Month July 2004

America, A History in Verse. Vol 3. 1962-1970 Ed Sanders, shaper of the exploding hippie culture of the 60’s, co-founder of the legendary Fugs and the Peace Eye Bookstore on the Lower East Side in the early 60’s, author of The…

Rumsfeld gave go-ahead for Abu Ghraib tactics, says general in charge The former head of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad has for the first time accused the American Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, of directly authorising Guantanamo Bay-style interrogation…

Now for something completely different! Baptists angry at Bush campaign tactics The Southern Baptist Convention, a conservative denomination closely aligned with President Bush, said it was offended by the Bush-Cheney campaign’s effort to use church rosters for campaign purposes “I’m…

From seemingly calamity comes something amazingly new I just finished watching Dogtown and Z Boys on cable. It’s a documentary about the Venice/Santa Monica skateboarders in the 70’s who re-invented and re-defined the entire sport, taking it to levels no…

We just report the news! Russia sends 80 tons of poisoned corn back to the US