tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89985232011-11-25T11:58:58.221-08:00politics + culture + a little night musicThe Authornoreply@blogger.comBlogger9641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-40578967606958548992011-11-25T11:58:00.001-08:002011-11-25T11:58:58.231-08:00

This is an interesting site tracking resistance to neoliberal corporate policies (as in OWS).

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November 5 is apparently the day to say "fuck you" to your ginormous banking conglomerate.

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I'm not sure what's going on, but the dates in the archives are all screwed up.

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The book I read that got me writing books. Happy 20th Anniversary.

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Plenty of people have written eloquent, unassailable arguments for why we're obliged to prosecute the lawbreakers of the previous Administration. Here is another.

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A wide-ranging explanation of why we're hemorrhaging money.

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What, you want a story after that?

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The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-26710336143974222562008-09-27T12:44:00.000-07:002008-09-27T12:45:26.506-07:00

Who doesn't wish they could live that long and that well, and give the world such a legacy?

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-77801213843067654642008-08-06T10:21:00.001-07:002008-08-06T10:22:20.555-07:00

Some disturbing clips of a Baghdad journalist's return to his home town. (h/t Raw Story.)

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-76593096898738423982008-08-03T14:18:00.000-07:002008-08-03T14:20:37.482-07:00

Crooks 'n Liars found this revealng post of YouTube clips from Iraq. Won't see this stuff on the teevee.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-36200681245683115412008-08-02T12:16:00.000-07:002008-08-02T12:27:33.434-07:00

Seems the CIA was protecting recently captured Serbian war criminal Rodovan Karadzic for years. Boy, would I like to know why. According to the report, the deal was that he'd have informal protection and immunity from arrest as long as he stayed out of Serbian political affairs. But he jess couldn't hep hissef:"Karadzic, indicted for genocide and war crimes, was under the US protection until 2000

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, the gov't claims that a guy you've never heard of, a Mr. Bruce E. Ivins, a scientist with anthrax-access at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where we knew the Ames strain of anthrax used in the post-9/11 anthrax attacks* came from, committed suicide right before being charged with being behind such attacks. Allegedly, Mr. Ivins was depressed for the last month or so before his

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-33097125175282523672008-08-01T10:50:00.000-07:002008-08-01T10:51:47.396-07:00

The single best article I've ever read on the state of the country and how our presidential campaigns never address it. A must read.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-47881777871213973302008-07-31T09:51:00.000-07:002008-07-31T09:53:17.149-07:00

Shocking ruling from a Federal judge today. You mean...there's more than one branch of government?

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-47734161682575688932008-07-30T21:55:00.000-07:002008-07-31T10:54:08.863-07:00

"Blogging is like masturbating in front of a mirror while you're videotaping it so you can maturbate to it later."--Lewis Black, Root of All Evil, 7.30.08

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Pretty much sums it up.

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Why can't we have fun politicians like this?

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-33772452371306163892008-07-25T07:31:00.000-07:002008-07-25T07:34:43.404-07:00

Edgar Mitchell speaks. He claims aliens have visited and are visiting us, and that he's been privy to this information. It's sad. Not that I'm not surprised, but that all I care about is whether the aliens will push Pelosi and Conyers to open impeachment hearings. I mean, come on, help us already. Short of that, do they want anything we can sell them?

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-71478200084286064932008-07-23T10:52:00.000-07:002008-07-23T11:19:48.315-07:00

Here's a little hope: Salon reports we could get (cross your fingers) an in-dept Congressional investigation of illegal domestic spying, rendition, and use of military assets to potentially spy on Americans. Unfortunately, Salon also reports that domestic surveillance is likely far, far worse than previously reported (note: there have been hints of this for years, but little real information).

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-79334516670086113182008-07-22T17:38:00.000-07:002008-07-22T17:39:51.569-07:00

Funny--and, sadly, true.

