Human negligence may come back to bite...and it may a particularly harsh bite this hurricane season, despite what the hoodwinked and the hoodwinkers would have you believe. For years now the obscurantists have been diehard apologists for the pollutive, thus extending the pollution into the airwaves. "That dog doesn't bite!", they keep repeating. But when the dog does bite, will the lies and liars be resented? If only the guilty inherited the gaseous winds...
Earthquake jolts parts of Mendocino County
Earthquake shakes Athens
7.1 magnitude earthquake in Fiji
Experts: Utah Should Prepare For Big Earthquake
Study raises quake risk
National Guard mobilized to help fight wild fires
Multiple fires erupt, thanks to wind
Crews battle forest fires in East Tennessee
Crews Nearly Contain Black Hills Fires
Carolinas' climate ripe for forest fires
Flash flood warnings posted across rain-soaked Hawaii
Town put on flood alert
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Dubai Dubya & The Arab Scarab Harum
If Dubai screws up our ports, will it change its name to Dubya?
More of Dubai Dubya...
Daily Kos Dairies
More of Dubai Dubya...
Daily Kos Dairies
Mississippi: At the Cutting Edge of Backwardness
Ever at the forefront of atavism, Mississippi, led by their uberbubba, Haley Barbour, plans on stripping women...of their rights. It's easy when your state is always last in education. Keep them stupid and docile, and their will follow even a slobbering fool into the Hades of Ignorance.
Other backward states, like South Dakota, plan to follow Mississippi's devolutionary lead.
Step aside and let the lemmings pass....
Other backward states, like South Dakota, plan to follow Mississippi's devolutionary lead.
Step aside and let the lemmings pass....
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Water Found on Mars
And Just in Time Too!
Human Origins Also Discovered
Thank God for small miracles! In a last minute effort, terrestrial scientists raced another robot up to Mars before everyone could let the mishaps of the last big adventure set in. And what did they find? No, not Timothy Leary. . . Water, stupid! Water!
Upon closer inspection of said water, the terrestrial scientists discovered, to their chagrin I might add, (but when isn't it?) that the water contained what appeared to be Human Spores, which has prompted them to assign varying meanings to this finding, and one of these is that we, humans that is, were once little spore-type-thingies, and we lived on Mars until it got too cold and we hijacked rides on comets which then smashed into the earth's atmosphere thus releasing us in the form of cosmic rain, if you will, which then filled up the oceans and Coca-Cola bottling plants.
How we became soft drinks is a deep subject which I only wish I had the time to tell, but alas, I must investigate further, ever further, bringing out the most newsy news consumable. It is my job. My life. My metier.
Now, back to you, Dan.
Human Origins Also Discovered
Thank God for small miracles! In a last minute effort, terrestrial scientists raced another robot up to Mars before everyone could let the mishaps of the last big adventure set in. And what did they find? No, not Timothy Leary. . . Water, stupid! Water!
Upon closer inspection of said water, the terrestrial scientists discovered, to their chagrin I might add, (but when isn't it?) that the water contained what appeared to be Human Spores, which has prompted them to assign varying meanings to this finding, and one of these is that we, humans that is, were once little spore-type-thingies, and we lived on Mars until it got too cold and we hijacked rides on comets which then smashed into the earth's atmosphere thus releasing us in the form of cosmic rain, if you will, which then filled up the oceans and Coca-Cola bottling plants.
How we became soft drinks is a deep subject which I only wish I had the time to tell, but alas, I must investigate further, ever further, bringing out the most newsy news consumable. It is my job. My life. My metier.
Now, back to you, Dan.
Liquids Wetter Than Solids, Gases
SWAN QUARTER, NC--In a startlingly wondrous turn of events which has scientists in far-flung areas of the subtropics gaga, Swan Quarter 3rd grader, Oliver Sutton, stood up and told his classmates that "Liquids are wetter than solids and gases" during his turn at "Science Yack" -- a daily program which enables the younguns to opine on all things scientific.
The news was swift and oppressive. Ripples and shudders radiated from the small Carolina village to the point where authorities were called in to quell the disturbance. This shocked a number of otherwise languid citizens, who were forced, by conscience, to stand up and defend the little Sutton child on the grounds that "he was really no worse than other brats just because he had ideas. Jeez!".
Further examination, however, has shown that there really is no such thing as a solid, since what were once thought of as solids are really nothing more than the same mind-fluff that every other schmo is composed of, which, as it turns out, is a sort of projection of God's visions and thoughts upon a holographic screen which we are all part and whole of, whatever that means. I just obey orders. And now they are telling me to wrap it up...
Anyway...look into it! Bucky Fuller is a good place to start. Get back with me. Ta!
The news was swift and oppressive. Ripples and shudders radiated from the small Carolina village to the point where authorities were called in to quell the disturbance. This shocked a number of otherwise languid citizens, who were forced, by conscience, to stand up and defend the little Sutton child on the grounds that "he was really no worse than other brats just because he had ideas. Jeez!".
Further examination, however, has shown that there really is no such thing as a solid, since what were once thought of as solids are really nothing more than the same mind-fluff that every other schmo is composed of, which, as it turns out, is a sort of projection of God's visions and thoughts upon a holographic screen which we are all part and whole of, whatever that means. I just obey orders. And now they are telling me to wrap it up...
Anyway...look into it! Bucky Fuller is a good place to start. Get back with me. Ta!
In the Works
NEXT ISSUE
Body of Ancient Man who discovered Fire Found in Siberia
Fire-eating dogs now being bred to replace traditional fire hose
Charlotte Poultroon Gets Serious Wedgie
How Sept 11 Caused the World to Stay the Same
Deloitte: "I'm just looking for some Touche"
Over-eager Oilman Strikes Hell
Conversation Deemed Spuerfluous, Deipnosophists Up in Arms
Gore Gets Mad and De-Invents the Internet Causing World Panic
Mt. Everest to be ground down and auctioned off in sugar packets on eBay
7 Habits of Highly Habituated Addicts
Why cats can beat up dogs but rarely waste the energy
Sexual Congress: A New Page
Want to lose weight? Eat what skinny people eat, stupid!
How to know if you have class
Avant-garde Lovemaking
"Secret Ingredient" in beer found more addictive than crack. US government still prohibited from demanding Ingredient labels.
Save your hair! New hair religion stops it from going to Hell
Trees found to have canine souls. . . discovered in bark
Unborn fetus discovered masturbating in womb
Wheelchair-disabled sue stand-up comedians in Class Action suit
Cordless dropcords may cause insanity
Salted beer nuts found to cause alcoholism
New poll shows women really prefer beta males
Do you believe in love after love? NY woman has sex with 2000 partners!
"The Matriot" slated to begin production in August
The real reason you can't see peepees on TV
Toll-roads taking their toll
Indo-European roots and berries
How to fool others into thinking you are likeable
Body of Ancient Man who discovered Fire Found in Siberia
Fire-eating dogs now being bred to replace traditional fire hose
Charlotte Poultroon Gets Serious Wedgie
How Sept 11 Caused the World to Stay the Same
Deloitte: "I'm just looking for some Touche"
Over-eager Oilman Strikes Hell
Conversation Deemed Spuerfluous, Deipnosophists Up in Arms
Gore Gets Mad and De-Invents the Internet Causing World Panic
Mt. Everest to be ground down and auctioned off in sugar packets on eBay
7 Habits of Highly Habituated Addicts
Why cats can beat up dogs but rarely waste the energy
Sexual Congress: A New Page
Want to lose weight? Eat what skinny people eat, stupid!
How to know if you have class
Avant-garde Lovemaking
"Secret Ingredient" in beer found more addictive than crack. US government still prohibited from demanding Ingredient labels.
Save your hair! New hair religion stops it from going to Hell
Trees found to have canine souls. . . discovered in bark
Unborn fetus discovered masturbating in womb
Wheelchair-disabled sue stand-up comedians in Class Action suit
Cordless dropcords may cause insanity
Salted beer nuts found to cause alcoholism
New poll shows women really prefer beta males
Do you believe in love after love? NY woman has sex with 2000 partners!
"The Matriot" slated to begin production in August
The real reason you can't see peepees on TV
Toll-roads taking their toll
Indo-European roots and berries
How to fool others into thinking you are likeable
The Liberal Media presents: The Virtual Bohemia Channel
Virtual Bohemia Television that Heals and Edifies
alt.primetime
Featuring the best in alternative programming for the evening, late night and the following morning.
Freud's Banana
Not unlike Newton's Apple, but with emphasis on human sexuality. Sometimes a banana is just a banana. This wouldn't be one of those instances.
BOBBIES
England's answer to COPS, BOBBIES features the wacky antics of gentlemen with short bats. Viewers have commented on just how crude and boorish COPS seems, after viewing the more civilized Bobbies in action.
Food-Chain Gang
In this bizarre natural comedy, each rung up the ladder gets to laugh and point at the poor sucker one rung beneath him or her. But to make things interesting, the entire chain is literally chained together. Now let's see who comes out on top!
Arnold the Robopig
Arnold Zifflenegger has a problem. He is frankly a robotic swine overly concerned with Kohlberg's Third level of moral development, namely Law and Order. Watch as Arnold squeals on his friends and family until there is only one creature in the entire village who is not behind bars. Guess who.
Taboo Quest
Taboo Quest seeks out all the major world taboos...and exploits them for financial gain. This season we even hope to create a few new taboos, for your viewing pleasure.
As It Were
Virtual Bohemia's answer to the History Channel, only condensed into a 30-minute show...which is about as much History as most people want.
