Andymatic

Month: September 2006

  • Cute Kitten

    Kato as Evil Twin! Originally uploaded by Pictr 30D.

  • Andrew Bacevich on Stopping Terrorism

    The author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War gives a five-point plan for ending terrorism: First, terminate actions that are self-evidently counterproductive, above all by extricating ourselves in an orderly way from Iraq. Second, revive in modified form the Cold War principles of containment and deterrence, incorporating explicit security guarantees […]

  • Disney/ABC Screens 9/11 Propaganda ‘Documentary' to Right-Wing Bloggers Only

    Fantastic: On September 1, it became evident that ABC had offered previews of “The Path to 9/11” to right-wing bloggers and media personalities, like Rush Limbaugh, and to mainstream media outlets. When it was confirmed that no advance information had been sent to progressive and liberal bloggers and media, an effort was launched to discover […]

  • Ron Back From Kuwait

    That is all. He’s sleeping. Shocker. I know.

  • Pakistan Gives bin Laden Safe Harbor with White house Approval

    Pakistan says that if bin Laden “is being like a peaceful citizen” inside the country, he “would not be taken into custody.” Pakistan makes deal with militant tribes that the Pakistani military will no longer operate in the area where Osama bin Laden and other top al Qaeda operatives are believed to be hiding. The […]

  • Calf Cramps

    I had that dream again where I haven’t attended a high school math class all semester and haven’t done any of the work or any of the tests. I am wondering how I’m going to tell mom and dad that I’m failing a math class because I never actually attended. I put together the new […]

  • Nip/Tuck

    I’ve been catching episodes of Nip/Tuck off and on all summer as they replay the past three seasons. There is something so lurid and horny about the whole show that I enjoy. It isn’t really violent as far as lots of people getting killed – but the fusion of plastic surgery, vanity, pretty people, ugly […]

  • Regulation of Braiders and Lockticians Opens Up Rift in Illinois

    As black hair trends turned from relaxed and straightened back to more natural, the cosmetology industry, miffed at revenue lost to braiders and dread lock lockticians helped push through legislation in 2001 that made the ancient art of braids and dreadlocks requiring a 1500 hour cosmetology license. Back when I used to party all night, […]

  • Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad (and Ron and I)

    It is Saturday. Brigitte and I are off to Ikea in a bit. Her beau celebrated his birthday last night so they went out to see Tony Bennet at Ravinia. Ron is out for the week but tomorrow we celebratre the five year anniversary of our first date. At Joy’s Noodles (the fasted Thai noodleshop […]

  • Towards Nationalized Health Care

    Kevin send this in: Most Americans are unaware that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t already have a fundamentally public–that is, tax-supported–health care system. The United States now has the most expensive health care system on earth and, despite remarkable technology, the general health of the U.S. population […]