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Richard Cohen has started yelling at clouds. I understand Cohen's problem with tattoos; they're a mystery to me, too. But I can't fathom why he, a so-called journalist, would bother to write such a screed without even talking to some people who have tattoos. Cohen spoke with a college professor who supposedly knows something about kids today. Whoopee. Did it occur to him to speak with a

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-2286220271672947772008-07-21T19:40:00.000-07:002008-07-21T19:42:46.492-07:00

Zugernat lives. For those unfamiliar with the zine, it's a literary journal Lein Shory (The Irate Savant) and others published years ago. He's put it up again in anticipation of another venture....

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-21204461430934728922008-07-21T16:01:00.001-07:002008-07-21T16:05:19.351-07:00

In Richmond, Virginia, there's a restaurant named The Texas-Wisconsin Border Cafe. I'm not sure, since I ate there about 18 years ago, but I think I had some duck with Texas toast. In any case, John McCain seems to have an imagination similar to that of the founder of that cafe. Except in this case, he thinks Iraq and Pakistan share a border. TPM's video guy makes the revelation hilarious.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-82266086791585503592008-07-20T15:40:00.000-07:002008-07-20T15:42:01.431-07:00

An excellent article on the price of oil and gasoline and why ExxonMobil sucks ass.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-47188092068033128092008-07-17T11:02:00.000-07:002008-07-17T11:04:12.349-07:00

Harry Shearer gives us another installment of behind-the-scenes satellite news feeds. This time it's Laura Ingram. The key moment is after the 7:00 mark.

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Troubling.

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I hated Tony Snow as a "press secretary" but I wished him well with cancer. No one in that position deserves cancer, and his family deserves it even less. They won't read this, but all due respect to him and all due compassion to his family, which must be suffering terribly right now. It's a terrible loss.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-5358177112865724972008-07-10T16:20:00.000-07:002008-07-10T16:51:30.459-07:00

Dear Senator Landrieu:Please be advised that, because you violated your oath of office in voting for the unconstitutional FISA bill, I will be giving money to any progressive candidate who runs against you in every election until you are ousted from the seat you sullied with your pro-fascist votes (remember your inexcusable, pro-corporate bankruptcy bill vote?). You don't deserve any job with

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-13761405435898531792008-07-09T11:37:00.000-07:002008-07-09T11:39:24.134-07:00

the world is fullof many worlds, andthe world is oneof many, too.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-55075005596207640952008-07-09T08:18:00.000-07:002008-07-09T08:25:41.203-07:00

John McCain should be applauded for his choice of campaign consultants--especially when it comes to speech writers and those coaching him on speaking style. These brilliant artisans have furnished their employer with a casualness that easily trounces his opponent's hamfisted attempts at eloquence. The easy laugh. The natural, confident grin. Realitique™ recommends that Senator McCain give these

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-90823806427756069582008-07-07T22:22:00.000-07:002008-07-07T22:24:41.993-07:00

This post contains both the funniest conservatron musing ever and the funniest comment thread ever. Evah.

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So I'm buying a pepper mill as a wedding present for a friend in Philly. I go to the "enter gift message" screen and, as I'm divorced, can't think of anything to write but "I hope it works out," "Good luck with that," and "I hope you guys stay together." Lovely. As my friend K. said about my quandry, "Jaded much?"On a related note, here's my friend Liz bitching about how everyone around her's

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-8052764809593161322008-07-07T11:42:00.000-07:002008-07-07T11:46:35.583-07:00

From Democracy for America:Today may be our last chance to stop senators from voting to pass the so-called FISA "compromise" bill.Last week, thousands of us called our own senators. Thousands more DFA members personally delivered our message to senators at their district offices. And tomorrow every senator will receive DFA petition signatures from members in their district demanding they stand up

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-68470127104524133142008-07-07T11:27:00.000-07:002008-07-07T11:47:39.940-07:00

A must read. The "hoovering" of data, in both senses of the word.

