UPDATE: – BREAKING: Americans ate 3 million melamine-tainted chickens! In a conference call with media this afternoon, USDA Assistant Administrator Kenneth Petersen revealed that as many as 3 million chickens, contaminated with […]
Your morning Chinese food contamination update: new developments, widening crisis
Mission Accomplished!
ThinkProgress has compiled a compelling side-by-side numbers chart comparing the sitch in Iraq today with where it was when Dubya pulled his little Top Gun stunt and declared victory. Warning: these numbers […]
Google contemplates Evil; the distress of being a monopoly
Microsoft’s success in operating systems spawned an entire industry of hackers dedicated to finding flaws in the software and creating exploits and viruses. The most expensive computer virus was the MyDoom attacks […]
Vetoes show hypocrisy
By Rori Black Bush is preparing to use his veto power for the second time his presidency; the first was to to lift a ban on federal funding for new embryonic stem […]
Melamine story gets worse and worse
The melamine-spiking story continues to build, and so far nothing about it offers any reason for comfort. HorsesAss offers a mortifying blow-by-blow here, and after reading it you have to wonder not […]
Hope for Internet radio?
Here’s some maybe good news: Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and eight co-sponsors have introduced the Internet Radio Equality Act, which has several major provisions: Nullifies the recent decision of the Copyright Royalty […]
Hello, he lied…
Nothing’s quite as entertaining as watching a politician being flogged to death with his own words. Courtesy of FromtheRoots.org, we have Jim Inhofe (R-OK) then: Our intelligence system has said that we […]
Well, here’s one way of dealing with a rock legend’s legacy…
Courtney Love is selling Kurt Cobain’s things. “My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant…bag full of flannel shirts.” Frances Bean, the daughter, will get a sweater, a guitar and – the […]
Loyal Dubya is Dem’s best friend
President Bush today said that embattled World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz, currently embroiled in yet another BushCo scandal, “ought to stay” in his position. This comes hot on the heels of Bush’s […]
Bush’s counselor lies about Bush
By Robert Silvey Dan Bartlett is counselor to George Bush. George Tenet was CIA director during the preparations for the Iraq War. In his new book, At the Center of the Storm, […]
