Month: April 2007

A Bashing in Jamaica

This is hatred. Set someone apart. Make them “other.” Make them less than human. This is where it leads. This is what it looks like. This is a lynching. This is a hate crime. Warning: The images and video after the...

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Today’s Incompetence and Corruption Award

Meanwhile, the madness marches on: On another subject, Bush said that he wanted Paul Wolfowitz to remain as president of the World Bank. “He ought to stay,” Bush said. Wolfowitz is being investigated for helping to...

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How Many Really Died for the Lie?

When a controversial study was released in The Lancet last October, suggesting that by that time some 655,000 people had died (over and above normal mortality rates) in Iraq since the war had started, Republican pundits went...

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Open Thread

With the Froggy Bottom Cafe going into retirement, are there any suggestions for creating something new? I could change the World/Open thread into a Cafe/Lounge and have it automatically refresh at midnight or something. Other...

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