Archive for September, 2007

Mickey Mouse will have his revenge on Iran

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

So the Senate caved into Lieberman’s wish to attack Iran at will with a bipartisan vote. Oh, I know, it’s non-binding and not an actual declaration of war, and they amended some of the language. But you should know how these things go by now. This has given Bush the political justification, however flimsy, to execute ‘Operation Bomb the Ragheads II: Git that Amadajad Feller.’

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The bugs that came in from the cold

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Locked in ice for millions of years, Antarctic bacteria are thawing – and they’re alive. So will a prehistoric plague be swimming in a sea near you?

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Iraq pulls Blackwater’s license, for now - and Waxman wants hearings

Monday, September 17th, 2007

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The Iraqi “government” has expelled Blackwater Security from its job to commit legalized mayhem provide security services in Iraq - for now, anyway. And Rep. Waxman is promising hearings on Blackwater’s activities in Iraq…

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King Hip is no more - Joe Zawinul, 1932-2007

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

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A music giant has left us. Josef Erich “Joe” Zawinul — who established a new school of music with Miles Davis and led the seminal Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, et al. — passed away Tuesday in his beloved Austria, appropriately in Vienna, the “city of musicians.” He visited this planet for 75 short years and, had I my druthers, would have had 75 more productive seasons before his exit…

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