Archive for August 27th, 2005

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Taking Hart to Heart

 
History will deal with George W. Bush and the neoconservatives
who misled a mighty nation into a flawed war that is draining the finest
military in the world, diverting Guard and reserve forces that should
[…]

Really Tough Grader

A 16-year-old boy invented a hamster-powered mobile phone charger as part
of his GCSE science project.
Peter Ash, of Lawford, Somerset, attached a generator to his hamster’s
exercise wheel and connected it to his […]

Fuck Natalie Holloway

Great essay on what’s wrong with Blondie journalism…
Does it make me a bad American if I just don’t care about Natalee Holloway (above and beyond the general concern expressed at the beginning of this story?) Is the life and death of one teenager worth more than another on the basis of her socioeconomic status? Is […]

It’s Simply Incredible

Those of us who fancy ourselves part-time pundits
can sometimes become so downcast and upset over the senseless violence,
moral bankruptcy, blatant lies, cruel hypocrisy and doomed hedonism of
our times, that we are […]

Was Julia Child Really French?

PARIS
(Reuters) - Americans seem to be schizophrenic when it comes to their
opinion of France.
Arrogant is the best way to describe the French, according to nearly three
out […]

Acrophobiac’s Perch

An American Indian tribe with land along the Grand
Canyon is planning to build a glass-bottomed walkway that will jut out
70 feet from the canyon’s edge.
The horseshoe-shaped skywalk, expected to open in January, […]


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