This weekend Adara & Nora will present a staged reading of a new play, “Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” at our coffee house.
The play is the story of four detainees at the US military prison camp in Cuba. Materials are taken from actual letters from prisoners, testimony, and press conferences. There will be a [...]
I love it when propaganda becomes reality. For quite a while conservative talking heads have been claiming that the conditions for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are soft, relaxing accommodating, and torture free. Now the US military is making it happen. Yes, the renovated camp Iguana will feature “televisions, stereos and a view of the [...]
Ok, I’ve pretty much had it with these crackpots trying to enshrine their religion into everything in America. It seems that Kansas has decided to weaken its science standards and allow for the teaching of ‘Intelligent Design’. Why?
“Christian board members … say evolution is largely unproven and can undermine religious teachings about the origins [...]
Man, do these people ever have a clue – two days ago Condoleezza Rice said ‘the insurgency in Iraq is losing steam’. Baghdad has now undergone a coup d’etat. Are there political protests from the citizens? No. Has the interim government sent in those battle ready Iraqi troops we keep hearing about? No. So it [...]
The last couple of days have been extremely trying — due to several system failures at work I have put in 2 14+ hour days. . . . . I should have chosen a different career path — not that I chose this one from the start. Monday morning we had a core L3 switch [...]
I had no idea, but some of president Bush’s neo-con supporters are taken aback by his comments supporting the teaching of Intelligent Design – ie. Creationism – in public schools: Bush’s neocon friends shocked as he backs the Darwin-doubters
Now, I would have thought that the ‘anything to keep them from questioning menatality’ would have extended [...]
Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a release announcing its new rule expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The ruling is a reinterpretation of the scope of CALEA and will force facilities based VoIP providers providers to build backdoors into their networks that make it easier for [...]
