iPwN3d!
That’s a wonderful term coined for the disappointment some new iPhone customers are feeling, as AT&T lags in activating the things. It sounds like a wonderful device, once you actually get to use it.
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Robin Trower: “Bridge Of Sighs”
God Damn Them
From the CIA “Family Jewels” files:
Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national security, these experiments, done on the agency’s behalf by prominent psychiatrists on innocent victims - including children as young as four - may be the darkest.
“We have no answer to the moral issue,” former director Richard [...]
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Stanley Clarke (bass): “Schooldays”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He’s compos’d of harshness.” —The Tempest, 3.1.9
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Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris: “Love Hurts”
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Lewis “Scooter” Libby has been assigned an inmate number by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“As low as to thy heart through the false passage of thy
throat thou liest.” —Richard II, 1.1.124-25
You Got Served
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy may actually have had enough of White House contempt for Congressional oversight:
The Senate Judiciary Committee has served Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials in the White House and Justice Department with subpoenas over President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping programs.
“Over the past 18 months, this Committee has made [...]
10 Months
Another Abramoff sentencing, this time for the former number-two at Interior:
Steven Griles, who served as the No. 2 Interior Department official between 2001 and 2005, had hoped to serve his sentence at home working for a charity sponsored by Walt Disney Co. and several outdoor-equipment makers.
But Judge Ellen Segal [...]

