by The Wordyeti | May 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
In Russia, they threw a Victory in Europe celebration, and barred the public from attending From time to time, all the shops full of the latest European fashions and giant blazing neon signs trick me into forgetting that Moscow and Russia have some serious and...
by The Wordyeti | Jan 5, 2007 | journalism
Dem. Congressman holds press conference in Second Life The techno-optimists will condemn this as another example of the messy real world intruding on their utopian cyber-reality (although damn few people still subscribe to this Pollyannaish view of the web as a place...
by The Wordyeti | Dec 28, 2006 | journalism
I yanked a story yesterday about what happened to me when I covered a riot in Ecuador. Today, I see that the town of Buenaventura has gone Somalia. By which I mean, the joint has had a total breakdown of central authority, and the streets are controlled by...
by The Wordyeti | Nov 14, 2006 | journalism
…although they are a strange and alarming bunch… Douglas Feith, widely derided as one of the key reasons that Iraq descended into the Pit of Hell … a neocon Defender of the Faith venal and small-minded enough that Gen. Tommy Franks called him...
by The Wordyeti | Nov 8, 2006 | journalism
OK, OK, the parade has barely begun and the storm clouds are dumping. Over on Buzzmachine, Jarvis points out that, basically, wherever we go, there we are. So that in the future: Yes, this was an incredibly ugly, TV-run election in many races (including...
