Ann Telnaes cartoon – yes the networks are all sheep.

Yes, NYC really is under occupation. James comments on the personal account of Dan’l being handcuffed on a subway platform.

… about why I’m such a Europhile — from the NY Times:

As an Italian living in the United States, I see that Americans have more or less embraced the idea that food is an industrial product, while Europeans, especially the Italians and the French, see it as part of their culture (news article, Feb. 11).</p>

The idea that food should have a shelf life of 30 days to be economically viable is anathema to the Italians and the French. Modifying foods to satisfy the needs of industrial distribution is preposterous.

It is unfair for the United States to try to force the Europeans to accept genetically modified food, casting in economic terms what is a matter of culture.

SIMONE SANTINI
San Diego, Feb. 11, 2003</blockquote>

Laura Bush says the media is just being irresponsible and needlessly scaring the public by reporting so much on terror news alerts.

Featured photo on Yahoo! Photos: gay couple with twins in Madison Park on East 23rd Street.

Code Pink and other feminist peace groups, including the Raging Grannies are making waves.

From No More Mister Nice Blog, an excerpt from an interview with Chirac. Do you think any of our “leaders” have worked in menial jobs in Europe, even really know anything about it?

Go read greg.org on Thomas Struth</a>.

Courtesy of Travelers Diagram:

“If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.”

–Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 35