Posts by Hines Brian

Ah, I shouldn’t have worried that the Portland Trailblazers would get all boringly straight and narrow now that Nate McMillan is the coach. Star player Zach Randolph hasn’t been charged following an investigation into his escapade with two women who he had paid $500 to simulate a sex act at the Hotel Vintage Plaza on August 11. But the District Attorney’s report about what went on is titillating reading. Even with all the blacked out names. Fame, youth, and an $84 million contract sure can bring a dude a lot of fun. Though one of the women said she spent…

I’m already tired of the Fifth Anniversary of 9/11 hoopla. It’s one more sign of the United States’ self-absorption and inability to connect with the much larger world beyond our borders. Yes, 3,000 people died in the attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. Yet did you know that at least 3,000 people die every month in Darfur from violence, disease, and malnutrition attributable to the conflict? Where are the memorials to these people? Where are the fervent speeches? Where is the determination by the Bush Administration to protect innocents from terrorists? Absent. Absent. Absent. In the past three…

Oh, Disney, you’ve burst my Mickey Mouse bubble. I grew up with the Mouseketeers. I watched the Disney hour on our black and white TV. I loved going to Disneyland. Now, when I think “Disney,” what comes to mind is right-wing whack job. (And 9/11 history fabricator; Disney funded “The Path to 9/11” and controls ABC, which will be showing this work of fiction Sunday and Monday nights). I’ve been reading and weeping for the death of an all-American brand that has chosen to associate itself with only the neo-con slice of this country. Sad. See: ABC’s twisted “Path to…

I’ve given ABC and Disney a piece of my mind about their disturbingly biased movie, “The Path to 9/11” that will shown next Sunday and Monday. Bill Clinton is simply asking that they tell the truth. I sent them the same message. If you haven’t done so already, add your name to the hundreds of thousands who already have expressed their indignation that the tragedy of 9/11 is being sullied by movie-makers who are putting political grandstanding above respect for what actually happened. The Daily Kos tells you what to do. Do it. Now. It looks like ABC and Disney…

You’d think that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and George Bush would be best buddies, they think so much alike. Opening up the newspaper this morning, I saw the headline, “Iran’s president targets liberalism.” (same AP story here, with different headline) Let’s see. Ahmadinejad wants to strengthen fundamentalism in his country. He’s removing pragmatic veterans in the government and replacing them with inexperienced hard-liners. His administration is cracking down on independent journalists. He’s trying to drive liberal and moderate professors out of universities. Sure sounds like the president of the United States’ wet dream. Oh, except it isn’t just a dream; it’s reality.…

Wow, what a surprise: false information about Iraq. It turns out that the capture of high-level Al Qaeda operative Jumaa Al Saeedi actually occurred nearly three months ago, rather than last Friday as was originally reported. So what am I to make of all the breathless speculation I heard on Fox News about how taking Al Saeedi out was going to break the insurgency’s back? Every attack in Iraq since June 19 occurred when #2 was out of commission. Seems to me like there are plenty of #3s and below ready to be promoted.

I was proved wrong by a fill-in host for Mark Levin (another “Mark,” who I assume was Mark Simone). This afternoon I heard him blabbing about how Google has purposely jiggered with its search engine so typing in “failure” brings up, as the #1 result, the official biography of George Bush. Simone claimed that this shows the left-wing bias of Google, which he said has Al Gore on its board of directors. That’s false. Gore is a Senior Advisor to Google and a member of Apple’s board. But he was correct about the “failure” search. And it’s also true that…