Live from the Nuke Free Zone

A small-bore news item from Santa Fe carries an interesting datum: Santa Fe is putting the “living wage” philosophy in to place with an $8.50/hr minimum wage, possibly soon to be hiked to $9.50. This is a pretty sizeable increase over the federal standard, and a glance at the Department of Labor’s site on […]

Here’s some rambling on a couple of news items from earlier this week. First, Bush calls you a traitor, and second, Woodward testifies in the Plame Affair.

Grapevine in the politically-connected community has it that Senators DeMint of Ohio and Santorum of Pennsylvania, watching their privatization bills die in committee, are pushing for their legislation to be brought directly to the floor without committee debate. If their bills make it to the floor, we could very well see desperate strong-arm tactics […]

Pesky litle things. You think you’ve got them safely tucked away and they skitter off if you don’t keep an eye on them. Some recent developmens in Congress have displayed a variety of interesting visions of the law and its relationship to citizens’ lives.

Residents of the suburbs ringing Paris, France have been rioting for over a week, and
the riots are spreading. It is surpring that this hasn’t gotten into the English-speaking press until today. What apparently set off the riots was when two African teenagers electrocuted themselves after breaking into a power station, while police were nearby investigating […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A new judge was selected to preside over Rep. Tom DeLay’s conspiracy and money laundering trial Thursday, after another judge became the second to step away from involvement in the case because of political contributions he has made.
Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub, a Republican who was to have selected the judge for […]

I’m sure 387195783195 other people have beaten me to the punch on this one, really, but I might as well make that 387195783196.
I don’t think I really need to say anything about this one, do I?
“Consistent with our values,” indeed.

The judge deciding the fate of the 13-year-old cancer patient ruled Monday that Katie should be returned to her parents. This will most likely doom the girl, whose chances of survival had been high but due to parental obstructionism in giving her modern chemo/radiotherapy had dropped precipitously, and who will now be treated with […]