The Village Voice uses george the bold* to lead into a series of short pieces on the expanding crusade, powellspeak on sanctions and questions about just how the the new $87 billion will be used.
I’m glad to see the Powell sanctions revisionism slowly working its way up the journalistic food chain. Perhaps the major media will pick it up soon.
*Illustration by Tim Jessell.
Well, this does not give me much reason to take a look at Outlook 2003:
When you have the Outlook 2003 program window open for a long time, Microsoft Outlook may stop responding. Also, if you view the Processes tab in the Windows Task Manager dialog box while Outlook 2003 is running, you may see that Outlook is using an unexpectedly large amount of memory.
I think I’ll just continue on as a happy Thunderbird user.
Via Faraway, So Close.
If this is it:
US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops.
then the rebuilding effort is truly broken and misnamed.
This terrorism is not something that any legitimate government supports.
For more detail and links see Electrolite and Whiskey Bar. Be sure to read the comment threads.
Via Mark Kleiman.
It was a small but important battle that extended back to the Clinton administraton.
In this case:
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Tuesday a ruling that the government cannot revoke the federal prescription licenses of doctors who recommend medical marijuana to sick patients.
Without any comment, the justices rejected a Bush administration appeal of the ruling that bars the government from punishing and from even investigating a doctor’s conduct because of a recommendation that a patient use marijuana.
Every little bit helps in this long war touted by administration after administration as the war on drugs but which is really a war on the people.
This particular battle extends back to the clinton administration and demonstrates that republicans and democratics have joined together in this war which has led to 1000s of deaths in our inner cities, that has led to the highest incarceration rate in the world (in the land of the free?), and which at its core attacks the liberty of each and every one of us.