Subject: United Nations

• Toture Awareness Month

  Over at Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World, Jonathan Schwarz points out that June is Torture Awareness Month. Quoting from the announcement on TortureAwareness.org: June 26th is the date that the United Nations has marked as the International Day in Support of Survivors and Victims of Torture. This year a coalition of human rights, civil liberties and faith organizations have joined TASSC International, a leading survivors organization, in declaring June "Torture Awareness Month." This awareness

  June 5, 2006

• Tolls At Any Cost?

  Couldn't help but take a gander at the latest Honk! column in the Register, which is a must-read for anyone who can get past the fact that writer Jim Radcliffe looks far too happy to be a local transportation columnist. Unless, of course, it's driven him barking mad, in which case the grin makes sense. The column's title promises a Biblical smackdown, with Radcliffe as Moses (only more smiley): Thou Shalt Not Waste Our Dollars With that headline in mind, I direct your attention to this week's fa

  August 29, 2006

• Staying the Course

  At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.The est

  October 11, 2006

• Best LA Times Page EVER!!!

  Today. Friday, March 10, 2006. Los Angeles Times. Page A8. Along the thinnest of news holes, with just enough room all six columns to tuck in an inch of type per column and this headline in, eyeballing it, what appears to be 30-point type across four of those columns: "United Nations Report Says 1.1 Billion People Lack Safe Water." Cool, huh? Oh, but that ain't the best of it. For the casual reader is not drawn to that little strip of type. No, they are drawn to the color photo of a sculpture

  March 10, 2006

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Rohrabacher Joins ACLU?

  Dana Adopts ACLUish Torture Position! At an Oct. 12 rally, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Skipped Vietnam Combat Duty) repeatedly blasted solitary prison confinement. “Long periods of solitary confinement are considered torture,” Rohrabacher said to a tiny Huntington Beach crowd that looked staffed by, well, his congressional staff and their flag-waving relatives. He made the unexpected announcement as a plea for President George W. Bush to free two U.S. Border Patrol agents from prison af

  October 16, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 10/23

  FARMER’S MARKET, 4-8pm Held every Tuesday night, Brea’s market features fresh grown produce from local farmers, as well as unique crafts and specialty items from local crafters. Birch St. (between Madrona Ave. & Walnut Ave.), Brea, (714) 674-0801 www.breadowntown.com/BDT-events2.htm WINE & MAGIC, 6pm Enjoy a night of wine and magical entertainment. Baccus’ Secret Cellar, 6735 Quail Hill Pkwy., Irvine, (949) 502-4600 www.bacchussecretcellar.com/2007/10/23/wine-magic-2 LAKERS VS. JAZZ, 7pm

  October 23, 2007

• Crocoshit Dundee?

  Local water officials, who are looking to Australia for expertise on how to survive one of the worst droughts in California's recorded history, hosted former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie at its monthly luncheon on Thursday, something that prompted Rupert Murdoch's Aussie papers to mock Beattie, the Block of Orange locale and the Orange County Water Association. Beattie addressed our local water brigade in his capacity as the Los Angeles-based trade and investment commissioner for Queensland

  August 22, 2008

• Virtual Tax

  November 4, 1999

• Barbara Coe Upset Sarah Palin Doesn't Acknowledge Her

  On Sept. 15, California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe sent off a questionnaire to Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. "The California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) is a nationally recognized nonpartisan grassroots organization representing thousands of patriots nationwide," Coe wrote to Palin. "Our goal is the enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of law-abiding Americans from illegal alien invaders and the preservation of the U.S. as a sov

  October 16, 2008

• Moidering Dem Bums

  March 6, 2003

• Dollars and No Sense

  March 27, 2003

• The City That Bush Forgot

  September 15, 2005

• 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Remake Misses the Point, and That's a Klaatu Barada No-No

  December 11, 2008

• Mahvash Mossaed: I Paint a Woman's Life Opening Reception

  December 4, 2008

• Giving Back!

  April 3, 2008

• A Raw Nerve

  Elaborately choreographed pantomime reveals a nation torn asunder

  July 26, 2007

• Casus Belli

  OC Peace Bus

  March 15, 2007

• Commie Girl

  August 10, 2006

• Shit People Sent Us

  January 4, 2001

• Dark Continentals

  March 15, 2007

• Commie Girl

  California Coming Home: How I deducted my summer vacation

  July 20, 2006

• 'I've Had So Much Fun With Cops'

  April 20, 2006

• Montezumas Revenge

  I go to Mexico, and America falls apart

  August 11, 2005

• Blix-krieg!

  May 12, 2005

• Dressed to Thrill

  April 21, 2005

• How Green Was My Valley?

  January 6, 2005

• Repetition in Politics, News, Big Business and Human Suffering

  December 2, 2004

• Dodge the Spin, Spinning Newspaper

  April 15, 2004

• E-San Rod-Sap

  April 8, 2004

• High Frequency

  January 22, 2004

• George Bush on Ecstasy

  December 18, 2003

• An Informed Citizenry

  June 19, 2003

• My Laguna

  May 29, 2003

• Facts and Shivers

  May 15, 2003

• Colonial Capitalism

  May 1, 2003

• Our Man In Baghdad

  April 24, 2003

• Hail the Preemptive Heroes

  April 10, 2003

• 'We Will Not Resolve This With Cannons

  April 3, 2003

• Daddy Warbucks

  April 3, 2003

• What Are We Doing There?

  April 3, 2003

• Ask Flossbrite

  February 20, 2003

• Kiss My Axis!

  January 30, 2003

• I Hear America Sinking

  September 19, 2002

• The Little Engine Who Took His Place in the Underclass

  May 16, 2002

• Couched in Ignorance

  April 25, 2002

• A Good Head of Anger

  November 29, 2001

• Cut and Paste

  May 17, 2001

• The Year in Letters

  January 4, 2001

• One Crazy Bird

  November 23, 2000

• 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