Unlike the debacles at the Boy Scout Jamboree, these scouts did absolutely everything right. They pitched a tarp in the middle of a field during a lightning storm, ran to get a ranger when the unthinkable happened and lightning struck…

Via ProRev FAIR – New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has urged the U.S. government to create blacklists of condemned political speech–not only by those who advocate violence, but also by those who believe that U.S. government actions may encourage…

The Dr. Strangelove’s in D.C., not satisfied with just two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan),  are planning yet another. In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing…

Adam Curry recently played Cruisebox’s “On A Podcast” on his Daily Source Code podcast. It’s a great, rocking, humorous song that also neatly demonstrates what the podcasting revolution is about. Do it yourself. Bypass the traditional media gatekeepers. Get the…

Iraq Affecting Mental Health of Troops.  Thirty percent of U.S. troops surveyed have developed stress-related mental health problems three to four months after coming home from the Iraq war, the Army’s surgeon general said Thursday.

About 300 fall ill from heat at Boy Scout Jamboree. It was in the upper 90’s, high humidity, so they marched hundreds of Boy Scouts onto an unshaded field and waited for Dubya to arrive. Hundreds had to be treated for…

Via ProRev MARK HONIGSBAUM, GUARDIAN – Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot dead in the head, was not wearing a heavy jacket that might have concealed a bomb, and did not jump the ticket barrier when challenged by armed…