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March 18, 2005

 

prayerfully

"The family is prayerfully excited about their daughter going before the United States Congress for the whole world to see how alive she is." What the fuck? Prayerfully? Did he just say prayerfully? What the fuck is prayerfully? Can someone...
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January 26, 2005

   


November 02, 2004

 

obligatory post about election day

I never wake up before 8am these days, mostly because I never go to bed before 2am. A problem, to be sure, since I'm supposed to clock in at 8:30 and not fall asleep at my desk, two problems I'm...
Posted by xtop at 12:55 PM | Comments (5)
 


October 01, 2004

 

fact checking the debate

Full Disclosure: Bush is a pigfucking idiot who I giddily interpreted as getting stomped last night and I'm voting for John Kerry, who handled himself far better than anyone suspected. So look out for the slant on my part. But...
Posted by xtop at 10:32 AM | Comments (0)
 


August 17, 2004

 

someone else's tent

COVENTRY, Vt. — An autopsy is scheduled for a concertgoer found dead at this weekend's Phish festival in Coventry. Police say the person appears to be a man in his early 20s, but that he wasn't carrying any identification. They...
Posted by xtop at 10:36 AM | Comments (0)
 


July 30, 2004

 

DNC Polaroids

word to your mother, timmy...
Posted by xtop at 01:22 PM | Comments (0)
 


July 21, 2004

 

nixon vs. the world

yes! NIXON: I have the greatest affection for them [blacks], but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage....
Posted by xtop at 01:11 PM | Comments (2)
 


July 15, 2004

 

slumber party

from here: If the trend continues, congressmen will have to stay up mighty late - or else awaken before the crack of dawn - to cast votes in the waning months of the 108th Congress. Sleepy-eyed Democrats aren't amused by...
Posted by xtop at 10:34 AM | Comments (0)
 


June 25, 2004

 

i love the world

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian man, driving a car packed with weapons and ammunition, was intent on killing as many people as possible in a Toronto neighborhood but gave up the plan at the last minute when he encountered a...
Posted by xtop at 01:56 PM | Comments (0)
 


June 21, 2004

 

regrets to the apologists

My condolences to the staff and management of The Post. I had no idea you felt so deeply about Ronald Reagan. I was a reporter and editor at The Post during the launch of Reagan's "revolution," and we had a...
Posted by xtop at 06:43 PM | Comments (2)
 


June 08, 2004

 

I HATE YOU, SMARTY JONES

it's actually very sweet. really. "After about two hours of non-stop Costas I was ready to attack the television set with a baseball bat. If Bob Costas is talking about a mountain, you can pretty much assume that in real...
Posted by xtop at 02:21 PM | Comments (1)
 


 

nixon velocity

President George W. Bush’s increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader’s state of mind. In meetings with top aides and administration officials,...
Posted by xtop at 12:36 PM | Comments (0)
 


May 18, 2004

 

lost friend

George Willig's May 26, 1977, ascent of the south tower of the World Trade Center has been the great achievement of his life, so his reaction to the tower's crumbling, which he watched on television while vacationing in China, comes...
Posted by xtop at 04:29 PM | Comments (0)
 


 

manufactured terrorism

Roughly two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, a group of high-level officials met in Macedonia's Interior Ministry to determine how their country could participate in the U.S.-led war on terror. Instead of offering...
Posted by xtop at 10:22 AM | Comments (0)
 


April 09, 2004

 

from the tree

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" — George W. Bush's mother Barbara on ABC/Good...
Posted by xtop at 01:56 AM | Comments (0)
 


 

apocalypse now

Yitzhaq Hayutman holds the key to peace on Earth - it's on a floppy disk in his pants pocket. With his full white beard, bald pate, and well-pressed khakis, the 61-year-old Israeli cybernetics expert and tech investor looks like Moses...
Posted by xtop at 01:52 AM | Comments (0)
 


March 25, 2004

 

btk returns

A letter The Wichita Eagle received Friday suggests that the BTK strangler was responsible for the Sept. 16, 1986, strangulation death of Vicki Wegerle, who was found dead in her home at 2404 W. 13th St. The crime was...
Posted by xtop at 01:15 AM | Comments (3)
 


March 24, 2004

 

the armageddon plan

One of the questions studied in these exercises was what concrete steps a team might take to establish its credibility. What might be done to demonstrate to the American public, to U.S. allies, and to the Soviet leadership that "President"...
Posted by xtop at 01:04 AM | Comments (0)
 


March 21, 2004

 

the true fate of percy fawcett

It is an unsolved riddle which has inspired explorers and writers for nearly 80 years. Yet now, after a decade of research, one British writer and director has shed unexpected light on the murky fate of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett...
Posted by xtop at 10:43 PM | Comments (1)
 


March 18, 2004

 

extinction no. 6

A milestone study of British birds, butterflies and wild flowers has revealed the strongest evidence yet that we are on the verge of a mass extinction of global wildlife - the sixth mass extinction in the history of life on...
Posted by xtop at 08:46 PM | Comments (0)
 


