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September 20, 2004

• • • "Until that reversal, the Detroit case had marked the only terrorist conviction obtained from the Justice Department's detention of more than 5,000 foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps since 9/11. So Ashcroft's record is 0 for 5,000."
Taking Liberties

• • • Looks like the Tampa Blogger Fest was a hit. Sorry we couldn't make it. Kids, kids, kids, kids, diapers.

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• • • Blue Note: Over 1000 great jazz album covers.

• • • When we posted this we got a few requests for something like this. But we prefer this.

September 17, 2004

• • • Fun Fact:
President Bush is the first President since, John "30%" Quincy Adams, to have NEVER vetoed a Bill.
We just think he loves to use those fancy pens.

• • • This one has been going around lately and we've been waiting for the hoax wind to follow, but it hasn't yet. A pretty compelling production.
Memory Hole

• • • Where we first found out Hurricanes were registered Republicans. The Lennon Report

• • • Some pics that make us miss NYC
Satan's Laundromat

September 14, 2004

• • • As we sit, the media picks up speculation from an individuals post on a right wing blog that the Rather/60 Minutes story on Bush's military service is based on forged documents. It's official, the media will not do ANY investigation. They will simply regurgitate as fact whatever ANYONE feeds them.
We haven't come very far from this:
"...very large noses and ears and immense lung development,
because of the rarefied atmosphere. Their legs are poorly developed,..."
Scientists agree

• • • Porn for the whole family.
ISPs

• • • For those who love to hunt and click, this one goes on and on and on...
Superbad

• • • You be the judge.
Tumbleweed,
or...
Tortoise.

via anivegvideo

September 10, 2004

• • • Flip, flip, flip, flip, half twist, pike position, flop.
First Bush is against the 9/11 Commission, then he is for it, then he is against most of it's recommendations, then he is for them, but he was against a Czar, then for a Czar but without budgetary power, now he is for a Czar with budgetary power. Why now? Political of coarse. John McCain is behind the Bill.

• • • Someone has to be in charge of the pretzels.
The latest from PBCT

• • • "Too many OBGYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across this great country"???
Olberman

• • • "As much right to think...as pigs have to fly."
The Hole Hog

• • • Obsession is...
in my arms

September 8, 2004

• • • What exactly is our stance on Terror?
We are just thoroughly shocked at our country's reaction to the horror that just took place in Russia. Our government's great idea, diplomacy. Although Putin had a rather blunt response proposing that we invite Osama to the White House to air his grievances, we didn't think diplomacy on some level should be discarded so easily. We do have a history of doing just that. Isn't that how Reagan got our hostages back from Iran? And more recently and on topic, we just gave asylum to this guy. Oh how selective our policy really is.
A little back room, secure line, discussion couldn't hurt. Interesting that just yesterday, right sided columnist David Brooks, wrote a scathing piece denouncing any such diplomatic tactics, declaring the "Cult of Death" as the new fear zenith.
Our response to Mr. Brooks:
Dear Mr. Brooks
It's easy to have such a theory if you've always sat on top, have never yearned for a freedom of any kind, for you have had them all and always will. It is telling of your scope, it's limits rather, that you can have such a theory and ignore the fact that these evil killers of no remorse have very serious political, ethnic, religious, and moral roots in their actions. It is the ignorance of these "roots" (which in many cases are the results of our own sewing) that will reap us more of these maniacs. We cannot defeat ideals, no matter how insane they are, by bombing it out of them or eradicating them by death. This tactic smacks of horrors we should long have learned from. We can only hope to educate and enlighten by efforts to do just that, educate and enlighten. Our main method should be example. Our policies are self serving, and largely selective. It is this randomness, that yields us our current "enemy". Which leads us all too easily to Orwellian thoughts that our current "leaders" need an enemy to perpetuate themselves. I am further disappointed that your theory seems to embrace one of the largest moral tangents our society has taken, "it's not my fault".
We point our finger at you.

• • • It must be getting harder to keep the population in fear...

It'll be your fault if the terrorists hit the US again.
That's right , you!
At least according to our Vice President.
"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice, the danger is we'll get hit again, and we'll be hit in a way that would be absolutely devastating from the standpoint of the United States"

• • • Caught red handed. How can we trust anything our administration says, if everything they say and do is Political.
Pakistan: U.S. Official's Osama Claim Was 'Political'

• • • Hey TLD! Why so serious?
Hostess has lost their minds. Or maybe this is the way to get the kids to eat it. Recipe

September 5, 2004

• • • Luckily we're all ready from the Charlie prep. Winds picking up here in the Tampa Bay area, expecting a lot of rain and most likely a power loss.
So much for the Labor Day BBQ.
Off to bury the propane tank.
Wish us luck.

• • • Can't resist, we love a good hack...
Google the word "failure", #1 return gets you this...