Imperfect Weekend
This Friday evening show previews some of the more arcane things taking place over the weekend. If you can't afford The Perfect Weekend...try an Imperfect one. You might see all your friends. At least the cheap ones!
Sexual In Your Window
This show, called the ballsiest on TV, is the best of video voyeurism, with particular emphasis on private sexual acts caught on tape. Great fun for the adult viewer!
Life After Money
Whether it be Life chasing after money, or what life can be like after you have lost it all, Life After Money is the show that treats of these two seemingly disparate states.
Genius Search
Star Search raised to the highest level, Genius Search seeks out the best minds in the world and rewards the recipient with whatever he or she needs in order to further their work.
Tobacco Executives
Tobacco Executives features the lives of the heads of this dying industry, only in a situational comedy format. The twist is that no one EVER tells the truth, so you can imagine the tangled webs they create.
Voyeur TV
First there was Real TV. Then there was Weird TV. Welcome to the Age of Voyeur TV! We highlight the best of voyeuristic TV shows around the world, as well as create a few ourselves...so there is absolutely no need to look elsewhere.
Green Witch Village
Green Witch Village documents the life and people of the community known as Green Witch Village...since that, indeed, is the name. Starting out as a Virtual Community, Green Witch Village is now a clothing-optional "Intentional Paradise" in the mountains of North Carolina. Membership is available, but is a million dollars. Can you pay my way? Watch to find out!
Rampant Pelvises
Rampant Pelvises is a sort-of MTV-style dance show...only the music is good and the people are good-looking and deliberately sexy. All "outfits" are dropdead, and can be purchased from the show. Same with the music. You can even chat with the dancers and set up 5-minute dates with them. Great for the kiddies!
Mama and Dada
A surreal show about how everyone's mother wants to be a Dadaist, but is invariably thwarted by agents from the cruel and lazy planet of Husbandry. Watch as the Husbands move in and remove toilet seats from the walls, only to leave the lid up elsewhere.
Canned Laughter
Canned Laughter is a new concept in TV. First we set up situations where people say unfunny things to each other, and then we edit in uproarious laughter so the viewer thinks that what was said is actually funny! On second thought...most "comedy" shows are just this! Oh well... Watch anyway. It's unfunny in a funny way.
Flower Arrangers
When Power Rangers failed to edify the children of America, but instead taught then how to beat each other up, a bunch of producers and enlightened TV execs got together and decided it was time that children learn something more socially useful, like flower arranging. This is the result. A little slow, but no violence.
Left-handed Animals
Documenting the strange lives of left-handed animals, Sir David Attenuationborough polishes his British accent to the low moans of widows statewide.
Seeing Godot Out
Godot has finally arrived, but was found to be a rather tedious soul, and so now the Becketts are trying to figure out how to get rid of him. In this episode, Fred Neechy, the neighbor suggests that Sam (Beckett) coerce the local newspaper to use "Godot is Dead" as their headline on Sunday. Godot does not move. But watch anyway.
World's Sexiest
First you had America's Funniest. Then came World's Funniest. Enter World's Sexiest... The show that features the sexiest everything in the world. Home videos, music, cars, jets, resorts, nightclubs, cities, countries, grocery stores...you name it. It's all on World's Sexiest!
Bleak Condo
The Busch family never seemed to be able to make it out of the '80s. Never really wanted to! Watch as this ludicrous family lives out their pathetic '80s lifestyle to the derision of their more evolved and hip neighbors.
Snail World
Road rage. Traffic jams. Standing in lines. These are among the many earmarks of the brick-and-mortar world, and this show is here to laugh at the people who have yet to make it to the Netizenry. Come join in the revelry! Or don't!!
Time Invaders
Thought by some to be more insidious than Space Invaders, Time Invaders are those people who take up way too much of your precious American time. This is their side of the story.
Stand-up Tragedies
The show for Stand-up comedians with low self-esteem. "If I bomb...so what! I am a walking tragedy!" Although many performances really are tragic, an occasional funny slips through now and again. See if you can spot one!
alt.primetime
Featuring the best in alternative programming for the evening, late night and the following morning.
Freud's Banana
Not unlike Newton's Apple, but with emphasis on human sexuality. Sometimes a banana is just a banana. This wouldn't be one of those instances.
BOBBIES
England's answer to COPS, BOBBIES features the wacky antics of gentlemen with short bats. Viewers have commented on just how crude and boorish COPS seems, after viewing the more civilized Bobbies in action.
Food-Chain Gang
In this bizarre natural comedy, each rung up the ladder gets to laugh and point at the poor sucker one rung beneath him or her. But to make things interesting, the entire chain is literally chained together. Now let's see who comes out on top!
Arnold the Robopig
Arnold Zifflenegger has a problem. He is frankly a robotic swine overly concerned with Kohlberg's Third level of moral development, namely Law and Order. Watch as Arnold squeals on his friends and family until there is only one creature in the entire village who is not behind bars. Guess who.
Taboo Quest
Taboo Quest seeks out all the major world taboos...and exploits them for financial gain. This season we even hope to create a few new taboos, for your viewing pleasure.
As It Were
Virtual Bohemia's answer to the History Channel, only condensed into a 30-minute show...which is about as much History as most people want.
Imperfect Weekend
This Friday evening show previews some of the more arcane things taking place over the weekend. If you can't afford The Perfect Weekend...try an Imperfect one. You might see all your friends. At least the cheap ones!
Sexual In Your Window
This show, called the ballsiest on TV, is the best of video voyeurism, with particular emphasis on private sexual acts caught on tape. Great fun for the adult viewer!
Life After Money
Whether it be Life chasing after money, or what life can be like after you have lost it all, Life After Money is the show that treats of these two seemingly disparate states.
Genius Search
Star Search raised to the highest level, Genius Search seeks out the best minds in the world and rewards the recipient with whatever he or she needs in order to further their work.
Tobacco Executives
Tobacco Executives features the lives of the heads of this dying industry, only in a situational comedy format. The twist is that no one EVER tells the truth, so you can imagine the tangled webs they create.
Voyeur TV
First there was Real TV. Then there was Weird TV. Welcome to the Age of Voyeur TV! We highlight the best of voyeuristic TV shows around the world, as well as create a few ourselves...so there is absolutely no need to look elsewhere.
Green Witch Village
Green Witch Village documents the life and people of the community known as Green Witch Village...since that, indeed, is the name. Starting out as a Virtual Community, Green Witch Village is now a clothing-optional "Intentional Paradise" in the mountains of North Carolina. Membership is available, but is a million dollars. Can you pay my way? Watch to find out!
Rampant Pelvises
Rampant Pelvises is a sort-of MTV-style dance show...only the music is good and the people are good-looking and deliberately sexy. All "outfits" are dropdead, and can be purchased from the show. Same with the music. You can even chat with the dancers and set up 5-minute dates with them. Great for the kiddies!
Mama and Dada
A surreal show about how everyone's mother wants to be a Dadaist, but is invariably thwarted by agents from the cruel and lazy planet of Husbandry. Watch as the Husbands move in and remove toilet seats from the walls, only to leave the lid up elsewhere.
Canned Laughter
Canned Laughter is a new concept in TV. First we set up situations where people say unfunny things to each other, and then we edit in uproarious laughter so the viewer thinks that what was said is actually funny! On second thought...most "comedy" shows are just this! Oh well... Watch anyway. It's unfunny in a funny way.
Flower Arrangers
When Power Rangers failed to edify the children of America, but instead taught then how to beat each other up, a bunch of producers and enlightened TV execs got together and decided it was time that children learn something more socially useful, like flower arranging. This is the result. A little slow, but no violence.
Left-handed Animals
Documenting the strange lives of left-handed animals, Sir David Attenuationborough polishes his British accent to the low moans of widows statewide.
Seeing Godot Out
Godot has finally arrived, but was found to be a rather tedious soul, and so now the Becketts are trying to figure out how to get rid of him. In this episode, Fred Neechy, the neighbor suggests that Sam (Beckett) coerce the local newspaper to use "Godot is Dead" as their headline on Sunday. Godot does not move. But watch anyway.
World's Sexiest
First you had America's Funniest. Then came World's Funniest. Enter World's Sexiest... The show that features the sexiest everything in the world. Home videos, music, cars, jets, resorts, nightclubs, cities, countries, grocery stores...you name it. It's all on World's Sexiest!
Bleak Condo
The Busch family never seemed to be able to make it out of the '80s. Never really wanted to! Watch as this ludicrous family lives out their pathetic '80s lifestyle to the derision of their more evolved and hip neighbors.
Snail World
Road rage. Traffic jams. Standing in lines. These are among the many earmarks of the brick-and-mortar world, and this show is here to laugh at the people who have yet to make it to the Netizenry. Come join in the revelry! Or don't!!
Time Invaders
Thought by some to be more insidious than Space Invaders, Time Invaders are those people who take up way too much of your precious American time. This is their side of the story.
Stand-up Tragedies
The show for Stand-up comedians with low self-esteem. "If I bomb...so what! I am a walking tragedy!" Although many performances really are tragic, an occasional funny slips through now and again. See if you can spot one!
Night Vision Makes Lighting Obsolete
Trillions of $$$ Saved
Everyone Now a Millionaire
Next month we will examine the next great revolution after the blog explosion, and that is, of course, the energy explosion...or shall I say, the energy "implosion"? Since Night vision has now removed all need for lighting, energy consumption has dropped to a mere trickle, the earth is cooling back down, and Mother Nature is smiling down upon us with grateful, knowing eyes. And you can bet those eyes are fashioned with a pair of Omnivision Nightwear from Shadewear International. The finest name in darkness correction.
