Bob McNamara Passes Through Customs

“Do you have anything to declare?” +++ Robert Scheer on Robert Strange McNamara: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090720/scheer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ News Quiz Today in Pakistan, US drones killed: A- 12 B- 37 C- 45 D- Some Pakistani’s heart and mind +++ Greenpeace placed an Obama banner, with a plea for the G8 to act on global warming, over: A- Mount … Read more

Swine Flu Totem

Apparently the Swine Flu is all the rage in London. This from Harper’s Weekly: “Officials in Britain said that the number of new cases of swine flu in that country was doubling weekly and could reach 100,000 new cases per day by the end of August; Dr. Richard Jarvis, chairman of the British Medical Association’s … Read more

Palin Clip UPDATED

Can you believe this from Fox???!!! They’ve got the knives out for her, so get out your forks.  She’s done. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvj-Xr0irhE[/youtube]

Stonewall + 40

Last Sunday there was much more art outside the MoMA than in. Fifty third St. was feeding floats onto 5th Ave. to the Pride Parade.  The crowd was jubilant; people of all kinds from everywhere, all enjoying this day. To me this image was most telling.  Remembering what the cops did in NY in 1969  … Read more

Pardon My Boehner

Rep. John Boehner is right: the Climate Bill is a “piece of sh*t” (that family values crowd sure has a way with words).  But not for the reasons that Orange John asserts. But because the thing is so weak as to make it ridiculous. Here’s an assessment of the bill by Dennis Kucinich: “The bill … Read more