September 3, 2004

• • • Day four.
Nice balloon drop!
Morality for all somehow equals Liberty and Democracy.
We were digging on Zell "I challenge you to a duel" Miller and found out that he started his career as a strict segregationist, then flipped to the Dems when the Clinton's took over and then flopped to the right with the Bush arrival. Quite the chameleon, he's known amongst his constituents as "Zig-Zag Zell".
We predict Zell will become the face the Republican Convention.
If you've been listening to the Right the last month then you know exactly what was in the President's speech. 9/11. Attack Kerry. 9/11. Attack Kerry. 9/11. Attack Kerry. Plus, the added bonus of a litany (18 we believe) of substanceless, contrary to their own platform, "policy" promises he's had four years to implement but now hasn't a dime to pay for. (And still digging into the lawyers?)
Liberty Century??? Scary stuff indeed.
The upside to this whole convention is that it has unleashed Kerry, and he's fighting mad.
"I will not have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and who misled America into Iraq..."

• • • If everyone had a blog, wouldn't they all start to look like this.
Don't just peruse the fine layout, dig deeper and click your way through...
Freddiesblog

• • • Japanese punk butts.

September 2, 2004

• • • Day three.
Zell Miller, old angry guy.
Here's what Zell Miller had to say about Kerry only a few years ago.
"one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders – and a good friend."
Miller has consistantly voted Republican for years now. He is a Republican who insists on calling himself a Democrat. His popularity comes from just that, a deceitful label that gives good play to the undecideds.
Dick Cheney, old angry guy.
My G_d! What does it take to scare you guys!

• • • Garrison Keillor ain't holdin' back...
"Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.
Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of billionaires! Hypocrisies shine like cat turds in the moonlight! O Mark Twain, where art thou at this hour? Arise and behold the Gilded Age reincarnated gaudier than ever, upholding great wealth as the sure sign of Divine Grace."
We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

• • • "A Baath Party bureaucrat thought
He'd defy me and never get caught."
Sadam Hussein, Master of the Limerick

• • • " A reason other than the obvious to visit Vegas.
If you didn't know there's an annex there, now you do. This is quite a variety, work your way up and down the list on the left.
Pursuit of Pleasure

September 1, 2004

• • • Day two.
Back to the pep rally, this time Bush I and Barbara held up posters and the daughters did their best Goldie Hawn.
Who the hell was Arnold talking about. He really does live a fantasy life.
Laura has the nerve to talk about how it took the perfect document a hundred years to eradicate slavery. While her husband tries to add bigotry to its list of virtues. Now she's reminiscing about "Duck and Cover" , You're scared now. Aren't ya?

"The only thing we have to fear... is not being constantly afraid"
Mo Rocca

• • • "Safer at home", say the Republicans.
Did you know that there is a no fly zone over Crawford, Texas.
But there is not over any of the nation's nuclear facilities (including the Indian River Nuclear Facility just 60 miles North of NYC).
Orlando receives about $48 per person in anti terror funds. NYC receives about $5. Thanks for the gum ball Mickey!

August 31, 2004

• • • As we sit here watching the Republican Convention (or the 9/11 pep rally), our stomachs are just starting to turn for the eighth time as Giuliani paints imagery of a person leaping ablaze from the top of the World Trade Center and smear the German and Italian governments (all in one breath). We are reminded of this a few months back.
Bush the optimist? Yesterday, Bush said the war on terror could never be "won". Which brings up the implication of that statement that the "war" on terror, if perpetual , now brings a bright shining light to the Orwell classic, 1984. Fear, Fear, terror, terror, are you scared yet? Iraq, Sadam. Sadam, Iraq. Bla Bla Bla.
Is this a war on "terror" or a war on some holed up dudes in Iraq protecting their Grandothers' street corner?
What about Osama bin Ladin?!!!
What about the economy, gas prices, job outsourcing, tax exemptions for corporations, tax cuts for the rich (not us!), the environment, healthcare, affordable prescriptions, affordable health insurance, our continuing isolation around the world, the ever increasing and record deficit, the rights of Women, Homosexuals, and the encroachment of religion on Government?!!!
They crucified the Democrats for not being "specific" (when they clearly were). Where's the President's agenda for the next four years?!!! Are we going to let these guys just wing it?

• • • A time honored battle.
Men Pulling Corks

• • • "This is the Radiohead Internet Site. We have done other sites before. We build 'em up we break 'em down. Why do we keep doing that?"

August 28, 2004

• • • See it now before their server clogs up.
Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth.

• • • It's the water. It must be the water...
Why does this stuff always happen in Florida. This time in our own town. When having your next heated political argument....
be careful what you say!
Mazagwu

• • • One points to Madison Squarer Garden, one points to Central Park.
Operation Sibyl banner drop

August 25, 2004

• • • Look at who is questioning their own candidate. The Weekly Standard, one of the most respected amongst the Right Wing journals, is starting to see a flicker of darkness in their own candidate.
The Politics of Chest-Thumping.

• • • David and Gol"oil"as. One man in NYC takes on Getty oil owned by Lukoil, the Russsin oil company whose leader is currently being prosecuted in Russia for all sorts of chicanery.
Cheap Gas

• • • We've been looking for a scarecrow for our garden to keep out all those birds that'll soon be flying south. This find should work wonders on all forms of invading critters.
Gnome

• • • "For every occupation, there is a catalog of secrets only its employees are aware of—such as how waiters with heavy platters know to look straight ahead, and never down."
Tricks of the Trade

August 22, 2004

• • • We've been saying there's something in the water down here...
This just in via FLAblog (one of our local faves).
• • •The basis for the Kerry Campaign's assertions that there is a working connection between The SBVT's and the President is real. And here's the proof:
"a flier in a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Gainesville promoting Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"

Article here

follow up article here

August 21, 2004

• • • We've found quite a lot this weekend to share, starting with this list of Bush Flip-Flops on almost every aspect of Foreign and Domestic policy. All using his own words.
flip-flopper-in-chief

• • • Finally the only other officer on the river that day breaks his long silence and Defends Kerry's version of the story.
Kerry telling truth.
Kerry critics wrong.

