Month July 2004

Japan, we are awed Takeru Kobayashi won the Coney Island hot dog eating contest for the fourth time, gulping down, 53 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes. He weights 132 lbs. That’s one hot dog every 13.5 seconds for 12…

Greens drinking the Kool-Aid? Reader David Raffin from Vision-nary responds to CounterPunch saying “David Cobb is the Jim Jones of the Green Party. Form a line and pass the Kool-Aid.” (The following descriptions of Green decision-making process are, um, not…

Miami Herald: Thousands of eligible voters are on felon list More than 2,100 Florida voters — many of them black Democrats — could be wrongly barred from voting in November because Tallahassee elections officials included them on a list of…

Marine says he killed civilians Jimmy Massey, a 12-year veteran of the Marines, told Amy Goodman that he and his fellow soldiers regularly slaughtered civilians in Iraq for little or no good reason. When he went public, the military sent…

How the Greens choose Kerry over Nader Walt Sheasby, long time Green, details precisely what happened, and who did it.