Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
City Is Rebuffed on the Release of ’04 Records By ROBERT D. McFADDEN A federal judge yesterday rejected New York City’s efforts to prevent the release of nearly 2,000 pages of raw intelligence reports and other documents detailing the Police Department’s covert surveillance of protest groups and individual activists before the Republican National Convention in […]
MoreBOING BOING::Jay Kinney reviews Zeitgeist, the Movie For the last couple of months, Boing Boing readers have been emailing me about a two-hour documentary available on Google Video called Zeitgeist, the Movie. I finally got around to viewing it. In three parts, Zeitgeist (which has no credits) attempts to show that 1) Christianity is rehashed […]
MoreBody: August 3, 2007transcript by Reg NYC “We are not questioning the generals. Mr. President, we are questioning you! Stop hiding behind Dave Petraeus.” – Wesley Clark Jon Soltz: …an Iraq war veteran. (applause) (laughs) I find that so funny, because whenever you go to a Republican event, they don’t seem to cheer for the […]
MoreThe top spot in a Congressional softball league belongs to drug reform advocates who are “busting the stoners-as-slackers stereotype,” Roll Call reports. The “One Hitters,” took over the No. 1 spot in the Congressional Softball League last week, and the team fielded by Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and NORML holds a 13-3 record […]
MoreAP Via Yahoo: Iraq’s power grid is on the brink of collapse because of insurgent sabotage of infrastructure, rising demand, fuel shortages and provinces that are unplugging local power stations from the national grid, officials said Saturday. Electricity Ministry spokesman Aziz al-Shimari said power generation nationally is only meeting half the demand, and there had […]
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