• • • Picked this off the Al Franken blog..
John E. O'Neill is an attorney licensed in Texas. Contact the Texas State Bar to file a complaint re lying and dishonorable conduct:

Texas State Bar Address

P.O. Box 12487
Austin, Texas 78711

1414 Colorado St.
Austin, TX 78701

Telephone Numbers
Toll Free: (800)204-2222
Local: (512)463-1463
Fax: (512)463-1475

• • • Think your getting the "news"? Think Again. Part scathing critique, part call to action, and Amy Goodman, too. A must see!
"Independent Media In A Time Of War"

• • • Here's a way to keep those spammers away and guarantee that only your real friends will put you in their address book.
Free E-Mail

• • • Fear not secular clowns.
"In addition to our performance ability we also teach a professional level of clowning to all Christian clowns as well as secular clowns."
Clowning 4 Christ

• • • Found in Florida.
The Urinals of Dairy Queen

August 18,2004

• • • The SBVT's and almost every conservative pundit are lying to you. There is this constant uproar from them over John Kerry not releasing his military records. This is utter BS! They've been available (as well as his tax records for months on his website.
Kerry Military Records

• • • This book review just in on Amazon...
After reading the enclosed story "The Pet Goat," I was stunned by its lyrical beauty and easy cadence. The tempo, the choice of words, and the layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me about seven minutes to recover my bearings. Lolla Fallujah

• • • A new reader "looks" to be something entirely above shoulders in a very heady field of study. In the "worth a thousand words" category...
Rose Rosetree

• • • The internet can be a very scary place for the beginner, these folks are here to help and have put together a little internet primer...
BSD

• • • See a few loose ends here. Incredible design. Explore...
Jeans & Clothes

August 16, 2004

• • • One quick right turn and all we got was a little rain, but our prayers are with our friends down in Punta G.

• • • Heres a site that'll put a smile on most of our readers faces.
Blue and red make purple, in this case, pupleish blue. The sources are in the Excel file. Slow to load.
Vote

• • • Boy those Republicans sure hate lawyers.
Bush vs Enterprise and much more.
The hypocrites of tort reform

• • • Our consensus favorite columnist Maureen Dowd on... 'Bushworld' audio clip interview on Fresh Air

• • • Please note the new color coded terror level to the left.
Finally a system we can all understand!
click for more info on our current level.

• • • Just because we haven't seen it for so long, and also because the ending now seems not so far fetched.
Romanek does Beck

August 12, 2004

• • • Sorry no posts today. We're getting ready for Hurricane Chuckie.
Wish us luck!

August 11, 2004

• • • So you've worked your but off raising $200,000 for the President,
you have now earned "Ranger Status". Congatulations to you. You have earned a place at the Republican convention. But there's one "small" catch.....
Scroll down read carefully and get out your calculator.
Politics a la carte

• • • At least one judge in Washington is getting this right...
"there is no compelling state interest to deny marriage to two people in a committed relationship"
Superior Court Judge William Downing

• • • Towards the end of the summer, we here in Florida start to dream of cooler days to come.
This site helps us a bit.
Globes

• • • We've seen a lot of political schwag lately but this stuff is right up our alley. Subtle yet effective. It's a race to get that vacation Tee first!
Elsewares

• • • Explore jazz history through one photograph. Dive into Jazz history by clicking on the people in the picture.
Harlem.org

August 10, 2004

• • • One of our editors has been busy debating the merits of the SBVT's on this right wing blog. Look for "tiny" and later "t" or "T",
starting about 3/4 of the way down.
Captain's Quarters

• • • Tax loopholes not big enough, hire an ex IRS officer to get your slate clean, and do it in secret? Cheers to this whistle blower.
Micrel

• • • Yo La Tengo goes double Live, featuring David Cross.
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube

• • • Audi meets Escher in this 30 second clip.
Illusions

August 9, 2004

• • • In an effort to keep things less hostile out there in the political discussion arena, our friend Mig supplies this quote.
"Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right."
- H.L. Mencken

• • • All those musicians who got together and raised 180 million for the Victims of 911 Fund. Well, they're all getting together again for a little get out the Bush party.
Led by blue collar hero Bruce Springsteen.
Chords for Change

• • • Harris leaking. Don't be surprised to start hearing this as fact in the next few weeks. She actually discusses with a reporter a "classified" story then explains it's not classified for her!!???

• • • Kerry bad for business? Not so!
Just ask these business leaders some of who have supported Bush in the past, even a Fox News exec.

• • • Secret no more.
Art Before Power

• • • Transportation and how far we haven't come.
Futuristics

August 4, 2004

• • • Tom Ridge raises the threat level based on three year old information. but...
"Bin Ladin determined to strike in the US" and looking to highjack planes. Condi Rice says this is a "historical document".
Why is it such a stretch to think that these terror levels are politically motivated. Dean is crucified for suggesting such a thing. We feel the bigger question is why hasn't the media asked this question the evidence is out there.
Some of it here.

