Slate surveys the recent spate of politically-minded online games, including Enduring Freedom and New York Defender. Warning: You may find either to be of questionable taste, and you may want to check out this (via Lake Effect) after playing the latter.
Month: September 2002
Dubya and the Dems.
Is the Bush White House hoping for heavy GOP losses in 2002? Somehow, I doubt it…the last thing he’d want to see is a Democratic House looking more carefully into subjects such as Enron, Halliburton, and Harken.
A Carnival of Sorts.
Mike Mills (of R.E.M.) muses on the recording of Chronic Town twenty years after its release.
Tactical Retreat.
A “close aide” of Colin Powell suggests the general is on his way out. If so, I shudder to think which right-wing apparatchik Dubya will replace him with. And you gotta think that this story leaking out is going to even further reduce the General’s influence in the Bush White House.
Mea Culpa means I’m Responsible,
(Big Gulp means ice cream headache.) Newsweek critic David Ansen revisits some of his earlier reviews, downgrading Minority Report in the process.
Blam! Kazow!
Early pics of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen leak out. Looks Kavalier & Klay campy at the moment, but I doubt these fellows will be hamming it up this much for the studio shots.