Civilized countries are now being known for the darkness, rather than the abundance of light, since civilized countries are now converting to nightvision as a way to stave off darkness, rather than the old caveman tactic of trying to light everything around you, which is now known to be light pollution anyway!
The glasses are not only for night vision, however. One may also access the Internet, watch TV, use them as binoculars, stereo microscopes or telescopes although with nowhere near the resolution of the Hubble as yet, and yes! They also protect your eyes from bugs!
They are also corrected for astigmatism!
Anyway, we will be writing on this subject next month...so please come back. And keep the lights off for us!
Everyone Now a Millionaire
Next month we will examine the next great revolution after the blog explosion, and that is, of course, the energy explosion...or shall I say, the energy "implosion"? Since Night vision has now removed all need for lighting, energy consumption has dropped to a mere trickle, the earth is cooling back down, and Mother Nature is smiling down upon us with grateful, knowing eyes. And you can bet those eyes are fashioned with a pair of Omnivision Nightwear from Shadewear International. The finest name in darkness correction.
Civilized countries are now being known for the darkness, rather than the abundance of light, since civilized countries are now converting to nightvision as a way to stave off darkness, rather than the old caveman tactic of trying to light everything around you, which is now known to be light pollution anyway!
The glasses are not only for night vision, however. One may also access the Internet, watch TV, use them as binoculars, stereo microscopes or telescopes although with nowhere near the resolution of the Hubble as yet, and yes! They also protect your eyes from bugs!
They are also corrected for astigmatism!
Anyway, we will be writing on this subject next month...so please come back. And keep the lights off for us!
Motorized Beer a Godsend for Lazy Frats
RALEIGH, NC--How many times have you gone to a fraternalia only to find one or two people who are just too lazy to do the hard work of collegiate level binge drinking? Do these slaggards not realize how important it is to win the race to be the first person on your floor to become a full fledged alcoholic, with all the rights and priveleges that are rendered thereunto? Well fret no more! Buttviper ("...and how's YOUR bush?") has just created the world's first motorized beer, and it is guaranteed to make either an addict or a corpse out of you in just a few short hours!! No more of that waiting months, or even years to attain that socially-sanctioned and perfectly legal status. There can hardly be a better way to make a society impotent and thus gullible than to shoot those beers down them before they become burdened by troublesome thoughts, such as "Why do I keep cheating on exams?" and "Will I still cheat when I am employed?".
North Carolina State has been chosen to be a testing ground for the newly motorized beer, since everyone there drinks, and nearly everyone is as suggestible as they come, and therefore make nice guinea pigs for the tobacco, alcohol, cola and pharmaceuticalists, where a certain degree of gullibility is required in order to believe the ludicrous claims that are made by these nutty industries.
At any rate, there is sure to be a lot of good, clean binging going on, thanks to Buttviper and indeed, the entire addictive liquids industry. And you thought beer and motors didn't go together!
North Carolina State has been chosen to be a testing ground for the newly motorized beer, since everyone there drinks, and nearly everyone is as suggestible as they come, and therefore make nice guinea pigs for the tobacco, alcohol, cola and pharmaceuticalists, where a certain degree of gullibility is required in order to believe the ludicrous claims that are made by these nutty industries.
At any rate, there is sure to be a lot of good, clean binging going on, thanks to Buttviper and indeed, the entire addictive liquids industry. And you thought beer and motors didn't go together!
Free Book Review for ass-kissers of the literati
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Forced by function to adonize the bedswerving bedlamites from an illth of worthies, one unearths, as you have shown, a veritable avium of jar-owls, among them, the rantallionic and yclept Mr._______ (who infect with every ejaculum) -- as certainly you must have been [forced], wrinkling and besmirched with that freedom stench -- this unctious fotzepolitik so redolent with stinkfoot fotzepolitik, and, my gosh, did you ever hit the head on the nail! (Muses! Where are you?)
Expose as you will the backsides of our masculine fundamentals, you shed light on the up and down side of invagination with ludibund and comely juvenescence. My cup runneth over! Facinosum est! To watch rather than to think.
But your ________ snakes up our collective spine and sparks the tip of our crown, generating uploads of mentation, tossing our brainsalads aside, to then fro then back again. You have touched our minds, and you have touched our sex. Now can you touch our hearts?
In a very real, yet post-modern, way -- you do. And it is strange how the description and placement of ___________ can download heaping helpings of that warm stuff that touches our hearts open. And yet, I come away with that admonicle of wisdom, touching all ports, that one only hopes for but rarely receives in contemporary "merkin" letters.
Your choice of detail was insightful and jocose, and your dichotomization of ________ I found, particularly compelling. ________'s concupiscent yet insouciant attitude toward the ebb and flow of partners, in this case coincident upon the venerable institution of _____________, might catch a lot of men-in-quotation marks one ball shy, who have notions about female desire and its relation to __________ that can rightly be called naive, if not mounting an all-out atavisticulum on the hingehead populoi who follow along, purblind puppets, fake giants among real pygmies, hoping that the woman will get pissed enough in the English sense to swashbuckle his pants and grunts of simian lippitude and reach toward the sausage that Vienna made famous, then faint with thoughts of nanotechnologies attacking her overcompensated thorax. So be it! Carpe Noctem! You deserve the light of a billion suns!
[Your name goes here]
Simply copy the following document, paste it into your own editor, and then fill in the title, character, or pertinent information in the underlined areas, being sure to erase the underlines at some time during the process. There are a few other instructions enbedded within the document, and they will be designated with [brackets].
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Forced by function to adonize the bedswerving bedlamites from an illth of worthies, one unearths, as you have shown, a veritable avium of jar-owls, among them, the rantallionic and yclept Mr._______ (who infect with every ejaculum) -- as certainly you must have been [forced], wrinkling and besmirched with that freedom stench -- this unctious fotzepolitik so redolent with stinkfoot fotzepolitik, and, my gosh, did you ever hit the head on the nail! (Muses! Where are you?)
Expose as you will the backsides of our masculine fundamentals, you shed light on the up and down side of invagination with ludibund and comely juvenescence. My cup runneth over! Facinosum est! To watch rather than to think.
But your ________ snakes up our collective spine and sparks the tip of our crown, generating uploads of mentation, tossing our brainsalads aside, to then fro then back again. You have touched our minds, and you have touched our sex. Now can you touch our hearts?
In a very real, yet post-modern, way -- you do. And it is strange how the description and placement of ___________ can download heaping helpings of that warm stuff that touches our hearts open. And yet, I come away with that admonicle of wisdom, touching all ports, that one only hopes for but rarely receives in contemporary "merkin" letters.
Your choice of detail was insightful and jocose, and your dichotomization of ________ I found, particularly compelling. ________'s concupiscent yet insouciant attitude toward the ebb and flow of partners, in this case coincident upon the venerable institution of _____________, might catch a lot of men-in-quotation marks one ball shy, who have notions about female desire and its relation to __________ that can rightly be called naive, if not mounting an all-out atavisticulum on the hingehead populoi who follow along, purblind puppets, fake giants among real pygmies, hoping that the woman will get pissed enough in the English sense to swashbuckle his pants and grunts of simian lippitude and reach toward the sausage that Vienna made famous, then faint with thoughts of nanotechnologies attacking her overcompensated thorax. So be it! Carpe Noctem! You deserve the light of a billion suns!
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Sirians, Plaiedians Battle Over Water Rights
Sirius Gathers Water From Thirsty and Weirded-Out Earth
SIRIUS--Things are looking pretty grim here in Sirius, as the Plaiedians are utilizing the fact that they have 7 stars over Sirius' mere 2. The whole thing, Peter, is that it is all so cosmic, at least from the perspective of a merely planetary being. The problem, it seems, is that a Sirian comet was sold to "the Plaiedes Islands" (as they prefer to call their home [which we should respect -editor]) but the check never cleared, and in the meantime the comet got away, and dropped a good bit of its payload on Earth...which, as you may recall, Peter, was how we got here in the first place. And so they are fighting over who will come to earth to recollect the water, and then on to the Islands, the check will be released, bla, bla, bla.
This little skirmish, which I am now dodging and witnessing, intermittently, is really nothing more than a venting of tensions, I suspect, and normalized relations will probably return in only a few short millennia.
Lastly, I would like to apologize for throwing in those subliminal sexual innuendoes. In defense, I will only say that I could have used a stronger word than peter. And editor! I told you it wasn't supposed to be capitalized!!
Cola Addicts Seek Retribution
YOGURTS,IA--The millions of cola addicts around the world now have a way to vent their frustrations, and maybe make a few bucks in the process. And the tobacco company executives are to thank.
It seems the "line of liars" show that they put on before congress created such interest in addictive products, and their unfair advantage over the consumer, that all of the addictive products and services are now coming under the microscope. Colas, coffee, alcoholic beverages, nasal sprays, and other products that have addictive substances added to them are currently under fire, and much money is due to change hands.
It is not too late to become addicted to a product, and thus qualify for a portion of the class action settlement. For more information on how to become an addict, please call us and we will send you a current pusher list.
It seems the "line of liars" show that they put on before congress created such interest in addictive products, and their unfair advantage over the consumer, that all of the addictive products and services are now coming under the microscope. Colas, coffee, alcoholic beverages, nasal sprays, and other products that have addictive substances added to them are currently under fire, and much money is due to change hands.
It is not too late to become addicted to a product, and thus qualify for a portion of the class action settlement. For more information on how to become an addict, please call us and we will send you a current pusher list.