• • • The great ideological Flip Flop.
or...
• • • Elephant-Chameleon hybrid.
Has anyone noticed how the right has taken things that ARE bad and convinced their own that they are good.
-War. You know that thing with the bombs, blood, death, and destruction. This used to be a bad thing, now it's the status quo.
-Deficit. This has allways been considered bad, really bad by the Republicans, now it's AOK to be ridiculously in debt and getting deeper, but somehow our economy is right on track.
-Freedom. "Smaller government that stays out of my business", used to be the hallmark of the Republicans. Now citizens are detained without charge and denied representation. While our government snoops our email, banking, medical, and financial records. But this is a good thing?
-Accountability." Impeachment for a consensual blow job!", they devoted their whole careers to this mantra while ignoring real issues facing our nation. Yet, a massive failure by a President and his entire cabinet, with Life and Death ramifications, and the detriment of our place in the world...and not ONE person (other than those who blew the whistle) has been so much as reprimanded.
So now we need a Intelligence Czar to do the job of the leaders who failed to do the job of an Intelligence Czar.

• • • Plan on seeing the President/VP when they roll into your town?
Here's two that illustrate how far the Republicans will go to make sure they have a canned audience:
"I thought it was kind of a joke..."

"refused tickets unless..."

• • • Finally! An alternative fuel source that simultaneously eliminates an environmental nuisance.
Fly

• • • THE Letters of van Gogh.

August 2, 2004

• • • This guy has some damn good ideas on what to do about our foreign policy...
"Your either with us or against us"
GW Bush
"It's not time for the world to join us, it's time for us to join the world."
Benjamin Barber

• • • Not only is this an incredible speech under the circumstances but if you substitute "Vietnam" with "Iraq" it could very well be used today word for word.
Kerry 71 speech

• • • He may have held back at the DNC but not for the pages of Esquire.
Ron Reagan Jr.
Thanks C.Dilley

• • • Straight Talk! From Crawford, Texas.

• • • The future is now! And you wouldn't want to get lost in it.
Barcode Yourself

• • • Bizarre worlds...and they're tiny too.
pinhole
Thanks Ed

• • • There are very few reasons to go to the UK in December. Here's one, actually eight.
REFORM
via Howlingspoons

July 29, 2004

There's been a lot of talk about there not being a paper trail for the electronic voting machines here in Florida.
Apparently there is problem but not here in central Florida's Hillsborough County, home of the Tampa, St. Petersburg area and one of the biggest swing counties in one of the biggest swing states.

Well, we don't believe everything we hear/read so we called up Buddy Johnson, the Supervisor of Elections to find out for ourselves. Unfortunately he wasn't in so we left a message. As the day went by we were starting to get the feeling that we wouldn't be hearing from Mr. Johnson, but...
READ/SEE MORE

• • • • • • "Cowards hiding under their desk", says Bill O'Reilly to the NY Times after they rejected an offer to debate him on the Charlie Rose show. Al Franken then quickly accepted on behalf of the Times, Rose accepted the proposal, but....
O'Reilly the coward is hiding under his desk.
Source: AL Franken on Air America Radio 7/28/04

July 28, 2004

• • • Paranoid rich lady journalism.
We kept reading because we didn't think the paranoia and bigotry could get any greater, yet each page shocked us more than the last, then to finally (could this have been more winded?) find out nothing happened!
Terror in the Skies, Again? by Annie Jacobson
Then when you're done, be sure to read what the Air Marshall had to say:
" The source said the air marshals on the flight were partially concerned Jacobsen’s actions could have been an effort by terrorists or attackers to create a disturbance on the plane to force the agents to identify themselves.
Air marshals' only tactical advantage on a flight is their anonymity, the source said, and Jacobsen could have put the entire flight in danger."
Marshall

• • • Sometimes a flat tire can be sooo revealing. Scratch the surface of a black conservative group and you find a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. We can't believe this guy even showed up...
Blackwashing

• • • Flippity Flop...
"I am a deficit hawk," Cheney explained. "So is the president." Don't you feel better?
Deficit will hit record

July 27, 2004

• • • Well, we started writing about the Bill Clinton speech last night when we suddenly realized...We can't improve on perfection!
We will say we loved the part about the Right needing a divided country to support it's views while the Left does not.
And what a great irony he pointed to when he basically said of the tax cuts for the rich, which he now is, if you want to support the Clintons, vote for Bush.
Watch or read it yourself.
Clinton Convention Speech

• • • If you weren't really paying attention you may be under the impression that the candidates are neck and neck. At least that's what the mainstream media would have you believe. Nine out of ten polls we see have Kerry ahead by a few points. Yes, that's within the statistical variance, but... he's ahead on so many. All of the polls can't be in error a few points ahead for Kerry. So using the polls as samples themselves, statistically Kerry is ahead.

• • We also feel that the Nader factor will be 1/2% tops. Why? He has much less support that the last election which polls had him at 4-6% the day before the election and he ended up with 2.74%. He has lost the support of the Green Party and he will be on fewer state ballots this time around.

• Finally, how many Democrats who voted for Gore in 2000 will vote for Bush? 0.0000001% is our guess. Now, how many Republicans who voted for Bush in 2000 will be voting for Kerry? Our guess, just between the Veterans, recently unemployed, and the former workers of Enron who lost their life savings... quite a few.
Fear not readers...
Kerry is Winning!

