Category: dKo journal

Before the invention of the zero, the DEA announced a policy of “Hardly Any Tolerance for Drugs.”

Before the invention of the zero, even when something was free, you still had to pay a penny for it.

Disturbing report I heard on NPR radio. This expert said that the prevalence of violins in the media could easily lead to more violins in the street, and even to domestic violins.

And they don’t always win… I have freely excerpted and rearranged from this LA Times piece. “Watergate Weighs on Today’s White House,” By Peter Wallsten., LA Times Staff Writer, June 7, 2005 [L]ingering weaknesses remain in the executive branch’s authority, officials around Bush have said. ********** Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, a Nixon aide who…

I find this report of a US poll encouraging, and better than I’d have expected/feared: Asked if Muslims can go to heaven only 12% said they cannot, 50% said they can and 24% said they do not believe in heaven. Newsweek, May 2004.

Mark Felt is going to publish a final “tell-all” book soon, and Bob Woodward is also going to publish his final wrap-up on Watergate. What could conceivably come out of these? Well, there remain at least two major loose-ends to the story, one Major and the other Huge. Major: Thomas Eagleton. He was the vice-presidential…