Iraq war timeline, lie by lie
This website contains a handy timeline of the Bush Administration's lies...er, propaganda campaign...to push America into an unnecessary, disastrous invasion of Iraq.
Happy Darwin Day! I celebrated with my gorilla cousins
Today is also known as Evolution Sunday. Many church congregations celebrate the genius of Charles Darwin today.
I celebrated Darwin by going to the St. Louis Zoo with my six-year old daughter. The zoo has a terrific ape exhibition area. We focused on gorillas, and they put on a great show. The scenary inside, including the murals on the wall might fool you into thinking the photos were taken outdoors–they were not.
I brought a Canon S1-IS camera with me and captured some wonderful images. For camera buffs, I didn’t do anything fancy. I just turned off the flash and braced myself against walls, shooting through thick plexiglass.
I’m dedicating these photos to today’s army of Creationists, those intrepid souls who bravely dare to assume that the overwhelming phenotypic and genetic similarities of human animals and gorillas result from the piddling of a Creator, i.e., that these similarities are mere accidents. Such a strange bunch, those Creationists who disparage fruitful “accidents” only when attributed to the systematic ratcheting effect of natural selection, not when when they have no rigorous explanatory basis at all!
But, I digress.
I was in awe at these marvelous creatures today. I’m posting these photos here with the hope that they will inspire you, too.
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A contract interrogator from Iraq is now haunted
A man who conducted interrogation of Iraqis as a contract employee for the U.S. military tell us how it really was in the Washington Post. Here's an excerpt: The lead interrogator at the DIF had given me specific instructions: I was to deprive the detainee of sleep during my 12-hour shift…
What’s the bigger story: Iraq versus Anna Nicole Smith?
You guessed it.  See here for Mother Jones' tabulations.  On MSNBC it was Anna Nicole Smith by a 7 to 1 ratio.
Noam Chomsky on the reason the U.S. won’t relinquish control of Iraq
Chomsky wrote that it all has to do with corporate power and oil.  Here is an excerpt from The Independent, an article entitled "The US says it is fighting for democracy - but is deaf to the cries of the Iraqis"  Sovereignty in Iraq might well lead to a loose Shia alliance controlling most…