• • • Could the mainstream media finally be wising up a bit, or has Ann Coulter just gone way too far (she's always gone too far but this time "way"). Her latest bile dripping rant "Spawn of Satan convention" gets....
Ann Coulter Canned!

July 23, 2004

• • • We think Amy Goodman's book, "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them", is so dead on that it should go down in history as one of the defining contemporary writing on our political times. Here's an excerpt to wet your whistle or get your blood boiling and your brain turning.
The Silenced Majority

• • • If you haven't already seen this here's your chance, as bipartisan as we'll get. Two brothers sick of the silly discourse this year create a tribute to Woody Guthrie?
JibJab

• • • Making history interesting aint easy. But try making it hilarious at the same time. Run to your favorite independent bookstore and find anything by...
Sarah Vowell

• • • Shuffleboard will never be this cool again. Sail the seas with these three "sunken" treasures. Hurry, apparently space is limited.
Escape

• • • Adding to the "some people have too much time" file.
Same to you, you typographer!
Closky

• • • How tough is your Dodge truck now?
Tubes

July 21, 2004

• • • Give us a minute to collectively get off the floor...
Give us another minute to collectively get off the floor...
OK, we can no longer get off the floor.
McSweeney does it again.
An Open Letter to Hummingbirds

• • • Ronstadt update:
First of all we thought politics and religion were checked at the door when one is visiting Sin City.
A woman who had attended the show says that she wants to know which concert the media is reporting on. She says that what you didn't here is the 3/4 of the people there cheering her remarks. It was a few drunks who threw things only after they saw that their opinion was so outnumbered and they reacted in a violent manner. She says a few people left but it was at the end of the show anyway and many who were leaving were clearly leaving because it was the last song.
source: AirAmericaRadio 7/20/04 3:30 pm

• • • Our friends in Ann Arbor, ask us, "Hey! How come you don't post anything about Ann Arbor! We love Ann Arbor! Ann Arbor is great! Ann Arbor is super!"

• • • We see more bad site design online than you can shake a tree at. That's why it's good to see sites like this...
PGI Interactive

July 20,2004

• • • "You're no good, You're no good, You're no good", at least to the Alladin casino. Linda Ronstadt was probably asking to get fired but you won't believe the way they did it. (Reading more we found out that she was quite upset when she arrived for the show. The casino had billed it as "The Greatest Hits Tour". She stated to a local reporter that she wanted to leave the schedule. The fans were upset prior to her statements because she was singing new material.) Big bad scary Linda.
It's getting pretty lopsided, first Whoppi now Linda. But...
Our VP, the Gov of Cali, Dennis Miller, Rush and others can pretty much say what they want to.
Or...you can watch this and win a shirt.

• • • You've seen the rock faces, the waterfalls, geysers, etc..
but you haven't seen these.
Ansel Adams made 6,000 negatives documenting all aspects of...

• • • Snail Search.
Google...circa 1960

• • • Either the two smartest people on earth or about to be.
We can't figure out which, but they will.
Haggis-on-Whey

July 16, 2004

• • • What the hell is a Neo-Con? You ask.
Aside from being the guys who lead the President around by the nose, they have a History of writing scary stuff about an American new world order based on "Military Strength" and "Morality".
The philosophy that is running our Foreign policy...
Project for the New American Century

• • • How ridiculous is this pathetic ploy for Cuban-American votes:
The Reds are coming and they're bringin their gals to corrupt your Family Values...Refer to the above post, while reading...
Bush Says Castro Welcomes...

• • • Asking Richard Kerr (former deputy director of the CIA), "What punishment do you think should be given to suicide bombers?"
and many more. Gansta reporter...
Ali G
July 18th at 10:30pm ET HBO

• • • Update...
Owl Investigations et al vs. Rizzn & theSh_t

July 14, 2004

• • • OutFoxed! is out!
Spend as much time as we have listening to these former employees speak the truth about the bull.
Murdoch's War

• • • Quality and quantity...
The official book of Hardac

• • • Quantity and quality...
Exactitudes

• • • Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh is at it again. "Side Show'esque" is the best description we can come up with... A must look!
Beautiful Mutants

July 13, 2004

• • • Hey! Can we be on the list too? Apparently Big Brother has a little sissy... A reader/blogger and his friend have been documenting one citizen gone mad. The trickle down theory of power in full effect... now every Joe Schmo righty thinks they have the power to incarcerate. We have a phone call or 12 to make. Ahh the virtues of unlimited long distance minutes.
Owl Investigations et al vs. Rizzn & theSh_t

• • • A crystal ball or just good logic. Mark their words this one wouldn't surprise us.
"according to this ISI official, a White House aide told ul-Haq last spring that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July"--the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston."
PAKISTAN FOR BUSH.
July Surprise?

• • • Those sneaky graphic designers.
Fight Club At Staples

• • • Paper Street may not be our favorite anymore.
12 servings/showers per 4 ounce bar...
Shower Shock

July 12, 2004

• • • Hope you all had a good weekend. We sure did. What made it so good? Amy Goodman was here in Tampa on the "Exception to the Rulers" tour promoting her new book. So much for the Right thinking they have a lock on Florida, Amy said it was the largest turnout on the entire tour. We could wax forever on her views, experiences, and huge "balls", however it's best you just buy the book. We've just cancelled our NY Times subscription.
Buy, read, and become a proper media consumer.

