An excellent article from the New York Times about how our Military Laws were rewritten after 9/11.
In early November 2001, with Americans still staggered by the Sept. 11 attacks, a small group of White House officials worked in great secrecy to devise a new system of justice for
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My friend Victor sends me this link – Reasons to Dispatch Bush – looks pretty interesting.
I guess it’s the blind leading the blind.
Similarly, 75% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda, and 63% believe that clear evidence of this support has been found. Sixty percent of Bush supporters assume that this is also the conclusion
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Tonight must have been “bring your weird child to Target night.” I came around this one corner and there was a lady with two small children – one in the basket and one running amok. The child in the basket points at me and says, “you are a bad person. …
As someone who’s already sick of all this election talk (can’t we have shorter election cycles?), this article almost makes my head explode. I sense another long drawn out post-election nightmare on the horizon.
Mishka just broke a beautiful piece of art glass that was given to me by my Mom and her friend James. I know he’s just being a kitten and it was my fault for keeping the piece on an exposed shelf onto which he could jump, but right now, that’s …
More interesting stuff from Talking Points Memo:
“Right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group, a company that owns local TV stations across the country, is ordering its local stations to preempt normal broadcasting a couple days before the election to air an anti-Kerry film made by a former ‘reporter’ for the Washington …
Bees! Yes, those bees were apparently happily living in my water meter. A hive was attached to the bottom of the manhole cover. I didn’t know this until the meter reader came by, took the cover off and then ran like a mad-man. Not that I blame him. I …
I’m feeling weak…I’m actually considering getting cable. Years ago when I was unemployed, I had to get my cable cut off and I promised myself I wouldn’t get it again until I’d met a few goals (which included such things as being debt-free and losing a couple hundred pounds). Well, …
