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Archives for April 2007

Mission Impeachment

April 30, 2007 by Jan Herman

“Mission Accomplished” — Tuesday is the fourth anniversary of that infamous photo op — but when President With His Head Up His Ass during a “No One Should Be Above the Law,” which he’d given earlier last week in Washington at a large gathering of activists, politicians and others to launch an noted last week, […]

Grrrr…

April 27, 2007 by Jan Herman

It was unanimous. When asked for a show of hands not one went up to support impeachment proceedings against Prez Huha’s lineup of Democratic presidential candidates distinguish itself. House Resolution 333 — was apparently too modest to raise his own hand. video interview about HR 333 earlier this week, as posted on YouTube. And here’s […]

Welcome Back, Bill Moyers

April 25, 2007 by Jan Herman

“You can’t keep asking young people to die for a lie,” he said this morning on Democracy Now!, where he talked about his return to public television with a new weekly series called “Bill Moyers Journal.” (Have a The first program in the series, Variety’s Bryan Lowery describes it as “a methodical, devastating, pull-no-punches recap […]

Bulletin From Harm’s Way

April 23, 2007 by Jan Herman

To refresh your memory: The killings in Haditha, in Anbar Province, began with a roadside bombing that killed one American marine and wounded two. Several marines then began methodically killing civilians in the area, eventually going door to door in the village and killing women and children, some in their beds, according to a Naval […]

Dummied Up

April 20, 2007 by Jan Herman

Is it any surprise the memory lapses? Or that the pleased with the dummy’s testimony? Of course not. news photographers who covered the hearing, Don Mills among them. truth on the campaign trail in South Carolina. “Remember that old Beach Boys song ‘Bomb Iran’?” he joked, in answer to a question about sending “an airmail […]

It’s All in the Clicks

April 16, 2007 by Jan Herman

“la machina de guerra,” as a friend puts it. This is Wolfowitz = Swaggart, chap. 1. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Eptitudes

April 6, 2007 by Jan Herman

This image — received from a reader who writes, “I am surprised, too!” — has been making the rounds of the Internet for a long time as a variations (and in many left, elsewhere): “I’ve never read online” also fails to parse and is truly scary, given his

‘Ten-Forty’

April 3, 2007 by Jan Herman

Sometimes a magazine cover is perfect.

Corporate Artists

April 2, 2007 by Jan Herman

Remember when Jay Critchley was scuttled it was. Or so it was thought. Well, a year later the So is Critchley. Only this time he’s up to no good with a new twist on an old project: “TransAmerica — Condoms with a Conscience.” It’s part of an exhibition, THE LAB in San Francisco featuring artists […]

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