Month February 2004

Diamond star thrills astronomers Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 1,500 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in…

Nader expected to run! Former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader is poised to declare that he will seek the presidency again this year, this time as an independent and despite a vigorous effort by the left to dissuade him. “I…

Dennis Kucinich on Deadhead show! As I write this, I’m listening to Dennis Kucinich live on The Music Never Stops, a Grateful Dead show on KPFK. Kucinich supports legalizing marijuana, increased funds for the arts,  ending the Iraq war, and having…

The great maple syrup swindle As reported here recently, Trader Joe’s, a specialty food chain here in California, got caught selling inferior quality maple syrup as Grade A. They claimed their supplier foisted the inferior glop upon them, and who…

The Guardian gets it right. A new clarion call is echoing through TV stations across the United States: No sex please… we’re American.