1) “I think—I’ll have my staff get to you. It’s condominiums where—I’ll have them get to you.”
2) “No country in its right mind would want this pervert at large on its soil.”
3) “You always find out who’s been swimming naked when the tide goes out. We found out that Wall Street has been kind of [...]

1) “A thirty-five-year-old man on death row in _______ faces execution tonight for a murder he didn’t commit. Jeff Wood is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m., unless Governor ________ grants him clemency. Wood was an accomplice in a 1996 convenience store robbery. He was sitting in a truck outside when the [...]

Pow! Bam! Guess Who? Not Gonna Tell You! While we’re anxiously teetering on our laurels waiting for Obama’s Boy Wonder to fly in his yellow cape, some men hope that Obama’s Robin is actually, um, a Catwoman. (Michael Moore swears Obama’s VP should a should be a certain Kennedy and Nader believes is none other [...]

If Massive Attack well, attacked, Dawn Landes, you’d get an adorable Swede that likes to dance. “If you wanna complain, then I’m not the complaint department,” the meek, alabaster-skinned Lykke Li sings on her new album, Youth Novels, released on June 9 in the US.
Alright, clearly lyrics aren’t her specialty. But I admire her [...]

Shazia Haq: The Boredom’s Are Anything But Boring

Answers and sources after the jump! (Spaces not word-length sensitive!)
1) From Democracy Now!: “In ________, three major hospitals are being accused of using homeless people to defraud millions of dollars from government programs. On Wednesday, FBI agents raided the hospitals and arrested two suspects, including the CEO of __________Hospital. Prosecutors contended the hospitals submitted phony [...]

McCain’s Operation Fail: Yet another bad idea from the Republican candidate.

The Tale of Wasted Resources, FBI Edition: Was Bruce Ivins the anthrax man? According to the Guardian, the US microbiologist, a civilian bio-defense researcher at a top military research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, was notorious for his unauthorized Anthrax testing. A government scientist for 18 years, his office was found positive for “Ames” anthrax [...]

VP Boomerang: First, let’s talk Kaine.  Last night media outlets, such as NY Times’ political blog, shouted from the rooftops that Obama’s VP is “very very likely” to be former attorney, Roman Catholic missionary and now Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine. But according to a University of Virginia professor quoted in Politico, the political ideology [...]

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“Please do not respond to questions or make any statements.”
1984, Ministry of Informationspeak? No, a line from an internal memo from Environmental Protection Agency sent to all employees who are considering speaking to the press or congressional investigators.
While this is a pretty commonplace practice at many large organizations, both corporate and otherwise, [...]

Under the Federal Election Committee’s guidelines re-written in 1993, unions and corporations are forbidden from funneling unlimited contributions to political parties.
So last week when Congress provided immunity for telecom giants, such as AT&T, who are collaborators in the biggest spy bill passed in history, perhaps they weren’t looking for anything in return.
Except the fact that [...]

Peace journalism: a form of reporting that frames stories in a way that encourages conflict analysis and a non-violent response. It aims to shed light on structural and cultural causes of violence as part of the explanation for violence. It aims to frame conflicts as consisting of many parties, pursuing many goals, rather than a [...]

So inside that New Yorker cover there were articles. And some of them didn’t make sense.
They had this brand new thing on Obama’s…FLIP FLOP. Wait wait I’m not ready to board flip-flop-flapjack-dracula-attack-sub city again. Ok now I am. Now BBC News, which by the way, is notorious for their horrifying captions (case in point also: [...]

When Mohammed Yunus, or more famously revered as the “Banker to the Poor,” shared the $1.4 million Nobel Peace prize two years ago for championing the idea of microcredit, the fact that Yunus’ economic proposal was older than himself never surfaced.
Yunus rightly deserved the prize. But his ideas came from a much older [...]

G8 or bust.
The United States refused to accept global emissions targets in Bush’s final G8 summit as president. That means the administration will simply let this issue slither onto its heir. Three cheers for all! As he prepared to leave the G8 summit in Japan Thursday, Bush told fellow world leaders: “Goodbye, from the world’s [...]