I picked up a couple of remix albums by Dr. Speedlove and was reintroduced to the work of Meg Lee Chin who is (and this is far from any exaggeration) one of the most unique artists I have had the pleasure of listening to. I cannot offer any higher praise than the proof of her [...]

Tensions between South Ossetia, which Moscow now recognizes as independent, and Georgia, which says the enclave is still part of its sovereign territory, remain high. To show its solidarity with South Ossetia, and to create facts on the ground that will be hard to change, Moscow is quickly pouring money into patching up Tskhinvali. – [...]

The basis for my short, sweet, and to-the-point The time has finally come… post – Short Cuts by Daniel Soar – has made it to cnet news for an “exclusive” review of ThorpeGlen‘s telecommunications data analysis and extraction offerings. With the passage of laws like the FISA Amendments Act and the USA Patriot Act, in [...]

Breaking news: Department of the Interior employees have been accepting bribes from oil companies. In other news: the only thing that is absolutely wrong is getting caught, the Earth is round, this was obviously an isolated incident, and nothing like it will ever happen again.

Somewhere, nestled in-between a food court and a fashionable shoe store, a new kind of propaganda awaits the consciousness of impressionable (and bored) teenagers: the new US Army Experience Center. Pay no attention to the man (you know, the one with the gun, orders to seek and destroy, Modular Lightweight Load-bearing Equipment, et cetera) behind [...]

In honor of today’s dubious distinction, I will be publishing a handful of posts which have been incubating for the last few weeks. But first, a word from our sponsor:

Do you share my penchant for declassified information? How about classified information? If someone has decided that you are not authorized to see it, there is a good chance that you should. In the spirit of giving censorship the middle finger, may I recommend Cryptome.org for declassified documents and WikiLeaks for information which hasn’t quite [...]

It’s no secret that the FDA has ties to the pharmaceutical industry (even if they claim that it does not effect their behavior) – consider Donald Rumsfeld, former CEO of Searle Pharmaceuticals (he was the head honcho when aspartame (NutraSweet) passed FDA approval, despite outcry from doctors who had performed research and determined that the [...]

Gavin Gibbons, apparently a representative of the National Fisheries Institute, happened upon my blog. I can’t imagine what he would be interested in, aside from adding his comments to my Toxic Fish is Big Business post. Apparently he was in a hurry and could not be bothered to read the post (if he had, he [...]

This is how I start thinking after missing a few nights’ sleep.