Your Doom Roundup

Amazing number of appalling stories in the last few days.  I don’t have
much to say beyond the obvious.  (Besides which, my voice has still
only healed to the sound of Tom Waits with his airway blocked by a
thrashing toad.)

Anyhow, here’s some stuff:

Halliburton importing clean-up workers for New Orleans, turning them into more homeless people.

Bush’s puppet Iraqi government: torturing detainees.

How many of the 13,000 detainees in Iraq have been convicted of anything?  Two percent.

White phosphorus admittedly used by U.S. troops in Iraq as an "incendiary weapon".

Congress takes back $125,000,000 from sick 9/11 workers.

New documents prove Big Oil was part of Cheney’s secretive Energy Task Force.  Oil executives and Dick Cheney: all liars.  (Like that’s a big shock.)

Supreme Court nominee Alito: proud liar.  (Like that’s a big shock, either.)

Anybody who says the whole world thought Iraq had WMDs: liars all along.

I find myself wondering, even after my own explanation: how is it possible Bush still has 36% support?

Why I was up until 4 am last night

Two reasons.  First, I was still enjoying some interesting side effects.  See if you can guess which three.  Fun for the whole family.  Medicine rules.

Second, I was watching the Socceroos thrill an entire country on the other side of the planet.  Seemed like the whole country was cheering.  Pretty cool way to pass the time while I was at it.

And yes, they really call them that.  Same sort of whimsy that leads New Zealand, whose rugby team is the world-famous All Blacks, to call their basketball team the Tall Blacks.

Maybe it helps if you’re already in love with the region.

Why I was up until 4 am last night

Two reasons.  First, I was still enjoying some interesting side effects.  See if you can guess which three.  Fun for the whole family.  Medicine rules.

Second, I was watching the Socceroos thrill an entire country on the other side of the planet.  Seemed like the whole country was cheering.  Pretty cool way to pass the time while I was at it.

And yes, they really call them that.  Same sort of whimsy that leads New Zealand, whose rugby team is the world-famous All Blacks, to call their basketball team the Tall Blacks.

Maybe it helps if you’re already in love with the region.