ast time around, we talked about the Geneva Conventions, and why violating the Geneva Conventions results in breaking the law. Basically, because we signed on and ratified the Geneva Conventions in 1955, and are not adhering to them today, the USA is breaking the law. That makes us war criminals.
It’s an ugly thought. War criminals.
This [...]
o the common cold, which is apparently done screwing around with us:
Clinicians should keep their eyes peeled for a mutated form of adenovirus 14 that has caused at least 10 deaths, most of them among adults, the CDC warned.
Noting that control of adenovirus is “challenging,” the CDC urged health care practitioners to take extra care [...]
idey-ho folks, it’s the Squatch again. This week, I’d like to spew more bitter garbage, and you folks get to be the lucky recipients. You lucky lil’ devils!
So, for the last two and a half weeks, the local radio stations have been playing Christmas music. It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, and already we have to [...]
hen we last left our intrepid adventurers . . .
Working Girl — My previous entry.
Turnaboutshine — Dr. Celestine
Does the Adventure Begin? — Lluna Girl
Drinkblot — Dr. Celestine
Ghost Story — Mr. James
Detours — Mr. James
Two For The Price Of One — Mr. James
Dinner Break
It wasn’t quite a one-horse town — maybe a three- or four-horse town. [...]
”e have to leave the ship even though it did not hit the iceberg,” Tom said with reckless abandon.
An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the medicine man. After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin strip of elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him [...]
o Pandora Radio, which rocks hardcore and is creepily good at picking songs I like. I put in “Alice Cooper”, and it’s been playing awesome music all morning. I have a new friend.
To November, which is a month of writing and rain and heavy gray clouds, cool weather and naked trees, food and leftover Halloween [...]
he torture issue really is a can of worms. It starts with the Afghanistan conflict’s “illegal combatants”, which were funneled into the detainee camp in Guantanamo Bay, and moves through so-called “black sites” — camps outside of the US, in Europe, where “high value detainees” are sent to be “interrogated” — as well as prisons [...]
i folks, I’m the Squatch, you’ll be hearing from me from time to time. Let’s get to it, shall we?
You know whats been burning my ass? Hollywood.
If I see one more goddamned sequel of some 70’s slasher flick, or superhero saga, or poorly re-done “revision”, I’m climbing up on a table in a restaurant and [...]
