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Don't you....feel safe boys and girls...? Just knowing the Bushies are taking SUCH good care of us in this "terrifying" post 9-11 world... Reminds me of when indicted, disgraced former House majority leaderTom Delay went to Saipan with Alaska governor Frank Murkowski in a trip paid for by the illustrious Jack Abramoff, took a look at the sweatshops and institutionalized child prostitution and said something along the lines of, "Hey, that's a-okay with me as long as American corpoartions are making money off these stinkin' people." Que nice. Also kinda reminds me of Scooter Libby's horrendously bad novel where he...

Sucias, Meet Lylah Alphonse. She is the "LA" who keeps blasting me on this blog. She used to work with me at the Boston Globe. She was a copy editor at the time, and the only solid thing I really remember about her is that she made her own coffee in a cute little desktop pot. ... I should say that Lylah eventually got a book published. It is called "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr." I haven't read it all the way through, mostly because I fell asleep after page...nine. The writing is passive, weak, bland,...

The question in this title may seem strange, but there is actually a very strong coincidence. A coworker of mine went last week to Chile to participate in the Pucon half Ironman triathlon, which took place on the same day as Chavez’ sexist remarks about Condoleezza Rice. Since Sunday, I have been trying to find news in the international press about both events, with very limited success. In the case of the triathlon I was trying to find out how well she did in her category (over 40, ladies) which was never reported by the official website. But so far,...