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An excellent tribute to the radical that was George Carlin is in The Nation. Here's the last part of the piece, from one of Carlin's most recent interviews:"There is a certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for this culture, because to get back to the real root of it, to get broader about it, my opinion that is my species -- and my culture in America specifically -- have let me down and

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-47572739902387366492008-06-26T11:02:00.000-07:002008-06-26T11:07:31.815-07:00

In honor of self-described non-theologian James Dobson's criticism of how Obama's ignant black ass reads his white Christian Good Book all wrong an shit, here are some heart-warming Bible stories of rape and slaughter, depicted with (wait for it) LEGOs:Here and here.

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Time to bitch-slap the Dems who voted for the new, improved ("Now with less freedom!") FISA bill. Click here to donate to a worthy cause.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-2780614174544256362008-06-26T10:27:00.001-07:002008-06-26T10:28:22.935-07:00

This flowchart explains a lot. (Via HuffPo.)

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A cousin of mine sent his former senator David Vitter:Senator Vitter, I couldn't help noticing that in the ready-made 'topic' drop-down menu for email correspondence, you have "2nd Amendment Rights" (which I support, by the way) but you do not have 4th amendment rights. Why not? Perhaps because you sold the 4th amendment up the river? Your support for S.2248 is a disgrace to the state of

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-41025881184566690222008-06-23T18:22:00.001-07:002008-06-23T18:32:36.913-07:00

The other day I was looking at a house I'll probably buy. After touring it, my realtor and a friend of mine were sitting on the porch, discussing options, when the issue of renovation crews came up. I mentioned that my friend Geoffrey had a crew of Hondurans whom he'd paid to help renovate another place, but he would trust them only with gutting and so forth. Then my realtor, who has a

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-1594272681129615252008-06-23T15:16:00.000-07:002008-06-23T18:34:48.838-07:00

Is there something you'd like to share with the class, Mr. Black?Hopefully, in the next six months we won't bomb Iran and facilitate suffer another attack on U.S. soil--possibly by folks falsely tied to Iran, resulting in the institution of martial law.Full disclosure: While I would make a killing in blood money if we bombed Iran, for some reason I can't bring myself to support such a heinous,

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-24397380435443791492008-06-23T13:20:00.000-07:002008-06-23T13:59:52.510-07:00

I'm salivating at the prospect.... Highlight:"This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," stated [Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover] in a press release. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-47824324745641957512008-06-23T11:37:00.000-07:002008-06-23T11:42:56.667-07:00

He lived better than most of us could hope to. Too bad he died before the FCC. Condolences to his wife and family.Jon Stewart interviews with Carlin.NYT remembers Carlin.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-10469231574713583192008-06-21T15:25:00.000-07:002008-06-21T15:26:51.854-07:00

"Getting married for sex is like taking a flight to London for the salted peanuts."A Prairie Home Companion, 6.21.08

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It was about WMD, then freedom and democracy. It was never about oil.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-44997990364790533432008-06-14T11:31:00.001-07:002008-06-14T11:33:16.236-07:00

"It's not one society. There are sweeping conspiracy theories about the Masons, Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission and Counsel of Foreign Relations. I know people in all these entities, and most of them couldn't find their ass in a well-lighted room. It's much more prosaic and nuanced than that."Steven Greer

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-16584314431261468422007-08-19T11:52:00.000-07:002007-08-19T14:08:33.321-07:00

This is fascinating. But even more fascinating is this. And then there's this.

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-28442103456828685822007-07-31T08:07:00.000-07:002007-07-31T08:16:36.027-07:00

What a sad day. Post-Bergman era now begins. At least there's this: If anyone left an indelible mark upon cinema, it was Bergman (pronounced "berryman"?--depends on that Norwegian and Swede I met on a train years ago). I hope he tells Orson Welles hello.Take a gander.Oh, yeah, and there's something going on with that Attorney General....

