AltWeeklies Wire
Extracting Excess Profits From Oilnew
Oil executives can access each other's supply information without "conspiring," enabling them to passively collude in raising the price of gasoline.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-05-2005 |
Commentary
Memo From Karl Rove: I Quit!new
To G.W. Bush: You ain't got the sense God gave a wart hog, boy.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-14-2005 |
Comedy
NORTHCOM Responds Too Late to Disaster
The Pentagon's new Northern Command is supposed to be ready to spring into action to perform emergency relief work, but it wasn't until New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin lashed out that it jumped to attention.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-06-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush
Meter Beatersnew
Californians could lose if utilities are compelled to hook their homes up to Internet-controlled "smart meters" that will monitor their energy demand in real time.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-30-2005 |
Commentary
Schwarzenegger's No Closet Environmentalistnew
Just because Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger threw a few antismog bones to the clean-air folks does not mean he's not bent on polluting for profit -- his own profit.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-30-2005 |
Commentary
Potter Nauseanew
The Potter tales are explicated by Sartre's Being and Nothingness, and the two books should be read simultaneously for maximum effect.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-16-2005 |
Fiction
Petaluma, Calif., Prepares for Gang Invasionnew
Fearful that hundreds of Latino gangsters are about to be driven out of nearby Santa Rosa, Petaluma is considering a sales-tax hike to contain the supposed gang problem.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-05-2005 |
Commentary
The End of Innocencenew
The burning question for parents is how much violence their children must witness to become informed, peace-loving beings.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
07-25-2005 |
Commentary
The Monkey Biz About Darwinnew
Critics of Darwin try to score points with liberals by claiming that he was the first social Darwinist, and his scientific method is therefore wrong.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
07-18-2005 |
Commentary
Governor Tailors Public Policy to Fit His Financial Interestsnew
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger owns more than $1 million in an investment group that manages pension funds for public employee unions.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-29-2005 |
Commentary
Columnist for Salenew
If columnist Armstrong Williams can get big bucks for pushing the No Child Left Behind program, why shouldn't this columnist auction off a few stories?
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-21-2005 |
Commentary
Teach Them Less and They'll Pass the Testsnew
The No Child Left Behind Act is a silent neutron bomb going off inside our school systems. Low performance scores could cause dumbed-down curricula to be fed to immigrant children with the specific aim of helping them pass standardized performance tests.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-06-2005 |
Commentary
Homeschooling Guru Turns Darwin Into Whipping Boynew
John Taylor Gatto says that "liberals" and "secularists," most especially Unitarians, historically conspired with capitalists to impose schooling on the masses and "suppress" the "amazing insights of American Christian spirituality."
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
05-23-2005 |
Commentary
Blind Sheik's Attorney Speaks of Her Convictionnew
Lynne Stewart, who represented Egyptian sheik Omar Abdel al-Rahman, claims a jury convicted her of "conspiring to conspire" because it was inflamed by the prosecution's focus on the sheik's hatred for Israel.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
05-09-2005 |
Commentary
Comcast Slows U.S. Downnew
Comcast, the largest cable provider in America, appears to be deliberately retarding progress in Internet connection speed to protect its other financial interests.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
05-03-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: AT&T, Geoffrey Brown
