Politics

From today’s NY Times: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the West’s publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons was an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over the victory of the militant Hamas group in the Palestinian elections last month. ”The West condemns any denial of the

God, I love The Stranger. It’s one of Seattle’s free, alternative newspapers and the writing is caustically sarcastic and fabulous. Here’s an excerpt about Tim Eyman, a conservative Washingtonian who can best be described as a political hemorrhoid: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 – Speaking of alleged hate crimes: Today

, originally uploaded by Bright Tal. More from The Stranger’s Last Days: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – Clearly jealous of the attention lavished on Dick Cheney following the vice president’s shooting of an elderly man in the face, today President Bush sought to reestablish himself as America’s premier dangerous idiot,

Harper’s Magazine implores us to “IMPEACH HIM” on its March cover. Here’s an excerpt from the accompanying article: Drawing on evidence furnished over the last four years by a sizable crowd of credible witnesses—government officials both extant and former, journalists, military officers, politicians, diplomats domestic and foreign—

From the New York Times online, an article about a news broadcast via Al Jazeera of an American-Syrian psychologist voicing her opinions of violence invoked in the name of Islam: Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and

When It Comes to Drug Laws, the Jokes End By CLYDE HABERMAN Published: March 14, 2006 Most of the 100 or so people on hand, it seemed safe to say, would change the existing statutes in a heartbeat. They murmured approval when Robert Gangi, the executive director of the Correctional

From the NY Times (full article): Defenders of the Faith By SLAVOJ ZIZEK Published: March 12, 2006 Fundamentalists do what they perceive as good deeds in order to fulfill God’s will and to earn salvation; atheists do them simply because it is the right thing to do. Is this

Every time I read the paper, I think the Bushies have reached the pinnacle of stupidity. But they just keep succeeding themselves. Read this, from the NY Times: The filing revealed for the first time testimony by Mr. Libby saying that Mr. Bush, through Mr. Cheney, had authorized Mr. Libby

I shouldn’t be blogging right now. I should be thes-ass storyboarding. But anyway, I just wanted to say something about the Chinese president’s recent visit to my beautiful city: it made me sick. Here is an oppressive, Communist leader who promotes torture and human rights violations on a

More on President Hu’s visit from the Seattle Weekly. And cute culture, ala Chang-Ling’s thesis. The best example of the new faces of the police state are Jingjing (not to be confused with the Olympics’ Jingjing) and Chacha, two animated police officers that pop up on Chinese computers.