from Iraq… let’s talk war, politics and occupation”, comes this amazing, passionate, angry posting. They’ve been bombing houses in Tikrit and other areas! Unbelievable… I’m so angry it makes…

Sigalert.com A few days ago it took a friend 2 hours to drive 17 miles on absurdly traffic-choked LA freeways. I always check the SigAlert.com LA traffic map before leaving home. Sometimes the little markers are mostly green. This means…

Protests Huge numbers march against Bush in London When they reached Trafalgar Square, protesters felled a six-meter (20-foot) papier mache statue of Bush in a parody of the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein when U.S. and British troops…

Hey, nice priorities! Major news today included serious currency fraud on Wall Street as well as Bush being jeered at Buckingham Palace. So what is the lead story on most websites and TV news programs? Something weighty about how US…