His mother told me this morning that there were five of them. They were armed, and they broke into the house at about 1:00am on Saturday 11 October, almost two weeks ago ( Read more... )

For anyone reading this, the last time I posted to LJ was almost exactly three years ago ( Read more... )

A train is coming at us! We just learned that the U.S. Senate is moving toward a mid -July vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment!

PLEASE read, click, TAKE ACTION and FORWARD to at least 5 FRIENDS IMMEDIATELY!

http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=BGLMFThe proposed Federal Marriage Amendment reads, "Marriage in the United States ( Read more... )

These are the first few entries in Orbitz's lowest cost routing from Hartford to Durban:

Hartford -> Newark -> Raleigh/Durham -> JFK -> ... (-> Hanging Gardens of Babylon -> Durban)All this time I've lived in Connecticut and none of my New Yorker friends have thought to mention that the cheapest way to get from New Jersey to Queens is via North ( Read more... )

`A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens'.

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the majority in one of several decisions handed down today on the legality of the administration's handling of detainees in the war on terror.

NEW YORK - Rejecting the Bush ( Read more... )

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" turned on the box office heat in its first day in theaters breaking single-day records at the two New York City theaters where it played ( Read more... )

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Tuesday approved class-action status for a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that has become the largest private civil rights case in U.S. history ( Read more... )

Anyone looking for gmail accounts could do worse than to monitor gmail_invite. With the cunning use of firefox's "auto-refresh page every x seconds" extension (here), I got gmail accounts for both myself and greenfizzpops earlier this evening without much effort.

Thanks to nex0s for the tip!

Draft Bruce in the fight against W! Thanks to damiana_swan for the link.

In the wake of the 9/11 commission's widely-reported conclusion that `there was never any evidence of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda, between Saddam Hussein and Sept. 11', the New York Times has called on Bush to apologize for misleading the American public:

Mr. Bush is right when he says he cannot be blamed for everything that happened on or ( Read more... )