Excellent piece in the NY Times by Morris Davis back on February 17th. Definitely worth a look: Twenty-seven years ago, in the final days of the Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.’s Tehran station chief, Tom Ahern, faced his principal interrogator for the last time. The interrogator said the abuse Mr. Ahern had suffered was inconsistent Read the full article…

Ralph Nader announces candidacy for President on Meet the Press. Collective groan heard around the world. Ralph, really. You’re killing me over here. The consumer rights activist announced on NBC television’s Meet the Press that he was launching a third-party campaign for the White House because voters were disenchanted with the Democratic and Republican parties. Read the full article…

From CNN online. Arizona regulators are requiring utilities to get 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025, with annual increases of roughly 1 percent. The Solana plant will bring APS to around 5 percent in 2011, said Don Robinson, the utility’s senior vice president of planning and administration. Unlike most solar energy, Read the full article…

From BBC News : Kenya, where Senator Obama’s father came from, is not immune from this either, but here, another Obama is riding on the crest of a wave. This one, though, comes in the form of a brown bottle and is called Senator beer. In many slums and low income areas, people who find Read the full article…

I am no longer reading William Kristol’s bullshit in the New York Times. There. I’ve said it. Now we’ll just see if I stick to it or flinch like I did the last time I played a round of “nut ball” with Pineapple in Big M’s back yard. Don’t ask. Kristol’s latest screed is the Read the full article…

The vast faction of North American kitsch lovers have adored its image for decades. As a young buck, I remember my folks’ nauseated reaction to the sighting of one during many a subdevelopment egress. The image of which i speak is none other than the North American Yard Flamingo. Long associated with finer aspects of Read the full article…

Made it to Tucson last night. Raining like all hell out there at the moment. Race starts tomorrow at noon. Looks like I’m going to get wet. From: Loren Subject: Shit going down in Portland Hey man, I haven’t seen this story on your blog, so here you go. bikeportland.org/police-victim-on-lookout-for-road-rage-attacker bikeportland.org/police-question-hummer-driver-in-road-rage-attack Get em smoky. What Read the full article…

K-BILLY’s Super Sounds Of The Seventies Weekend just keeps on coming with this little ditty… President Bush continues to dispute all the predictions that his presidency will go down in history as a miserable failure. Or, as he put it in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News over the weekend: “It’s very hard Read the full article…

Ya’ll have already seen this, or at least heard about it, I’m sure. Shit is days old, and already stinking to high heaven. We’re not exactly a cutting edge “news” site” here, are we? Well, no. But, still, in spite of all that, I have to say, Ann Coulter is stone cold crazy. And, well, Read the full article…

When you’re out drinking and carrying-on this weekend, here are a few things to get into a thick discussion (or heavy fight; your choice…) over a beer or thirteen. Nader. Nuff said. Then there is perennial D.C. favorite shitbag Ann Coulter. Boggles. The. Mind. I mean, really. Either she realizes that Bush was the worst Read the full article…

The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration’s clearest confirmation of the technique’s use. Oh, now the line is “we used to do it…” U.S. officials have been reluctant to acknowledge the CIA’s use of the simulated drowning technique, which human Read the full article…

If I have tot said it plainly enough already: I am planning to vote for Barack Obama on February 5th. Barack Obama’s Victory Speech in South Carolina I’m going with Obama for a lot of reasons. One being I’m about sick and god damned tired of the Clintonistas. Really. Go back to whatever backwater you Read the full article…