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-39027306393886092602007-03-19T15:00:00.001-07:002007-03-19T15:01:27.306-07:00

And yet a kiss (like blubber)'d blur and slip,Without the skull beneath the lip.-John Frederick Nims

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-79714724784671071302007-02-03T09:13:00.000-08:002007-02-03T09:17:51.075-08:00

Almost fainted when I read this:A federal judge in New Orleans on Friday ruled that residents of areas heavily flooded when Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters were funneled down a New Orleans navigation channel can sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.It's narrow, but it's something. I'm sure lots of people in St. Bernard (and probably the Lower 9th) are grinning voraciously right now. I hope they

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-45602952013750732072007-01-27T12:27:00.000-08:002007-01-29T09:10:47.027-08:00

Hey, while I'm "posting" on a "blog," I may as well mention that the most American song ever written, the most Thomas-Paine-friendly lyrics ever (sorry, conservatives, you like the King, not the Congress, and Mr. Paine, that proto-socialist, you would loathe) is Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name of." No, it's not the kind of song the American non-government has loved for sixty years

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-1166679509319339042006-12-20T21:38:00.000-08:002006-12-20T21:38:29.346-08:00

Goddamn.

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Just in time for the holidaze....

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This is the history lesson I was taught only the hazy outlines of in high school and college. And Howard Zinn doesn't even go as far as he should--say, including the goading of the nation into war with Japan and Afghanistan. But he goes plenty far enough for anyone who learns the shadowy, largely untaught history of America's undemocratic, sickening foreign policy, esp. in the post-WWII period,

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-1166492490007014312006-12-18T17:40:00.000-08:002007-01-05T04:56:53.756-08:00

Miasmatic daysFog-filled, living in cottonWhy did she leave me?

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Ah, the stupid! It hurts!

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I read about this over the summer but not in this much convincing detail. Per usual, The Centre for Research on Globalization is way ahead of the curve. Yes, boys and girls, They aren't just considering literally redrawing the borders of countries, they're actually doing it. This was, as pointed out here (esp. in the first bullet point), part of the reason for the Lebanon War last summer. It

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-1164418897781884462006-11-24T17:40:00.000-08:002006-11-24T17:41:37.836-08:00

Funny.

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Thanks to suckers like Donnie McDaniel, I finally started blogging at the Katrinacrat.com. Now I know that me blogging anywhere is close to pointless but that's what pundits are for. At least the unpaid ones. So last night I finally managed to post on the Katrinacrat and hope to pollute that site with the detritus of my ridiculous imagination in the near future.Masochists, read the post here.

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I understand everybody's wondering if I'm going to run in '08. To reiterate my position, I'm going to take time over the holidays to talk over the possibilities. There's ample reason for this. For one, my lesbian Massachusetts remarried ex-wife would come under even more scrutiny for her investment in fur-seal factory farming. Two, despite my children being full-grown, I have been repeatedly

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-1163727963566964232006-11-16T17:39:00.000-08:002006-11-16T17:46:56.236-08:00

What conservative wrote this ridiculous headline? Elected House Speaker, Pelosi Suffers First Defeat. Gotta gin up that conflict, eh? How about: "Hoyer Elected Majority Leader" or even "Hoyer Beats Murtha for Majority Leader Post." Such a story should note that Pelosi backed Murtha and why (he was the big force behind her rise in the ranks). But her role in the story is not headline-worthy and

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-1163704875742220052006-11-16T11:15:00.000-08:002006-11-16T11:33:17.073-08:00

Poor Nikola Tesla. He practically invented the modern world of electricity--how it's generated, transported and applied. Thomas Edison shit-canned him and stole his work, enabling him to make piles of cash providing power to cities. Then Marconi stole Tesla's discovery that information could be broadcast wirelessly through electromagnetic fields, eventually giving liars like Rush Limbaugh

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-1163704350401164582006-11-16T10:46:00.000-08:002006-11-16T11:12:35.886-08:00

As you read through the columns of headlines every day, there's always an odd story or two that stands out, like yesterday's about the invention of a musical shirt. But this one is so far off the map, it's somewhere on that tropical island in Lost: "Man Has Sex with Dead Deer." That alone would suffice, but the story contains several surprises.A man is accused of having sex with the carcass of a

The Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8998523.post-1163110332672079912006-11-09T11:19:00.000-08:002006-11-09T14:12:12.876-08:00

Hey, asshole Karl, you might want to read this before 2008.

