Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

There are lots of ongoing attacks against alternative approaches to medicine, be it chiropractic (the AMA’s historical target), accupuncture (attempts to minimize its effects) or herbalism (big pharma in particular hates this field). So much so that western, and in particular North American, doctors and medical personal reject, to the sometimes degradation of their patient’s [...]

Never let it be said that our favourite pissant is a timely SOB, hell he’ll be late for his own funeral (which can’t be too soon if you knowwhat I mean). About the only thing he’s not late about is coming and well poor sod he has the opposite problem there , or so I’ve [...]

Doonesbury has a new feature called the Sandbox. It is a blog that veterans and serving military can post to in anonymity if they want. Or as they say on the site
Welcome to The Sandbox, our command-wide milblog, featuring comments, anecdotes, and observations from service members currently deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is GWOT-lit’s [...]

I think that’s a good word for the betrayal of the trust the American and Iraqi people put into the current Bush administration.
A new household survey of Iraq has found that approximately 600,000 people have been killed in the violence of the war that began with the U.S. invasion in March 2003.
The survey was conducted [...]