5.31.2003

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Beyond Bomb Pops Remember the militaristic red, white, and blue missile-shaped Bomb Pops? Now Star Spangled Ice Cream is one-upping them. S...
5.29.2003

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Lying for war's sake The Bush Administration has a serious credibility problem. One day, Donald Rumsfeld tells the world that US claims ...
5.28.2003

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Big. Smelly. The world's biggest flower is now in bloom in Bonn, Germany. More than 2.7 meters tall , the Titan Arum is also known as ...

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Love, Whole Foods-style When workers at a Madison, Wisconsin Whole Foods Market decided to unionize, the corporate CEO sent out a memo calli...

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News we could lose US plans death camp in Cuba: According to Major-General Geoffrey Miller, the Pentagon has been toying with the idea of tu...

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Precision advertising I wouldn't usually praise a TV ad but this European commercial for Honda Accord creates an amazing series of Rube...
5.27.2003

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An army for peace? Mel Duncan, founder of the Nonviolent Peace Force , is selling peace bonds to raise funds to train, pay, and send nonvio...

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The Only-in-Minnesota Quote of the Day: "People respect the crap out of somebody going 40 miles an hour on a lawn mower ."

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Our president went to war and all we got was this lousy economy! Downloadable posters, stickers, animated gifs, handbills and more, all free...

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Quoth Neil Young: The reaction to France that the administration allowed to happen is so immature. These people have their own opinion - the...

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The F Word Before you call someone a fascist, it's good to define your terms. Fascism, writes Ben Tripp, is "an extreme right-wing ...

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Embedded reporter catches flak A journalist embedded in Baghdad with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) writes in Editor and...
5.23.2003

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Bush: The poor aren't necessarily killers. The president, on the link between poverty and terrorist extremism: And the poverty problem ...

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Bilingual ordinance sign In English and canine . (Via Boing Boing )
5.22.2003

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Siva on Adbusters Adbusters has kindly linked to my interview with author-NYU professor Siva Vaidhyanathan on their home page (scroll down...

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Shocking Gall: Boycott Ford "Shock and awe"--as we all know by now--is a military euphemism for firebombing, dropping anywhere fro...
5.21.2003

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Carrying a peace Two Lutheran churches in the Twin Cities are suing the state of Minnesota for violating their religious freedom by passing...
5.20.2003

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Sell your kid to Ruffles If you had a baby this week and chose to name it Horton-- after potato-chip maker Ruffles' 1950s mascot "B...

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Operation Gut Privacy The snitchily named Operation TIPS, a vast network of personal data on potential terrorists and law-abiding citizens, ...

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Manufacturing Dissent Rock and Rap Confidential writes that "the attack on the Dixie Chicks was a political maneuver no less calculated...