Month April 2004

The vibe has changed A handshake that doesn’t help Israel President Bush is on a roll in the Middle East . . . backward. His embrace of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s positions on settlements and Palestinian refugees has needlessly…

The NO-CARB Diet for 2004 NO C-heney NO A-shcroft NO R-umsfeld NO B-ush and, of course, No Carbs means NO RICE!

Korea goes hard left Analysts are talking of an historic step to the political left – it is the first time in more than 40 years that South Korea’s Parliament has been controlled by left-leaning politicians.

Anti-Barbie wins beauty contest in Russia From the Beeb An unglamorous schoolgirl has become a feminist icon in Russia after she was entered for an online beauty pageant. <She> got at least 40,000 votes, making her the runaway favourite to…

People get ready These are crazy times, and I think they’ll get crazier. The current spectacle of the 9/11 hearings is illuminating. The most powerful nation is history is revealed as, well, incompetent, when it comes to foreign intelligence gathering. The emperor has no…