Archive for September, 2005
I was trailing Daphne through the toy section of some department store today when a song playing on the P.A. tickled the back of my brain. I dismissed it as something I had heard but didn’t really recognize. It refused to quit, though, and hours later I found myself determining to look the [ READ MORE ]
I’m already something less than a fan of Pat Robertson, but holy crap, this really takes the cake: > The planes purchased by [Pat Robertson's charity] Operation Blessing did a lot more than ferry relief supplies. > > An investigation [...] concluded in 1999 that the planes were mostly used to transport mining equipment for a [ READ MORE ]
Like a lot of people, I’ve spent hours over the last couple of days glued to coverage of the catastrophe in the Gulf states. We watched a lot of TV news today. I’m a longtime despiser of the 24-hour news channels, but there’s a sick fascination in watching shell-shocked anchors gradually lose their [ READ MORE ]