Monthly Archives: June 2006

This Just In: Smoking = Bad

The U.S. Surgeon General warned today that smoking may be is harmful to everybody’s health — even the passive second-hand smoker. Yes, I also forgot that we actually have a Surgeon General, and no it’s not Michael Chertoff, but, per Reuters, Surgeon-General Richard Carmona has been hard at work and has this conclusion: “Second-hand smoke [...]
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Matchbox

The next entry from the Icelandic adventures of D. Heimpel has arrived: Fire leapt from a blonde girl’s hands as she threw the burning matchbox on the velvet couch. I was in Kaffibarrin, one of the city’s most popular bars, and this girl was about to burn it down. The next day I stole my yoga teacher’s [...]
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Dick: The Dark Side

PBS Frontline aired Dick Cheney: “The Dark Side” on Tuesday and it can now be viewed in its entirety on their Web site. Frontline cemented itself as THE premiere newsmagazine, imo, with 2004’s Rumsfeld’s War. Only a matter of time before we hear the d-word — that is if we even get to know ahead [...]
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