Yesterday’s march on Washington for abortion rights drew hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps a million, and is front page news across the country. I looked in vain for a mention on the Tribune’s site. Instead of covering what was perhaps the largest demonstration in DC since the ‘70′s, the Tribune decided to lead with [...]
Archive for April, 2004
Leery lawmakers’ licentiousness leads to legislative logjam
April 26, 2004
Those darn citizen initiatives… always cluttering up the ballot with way too many choices. Oh, wait… They argue that the process is out of control. That citizens’ initiatives are choking the state budget. That it’s too easy for the people to amend their constitution. Florida politicians have been making the case for constitutional amendment reform [...]
Faluja update
April 23, 2004
Details emerging from Faluja seem to confirm the sniping of Ambulances by American troops, which I first read about here. The head of mission of a European humanitarian agency with staff in Falluja told BBC News Online that, according to his staff, two of their ambulances had been shot at. “By who? The probability is [...]
Book Store Trip Leads To Huge Erection
April 23, 2004
I’m assuming that’s what the Tribune’s headline would have been had the perp been looking at porn at Barnes and Noble, but since he used that newfangled Internet thingy to enable his predatory behavior, the Trib had to settle for this headline instead: Internet Connection Leads To Sex Charges
Free speech trumps Pentagon rules
April 22, 2004
This picture got a civilian cargo worker fired. A military contractor fired two cargo workers responsible for a photograph of flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers that appeared on a newspaper’s front page. Maytag Aircraft Corp. fired Tami Silicio, 50, and her husband, David Landry, because they ”violated Department of Defense and company policies by working [...]
Bush Bros. specialty: Mendacious Misrepresentations
April 22, 2004
From Florida Politics: Presidential candidate John Kerry nearly slipped on oil Wednesday when Gov. Jeb Bush took the words of a student reporter and used them to accuse the Massachusetts senator of favoring oil drilling off Florida’s coast. If it had been true it could have been as devastating to Kerry’s chances of winning Florida [...]
Hog pork riders squeal excitedly over State funds
April 21, 2004
Priorities: the Republicans in Talahassee who can’t find funds for health care for the needy have managed to dig up $1 million for their weekend Harley-riding buddies: A group that lobbied for the controversial repeal of helmet laws in Florida and now counts more than a dozen current and former legislators as members would receive [...]
Fuck this shit: the FCC is going too far
April 20, 2004
The fundamentalist culture warriors are at it again. This is downright silly, but the scarey part is that Michael Powell may well take it seriously. Looks like the S-word might be the next profanity in the sites of indecency foes. Attorney John Thompson, whose complaints about Howard Stern helped prompt Clear Channel to banish the [...]