Bullets May Cause Lead Poisoning
BRUGES, BELGIUM-- Belgian scientists have discovered that gunshot wounds are one of the leading caused of lead poisoning, and that lead poisoning is the reason most people die from fatal gunshot wounds. The findings have lead some scientists to ponder the possibility of making bullets out of vitamins, nuts, minerals or other substances which have less deleterious effects on lifeforms.
"One day we might see doctors with guns, healing patients over great distances...with the help of vitabombs, vitabullets, and so on. There is talk about a grenade launched herbal salad as well as an Intercontinental Ballistic "Hot Bar." At any rate there is a lot of excitement going on at the place where guns meet medicine. Some day guns may be able to conquer death completely. Look at how effectively they cure life! It is but a few short steps from life to death, and now guns are making the distance even shorter. Guns Longa, Vita Brevis!
"One day we might see doctors with guns, healing patients over great distances...with the help of vitabombs, vitabullets, and so on. There is talk about a grenade launched herbal salad as well as an Intercontinental Ballistic "Hot Bar." At any rate there is a lot of excitement going on at the place where guns meet medicine. Some day guns may be able to conquer death completely. Look at how effectively they cure life! It is but a few short steps from life to death, and now guns are making the distance even shorter. Guns Longa, Vita Brevis!
Bull Flatulence Causes Vertigo
Thursday's Child Has "Fartigo"
But Food Animals are Happier!
Pooterville, GA.--With the recent, and most unfortunate, rash of exploding cow barns, scientists have been discovering that cow farts are largely constructed of the highly flammable and explosive Methane gas, which is why the barns explode, even with the simplest of static sparks. Imagine! A simple poot doing that! Now they are discovering that the gas causes vertigo if exposure is excessive.
One amusing footnote is that the child upon whom the study was performed was born on a Thursday, which prompted the cute but precocious boy to name the condition..."fartigo", which brought guffaws, chortles, gasps, and various other forms of proto-language. So now when people say that "Thursday's Child has far to go", it just might help you to remember the bravery of this young child of Thursday who, almost single-handedly, brought proper ventilation to America's fine slaughterhouses...who have not had a very good year due to bad karma.
But Food Animals are Happier!
Pooterville, GA.--With the recent, and most unfortunate, rash of exploding cow barns, scientists have been discovering that cow farts are largely constructed of the highly flammable and explosive Methane gas, which is why the barns explode, even with the simplest of static sparks. Imagine! A simple poot doing that! Now they are discovering that the gas causes vertigo if exposure is excessive.
One amusing footnote is that the child upon whom the study was performed was born on a Thursday, which prompted the cute but precocious boy to name the condition..."fartigo", which brought guffaws, chortles, gasps, and various other forms of proto-language. So now when people say that "Thursday's Child has far to go", it just might help you to remember the bravery of this young child of Thursday who, almost single-handedly, brought proper ventilation to America's fine slaughterhouses...who have not had a very good year due to bad karma.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Dubai Ports World: It's a Snow job
All actions of the Bush Administration are geared toward fattening the wallets of one or more of their inner circle...usually at the expense of everyone else. Bush is selling short our security in order to please Treasury Secretary John Snow, who stands to rake in millions.
Not in the inner circle? Feeling no tangible benefits from the Bush years?
Quit voting for the crooks!
"Genius" behind Bush's Amazing Residency on 2008 Selection
The Fox That Cried Wolf
Karl Roverer, the so-called "genius" behind the so-called "successful" Bush residency, is still with the use of the hindbrain, from which he now predicts a stunning Republican victory in 2008, according to infamous catamite to the Reich, Matt Drudge, and slick Fox-fed opportunist, Bill Sammon -- neither of whom bear the least resemblance to Nostrodamus.
Mr. Sammon is hawking his new book, which is running with the title, "Strategery", which, for all we know, is but a vain attempt to legitimate one of Bush's copious blunders, in much the same way that Bush's whipping boys keep repeating "nucular" -- a move which only moves the speaker down into the sub-cerebral bushosphere.
Drudge, Rove & Sammons. Foxes that cry wolf. On cue. Pavlov's foxes. Ring the bell and turds as words begin to flow into a sort of cloaca of consciousness, or unconsciousness, the aggregate of which we refer to collectively as simply BushWorld.
BushWorld! Where the Tao fears to tread, and Nature knows no Reason.
BushWorld! The darkening of the Light.
BushWorld! Where the world is an oyster for the Topnazis to molest with their mouths, and spit up on the poor.
It's a stratragedy. Written by a shakespoon.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
"An Army of Davids": Ed Cone interviews Glenn Reynolds
The other morning I woke up from a dream where I was sitting, chatting with Ed Cone. It was a very pleasant conversation, although I forget what we discussed. Perhaps we discussed why Michelangelo named his sculpture "David" instead of "Dave". Not sure. Probably blogging stuff.
This has nothing to do with anything, except, perhaps, the way bloggers intermingle on the psychic plane. I did hear someone last night say that the Internet was God, and that it was God as the Internet, which saved this woman's life. I wish I had paid more attention to the discussion.
But back to the coming Edwardian Age, when all things Edward rise to the top, just as all things George step down. Happens all the time.
But along with the Army of Edwards comes "An Army of Davids", which, if you haven't heard, is a new book by blogfather, Glenn Reynolds, who most know as Instapundit. Somehow I think that if he would have chosen the name, "Blogtivedanta" or "Anonymoses", he wouldn't have become nearly so popular. But he is not a stupid fellow, and now this unstupid fellow has penned a collection of words for the paper world. And Edward Cone has reviewed it.
He also interviewed Mr. Reynolds, which can also be read at the same post.
As a David and a blogger, I must say that I feel compelled to buy the book, although there are other bloggers' books in front of him. Perhaps I shall open a bookstore that carries only books by bloggers. Think I'll let it ripen a bit first though.
Have you ever felt unfocused? Do you ever get the sense that your host is scintillant with unfocusizationality? Well, if you do, I want to join your camp, for we can win this one. Sometimes, in fact, I feel like Mister Shandy himself, with my life but one series of absurd digressions.
And so it is with great struggle that I force my fingers to stray back to the topic of "An Army of Davids"...which now, upon tertiary mentation, strikes me as a tad too militant for my tastes. I mean...why "Army"? Why not Peace Corps or Coast Guard? I guess "A Coast Guard of Davids" would sound a little Bunuelian for ricecake America. And yet that might be preferred to "A Coast Guard of Osamas"...which is how many are portraying the Fox/Chickenport Vulnerability Act, or whatever they are calling it -- which, from a systemic POV, would seem to weaken the boundary subsystem, and thus threaten the whole in question.
What no one is saying though is that America would not have to entertain such options had we not squandered and plundered the treasury. But now that the Norquistians of the world have succeeded in drowning America in their evil little bathtub, corporations are having to slough off pensions, and America is having to hand over our largest points of vulnerability to those who could do us harm.
As someone who tries to be universally xenophiliacal, I think it would be foolhardy to summarily discount the notions brought forth by the Bush Administration that it would be fine to hand over ports to the UAE, who, in the main, have been friendly. My own, albeit limited, experience with citizens of Dubai have been cordial and even delightful. These are not animals. These are industrious human beings, but, for what it's worth, quite devout in their religion.
But could these people harm us? Sure! I suppose, if they wanted to. I am not naive enough to think that they would spare us just because a few of their citizens had nice dinner conversations with some Americans back in the 70s.
Nor am I naive enough to think that they are all as polite and pacifistic as the ones I met. But having met them, and having had a pleasant concurrence, I would tend to say that we could give them a chance...and probably also have checks and balances just to prevent temptation from bribes or other untoward activities.
So I stay out of the debate. And digress once again.
"The Army of Davids" apparently has little if anything to do with real armies, but rather speaks to the issue of individual empowerment as witnessed by the rise of blogs, which though often singularly wrought, commands audiences as vast as what could once only be garnered by Goliaths of Industry.
'Bout damn time!
But this new paradigm is not about Davids replacing Goliaths, but rather a world flattened such that both are on more equal footing.
I really do need to shut up and eat something...
Friday, February 24, 2006
Samara and Samara and Samara
The lucky west gets their civil war.
Here's a post I did on Feb, 2004...
Sparks fly between Sunnites and Shiites
Insurgents Attempting to Ferment 'Civil War' in Iraq Sought Al Qaeda Help (washingtonpost.com)Terrorists spark fear of civil war in Iraq as 50 die in car bomb
See Gurdjieff quote on psychic hatred and organic hatred...
"These two schools of the Mohammedan religion are called there the "Sunnite" and the "Shiite".It is very interesting to note that the psychic hatred of each other formed in the psyche of the beings who belong to these two independent schools of one and the same religion has, on account of their frequent clashes, now been transformed completely into an organic hate.
Beings of certain European communities have during recent centuries greatly contributed to their incitement to the rise of this particular transformation on that strange being-function.
And they have employed and continue to employ this incitement in order that the animosity between the beings who follow these two independent schools of one and the same religion, should increase and that they should never unite, since if that were to happen, there might soon be an end there for those European communities.
...And hence it is that accidentally arisen "newly baked" communities always rub their hands and rejoice when sparks fly between these Sunnites and Shiites, because they then count on a long and secure existence for themselves."
-G. Gurdjieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" circa 1950
Here's a post I did on Feb, 2004...
Sparks fly between Sunnites and Shiites
Insurgents Attempting to Ferment 'Civil War' in Iraq Sought Al Qaeda Help (washingtonpost.com)Terrorists spark fear of civil war in Iraq as 50 die in car bomb
See Gurdjieff quote on psychic hatred and organic hatred...