• • • The following article by Charley Reese is worth reading and circulating.  For those who don't know, (we didn't) Charley Reese is a columnist for the King Features Syndicate (A Hearst Company that distributes Sunday comics and Righty Right editorials, what a mix).  He turns out three columns a week and is known as a committed conservative.  I guess that's why this column caused such a stir.  He apparently backed off, took a good look, and then did a complete flip.  Few liberal journalists have unloaded on Dubya like this.
Vote for a Man, Not a Puppet by Charley Reese
If you like that here's more. Reese

• • • With the way things a going this list could start growing again.
Forbidden Library

• • • Hilarious stuff spun from real quotes. We couldn't find any whole versions but you can preview them all here...
The George W. Bush Singers

• • • What's a little music without some food.
Rice Pudding

July 8, 2004

• • • Outrage #1
Is this still America??? At a Presidential event, not a campaign event (not that it even matters, we're just pointing out that this was a taxpayer funded event), two people who wore "Love America, Hate Bush" t-shirts were arrested, hauled off in hand cuffs, and will have to appear in court on tresspassing charges! We must be in China...one of the two, Nicole Rank, has been been fired from her Federal job with FEMA in Texas. You won't believe what you had to do just to get in!
All this on Independence Day!

• • • Outrage #2...
The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Bush-Cheney campaign has directed religious volunteers nationwide to obtain and submit church membership rosters, hand out issue guides and ask their pastors to hold registration drives. The Post said it obtained the details from a memo issued by the campaign.
It also contained 22 "duties" the church volunteers have to complete on deadline. By July 31, they are to submit the member directory of their church and talk to their pastor about holding a voter registration. By August 15, they are asked to recruit five more volunteers for the Bush campaign.
Unification of Church and State

• • • Outrage #3
It didn't take long...
Within a half hour of Kerry's announcement that Edwards would be his running mate, the Republican National Committee unleashed a 26-page document it called ``Edwards In Depth,'' criticizing him as ``phony and disingenous'' and ``unaccomplished.'...
Keeping alive the tradition of, "if you don't have anything good to say about yourself, just rip apart the other guy".
Let's see... our current President had tons of experience being the son of a President, owning a Baseball team, trading Sammy Sosa, avoiding the draft, wrecking oil companies across Texas, getting over an alcohol as well as a cocaine addiction, Governor of Texas where he was on vacation more than the 40% of the time he's on vacation now, and by the way executed more people than every state put together with the exception of Florida. Absolutely no national or international experience...can you tell?

• • • Our favorite beverage on one beautiful Flash site.
Go to the gallery and see how lame Starbucks really is.
espressolounge

July 6, 2004

• • • Need some amo for your next spirited debate...whose the real
Flip-Flopper-In-Chief

• • • The king of spin who lives in a no-spin zone is caught spinning while crying "spin", our lives depend on it!
"We can't use that. We've got to redo this."

• • • Classic glam/punk pics...
Mick Rock

June 28, 2004

• • • Interesting that the Party that would surely condone such horrific activity, activity similar to what they tried to remove a President for, would so eficiently support the oldest profession. We hope cash with Reagan on it gets printed for use in time for this gathering.
pros get ready for party

• • • "I took my very first art lesson from this guy back in '78. He was also the best skateboarder in Roosevelt Island history." SK.
Daze
via Art Crimes

• • • Rob Kutner joins the craze.
SHARE YOUR ENTHUSIASM (HBO) Larry David becomes a born-again Christian, then goes around annoying people in an entirely new way.
and much more.
Kutner

• • • Here's hoping that Mob bosses read more than our President...
scroll down to Correction

• • • But is it art?
g'bage

• • • A remarkable journey...
drunk, from Texas, and had only one arm.
Cars

June 25, 2004

• • • Big Brother is watching, or...our Patriot Act hard at work.
As we peruse the movie listings to find the Farenheit 911 times, ocassionally we look at our web site statistics to see where our traffic is coming from. We found this visit interesting:

DoD Network Information Center DDN-NIC10 (NET2-0-0-1)
2.22.0.0 - 2.22.25.255
U.S. Special Operations Command USSOCOM (NET-220-0-1)
2.22.220.0 - 2.22.23.255

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-06-24 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

June 24, 2004

• • • A few editorials for ya:
Propaganda to the max... when it fits!
In the small town of Noonday, Tex., F.B.I. agents discovered a weapons cache containing fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs and a chemical weapon — a cyanide bomb — big enough to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building.
Strangely, though, the attorney general didn't call a press conference to announce the discovery of the weapons cache...
Noonday in the Shade
• • •The original attack dog, Maureen Dowd gives Wolfie (and the rest) a growl...
Attack of the Wolfman

• • • Not interested in that political thang today...
J-Lo, Bratney, and those others aint got nothin' on...
January Jones!
(long download, press play) and how does she change so quick?

• • • Art and type in motion, perfect song choice...
typo

• • • Who cares when the Reagan stamp comes out. We've been waiting 50 years for this one.
Sticky Bucky

June 20, 2004

• • • Bizarre model shots, the "kitchen-stable", and lots and lots of Green. Take the tour... Eurobad '74.

