World News

Heroes In Liberia

People play fast and loose with the word “hero” these days. (See: Republican carpetbagger Scott Brown and his courageous battle against government regulations.) But from now on, this will be the gold standard: Health care workers in West Africa. These people are risking their lives to help total strangers. ProJo staff writer Karen Lee Ziner …

Heroes In Liberia Read More »

I Seriously Can Not Think Of A Headline For This, For Some Reason

[youtube]BrtaMTYBU-A[/youtube] There’s a really great (and very very long) article at filmmaker Errol Morris’s New York Times blog about President Bush as he’s been portrayed through news photographs.  He interviews three photographers, from the Associated Press, Reuters, and the Agence French-Presse, and asks them to comment on some of the more remarkable images of the …

I Seriously Can Not Think Of A Headline For This, For Some Reason Read More »

News You Can Use*…

(…*To Inspire You To Hide Under Your Bed Until Jan. 21, 2009)  This must-read report just in from the New Yorker‘s “This Would Be Funny If It Wasn’t So Fucking Scary” Department: “Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush administration steps up its secret moves against Iran” by the ever-vigilant Seymour Hersh.  Hersch writes: Late last year, …

News You Can Use*… Read More »

Best. Headline. Ever

I can’t believe I missed this in the New York Times yesterday:  “Possible Nazi Theme of Grand Prix Boss’s Orgy Draws Calls to Quit”  In a sublimely perverse, supremely hilarious article that at first glance seems like something ripped straight from the Onion, the Times reports on Max Mosley, president of a formula one governing body, …

Best. Headline. Ever Read More »

Oliver Stone’s Bush Biopic May Be Out By Inauguration

On his own opinion of the President: “I can’t give you that, because the filmmaker has to hide in the work,” Stone said. “Here, I’m the referee, and I want a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? It’s like …

Oliver Stone’s Bush Biopic May Be Out By Inauguration Read More »

Al Qaida Sympathizers Wait Patiently For Answers

Online sympathizers of al Qaida from across the internet have submitted hundreds of questions for deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahri over the past two months for an “on-line interview” on a militant Islamic website, and many supporters seem to be as in the dark about their activities and future plans as the rest of the world. …

Al Qaida Sympathizers Wait Patiently For Answers Read More »

News Slap! Afternoon Edition

Because stuff keeps happening… Giuliani, $40 mil. poorer and still placing 5th or worse. He should change his name to Undecided and maybe trick people into voting for him. Bill Clinton: reject Obama and that tired old black political establishment that he represents. What alternate version of history is Clinton living in? Congress wisely decides …

News Slap! Afternoon Edition Read More »

News Slap!

Some Interjunk from the stupidweb: Edward’s daughter hit by drunk driver, but she’s fine now. Nevada judge rules Kucinich can debate, but MSNBC will appeal, as they frankly just don’t want him there. ABC is embarrassed that Diane Sawyer didn’t ask Katie Holmes whether she was impregnated with the sperm of L. Ron Hubbard. On …

News Slap! Read More »

News Slap!

Closed door hearings this week over alleged destroyed CIA torture tapes. Kucinich and Howard get their way, New Hampshire recount starts the 16th. You must be this tall to attend MSNBC debate: Kucinich uninvited. Obama backed by two more red state senators. Middle East TV: “all Bush, all the time.” “Pulp Fiction” writer Roger Avary …

News Slap! Read More »

REAL ID Is Coming

By Matthew Harvey I don’t have many complaints about my Rhode Island driver’s license (except that it still lists my height and weight as of 1995) but, unless the state gets a federal waiver, I won’t be able to use it to board a plane starting May 1. Rhode Island’s licenses don’t comply with the …

REAL ID Is Coming Read More »

News Slap!

Got news if you want it: Bloomberg: running, not running, whatev. WH predicts 45% approval rating for Bush’s “legacy year”. Kucinich wants New Hampshire recount. Dear Dennis: you are annoying enough as it is, please stop with the nonsense. GOP debate: really just a bunch of old white yelling millionaires. Janice Dickenson says Stallone “juiced” her in her …

News Slap! Read More »

Providence Daily Dose