"These two schools of the Mohammedan religion are called there the "Sunnite" and the "Shiite".It is very interesting to note that the psychic hatred of each other formed in the psyche of the beings who belong to these two independent schools of one and the same religion has, on account of their frequent clashes, now been transformed completely into an organic hate.
Beings of certain European communities have during recent centuries greatly contributed to their incitement to the rise of this particular transformation on that strange being-function.
And they have employed and continue to employ this incitement in order that the animosity between the beings who follow these two independent schools of one and the same religion, should increase and that they should never unite, since if that were to happen, there might soon be an end there for those European communities.
...And hence it is that accidentally arisen "newly baked" communities always rub their hands and rejoice when sparks fly between these Sunnites and Shiites, because they then count on a long and secure existence for themselves."
-G. Gurdjieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" circa 1950
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
King Crimson Slips Silently into Queen City
King Crimson
You'd think that when a King came to the Queen City, there would be trumpets and sackbuts ablare. But fanfare, courtesy and honoring sustained achievement are not what nouveau-riche Charlotte is much good at. In its stead we see American Idols who bodies of work lie before them, and we cheer them on, in hopes that they too may become Clay Aiken, and bring fifteen more minutes to this fame-starved metropolis.
The new is seldom good, as it has yet to to be time-whittled. And so, like Goodwill itself, much dreck has to be touched before a diamond emerges.
Like today. The King is coming, with decades of gold in his crown, and the Queen is still sifting for Clay.
Nothing wrong with Clay. A very nice boy. Used to cut my grass. But Robert Fripp never cut my grass, and I would be very hesitant to ask him. Perhaps I could convince him that it was part of "the work".
Maybe not. At any rate, if you are interested in seeing a musical legend in an intimate setting, you could do worse than appear at tonight's concurrence.
Concert Tonight!
8PM
Neighborhood Theater
511 E. 36th St.Charlotte, NC 28205
704-358-9298
I have a long history with the King, and have enjoyed his music and philosophy since the first album, and his prior work with Giles. Over the decades, I have had a number of favorites. Starless, Lizard, Poseidon, and Heavenly Music Corporation jump out from the early days. For some reason, I thought that I could woo women by reciting "In the Wake of Poseidon". It had a modicum of success I suppose. Certainly better than "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" or "D.O.A.".
King Crimson and I share birthdays with Gurdjieff, with whom Fripp had a protracted involvement, and about which I'd like to inquire, should we have a moment.
I realize I will have to miss American Idol's showcase of the men, but somehow I think I will survive. One can take only so much devolution.
BACK TO ANONYMOSES' HOMEPAGE
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Thangs overheard in Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte
Inspired by the New York version, I have set out to collect thangs overheard around cheer. Thangs such as:
"Assum serium scrotage you got air bugs." (That's some serious scrotage you got there bud.)
"Suck my cat" (Something like that.)
What da hao yaw goan du nao? (What the hell are you all going to do now?)
"Shiiite" (Expletive deleted)
"I eat me some taters but got the squirts." (I ate some potatoes but got the squitters.)
"I had me dis gurl wunst who node how to cook corn pone proper." (I had a girl once who knew how to cook corn pone properly.)
"Yeaite" (Yes, all right.)
"It it'n what you do dat matters. It's who ya do." (It isn't what you do that matters. It's who you do.)
"That dut'n make any scents." (That doesn't make any sense.)
"Tuaabi robi samich." (Two Arby's roast beef sandwiches.)
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Rush Limbaugh Admits Bush & Cheney are Uninterested in WMDs
Wantwit and hakenkreuz pickthank, Rush Limbaugh, admitted on his fool's parade today that his proreptious, pseudopresidential paracoitae are indeed unconcerned about finding WMDs. Shocking!
Rush is such a pussy. A bigger wuss has never darkened the airwaves. Shame on him for dissing the White House! When he dies he will go to Hell. Swear! Find him in the ring of opportunism.
Rush is such a pussy. A bigger wuss has never darkened the airwaves. Shame on him for dissing the White House! When he dies he will go to Hell. Swear! Find him in the ring of opportunism.
Cheneyquiddick: Hunting Monica
Poor Dick Cheney. First he pulls a trigger, then he pulls a Chappaquiddick, and now we hear he may have also pulled a Monica.
Pull!
But where's the blue dress? A google search only shows Pamela Willeford in a red and white dress. And everyone knows...where there is red and white, there is also blue.
But where is she hiding it? In her butt? (Just kidding! Don't look.)
A dick will do what a dick will do.
I feel sorry for secretive Dick, and his secretions.
Give him a pass on this one, and beseech that he never do it again.
Pull!
But where's the blue dress? A google search only shows Pamela Willeford in a red and white dress. And everyone knows...where there is red and white, there is also blue.
But where is she hiding it? In her butt? (Just kidding! Don't look.)
A dick will do what a dick will do.
I feel sorry for secretive Dick, and his secretions.
Give him a pass on this one, and beseech that he never do it again.
How Bush Raped freedom And democracy
The Height of Roodness
Using Altrustic Concepts for Selfish Ends
Look out Iran! Bush is coming and he's toting Freedom® and Democracy®. And while the American People cherish these concepts, we also cherish them in their highest sense, and not as a convenient lie in order to perform a bait-and-switch slight-of-hand whereby freedom and democracy become merely Freedom and Democracy, which are products designed to separate you, our enemy, from your life.
So now we see Condoleeza Rice asking for a 75 million dollar down-payment for spreading Democracy® over the humanity-strewn sands of Iran -- now that we've done such a killer job of it in Iraq and Palestine. Makes me think of an advertisement idea.
WAR: It's a killer job
or maybe
WAR: The Killer Job
But alas, it is probably already taken. At least I am consoled by Woody Allen, who once almost said: "I used to be an Ahmadinijad addict, now I'm a Bush addict."
As long as we can find new customers for our addicting products -- and slough off those pesky pensions -- the Economy® will do just fine.
The 2005 Koufax Awards: Best Writing
This category seeks to recognize the best overall writing by a lefty blogger. In some cases, nominations were specific for a particular blogger on a group blog. In other cases, the entire blog, whether a singular or group effort, was nominated. I attempted to follow the intent of the nominator.
Mary Beth Williams, the editor, says that "voting will open soon, hopefully next week. For now, get familiar with the best political writing in the blogosphere."
Adventus: Robert Jeffers - Alas, A Blog: Ampersand - Alicublog: Roy Edroso - All Facts and Opinions: Natalie Davis - AmericaBlog: John Aravosis - Anonymoses - Attytood: Will Bunch - Baghdad Burning: Riverbend - Bitch Ph.D. - Blood & Treasure: Jamie Kenny - Bob Harris - Body and Soul: Jeanne d'Arc - Booman Tribune: SusanHu - Booman Tribune: Blksista - Booman/European Tribune: Oui - Bootstrap Analysis: Nuthatch - Bouphonia - Bradblog - Busy, Busy, Busy - By Neddie Jingo - The Cassandra Pages -
Casual Asides: DJ Waletzky - The Carpetbagger Report - Cool Beans: Bean - The Countess: Trish Wilson - Courting Destiny - Creek Running North: Chris Clarke - Daily Kos: Hunter - Daily Kos: Armando - Daily Kos: Devilstower - Daily Kos: Georgia10 - Daily Kos: Grand Moff Texan - DC Media Girl - The Democracy Cell Project: Casey Morris - Driftglass -
Echnide of the Snakes - Effwit - Enemy of the State - Eschaton: Atrios - European Tribune: Jerome a Paris - Ezra Klein - The Fat Lady Sings - Feministe: Jill - Feministe: Lauren - Firedoglake: ReddHedd - First Draft: Athenae - Frogs and Ravens - From Pine View Farm: Frank - From the Rooftops - Girl Scientist - The Green Knight - The Heretik - How to Save the World - Hullabaloo: Digby - Hullabaloo: Tristero - I Blame the Patriarchy: Twisty Faster - Informed Comment: Juan Cole - James Wolcott - Jeremy Blachman - Kid Oakland - King of Zembla: Simbaud - Lance Mannion - Legal Fiction: Publius - Lawyers, Guns and Money: Scott Lemieux - The Left Coaster: Paradox - Left I on the News: Eli Stephens - Liberal Street Fighter: Madman in the Marketplace - The (liberal) Girl Next Door - Liberty Street - Looking for Someone to Lie To Me: Michael Roston - Mad As Hell - Mahablog: Barbara O'Brien - Majikthise: Lindsay Beyerstein - Making Light: Jim Macdonald - Making Light: Teresa Nielsen Hayden - The Marj Memoirs - Matt Yglesias - Michael Bérubé Online - The Moquol - MyKeru - My Left Wing: Gottlieb - My Left Wing: Shanikka - My Left Wing: Maryscott O'Connor - My Left Wing: Caliberal - My Left Wing: Weeping for Brunnhilde - Neil Shakespeare - The Next Hurrah: Meteor Blades - Norbizness - Obsidian Wings: Hilzoy - Old Fashioned Patriot - Once Upon a Time: Arthur Silber - One Good Thing - The Opinion Mill - Orcinus: David Neiwert - Pandagon: Amanda Marcotte - PastPeak - The Poor Man: The Editors - Random Thoughts: Unfair and Unbalanced: Susan Nunes - Red Tory - Respectful Insolence - The Reaction: Michael J.W. Stickings - Rigorous Intuition - Rittenhouse Review: Jim Capazzola - Rox Populi - The Rude Pundit - Sadly, No!: - Saint Nate's Blog - Set Free - Shakespeare's Sister: Melissa McEwan - Suburban Guerrilla: Susie Madrak - Sufficient Scruples - Sisyphus Shrugged: Julia - Talking Points Memo: Josh Marshall - The Tattered Coat - Timothy Burke - Thou Shall Not Suck: Unholy Moses - TomDispatch - Washington Note: Steve Clemons - Unclaimed Territory: Glenn Greenwald - Unqualified Offerings: Jim Henley - Washington Monthly/Political Animal: Kevin Drum - WhirledView: Patricia Lee Sharpe - Whiskey Bar: Billmon - Winding Road in Urban Area: Jaye Ramsey Sutter - Working for Change: David Sirota - Yep,Another Goddamn Blog: Jurassic Pork
Mary Beth Williams, the editor, says that "voting will open soon, hopefully next week. For now, get familiar with the best political writing in the blogosphere."