• • • An excellent survey of pics from Art News Mag...
Portraits of the Art World

• • • Sort of Hockney meets Rauchenburg...
Fragments

• • • From the some people have too much time archive...
extreme model making.

Also... this guy.

June 16, 2004

• • • Bush administration shameless lie-o-the-day:
We're way past the point of having our intelligence insulted. The 911 commission releases their report and states clearly that there was no credible link between Iraq and Bin Laden. So why is our "Vice" President still spouting lies.
"On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney said in a speech that the Iraqi dictator ``had long established ties with al-Qaida.''
Sept. 11 Commission Report Says Iraq Rebuffed Al Qaeda

• • • In keeping with the current disinformation campaign, the Bush administration has released the annual Terror Report saying that terrorism is down!? Just look who gets the job of mopping up:
a "big mistake," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday. "Very embarrassing. I am not a happy camper over this."
Big Mistake

• • • Reagan and Bush 1 appointees, 20 current and former ambassadors, and retired Generals call for defeat of the Bush administration!
"We're all career [public] servants who have never taken a political stand," she said. "What we want to get on record is our profound concern about the future security of the U.S."
Former officials to condemn Bush foreign policy

• • • did you know?...Kerry Rocks!
John and the Electras

• • • Because chicks rock too!
Drummergirl

June 13, 2004

• • • It's tactics like these that keep guns off the hips of the Bobbies.
Someone should drop a load on the White House.
Fans allowed...

• • • Because it's hard to find one in Tuscany.
Available

• • • A ridiculous amount of information about this mechanical audio marvel. Here we found a rare pink Zep Presence.
Heaven

June 11, 2004

• • • Just watching the trailer has our blood boiling.
"And, as an added bonus, Lions Gate is a Canadian company. Once again, the Canadians to the rescue! It was also a Canadian company, Salter Street Films, that produced "Bowling for Columbine." I know, it's kinda sad we have to keep depending on our good neighbors to the north. But maybe this is the year we give 'em their Stanley Cup back."
MichealMoore.com
Well they didn't get the cup but we thank them anyway...
In theatres June 25th!!!!!!!
Fahrenheit 9/11

• • • We remember back in 2000 prior to the election a clip showing George and Jeb sitting on the campaign plane being asked if they were worried about winning Florida. They paused, looked at each other, and with a unmistakable "we know something you don't know" grin, they both said no. Well...
" For the second straight presidential election, Florida's law against former felons voting, a law grounded in Old South racism, may prevent thousands of people from voting.....
More than 43,000 Floridians are on the waiting list to have their rights restored, some of whom first learned in 2000, after voting for years, that they weren't legally entitled to vote. The restoration process can take years, and the list is growing, not shrinking."
Purge

June 9, 2004

• • • Bush LIED (again), or you could be nice and call it a "Flip-Flop".
For nearly three years, officials with the White House, the Federal Aviation Administration and law enforcement have insisted that the flights did not happen. This happened here in Tampa!
Officials at Tampa International Airport have now confirmed that a small jet flew from Tampa...

We now here from the man who broke the story all that time ago that there were 55 other flights that took place around the country!

• • • In the age of cell phones we think a refresher coarse is necessary...
"To be heard best your lips should be half an inch from mouth piece and be used freely to form your words" Telephone

• • • Deposing Bush where you should expect it...
AxisOfEve

June 8, 2004

• • • John Ashcroft falls on his sword. The Senate committee investigating prison abuses grilled Ashcroft on 3 memos to the President that allegedly gave a legal "OK" for torture. Ashcroft was visibly shaken due to the harsh questioning. The disgusting part of all this is that he refused to release those documents citing executive privilege. Asked if the President had authorized this priviledge, Ashcroft fell silent for a long pause then said "no". Why did he have to think about it so long? So...now we have the Attorney General evoking the executive priviledge. We thought there were checks and balances built in to our government system. This is just one more erosion of the Constitution, and the furthering scary buildup of the power of the Executive Branch. Two Democrat senators, Joe Biden and Dick Durbin, warned Mr. Ashcroft that he might be in contempt of Congress.
LEAHY NAILS ASHCROFT: THE MOTHER OF ALL LITANIES

• • • Stanley gets a tan. We know that hardly anyone outside of Tampa and Calgery watched this series. What you missed was one of the most competitive exciting series in recent memory.
Bolts! did they win?

• • • Incredible bit of research.
They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class. It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors. Some individuals sit on 5, 6 or 7 of the top 500 companies. It allows users to browse through these interlocking directories and run searches on the boards and companies. A user can save a map of connections complete with their annotations and email links to these maps to others. They Rule is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.
They Rule

June 4, 2004

• • • Oh those prophetic Canadian Lawyers.
WARNING Warcrimes

• • • While we wait for John Lurie's book. We are reminded of one of our past posts:
"Reportedly Marvin's music was the only music that Jackson Pollack would ever listen to while he painted, this respect was not reciprocated."
Marvin would kick your ass for nothing" Iggy Popp
Marvin Pontiac
Listen

• • • real people with real issues...
Brutally Honest

• • • Not since that little girl sang Guns of Brixton on the end of "something about england"...
Waterboy? Waterboy. WATERBOY!
Evian WaterBoy...