March 10, 2004

 

it's on

Culture War Go: "I’m going to reveal information to you that is going to be very disturbing. So disturbing that I woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning. I couldn’t sleep, because I am preparing myself to become Jesus...
Posted by xtop at 11:30 PM | Comments (1)
 


March 04, 2004

 

molasses strikes again

The interesting things to note here are 1) once again 21 people were killed, just like in Boston, setting a precise number of human lives that molasses requires before being sated and 2) these people actually recreate it every year,...
Posted by xtop at 02:42 PM | Comments (4)
 


 

molasses

Along with the coffee smell was another, equally pervading. One could discern throughout much of downtown Boston, and especially around the North End, the unmistakable aroma of molasses. As a boy, I never questioned that odor, so strong on hot...
Posted by xtop at 01:01 PM | Comments (1)
 


March 02, 2004

 

barbecue nations

And there, indeed, was Richard Butler, who holds the distinction of being the oldest active white power leader in the country at 85. Butler, a former aeronautical engineer during World War II turned founder of Aryan Nations, tottered into Aryanfest...
Posted by xtop at 10:10 PM
 


February 23, 2004

 

this about sums up my monday

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread...
Posted by xtop at 11:19 AM | Comments (0)
 


January 23, 2004

 

england's finest citizen

Her favourite sayings were "F*** Hitler" and "F*** the Nazis". And even today, 39 years after the great man's death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection. Many an admiral or peer of...
Posted by xtop at 11:51 PM
 


December 31, 2003

 

happy

South African police will crack down hard on anybody throwing old fridges from high-rise buildings during the New Year's holiday, they say. Police and soldiers are on patrol in Johannesburg's notorious Hillbrow suburb, famous for the practice. Throwing heavy objects...
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December 15, 2003

 

dear patience

A Natick man accused of beating his female roommate with a hammer last month has sent a Christmas card to her dog in which he claims to be the devil. Kathleen Powers, 49, formerly of 74 South Ave., said the...
Posted by xtop at 10:03 PM
 


December 10, 2003

 

when the pot calls the kettle

Talking politics with White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman at Camp David in August 1972, Nixon switched the conversation to two Republican governors, Reagan of California and Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Both men unsuccessfully sought the 1968 Republican...
Posted by xtop at 02:52 PM
 


December 05, 2003

 

the malvo diaries

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December 02, 2003

 

watch him dance

"Reports that say something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know," Rumsfeld told a press briefing. "We also know there are known unknowns; that is...
Posted by xtop at 01:51 AM
 


November 29, 2003

 

6 am americana

Authorities said that Patricia Van Lester arrived at Wal-Mart at 3 a.m. for an early sale on a DVD player for her mother. When the store's doors opened at 6 a.m., Van Lester grabbed the DVD player but was quickly...
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November 21, 2003

 

line the line

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November 11, 2003

 

brilliantly crackers

Jurors who on Tuesday acquitted eccentric New York millionaire Robert Durst in the killing of his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, said they had to put aside the defendant's admission he dismembered Black's body and then fled because it was not...
Posted by xtop at 06:35 PM
 


November 05, 2003

 

one cold fish

Ridgway had been a suspect as early as 1984, when the boyfriend of victim Marie Malvar reported that he last saw her getting into a pickup truck identified as Ridgway's. But Ridgway told police he did not know Malvar....
Posted by xtop at 08:59 PM | Comments (2)
 


October 31, 2003

 

the butcher of kansas city

Just two blocks down from my apartment is the house that Bob built. 4315 Charlotte is where Bob Berdella murdered six young men, dismembered them in the tub and then put their bagged remains out on the curb for Monday...
Posted by xtop at 11:16 PM | Comments (13)
 


October 09, 2003

 

it's all happening (again)

American intelligence recruited numerous top Nazis to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War. Many established connections to the Bush family that had helped finance their original rise to power. In 1988 Project Censored, in its top award, noted...
Posted by xtop at 12:01 AM
 


October 03, 2003

 

the falling man

There is, however, one fact that is decisive. Whoever the Falling Man may be, he was wearing a bright-orange shirt under his white top. It is the one inarguable fact that the brute force of the fall reveals. No...
Posted by xtop at 01:58 AM | Comments (0)
 


October 02, 2003

 

electoral archiving

The focus of other collectors is in cyberspace. Employees of the California Digital Library here in Oakland and the Online Campaign Literature Archive at the University of California at Los Angeles are working to capture snapshots of the election as...
Posted by xtop at 08:48 PM
 


September 11, 2003

 

america: and how we got that way

new category! bad news! good times! just saving them here until I can get my head clear enough to slog through the bad times of the new usa. Similarly the PNAC blueprint of September 2000 states that the process of...
Posted by xtop at 12:57 PM
 


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