Adventus: Robert Jeffers - Alas, A Blog: Ampersand - Alicublog: Roy Edroso - All Facts and Opinions: Natalie Davis - AmericaBlog: John Aravosis - Anonymoses - Attytood: Will Bunch - Baghdad Burning: Riverbend - Bitch Ph.D. - Blood & Treasure: Jamie Kenny - Bob Harris - Body and Soul: Jeanne d'Arc - Booman Tribune: SusanHu - Booman Tribune: Blksista - Booman/European Tribune: Oui - Bootstrap Analysis: Nuthatch - Bouphonia - Bradblog - Busy, Busy, Busy - By Neddie Jingo - The Cassandra Pages -
Casual Asides: DJ Waletzky - The Carpetbagger Report - Cool Beans: Bean - The Countess: Trish Wilson - Courting Destiny - Creek Running North: Chris Clarke - Daily Kos: Hunter - Daily Kos: Armando - Daily Kos: Devilstower - Daily Kos: Georgia10 - Daily Kos: Grand Moff Texan - DC Media Girl - The Democracy Cell Project: Casey Morris - Driftglass -
Echnide of the Snakes - Effwit - Enemy of the State - Eschaton: Atrios - European Tribune: Jerome a Paris - Ezra Klein - The Fat Lady Sings - Feministe: Jill - Feministe: Lauren - Firedoglake: ReddHedd - First Draft: Athenae - Frogs and Ravens - From Pine View Farm: Frank - From the Rooftops - Girl Scientist - The Green Knight - The Heretik - How to Save the World - Hullabaloo: Digby - Hullabaloo: Tristero - I Blame the Patriarchy: Twisty Faster - Informed Comment: Juan Cole - James Wolcott - Jeremy Blachman - Kid Oakland - King of Zembla: Simbaud - Lance Mannion - Legal Fiction: Publius - Lawyers, Guns and Money: Scott Lemieux - The Left Coaster: Paradox - Left I on the News: Eli Stephens - Liberal Street Fighter: Madman in the Marketplace - The (liberal) Girl Next Door - Liberty Street - Looking for Someone to Lie To Me: Michael Roston - Mad As Hell - Mahablog: Barbara O'Brien - Majikthise: Lindsay Beyerstein - Making Light: Jim Macdonald - Making Light: Teresa Nielsen Hayden - The Marj Memoirs - Matt Yglesias - Michael Bérubé Online - The Moquol - MyKeru - My Left Wing: Gottlieb - My Left Wing: Shanikka - My Left Wing: Maryscott O'Connor - My Left Wing: Caliberal - My Left Wing: Weeping for Brunnhilde - Neil Shakespeare - The Next Hurrah: Meteor Blades - Norbizness - Obsidian Wings: Hilzoy - Old Fashioned Patriot - Once Upon a Time: Arthur Silber - One Good Thing - The Opinion Mill - Orcinus: David Neiwert - Pandagon: Amanda Marcotte - PastPeak - The Poor Man: The Editors - Random Thoughts: Unfair and Unbalanced: Susan Nunes - Red Tory - Respectful Insolence - The Reaction: Michael J.W. Stickings - Rigorous Intuition - Rittenhouse Review: Jim Capazzola - Rox Populi - The Rude Pundit - Sadly, No!: - Saint Nate's Blog - Set Free - Shakespeare's Sister: Melissa McEwan - Suburban Guerrilla: Susie Madrak - Sufficient Scruples - Sisyphus Shrugged: Julia - Talking Points Memo: Josh Marshall - The Tattered Coat - Timothy Burke - Thou Shall Not Suck: Unholy Moses - TomDispatch - Washington Note: Steve Clemons - Unclaimed Territory: Glenn Greenwald - Unqualified Offerings: Jim Henley - Washington Monthly/Political Animal: Kevin Drum - WhirledView: Patricia Lee Sharpe - Whiskey Bar: Billmon - Winding Road in Urban Area: Jaye Ramsey Sutter - Working for Change: David Sirota - Yep,Another Goddamn Blog: Jurassic Pork
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The Importance of the Importance of the Importance of Living
Great-grandmother
Strange the things we discover while looking for other things. Today, while searching the net for certain concepts contained within the perennial classic guide to living -- "The Importance of Living", by nobel Laureate, Lin Yutang -- I was led to a column called "The Importance of The Importance of Living", by Linda Nicholls, who, among other things, is a great-great-grandmother. I'm not sure of the recency of the photo, but lordy, if it is recent, I would have to proclaim the importance of The Importance of The Importance of Living, at least to the degree to which it may have contributed to the remarkable preservative by-products. For, as Ashley Montagu discovered, evolution is the degree to which we retain youthful characteristics and flexibility. Apes suck at this. We are different. And so in differing degrees.
Frankly, I think Yutang's classic should be read along with Tzu's "Art of War" and Clauswitz' "On War", by those who would choose war as a "viable" option. The "Tao te Ching" and the poems of Rumi would also be useful reads before hurling your citizens into a death and more death situation. Instead of yanking from the top shelf, too many leaders these days pull from much lower shelves. Even the bottom shelf.
Mister Yutang reminds us of the worth of non-soldiers, who are at least as worthy as soldiers and soldier-type folk, for whom taking (or giving) orders is a way of life. But this is but a small part of large life, and one that is to be looked at as unfortunate. Civilization, as Erich Fromm noted, began as an act of disobedience...but may end in an act of obedience.
Fascism feasts when all are of one mind. But who are the enemies of multiculturalism?
Yutang shares Whitman's love for the cosmic and free individual. Groupthink can go to Hell.
Yutang, more importantly, celebrates the importance of humor, particularly as regards political ideologies. When he wrote the book, in the late 30s, Germany was the big offender. Ultra-conservatives East and West are the big offenders today.
The world needs to lighten up. Let the sunshine in!
While the world, buying their philosophy from the bookwall at Wal-Mart, becomes ever purpose-driven, Yutang helps us understand the meaninglessness of such inventions.
While the true purpose of life, which relates to the laws of Heptaparaparshinokh, gets buried among the plethora of infantile fantasies.
A wise man won't be busy, and a busy man can't be wise.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Peace of the Orchard
I finally sat down to watch Cider House Rules last night (which, by the way, is a great story and movie) when onto the screen strutted my little sister. Well, someone who looked a whole lot like my little sister, only many years ago. She was sticking out her tongue at Tobey McGuire. (The actress, not my sister.)
As I watched, and thought about my dear sister, I began to think about my father's sister, whose light is sadly fading. And I remembered how tenderly she and father discussed the deaths of shared friends. I fear such tenderness is a dying art, as the world spirals into increasing meanness and war. I will miss basking in the light of these exemplars of our greatest generation.
After watching "Cider House", I did some research on the actress who so resembled my own sister, and soon found her name: Paz de la Huerta..."Peace of the Orchard".
May there indeed be peace in the orchard of the world, sisters. And may the light in which we have long basked, shine through us, the next generation.
Paz de la Huerta
My grandmother, shown here, looks astonishingly like my sister.
As I watched, and thought about my dear sister, I began to think about my father's sister, whose light is sadly fading. And I remembered how tenderly she and father discussed the deaths of shared friends. I fear such tenderness is a dying art, as the world spirals into increasing meanness and war. I will miss basking in the light of these exemplars of our greatest generation.
After watching "Cider House", I did some research on the actress who so resembled my own sister, and soon found her name: Paz de la Huerta..."Peace of the Orchard".
May there indeed be peace in the orchard of the world, sisters. And may the light in which we have long basked, shine through us, the next generation.
Paz de la Huerta
My grandmother, shown here, looks astonishingly like my sister.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Surprise! The billions in Drug Ad Sales works! But too well?
Ever see a Lunesta ad?
Ever spend an hour on TV where you didn't see a Lunesta ad?
The gentle butterfly will lull you to sleep...just as long as you ignore the small print.
The large print giveth, the small print taketh away...
(Any sleep medicine carries the risk of addiction.)
Now we see that there is a rash of sleeping pill addiction.
Oops Lunestacalypse!
Monday, February 06, 2006
Remnants of a Sunday Afternoon
On Sundays, we like to explore things unrelated to the mondial, quotidian, workaday world. But sometimes, midnight chimes with scores of screens gathering in huddle at the bottom of my browser. Rather than flushing them down the memory hole, today I will transfer them onto the blog for future reference. I shall let alt+tab determine the order...
"Clint Hall" CLINT, in the parish of Ripley, upper-division of Claro, liberty of Knaresborough; 2 miles from Ripley, 7 from Knaresborough, 8 from Ripon.--Pop. 412.This was anciently the seat of Sir William Beckwith, of Clint, Knight; part of the old house is yet remaining, called Clint-Hall, a very ancient stone building, with an arched portal, situated on a lofty eminence, commanding an extensive prospect. Some remains of the moat, that once surrounded this ancient mansion, are still discernible.
