Subject: International Relations

• Massively Penetrating in Vegas

  Looking for something new to do in Vegas? Something that involves breathing in massive amounts of particulate matter blown in from the desert? Something that involves watching yet another bit of idiotic Bush administration defense planning go up in smoke (literally)? Something a little mushroom cloudy? Well, you're in luck. Agence France-Presse reports that during the first week of June your tax dollars will be hard at work setting off a 700 ton explosion at the Nuclear Test Site just north of

  March 30, 2006

• Look to the Skies

  In a column in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, Ray Lemoine, co-author of Babylon by Bus, recounted his recent brush with the Department of Homeland Security. Lemoine was stopped at JFK airport while returning from Dubai. He'd been red-flagged because of a former job. Lemoine isn't a retired shoe-bomber or an ex-terrorist mastermind– a few years ago, he used sell bootleg t-shirts at sporting events. "Why did you infringe on the Boston Celtics' copyright in Boston in 2003?" the man from Homel

  June 14, 2006

• Weak on both sides...

  … and radioactive in the middle. By now you know that North Korea has apparently successfully tested a nuclear weapon. (Experts prefer the term "device", rather than "weapon", but given the fact that this device's sole function is to cause large-scale destruction, I think the word weapon is allowable.) The BBC reports: The size of the bomb is uncertain. South Korean reports put it as low as 550 tons of destructive power but Russia said it was between five and 15 kilotons. The 1945 Hiro

  October 9, 2006

• Ignorance is...

  ... a poor basis for a foreign policy.  Click here to see.  It would be funny-- hell, hilarious-- if people weren't dying.

  October 18, 2006

• Why The Toll Road Is Dead

  The Foothill-South (241) toll road extension, as we know it, is dead. Bold claim, you say? Presumptuous, maybe? Not so. Recently, mi hermano Gustavo Arellano pinpointed the root cause of the Transportation Corridor Agencies' failure to gain Coastal Commission approval for their Final Solution to San Onofre State Beach: ARROGANCE. The TCA presumptuously and sometimes even indignantly refuted the majority of criticism of their project, as reflected in the Response to Comments section of the Env

  February 10, 2008

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 5-21-08

  Film pick of the weekend comes early this week, because when weekends go long, the movies open sooner. And we all know what you're going to go see at midnight tonight. I call it INDIANA JONES AND THE KICKING OF YOUR CRYSTAL ASS. (Don't tell me that "crystal ass" makes no sense. If Echo and the Bunnymen can sing about shattering your crystal heart, I can move the metaphor to other regions of the body.) [EDIT: A friend posing as an anonymous reader informed me via my personal blog that the Echo

  May 21, 2008

• Saving Trestles: Game On!

  The on-again, off-again hearing on the 241 Foothill South toll road extension by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce is back on, from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22, and in an old/new home, O'Brien Hall at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, or the same place the California Coastal Commission met, took testimony and ultimately voted 8-2 against paving Lexus lanes over state park land. The hearing was to go off last month in the Bren Events Center until fears about the expected crowd size, coupled with a sl

  August 26, 2008

• The Death Ray

  October 7, 1999

• Virtual Tax

  November 4, 1999

• November Surprise?

  August 29, 2002

• An Immodest Proposal

  November 7, 2002

• Moidering Dem Bums

  March 6, 2003

• Dollars and No Sense

  March 27, 2003

• Crude Methods

  April 10, 2003

• Khan Game

  July 6, 2006

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Sucio Harry

  April 2, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special Guadalupe Edition

  December 11, 2008

• [Election 2008] Ron Kovic's War on War

  October 23, 2008

• Hits!

  Bionic Records
  

  November 29, 2007

• Space Case

  February 7, 2002

• Bushies Order Takeout

  February 6, 2003

• Rogue Statesman

  September 12, 2002

• From Hunter to Hunted

  In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar

  June 28, 2007

• Yesterdays Doomsdays

  March 13, 2003

• Shit People Sent Us

  January 4, 2001

• The Children of Imperialismo

  January 5, 2006

• Blix-krieg!

  May 12, 2005

• F. Yoo!

  February 10, 2005

• The presidents conservative critics

  July 15, 2004

• Burning Bush

  June 10, 2004

• George Bush on Ecstasy

  December 18, 2003

• Facts and Shivers

  May 15, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• Kiss My Axis!

  January 30, 2003

• Letters

  October 3, 2002

• I Hear America Sinking

  September 19, 2002

• Felony Foods

  March 21, 2002

• Shrubs Man In Madrid

  July 12, 2001

• Boom "Times"

  May 17, 2001

• Golden Smog

  May 17, 2001

• The Year in Letters

  January 4, 2001

• Just Declare Victory

  December 7, 2000

• Shut Em Down!

  April 20, 2000

• Coxs Flaccid Report

  January 13, 2000

• How About a Future That Doesnt Blow?

  January 13, 2000

• The New New World Order

  December 16, 1999

• Superpower Like Us

  July 8, 1999

• Star Wars, the Sequel

  February 11, 1999

• How to Kill a Factory

  September 3, 1998

• Behold John Bolton and His Moustache at Balboa Bay Club

  John Robert Bolton, the neocon's neocon, laps up the hosannas of fellow knuckle-draggers May 28 when he is the special guest of the World Affairs Council of Orange County. The nonprofit, 500-member council--which since its 1967 founding has hosted Prince Andrew, Vicente Fox, Hans Blix and several other international newsmakers--expects 250 to turn out for Bolton and his moustache tormenting the wait staff at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.Bolton has been employed by several Republican pres

  May 15, 2009