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Would you like a side order of Resignation with your Woopass?

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After yesterday's ass-whoopin' that we gave the gee oh pee, I'm supposed to be elated. But I'm not. I'm relieved--extremely relieved. It's the same feeling I got after finishing long, complicated projects or term papers. Maybe I'm feel a tinge of elation if we take the Senate. If nothing else, we narrowed the gap and put what amounts to a Congressional flood gate in government. Anybody feel the

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Katherine Harris Dead at 90 from Makeup Overdose

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Holy Christ Almighty.

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Late last night, I wrote most of a highly ironic post blaming the Iraqis for the decimation of their own country, because that's the logical extreme of the position so many former war cheerleaders are taking. But nutjob Paul at Power Whine beat me to it. I've never been able to tell how much of their preposterous prattle the lobotomized bruderbund at Power Whine believe, but it's frightening to

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Come Tuesday, if the exit polls don't match the official vote tallies, it's time to follow the example of Ukraine, Georgia, the Czech Republic and Mexico: Flood the streets and march on Washington. It's our last chance for democracy. After that, all bets are off.

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Wow. I had no idea that director Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly, School of Rock, Dazed and Confused) had joined the 9/11 Truth chorus but on set he handed out DVDs about the twin towers' destruction and (apparently) Bruce Willis was so shaken by what he saw that his understanding of contemporary politics has shifted radically. The Boy King was right when he declared that "9/11 changed

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I was surprised to read not that Saddam was sentenced to death but that he was sentenced to hang. What is no surprise is that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and the many other murderous sociopathic bastards responsible not only for 9/11 but for the subsequent bloodbath in Iraqistan. They will never be tried. They will never be sentenced. They will never, like Mussolini, be

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Dear neurotic, sclerotic "news" media: Kerry was insulting the President, not the troops. But the staff of realitique™ don't expect you to listen to the entire quote in context. Because, frankly, you never do that. Which is why I, a former American news consumer, don't read your shit anymore.Other recent discoveries of the obvious told realitique™, on condition of anonymity, that the obvious

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Osman and girlfriend argue over something trivial, like whether he picked up the coffee or something else. They make up. They head for the bedroom and the camera crew attempts to follow. They angrily tell them to go away and slam the bedroom door in their face. The crew knock and get cursed out in response. We overhear "Oh, well, you'd think he'd like his fifteen months of fame." There is a large

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Here.

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Or happy autumnal equinox, one of four points in the calendar year that is central to primitive religion. It's the source not only of hundreds of thousands of humans sacrificed to non-existent gods but also of Bible stories such as Jericho (the sun "stood still") and Easter (when winter's over and everything is green again--and the godman Jesus ascends to the "Father," or in this case the sun).

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Not only has this useless war for oil, money and domination wasted ~2800 American lives, killed tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and blown off the lips and permanently injured the brains of tens of thousands of American soldiers and Marines and Iraqis, but according to Canadian peace negotiator, at the eleventh hour Saddam agreed to step down and accede to all American demands. The US

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I've been soliciting advice about lawyers, accountants and LLCs for the past few days, so this struck a chord when I read it earlier:The detailed legal releases, which it seems no one ever reads, were presented to people as if they were permission forms for being interviewed by a Kazakh TV show.

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Good thing the election's coming up. The amount of work involved in making a film, esp. when you don't yet have a staff, is daunting--but fun. I'm all down with the photography, writing, acting and directing, but then there's PR and sales. You have to write and call everybody and juggle their responses. You have to make a press kit. You have to buy equipment, schedule flights, find food and all

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Here.

