Month June 2006

It’ll still be a war crime

Drat that pesky Geneva Convention. The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a…

A microcosm of the Democratic Party

a) Dumb and dumber This Tuesday is the primary election for California. The two Democratic candidates for governor have, through spectacularly stupid tactics and by demonstrating almost total rudderlessness, botched things so badly that Schwarzenegger, who was once left for…

May 1 ‘Day without an Immigrant’ lessons

The civil rights movement did not tone itself down to accommodate the racists. On the contraryâ┚¬â€it grew in scope and militancy. The continued struggles of the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, the Deacons for Defense, and the emerging Black liberation movement…

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

If you drop Mentos Mints in Diet Coke, it geysers. I mean, it seriously geysers… What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane. The first part of this…