A study by a team of Italian scientists reportedly concludes that there is a link between the sweetner aspartame, which is sold under the brand NutraSweet, and cancer. According to a report in the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal, the study found that aparstame is “particularly potent when animals are exposed in utero and during development. The rats […]

“American Torture,” by Michael Otterman; Pluto Press, 2007.
For most Americans, the disturbing images released in 2004 from Abu Ghraib, the notorious United States-run prison in Iraq, were the first evidence they had seen that their country conducts systematic, highly organized, brutal torture. But the fact is, as Michael Otterman so thoroughly documents in “American Torture,” […]

A new CBS News/MTV/New York Times (talk about your avis of evil) poll of 17- to 29-year-olds finds that there is interest in the Democratic front runners among America’s youth. Not only that, but according to National Journal’s PollWatch, they are already paying attention to an election that’s still nearly a year and a half […]

There are two secrets of life that nobody tells you: screwing and dying. What they tell you about is love and the hereafter. But it is screwing and dying that you have to deal with.
— Walker Percy (1916-1990) American Southern writer

Professional homophobes such as the American Family Association, Concerned Women for American, the televangelist Pat Robertson and others raise millions of dollars every year based on the precepts that being gay is a “lifestyle choice” and therefore gay people are willful sinners who are not worthy of equal treatment under the law — and that […]

Home again: The Politico is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney has dropped his novel — and weird — argument that his office is not subject to an executive order regarding classified documents and is, after all, part of the executive branch of our fine government. Want to know why the sudden change of mind?
The […]

It’s finally happening. Republicans are starting to join the rest of us traitorous terrorist-loving surrender monkeys in opposing the ongoing occupation in Iraq.
Anti-war sentiment among Republican poll respondents has suddenly increased with 38 percent of Republicans now saying they oppose the war.
In the latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 69 percent of those polled […]

The bitch is back, and “bitch” is not a word I use often, believing both it sexist and insulting to female dogs. After all, “asshole” or “total fucker” will usually suffice and both are non gender-specific. But Ann Coulter, who said yesterday on Good Morning America, of all the inappropriate places, that she wishes John […]

One week ago, Rudolph Giuliani’s finance chairman in South Carolina, Thomas Ravenel, had to step down because he was indicted by the feds who accuse him of distributing massive amounts of cocaine.
In 2000, Arthur Ravenel referred to the NAACP as the “National Association of Retarded People.” Then said he was being “lynched” because of […]