72-year-old Filiberto Ojeda Rios, leader of the Boricua Popular Army (a Puerto Rican independence advocacy group in Puerto Rico) and US fugitive wanted for the planning of an armored car robbery in 1983, was finally tracked down by the good ol’ fuzz on September 23.
According to this article “Ojeda Rios was [...]

Twenty-two Democrats voted for confirmation of John Roberts as our country’s next chief justice of the Supreme Court, According to This
And, 22 Democrats voted against the confirmation.
Fortunately for Roberts, the dissenting votes didn’t matter. He got the gig anyway.
Unfortunately for Democrats and their constituents, they prove once again that the party is like oil and [...]

A few weeks ago I was at a show and I noticed that this guy in the middle of the mosh pit had his cell phone open so that his friend on the other end of the line could hear the band. He was getting tossed about like a rag doll, but still managed to [...]

At a noisy bar recently, gin and tonic in hand, a friend of a friend of mine spoke to me about being instructed to kill small children during her recent tour of duty with U.S. forces in Iraq.
“We’re trained to keep going, no matter what, so if some kid comes running up to our truck [...]

Ok, so I’m going to go on yet another rant about Intelligent Design. As a former biology major, it makes me really sad and upset to see that we are going to be witnessing the Scopes Monkey trial all over again. Yesterday, the trial in Dover, PA began that is going to determine whether or [...]

Raise prices, invade Iranistan, I don’t care–but don’t make us conserve gasoline. God, you know things are bad when Mr. “I pour a liter of Texas T over my cornflakes in the morning” Bush is advocating the filthy C-word.
New York Times: President Calls for Less Driving To Conserve Gas
Right, I [...]

Ever threatened to “eat your hat” or claimed that something would happen “over my dead body?” Careful what you say–as New Zealand politican Keith Locke discovered, hyperbole is the worst thing that ever happened to anybody, ever.

BBC.com: Nude New Zealand MP takes stroll
During a recent election the Locke-man promised to run [...]

Ok, so Bon Jovi said it. After donating $1 million to Oprah’s relief fund for Hurricane Katrina victims, he told her, “”You told the human story. This isn’t a race issue, it’s a class issue and it’s American people that we have to help.”
Click here for the article.
I wonder how many people in American agree [...]

Ok, so the cost of health insurance is getting out of control. Starbucks is now spending more on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans:
“The company’s chairman told U.S. legislators yesterday that it will spend more on employee health insurance this year than on raw materials to brew its coffee.”
Click here for the [...]

Looks like im not the only one who thinks president Bush didn’t do his job when it came to Katrina–John Kerry also had something to say about it. He spoke at Brown University on Monday and told students that the hurricane exposed a “pattern of incompetence and negligence and a “truley systemtic effort to [...]

If you don’t know who R.L. Burnside is, you should.
The legendary Delta Blues slide guitarist died this month in Memphis. He was 78.
He served time for allegedly shooting a man in the head. He recorded an album for the hipster crowd called ‘A Ass Pocket of Whiskey.’ He created his own style of playing [...]

There’s an interesting report on Yahoo News about the role of radio during Hurricane Katrina, and how radio stations had to scramble to get reporters and provide local coverage:
Click here for the article
“At one time, most stations employed at least a single newsperson. But deregulation of the industry in the 1980s and 1990s cleared the [...]

(Cross-posted here)
There are things that, when done well, need no explication:
a good poem
a funny joke
crispy bacon (for the pork-eaters like my Self).
Frank Rich is crispy bacon, minus the grease and fat.
Jomo
(P.S., Link from NYT– may require subscription).

Hee hee.

The Republican Party is branching out in new directions.
The 2008 presidential race could be quite a spectacle if THIS is any indication!