By Restless
Came upon this amazing clip from the BBC today.
My friend from Germany was just visiting here and he told me the past 2 winters in Europe have been unseasonably warm. I already knew that the oceans of the world are in extreme danger from global warming (it’s #3 of the top 25 censored news […]

 
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One good thing about working in an office at relatively boring tasks is you hear about items of interest (books, movies, restaurants, apartments, potential mates, web sites) from your co-people-working-at-boring-tasks.
I just heard about the series of websites called “Overheard in/at” and they have them like everywhere (but maybe not in SF yet…): Overheard at […]

 
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Gore Vidal has written an article for Playboy about the Gore dynasty. Senator Gore of Oklahoma (’07-’21;’31-’37), who is both Al Gore and Gore Vidal’s grandfather, helped put Wilson into the Presidency in 1912, but became disillusioned when Wilson would not push for reforms at home, suspecting he wanted US involvement in the European […]

 
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Ok. Now that the Dems have taken back the Legislature, it’s not over yet. Time to rollback all or most of the bullshit that’s been passed by the previous Congress. I’ll detail Numero Uno here and why and then set out other rollbacks in future columns. Here goes:
#1: rollback the tax cuts
Do it now. […]

By Restless
Two weeks ago, the clip above, “WTC Core,” appeared on youtube. Using classical music and animation it makes an elegant statement refuting the “pancake theory” for the collapse of the towers on 9/11. I’ve seen many clips regarding this issue, but this one addresses it from the engineering angle. It’s […]

 
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Reading Jacob Sullum’s weekly column, syndicated in the neo-con daily, New York Post, I was surprised to see that both Nevada and Colorado are attempting to legalize marijuana by referendum this November. In Nevada, the group opposing this move is called The Committee to Keep Nevada Respectable, which is funny since gambling and prostitution […]

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In honor of the loss of habeas corpus in this country and Keith Olbermann’s intense editorial last night on MSNBC about it, everyone needs a quick review on what rights we still have left as U.S. citizens. The above film is from a group called flexyourrights.org.
Several years ago, I read the excellent book, […]

 
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I’ve been visiting Arianna Huffington’s blog, The Huffington Post, for most of the year now. The site is such a repository of great writing from columnists, celebrities and everyday people and I’ve used parts of and linked to the site several times in my postings here.
Arianna has her own column on her site and […]

 
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Fall is here: breezy, sometimes rainy, then back to hot and humid, but not so hot and humid as in July. New Yorkers are already wearing sweaters and light coats, even in sunny, hot weather. Go figure.
Just finished Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume 1 (there is no Volume 2—yet), which makes very little chronological sense […]

 
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When I was 20, I was living in a residence hotel in San Francisco on Pine across the street from the Bank of America building with my girlfriend, Janice. We had been there a week when the manager asked us to leave. Why? We had been honest and told him we were not married. […]

 
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35 years ago, President Nixon used his executive powers to secretly drop 110,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia, instructing the pilots to falsify their flight records. He tried to cover up this by putting illegal wiretaps on journalists and other government officials who were investigating and/or leaking the details. In the name of national […]

 
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5 years after the worst attack on US soil in history, Osama’s free, Afghanistan isn’t. As President Bush said in March 2002, “I truly am not that concerned about him,” and then began pulling key resources off the hunt for Al Qaeda’s leaders.
Pakistan has signed a truce with Islamic militants in North Waziristan, where […]

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The conservative Salt Lake City Tribune has recently printed an editorial regarding Bush’s unprecedented use of signing statements, part of which reads:
The Constitution commands that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” There is no exception for laws with which the president disagrees. Despite this, some presidents have issued statements […]

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After CharlieSheen announced he had serious doubts about the events of 9-11, I got interested in taking a closer look.
The events of 9-11 are called the worst acts of terrorism in history, a modern “Pearl Harbor.” There is no doubt that Muslim extremists effected a plan to fly jets into the […]