The Aldbrough Sundial
"Thorp Perrow"
"Thorp Perrow" images
"Millichope Park"
MASHAM:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890. Aldbrough Manor and estate, including Greens and Nutwith Cote, is the property of John Timothy D'Arcy Hutton, Esq., Marske Hall, The monks of Fountains possessed lands and had a grange at Aldbrough, which were seized by Henry VIII. at the Reformation. About the end of the 16th century, Aldbrough was sold to Sir Roger Beckwith, and it was purchased from this family by an ancestor of the present owner soon after 1743. The hall, situated on the banks of the Yore, about two miles from Masham, is a handsome stone building, consisting of a centre and two wings, refronted about 20 years ago. (Note: We think there is a difference between Aldbrough and Aldborough. Here we think it should be Aldborough, which is more westerly.)
Nutwith Cote, the residence of Mr. Thomas Phillips (see: Kenneth Phillips), is an ancient house, and has evidently once been the abode of some person of consequence. The walls of one room were hung with Spanish leather, bearing embossed devices and figures of angels, bacchanalians, grapes, &c., in gold, but a portion of this has been removed, and the remainder is hidden beneath coats of paint and paper. The house belonged to the Beckwiths, and was at one time the residence of Sir Patrick Mackie, a lieut.-colonel in the Scotch army, who died here in 1647. There was formerly a comb manufactory here; and upon the common is the site of a Roman camp.
The earliest provision for educational purposes was the bequest of Isabel Beckwith, of Well, who, by will dated 14th June, 1735, left the sum of £100 for the benefit of a Free School at Masham for teaching five poor boys, preference being given to such as bear the name of Beckwith.
"Duncombe Park" (Note the Palladian architecture, and its similitude wih Tayloe's Mt. Airy in Virginia. They also have Alcibiades' Dogs.
Duncombe Park images
Newby Hall from the River Ure
"Newby Hall" images
Basildon Park (note the dogs)
alcibiades dog
The Barberini Venus, Newby Hall
Sculpture Gallery, Newby Hall
Sterne's Coxwold - Shandy Hall (See "Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne...soon to be released as a movie.)
The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research at the University of York.
"Clint Hall" CLINT, in the parish of Ripley, upper-division of Claro, liberty of Knaresborough; 2 miles from Ripley, 7 from Knaresborough, 8 from Ripon.--Pop. 412.This was anciently the seat of Sir William Beckwith, of Clint, Knight; part of the old house is yet remaining, called Clint-Hall, a very ancient stone building, with an arched portal, situated on a lofty eminence, commanding an extensive prospect. Some remains of the moat, that once surrounded this ancient mansion, are still discernible.
The Aldbrough Sundial
"Thorp Perrow"
"Thorp Perrow" images
"Millichope Park"
MASHAM:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890. Aldbrough Manor and estate, including Greens and Nutwith Cote, is the property of John Timothy D'Arcy Hutton, Esq., Marske Hall, The monks of Fountains possessed lands and had a grange at Aldbrough, which were seized by Henry VIII. at the Reformation. About the end of the 16th century, Aldbrough was sold to Sir Roger Beckwith, and it was purchased from this family by an ancestor of the present owner soon after 1743. The hall, situated on the banks of the Yore, about two miles from Masham, is a handsome stone building, consisting of a centre and two wings, refronted about 20 years ago. (Note: We think there is a difference between Aldbrough and Aldborough. Here we think it should be Aldborough, which is more westerly.)
Nutwith Cote, the residence of Mr. Thomas Phillips (see: Kenneth Phillips), is an ancient house, and has evidently once been the abode of some person of consequence. The walls of one room were hung with Spanish leather, bearing embossed devices and figures of angels, bacchanalians, grapes, &c., in gold, but a portion of this has been removed, and the remainder is hidden beneath coats of paint and paper. The house belonged to the Beckwiths, and was at one time the residence of Sir Patrick Mackie, a lieut.-colonel in the Scotch army, who died here in 1647. There was formerly a comb manufactory here; and upon the common is the site of a Roman camp.
The earliest provision for educational purposes was the bequest of Isabel Beckwith, of Well, who, by will dated 14th June, 1735, left the sum of £100 for the benefit of a Free School at Masham for teaching five poor boys, preference being given to such as bear the name of Beckwith.
"Duncombe Park" (Note the Palladian architecture, and its similitude wih Tayloe's Mt. Airy in Virginia. They also have Alcibiades' Dogs.
Duncombe Park images
Newby Hall from the River Ure
"Newby Hall" images
Basildon Park (note the dogs)
alcibiades dog
The Barberini Venus, Newby Hall
Sculpture Gallery, Newby Hall
Sterne's Coxwold - Shandy Hall (See "Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne...soon to be released as a movie.)
The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research at the University of York.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
"Sunrise" over Super Bowl
If you're not planning on watching the Super Bowl, Turner Classic Movies has a wonderful option. Watch FW Murnau's "Sunrise".
"One would hesitate to call any film the finest of its era," wrote William K. Everson in his influential book American Silent Film, "though as a climax to the art of silent film, one could certainly defend that statement if it were applied to Sunrise."
As a rare gem, Sunrise also lends itself well to taping for your archives. Great film, great director.
"One would hesitate to call any film the finest of its era," wrote William K. Everson in his influential book American Silent Film, "though as a climax to the art of silent film, one could certainly defend that statement if it were applied to Sunrise."
As a rare gem, Sunrise also lends itself well to taping for your archives. Great film, great director.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
How to make Alec Baldwin out of Claude Akins and Roy Blunt
Women always ask me: "How can I make Alec Baldwin"? Usually I have no response, and throw up my hands...which is a lot better than throwing up on your hands. But today, I have discovered the answer: Morph trucking actor Claude Akins and Congressman Roy Blunt. (Some people claim they are the same person, so you may want to morph pictures of the two, rather than morphing their actual bodies, which may indeed be the same one.
Above is what happens when you morph their pictures...
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Democrats let Republicans Seize Alternative Energy, Innovation
Republicans Seize the Future, but is it a Snake Oil Symphony?
What could have been a winning formula for Democrats was usurped last night, and the result is that The Republican Party will now be synonymous with alternative energy, innovation, creativity. Yet another miracle is born in our topsy-turvy BushWorld.
You snooze, you lose. Poor Democrats. Poor Paddy Dignam.
Now, if the Democrats can hold Bush to his word, they too might be able to ride the coattails and be seen as at least marginally important in the development of alternative energy, innovation and creativity, as well as the future -- four categories that were once strongly identified with the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, Democrats are busy becoming Republicans by embracing God, Guns and Goofiness.
For his part, Governor Tim Kaine gave a very good response with more substance and authenticity than Mister Bush, thus propelling this talented Democrat favorably into the national spotlight.
What could have been a winning formula for Democrats was usurped last night, and the result is that The Republican Party will now be synonymous with alternative energy, innovation, creativity. Yet another miracle is born in our topsy-turvy BushWorld.
You snooze, you lose. Poor Democrats. Poor Paddy Dignam.
Now, if the Democrats can hold Bush to his word, they too might be able to ride the coattails and be seen as at least marginally important in the development of alternative energy, innovation and creativity, as well as the future -- four categories that were once strongly identified with the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, Democrats are busy becoming Republicans by embracing God, Guns and Goofiness.
For his part, Governor Tim Kaine gave a very good response with more substance and authenticity than Mister Bush, thus propelling this talented Democrat favorably into the national spotlight.
SOTU: Confident? Prepare to be challenged.
In his State of the Union Address, Bush vows to create an agenda that competes with confidence.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
BULLETIN! Bush/Abramoff Photos discovered by Anonymoses
Remember...I don't know you.
(See: "in the Biblical sense")
"I did not have verbal relations with that man." - GW Bush
BUSH’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS TO BE SIMULCAST IN ENGLISH
President Hopes to Reach Broader Audience, Aides Say
For the first time since he was elected President of the United States, George W. Bush’s State of the Union address tonight will be simulcast in English, the White House confirmed.
With the president’s approval ratings sagging, the decision to simulcast the speech in English was widely seen as an attempt by the president to make an appeal to a broader audience.
More on this breaking news from the Borowitz Report
(hat tip to Rah Bourbon)
For the first time since he was elected President of the United States, George W. Bush’s State of the Union address tonight will be simulcast in English, the White House confirmed.
With the president’s approval ratings sagging, the decision to simulcast the speech in English was widely seen as an attempt by the president to make an appeal to a broader audience.
More on this breaking news from the Borowitz Report
(hat tip to Rah Bourbon)
Mrs. Martin Luther King has died
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King's Accomplishments Included a Syndicated Column
NEW YORK Coretta Scott King, who died overnight at age 78, lived a memorable life. But one thing many people may not remember is that she wrote a weekly column for the New York Times Syndicate during the mid-1980s.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Dark Dubya
Bush morphing into dark double
"Ah-mad-in-e-jad. Not to be comfused with I'm mad and in a jam."
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Yale finally comes clean
Infamous university finally discovers the wonders of soap
"I think it's great that people have soap."
After centuries of unclean living, Yale University has now decided to change its stripes, and join the ranks of Harvard, Haverford and Chapel Hill -- centers of higher cleanliness. We predict, however, that the change will have a detrimental effect on their sports teams, since it was usually the smell which facilitated any victory that might happen along. Here's to clean learning!
"I think it's great that people have soap."