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Here's the script for the teaser trailer that I'm going to film in a month or two. If you're local and are interested or know anything about movies or have equipment we can borrow or money you desperately want to give away or know anybody with any connections to Famous or Powerful People, please, let me know.If you're not used to reading movie scripts, the format is pretty much like a play,

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Well, yes. Actually, the staff here at realitique™ headquarters beneath Sav-A-Center in our concrete, electromagnetically shielded bunker is busily working on the script and hitting up friends and connections for roles and general aid. When we get a short clip produced, don't worry, we'll be begging for change, so save up those nickels and dimes boys and girls. And if you can act, have piles of

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I don't know about you, but when the snows fall in October, I get all misty eyed about military adventure. Maybe it's the football. But it feels like it's time to get our asses back in the slaughterhouse and get to killing some Islamonazishariafascists, and what better target this season than Iran? Seems the Administration is thinking the same thing. Please join me in a prayer to Mars, beseeching

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Ooo. Mmm. Ahhh. Great sounds in the proper context. Unfortunately, the context is consternation, not copulation. Watch the striking similarities between the "arguments" of the Nixon White House (or Bush's precursor) and those of Joe "Bush" Lieberman on the Vietraq War.I understand that it's "hard" to "pull out" and "end" the war. But as Bill Maher said last week, we wanted to "penetrate Iraq and

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JibJab got John Landis to direct six short comedy sketches. Vote for your favorites. While they're all good, "So You Want to Be a Cop" and "Small World" are the best. The latter is hilarious.

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Since returning home a year ago, I've photographed all the devastated areas of the city. While I was doing so--and it took its toll on me emotionally--I kept wishing I had a good video camera, because it was impossible to capture the extent of the devastation with still photographs. It's one thing to see a ruined house sitting atop a car, the detritus of its owners' private lives spilling onto

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Not the Gee Oh Pee.

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First four minutes of the movie here. (Via Raw Story via Huffington.) Got your tickets yet?

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Recently, George Michael openly smoked a joint during a TV interview and confessed, "Christ, if I drank as much as I smoke, I'd look like Keith Richards."

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Um, uh...this is.... Know what? Just watch.

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Sometimes things are simpler than they might appear - and they involve envelopes of cash.–Daniel EllsbergFor those who know a good bit about the blockbuster dirty secrets of Bush, Reagan and Iran-Contra, connections between drug-smuggling, arms dealing/smuggling and various Western intelligence services will come as no surprise. But then there's Sibel Edmonds, who can (apparently) link widespread

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The Boy King claims his Administration was never "stay the course." Next: Bush reveals that he never claimed Iraq had WMD or that Osama was connected to 9/11. (Via Atrios.)

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There's been lots of buzz recently about both an impending "October Surprise" and war with Iran. There's good reason to conclude the two are one and the same. But with the recent outbreak of what radio goddess Stephanie Miller calls "mastergate" or "La Cage aux Foley," the predictable pre-election fear-mongering has been thrown out of whack. I don't know if war with Iran was the planned October

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Well, volk, it's legal now (don't say we didn't warn you). Kiss your Bill of Rights goodbye.UPDATE (Not Exactly): From CBS and ABC morning news to NPR, I have heard nothing but whitewash from every Mainstream News Media outlet today. If you've heard something substantive, please, let me know. E&P sums up what most of the "news" sounded like. As pathetic as NPR's coverage was, at least they let

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In an interview with former Attorney General John "Cromwell" Ashcroft to be published tomorrow, the golden-throated crooner had this to say:Defending the president's policy on torture, he says, "I think there is a very sound argument for saying that those who violate the Geneva Conventions should not benefit from its provisions." When Solomon reminds him that that the U.S. stands for rights for

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Cut finger; can barely type.

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I know, I know, the following list was written by some dumbass academic and scholar (obviously an Osama-loving pinko librul) but I was just rereading the fourteen points of fascism, and I have to say that, yes, we're there. Not in the jack-booted-thugs-in-the-street sense, but very much in the social, legal and political sense. I'm not sure that any American government these days would risk

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