Month: January 2003

Outcasts In Two Lands: (via Plastic) There was no day and night, he said, only two overhead florescent lights switched on 24 hours a day. There was no outside world, only two closed-circuit cameras that relayed his every move to an unseen guard. There was also no interrogation that might explain why he was arrested…. […]

Some great audio/video remixes of Mr. Bush: ‘Summed Up In One Word’ (6+ MB, Quicktime) ‘Bushwhacked’ (MP3 audio)

I guess what I think is interesting about Idold is that the judges actually take the time to berate and degrade the auditioners. I guess that’s part of the act but I can barely stand half an hour of mass auditions without getting glazed over. I’m also surprised they have the three judges and not […]

Sitting here in bed. It is 3:39 am – Ron is asleep to my left and I’ve got WinAmp open on the laptop playing the Madonna directory in my music files. I’ve rigged my MP3 files to replicate and update between my desktop and my laptop. I do like having a wireless connection. And I […]

‘According to market research SUV buyers tend to be “insecure and vain. They are frequently nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood. Above all, they are apt to be self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors and communities.” ‘SUVs don’t handle well, so drivers can’t respond quickly when the car hits a […]

Great stuff on Plastic regarding the constitutionality of affirmative action: Generally, when the subject of affirmative action comes up, pundits from both sides confuse the argument over whether these programs are a good idea and whether they are constitutional. Some good things are unconstitutional and that some bad things are constitutional. Clearly, any government agency […]

“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember. “How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America?s anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans […]

4 teenage boys in Chicago videotaped themselves gang raping a girl who had passed out drunk at a party and then wrote obscenties on her body. Besides the brutality behind the crime – the sheer arrogance – not just taking advantages with a unconscious girl but videotaping the act and showing it to friends (she […]

I finally saw Goldmember last night. I liked it better than the two other movies. I still think my favorite character is Frau Farbissina. I think I fantasize about screeching like her in the middle of a quiet meeting at work: ‘Bring in the FEM-BOTS!‘ Liked the Nathan Lathan appearance and the flexible combative high-kicks […]

“This is not a war. This is heavily corporatized power brokers killing each other for oil and capital. You cannot have a war when there is nothing to fight against, when it’s essentially going to be a huge U.S. military stomping/bombing exercise, when, just like Afghanistan, we stand to suffer zero U.S. casualties (except for […]