Category Archives: Serious News

What’s happening in France these days is important.  It is the kind of unpredictable, spontaneous event which can change history and upset the most carefully laid plans of mice and men. It is tempting to make jokes about the obdurate … Continue reading →

The harrowing journey began last weekend as a simple errand, a father and son sailing their 41-foot ketch to a New Hampshire port to moor it for the winter.   After six days at sea the boat turned up yesterday … Continue reading →

It’s starting to look like the Nwe York Times hit on a genius solution to boost sagging circulation – raise the price and piss people off. Appearantly operating on the “Forbidden Fruit” theory of economic motivation, by removing Dowd, Krugman … Continue reading →

Everyone is wrong — from the arrogant neo-clowns who brought you this war to the mindless bureaucrats who maintain it to the well-intentioned intellectuals that are grasping for a decent and humane way out. Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the … Continue reading →

Human nature being what it is, we were unable to read one more story about the porno site offering GI’s free access in return for gory pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan without trying to find the source and judge for … Continue reading →

Poll: Jordan top anti-Jew nation Jordan leads the Islamic world in its antipathy for Jews according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center. The poll, which surveyed 17,000 people in 17 countries, said 100 percent of Jordanians viewed … Continue reading →

(click to enlarge) NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Remember when gas spiked to $3-plus a gallon after Hurricane Katrina? By this time next week, that could seem like the good old days. Weather and energy experts say that as bad as … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 – A hunger strike at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has unsettled senior commanders there and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military’s effort to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism suspects, … Continue reading →

Just when we thought he was laying low, Hugo Chavez pops up on Nightline: WASHINGTON Sep 16, 2005 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday night he has documentary evidence that the United States plans to invade his country. Chavez, … Continue reading →

Long a fan of world-class political bloviation, we were hoping to catch some of the most mesmerizing snake-oil salesmen working the curcuit today in New York this week.  We were especially excited at the possibility of seeing of the Presidents … Continue reading →

‘The aggressive intelligence-gathering methods that Governor Mitt Romney advocated this week in a speech to Washington conservatives are used by federal investigators, but only if they meet strict legal standards, law enforcement specialists said yesterday. Romney suggested in an address … Continue reading →

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Baying forlornly, hissing at strangers and increasingly dehydrated and hungry, tens of thousands of pets have probably been left behind in the devastated city of New Orleans, animal care agencies say. Animal rescue workers from across … Continue reading →