After centuries of unclean living, Yale University has now decided to change its stripes, and join the ranks of Harvard, Haverford and Chapel Hill -- centers of higher cleanliness. We predict, however, that the change will have a detrimental effect on their sports teams, since it was usually the smell which facilitated any victory that might happen along. Here's to clean learning!
Music for a Sunday Midwinter Night
Sunday is a time for reflection. Or maybe it was refraction. I'll have to get back on that. Anyway, Sunday is good for something, I just can't remember. Oh yeah. Jesus. How could I forget? Music! Music for God's sake!
Or maybe it was for God's snake. The mad cow. Denny Crane!
Since you are not privy to my library, let me offer you a reasonable alternative.
It's called Echoes. And was probably named after the Floyd song with the same name.
And no, not Cramer. And not the barber. Except on T-shirts.
In Charlotte, it is on FM 90.7, WFAE. The station that caters to the ejikated classes.
Here are highlights from Echoes' playlist for tonight:
(Ignore that it says it's from Wednesday. They must replay it at night or something.)
-Thomas Newman (composer of the soundtracks for The Player, Jarhead, and American Beauty, among others.)
- Tinh
- R Carlos Nakai and Keola Beamer
- Dean De Benedictis
- Peppino D'Agostino and Stef Burns
- Takashi Kohgo
- Blue Stone
- Anja Lechner and Vasillis Tsabropoulos
- Bombay Dub Orchestra
- Bochum Welt
- Dungen
- Sophie Barker
- Richard Bone
- Harp 46
- Archetribe
Granted, not the most memorable of names. But soul-revivifying music, in the main.
Covering Morrocone at the moment...
Movies for a Sunday Afternoon
"Roman Holiday" and "It Happened One Night", two of the best movies of all time, will be on today at 2pm and 4pm. If you're not busy, you ought to watch them. They will make you a better person. Swear! You can catch them on the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
"Roman Holiday" stars Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, as well as a young Eddie Albert, and features the famous scene of Peck putting his hand into to mouth in the wall, shocking Ms. Hepburn when he removes his arm...handless. My own father used to do this to us kids, and people say he looked a lot like Mr. Peck.
"It Happened One Night" stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in surely their funniest roles. The movie won more academy awards than any since its own win in the late 1930s. It is said that the sale of T-shirts plummeted after this movie came out. (Clark strips at one point, and he is not wearing upper undergarments.)
Both movies are entirely 5-star affairs, and will surely become one of your own favorites. All four of the principals are sublime.
If you can...tape it. You'll want to share, just as I do...
"Roman Holiday" stars Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, as well as a young Eddie Albert, and features the famous scene of Peck putting his hand into to mouth in the wall, shocking Ms. Hepburn when he removes his arm...handless. My own father used to do this to us kids, and people say he looked a lot like Mr. Peck.
"It Happened One Night" stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in surely their funniest roles. The movie won more academy awards than any since its own win in the late 1930s. It is said that the sale of T-shirts plummeted after this movie came out. (Clark strips at one point, and he is not wearing upper undergarments.)
Both movies are entirely 5-star affairs, and will surely become one of your own favorites. All four of the principals are sublime.
If you can...tape it. You'll want to share, just as I do...
ABC's Woodruff, cameraman injured in Iraq
BREAKING NEWS
Bob Woodruff Injured in Iraq IED explosion
NEW YORK - ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday in an explosion while reporting from Iraq, the network said Sunday.
Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were hit by an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq, and were in serious condition at a U.S. military hospital, ABC News President David Westin said.
The last time I saw Mr. Woodruff on Friday night, I remember him to have an apprehensive look on his face as he said he was going to be reporting from Iraq.
Was he prescient, or are things even worse than they are being portrayed, and Bob knew it?
Our prayers are with these brave gentlemen. May they have a speedy recovery.
Bob Woodruff Injured in Iraq IED explosion
NEW YORK - ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday in an explosion while reporting from Iraq, the network said Sunday.
Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were hit by an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq, and were in serious condition at a U.S. military hospital, ABC News President David Westin said.
The last time I saw Mr. Woodruff on Friday night, I remember him to have an apprehensive look on his face as he said he was going to be reporting from Iraq.
Was he prescient, or are things even worse than they are being portrayed, and Bob knew it?
Our prayers are with these brave gentlemen. May they have a speedy recovery.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
CONNECTING THE DOTS: News as Clues
- Bush '04 paid studio with photo $140,000 - Raw Story
- NYT Sunday; Ted Koppel: TV news industry 'in distress' - Raw Story
- U.S. seized Iraqi wives as tactic - Yahoo! News
- End Of The Road Map - Tom Paine
- Global warming 'raises' sea levels - Newsday
- GOP's Frist will try to revive gay marriage amendment... - Raw Story
- The Impeachment of George W. Bush - The Nation
- The New Face of the Campus Left - The Nation
- When Will US Women Demand Peace? - The Nation
- Rocking the House - The Nation
- The Emperor's Powers - The Nation
- Liberals, Religion and the Social Gospel - The Nation
- Music for the End of Time - The Nation on Olivier Messiaen
- Poll: Most Think Bush is Failing - The Nation
- Bush the Incompetent by Harold Meyerson
- Bush: I Am The State - Washington Post
- State Of The People's Union - Robert L. Borosage and Troy Peters
- 2005 Utne Independent Press Awards: And the Winners Are... - Utne Reader
- Socially Responsible Investing (PDF) - Utne.com
- How Many Innocent People in Prison? - Mother Jones
- Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency - In These Times
- Sexual healing - Salon.com
- The blogosphere, left and right - The Daou Report
- Fatah gunmen storm parliament - Guardian
- Cinema Purgatorio - Slate.com
- God and Man on Television: For the networks, Friday is the new Sunday. - Slate.com
- Old Laws Obsolete at Bush's Word? - OneAmerica blog
- Tar Heel Tavern XL - BlueNC blog
- Tar Heel Tavern XL, uh, II - BlueNC blog
- Deep-Sea Drill Set for Climate Research - AP World News
- A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - AP World News
- Pope: Annulment Decisions Must Be Rapid - AP World News
- Polish Roof Collapse Kills at Least 20 - AP World News
- Visions of the Left Emerge in Venezuela - AP World News
- Botswana Adopts Radical Approach to HIV - AP World News
- Britain Hopes to Lower Iraq Troop Numbers - AP World News
- Hamas Suggests Using Militants in Army - AP World News
Friday, January 27, 2006
Intellectual Freedom: The Democrats' Secret Ingredient
Intellectual Freedom and Honesty, NOT Dogma, Secrecy and Spin
No one is asking you to say "ditto". We want you to think with your own head. We are Democrats.
If you are tired of all the dogma, secrecy and spin...consider joining the great Democratic Party. The party of the future. The party to go to.
Are you able to think your own thoughts without fear, coercion or social pressure?
Widen your world. Be a Democrat.
And think!
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Collected Political Posts of Coturnix
Science And Politics: Looking for Politics on "Science And Politics"?
Great idea, Bora! I'm gonna hafta compile my two good posts...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
LA Times on pseudopatriotistic pacifists and other wussies.
Joel Stein:
Warriors and wusses
I DON'T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.
...
But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they're wussy by definition. MORE
Warriors and wusses
I DON'T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.
...
But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they're wussy by definition. MORE
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Post-Post-911: Moving from Fear to Love
Before 9/11, Americans were not consumed by fear. But then 9/11 changed everything. America became consumed by fear. And when you are fearful, you make bad decisions.
In this sense, Karl Rove was right. Democrats are pre-911...at least in the sense of not being consumed by fear. But what about those who ARE consumed by fear? Can we help those folks get over their fear? Can we help them to become post-post-911?
Decades are funny things. Oftentimes the first half is radically different than the last half. Look at the 60s...which didn't really get going until the latter part of the decade.
The same can be said for the decade we are in.
The first half of this decade has been dominated by post-911 fear. The latter half will be dominated by post-post-911 love. Wait and see. Better yet...join in!
Monday, January 23, 2006
Wake Politics: Raleigh News & Observer does blogging
Ryan Teague Beckwith maintains this excellent blog which tracks local government in Wake County.
From the blog:
"Check here for the latest on your local elected officials, community activism and upcoming political events of all stripes.
Some links on WakePol will take you to other sites covering local politics, including individual blogs, government Web sites, partisan interest groups and other news media. WakePol does not endorse any opinions expressed on those sites and cannot guarantee their accuracy.
This blog is maintained by Wake County reporter Ryan Teague Beckwith and Western Wake reporter Toby Coleman. "
From the blog:
"Check here for the latest on your local elected officials, community activism and upcoming political events of all stripes.
Some links on WakePol will take you to other sites covering local politics, including individual blogs, government Web sites, partisan interest groups and other news media. WakePol does not endorse any opinions expressed on those sites and cannot guarantee their accuracy.
This blog is maintained by Wake County reporter Ryan Teague Beckwith and Western Wake reporter Toby Coleman. "
Skating with Blogebrities
Winer and Wonkette
Arianna and Atrios
Kos and Kaus (in a very special performance)
Corn and Wheaton
Malik and Malkin
Barber and Cutler
Cone and Coen
WHO WILL TAKE HOME THE 1978 FORD PINTO?
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Is George Jack's Monica?
TIME: When George Met Jack
Sure the boys wear funny hats...
Jack Abramoff must be sweating, now that we are discovering his shady associations. And now, with George...it just may be too much to bear.
Will Jack freak out now that we see that Mister Bush was one of his lackeys?
AND
Broke banks mounting?
What going on with the stock market?
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