saturday reads

Preznit bu$h says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday.


Robert Fisk: Semantics can't mask Bush's chicanery


Preznit bu$h vowed to veto any supplemental war funding bill exceeding his $108 billion request for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A Haight-Ashbury soup kitchen that served as many as 450 people a day for a quarter-century closed Friday, a casualty of dwindling federal grants and donation money.


Preznit bu$'s job approval rating has dropped to 28%, the lowest of his administration.

for Holden:


Whole Heap of Little Horses
Kristin Hersh
Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight (1998)