Friday, October 31, 1997

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Today's LA Times has a story about the massive increase in deportations of aliens since last year. They don't bother doing the math,...
Thursday, October 30, 1997

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A new batch of Nixon tapes is out. Check out the Washington Post coverage in today's paper, an article on the front page & several ...
Wednesday, October 29, 1997

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Zambia thwarts one of the sillier coup attempts of recent years, by a "Captain Solo" who was told by an angel to stamp out corrupt...
Sunday, October 26, 1997

But Chelsea gets to go to Stanford

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Lee Hoi Chang was once considered the front-runner for South Korea's December presidential elections. Then it was discovered that both o...
Friday, October 24, 1997

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Clinton proposes to let the market and tax incentives take care of carbon emissions. The tax breaks would be enough for everyone in America...
Thursday, October 23, 1997

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Vietnam, under the mistaken impression that it is Sweden, bans toy weapons. So "Candle in the Wind" has outsold "We are the W...
Tuesday, October 21, 1997

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In Italy, the series of earthquakes around Assissi has been taken by some as the beginning of the end of the world. Today the Vatican respo...
Saturday, October 18, 1997

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Believe it or not, everyone, I was woken up by a dream about sheep coming in through my front door. When the third one came in, I woke up. I...
Thursday, October 16, 1997

Follow that car!

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Israel releases I believe 9 (7?) more Palestinians as part of its deal with Jordan. You still don't see much in the American press about...
Wednesday, October 15, 1997

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In the big news of the week, Nevis legislators have voted to secede from St. Kitts. The Times says that the federal program to help indigent...
Tuesday, October 14, 1997

Tue, 14 Oct 1997

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Can you believe that Clinton never went to South America before this week? Just shows how important that free trade treaty must be to him. F...
Sunday, October 12, 1997

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It's amusing to read the New York Times boasting an FBI report that its burglary rate is now lower than that of London, and the Telegrap...
Saturday, October 11, 1997

Values

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George Bush, the Texan governor following in his father's footsteps as a Republican presidential prospect, is well ahead in opinion poll...

More from the Duh Files / The Germans wore gray, you wore a horn

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Kenneth Starr announced today, after years of investigation, that Vince Foster was depressed when he committed suicide. When the Marx Brothe...
Friday, October 10, 1997

A bite out of crime

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Important news from China: they just made a noodle a mile and a half long. Also, Disney has hired Henry Kissinger to ease its troubled diplo...
Thursday, October 09, 1997

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The Chicago City Council absolves Mrs O'Leary's cow. The long persecution is over. Under Haiti's penal code, Zombification is c...
Tuesday, October 07, 1997

Tue, 7 Oct 1997

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Latest items on the Taliban's (that's Pushtu for "Promise Keepers") no-no list: photographs or other representations of hu...
Sunday, October 05, 1997

From the "No shit, Sherlock" files

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Associated Press Sunday, October 5, 1997 The Washington Post Within days of selecting Dan Quayle for the 1988 vice presidential nomina...
Thursday, October 02, 1997

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So let's see if I've got this straight. Israel released the founder of Hamas from prison on humanitarian grounds, but it was actual...
Tuesday, September 30, 1997

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According to Forbes, the US now has 170 billionaires, up from 13 in 1982. Of course that was when a billion was really a billion. The price ...