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Archives for February 2011
Bad News for Assange
The Guardian reports: The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden [from the U.K.] to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal, his legal team has confirmed. If they lose he will be sent to Sweden in 10 days. He will “be held in custody,” the report also said, […]
Copycatting? Or Just Images With Legs?
Here we go again, this time vs. the NYT Book Review. You decide. © 1969 by Norman O. Mustill These images are from Norman O. Mustill’s Twinpak, one of a series of Nova Broadcast pamphlets published in San Francisco in 1969. This image is Barbara deWilde‘s illustration for the cover of The New York Times […]
Say Again?
It’s hard to believe, but some people want to know how to become a copy editor. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
‘Curveball’ Goes Straight; Tale Comes Full Circle
Here’s the headline on the exclusive report in today’s Guardian: Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war. Which reminds me of this blogpost — HIT BY A CURVEBALL — published way back on July 11, 2004: David Johnston’s report on how the “Powers That Be” conned Americans into believing Iraq had weapons of […]
And the Presidential Medal of the Plutocracy Goes to …
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A Box of Chocolates
… for Valentine’s Day. There’s the Victorian way. And then there’s the Mustillian way. “February 14, is Valentine’s Day” © 1975 by Norman O. Mustill. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Obama W. Bush Does His Banana Republic Thing
When Noam Chomsky or Ralph Nader or Glenn Greenwald or Paul Krugman or Chris Hedges or any number of Obama’s leftwing critics call him a disgrace and worse — ok, let’s say it, a finkified hypocrite — their opinions are dismissed on the right as the mutterings of ideologues who in some cases feel that […]