Do as we say, not as we do Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned yesterday that the US is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare…

Dick Morris: Bush in free fallThis from a Republican strategist Just when control of Congress hangs in the balance, President Bush is losing the popularity he so desperately needs to gain control of the Senate and keep power in the…

Through the Looking Glass, John Muhammad the sniper The Angleton Dialogues, Continued:What George Tenet doesn’t know.From Michael Leedon at National Review, some ponderings about the DC snipers. John Muhammad, the recently arrested sniper, put three kids in private school while living in…

“The Price of Oil,” –  Billy Bragg’s new antiwar song – free! Billy Bragg is a UK singer-songwriter and political activist. Last night at the Billy Bragg concert at Barrymore’s, Billy sang the song, and then went and got a…

Toyota’s hybrid plans. Over the next decade Toyota’s Prius may become known as the grandfather of the growing family of hybrid electric vehicles. Major news sources indicate that by 2012 all of Toyota’s vehicles will be hybrid electric. (Though it…

We Be Blogged Paul Bausch, co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs, has fixed up a fine little search agent which skims the Recently Changed blog list at weblogs.com, notes references to books available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble,…

In Florida, phone calls telling people to vote on Nov 10th!. They made the mistake of calling the head of McBride’s campaign: MIAMIThe chairman of the state Democratic Party asked U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Saturday to launch an…

US Diplomat Is Killed by Gunman in Jordan. A veteran US diplomat was killed this morning in the driveway of his Amman home as he walked from the front door to a carport, shot at least seven times by a…

Freenet keeps file-trading flame burning A new version of the Freenet software, a program based around wholly anonymous Net publishing and distribution, is due out Monday after long silence from its mostly volunteer developer community. <And anonymous means just that,…

San Francisco After a weekend in SF, I see why people love it. Usable public transporation. Subways, buses, and trolleys can get you anywhere in the city, and they run frequently (unlike here in LA). Real neighborhoods with real neighborhood stores. No…