Archives for March 2003

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128 words, no comments March 1, 2003 1:44pm

Oh, the irony. In Turkey's vote on whether to allow U.S. troops to attack Iraq from their country, 264 legislators voted for the American deployment, ...

[Untitled #477]

178 words, no comments March 1, 2003 2:06pm

A Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist visited the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland not too long ago and wrote her friends a personal e-mail ...

[Untitled #478]

97 words, no comments March 3, 2003 2:38am

Hmm. The British press is carrying things I haven't read anywhere in America. US prepares to use toxic gases in Iraq, says The Independent ...

[Untitled #479]

48 words, no comments March 3, 2003 3:07am

Speaking of America and Britain, be the first in your meme circle to pass on word of this wonderful duet between Bush and Blair (MPG format). Kinda ...

[Untitled #480]

107 words, no comments March 7, 2003 9:37am

Totally unimportant pop-comics historical moment: Aaron and Luann finally kissed. Which, of course, means that Luann has now definitively jumped ...

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135 words, no comments March 7, 2003 12:56pm

Les Cottrell, assistant director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, on the new internet speed record: "Imagine ... being able to download ...

[Untitled #482]

59 words, no comments March 7, 2003 5:51pm

Gosh, I wish my governor were the brother of the President of the United States so Oregon could get national security measures overturned to protect ...

united we grandstand

202 words, no comments March 8, 2003 1:18pm

It's well known that President Bush is a uniter, not a divider. Which makes the failure to vote on, much less confirm, judicial nominee Miguel Estrada ...

more u.n. yammering

275 words, 3 comments March 8, 2003 2:18pm

Okay, I promise I won't write much more about the UN after this article. After all, the UN will be irrelevant in ten to twenty days when we ...

psychic friends

331 words, 4 comments March 8, 2003 4:18pm

And while I'm guessing when the war will start, I may as well go ahead with my prediction on Bush's running mate in 2004. Okay, I don't actually ...

busted!

208 words, 4 comments March 11, 2003 1:34am

The Department of Justice recently cracked down on online drug paraphernalia vendors (dot-bongs?). In explaining the need to protect the American ...

of course you realize, this means war

332 words, no comments March 11, 2003 2:34am

Conflicted as I am about the Real Soon Now war, I've resorted to picking at Ari Fleischer's answers to bide my time until the bombs drop. From ...

of course you realize, this means more war

264 words, no comments March 11, 2003 4:34am

If you're like me, you're tired of hearing about Iraq all the time. It's been, like, a year since we started talking about pullin' the thang ...

sacre bleu cheese!

749 words, 2 comments March 13, 2003 3:05am

Clearly lacking anything better to do, two Congressmen decided that the word "French" should no longer appear in the House cafeterias because, well, ...

ari backpeddles

869 words, 1 comment March 13, 2003 4:05am

Pity poor President Bush. All he wants is a little war, and yet everybody he meets makes him jump through so many hoops. But life isn't much ...

[Untitled #483]

37 words, no comments March 14, 2003 5:55pm

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code mauve!

552 words, 2 comments March 15, 2003 3:04am

Things keep getting dumber: our leaders are already debating altering the recently implemented terror threat alert system. Is it because they ...

country gone mad

389 words, 5 comments March 15, 2003 4:04am

Oh. My. Gosh. I am so excited that country music is now one hundred percent all-authoritarian, all-the-time! First, you know, the Dixie Chicks ...

[Untitled #484]

97 words, no comments March 19, 2003 5:53pm

Ever wondered what a red alert might be like in America? Well, according to this article, it wouldn't be much like America at all. In fact, ...

[Untitled #485]

117 words, no comments March 20, 2003 4:48pm

A senior editor at Salon.com takes the left to task for their anti-war stance*, and along the way mirrors lots of my thoughts. Or at least my ...

[Untitled #486]

60 words, no comments March 20, 2003 4:53pm

Another interesting war-related read is the blog apparently titled Where is Raed?. It would seem to be a blog of an Iraqi living in Baghdad, with ...

[Untitled #487]

129 words, no comments March 21, 2003 3:39am

You know what? Tony Blair has much better speech writers than does George Bush. Compare and contrast: Tony Blair's speech. Bush's. I'd ...

political comix

311 words, 4 comments March 21, 2003 4:47pm

I've always loved political cartoons. How else can one spout simplistic political views and draw people with funny-shaped heads and yet get ...

making crime illegal

99 words, 6 comments March 24, 2003 2:40am

You know what I love? Thought crime legislation. According to the Oregonian, a ranking senator in the Oregon Legislature has "introduced a ...

presidential endorsement

103 words, 19 comments March 24, 2003 3:40am

From Friday's White House press briefing: Q: Ari, two things. What do you say to these Americans who say they are patriotic, who want disarmament, ...

[Untitled #488]

54 words, no comments March 24, 2003 6:07pm

Slate has a series of articles from a journalist in Baghdad that make for much more informative reading than most of the crud splattered all over CNN.com ...

[Untitled #489]

85 words, no comments March 25, 2003 6:26pm

Things that make you feel great: as the CNN headline says, "China readies for future U.S. fight." I love reading sentences like this one: "Until ...

[Untitled #490]

23 words, no comments March 25, 2003 6:32pm

In the midst of all this madness and death, there's monkeys.

[Untitled #491]

97 words, no comments March 26, 2003 2:37pm

Apparently, the coalition of the willing now includes all intelligent mammals. Not just monkeys, but also dolphins, which are also being used ...

ari goes meta

129 words, 4 comments March 27, 2003 1:42pm

Maybe I've just been reading White House press briefing transcripts for too long, but I found yesterday's transcript a bit surreal. MR. FLEISCHER: ...

[Untitled #492]

59 words, no comments March 27, 2003 2:39pm

The Washington Post's sobering assessment of the war to date has one quote that is inappropriately funny when taken out of context. Says retired ...

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