June 1, 2004

• • • FOUND! Weapon of mass destruction is on display at the White House. Found!
He has a fireman hat , too.

• • • All you women who think voting is not important should take note that a conservative judge may have ruled differently. Who do you think appoints federal judges? Bush could appoint the next judge to rule on such a case if he gets another term.
"The act poses an undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion," Ruled Unconstitutional

• • • The biggest of the big fat liars is finally taking some heat...
Remove Rush Limbaugh from American Forces Radio!
Sign the petition!

• • • Once again, McSweeney gives us a chuckle.
Festival!

• • • Some interesting celeb photos. A great one of Al Franken (#2) donning the Bush cod piece. Scott Schafer

• • • Finally a proper, if not permanent, shrine to the master.
A Space...

• • • Stuart Little comes to mind. Bonsai!

May 28, 2004

• • • In a "don't kick a dying dog" sort of way... we'll lay off the politics for a few.

• • • We're quite happy to spread this kind of information.
7 years

• • • Can we still have a hotdog at the game? Moopheus.
The Meatrix

• • • Lots to look at, a bit snapshotty in places, but mixed with some great shots. Tanaka Blaney

• • • "Do the right thing" and watch this video, one of the best we've seen or heard in a while. Blossom by Komeda

May 24, 2004

• • • In the latest effort to bring Democratic values and show our sense of trust, honesty and openness to prevent the Iraqi prison abuse scandal from ever happening again....Donald Rumsfeld has found the solution and has taken decisive action to see that this kind of problem will never happen again. Abuses.

• • • Really cool interface on this site, plus we love greys. We don't learn much about them but we can see if they've got pony tails.
Crew9

• • • It just won the Palm d'Or at Cannes, an award that documentaries are traditionally not considered. Michael Moore could just have the last laugh. We predict the film that Disney tried to stop will provide the extra kick that the Dems need to take back the White House.
Coming soon to a theatre near you...Fahrenheit 911

May 22, 2004

• • • We applaud this ad campaign. Apple iPod spoof posters popping up in N.Y.C.
Look in the Subway.

• • • Right up our humor alley. Or is this commentary?
Despair
Love the pic on this one.
Thanks Julie K

• • • Dodge 2 is out.

• • • Another sign of the Apocalypse. Hassle the Hoff?

May 19, 2004

• • • OK, enough! We're back. A slightly redesigned look, you likey?
Well... it's been a rough week for our leaders. We could go on and on about the mess we're in over in Iraq, but two questions keep coming up in our conversations. How is it that the war on terrorism is now the "reason" we are in Iraq? The media is even resorting to titling their broadcasts on Iraq, "The War on Terrorism". Evidence of this affecting media portrayal as well as public opinion is how the recent abhorrent interrogation techniques used by our "civilian contractors" are widely thought to have been used on "terrorists". Are all Iraqi citizens, good or bad, that are resisting an occupation, now considered terrorists? What if a foreign military came here and started arresting anyone who looked "funny", driving tanks up your street and knocking your electricity and water out, making food scarce and your kids hungry? Would you resist? Would you be a "terrorist"? The only acceptable party line left for the administration to use, "Winning the Hearts and Minds" has now been laid to rest. We're not afraid to say it, this "thing" we're doing in Iraq should never have happened, it was a huge mistake, and it continues to be blundered. To quote John Stewart, "do we now trust the guy that drove us into this ditch, to now drive us out?" Don't we all know that blindly spinning the wheels will just dig us deeper. And this brings up the other question... where is John Kerry? He seems to be getting no press and his campaign seems to be invisible. Well... it's way too early for the guns to be pulled. We think it's smart to lay low, he can't compete with the news from overseas, and the commissions on 911 are doing a decent job of occupying the news on the domestic front. The public attention span is short about 48 hours on average so why pump the ads now. Also there's the $. He can't compete with the Bush cash Machine. He's got to save up for the last month of the campaign. Finally, why give the Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly lying hate mongers a chance to see his cards.

• • • Because there's alot of Volvo's in our lives. Sacrifice looks for safety? NEVER! Flavawagon.

• • • Gotta see these, what a great collection, here are a few but we could list them all.
Is that a young Jim Baker. Bible Club
Quit Smoking. Songs to...
"the perfect antidote to inner city High Culture." Foster Edward's Orch.

Show and Tell Music

May 13, 2004

• • • He had gone astray in our eyes but he seems to finally have come to his senses.
"But I was wrong. There is something even more important to the Bush crowd than getting Iraq right, and that's getting re-elected and staying loyal to the conservative base to do so. It has always been more important for the Bush folks to defeat liberals at home than Baathists abroad. That's why they spent more time studying U.S. polls than Iraqi history. That is why, I'll bet, Karl Rove has had more sway over this war than Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Bill Burns. Mr. Burns knew only what would play in the Middle East. Mr. Rove knew what would play in the Middle West." Tom Friedman's latest column.
Stu K. alerts us with his "Friedmanesque" post.

• • • Has anyone even read the Geneva Convention? Have you?
We find it hard to believe that Rumsfeld and Ashcroft say that it doesn't apply to basically anyone we're holding anywhere in the world today, when, Article 4 pretty clearly states basically anyone we are holding anywhere at any time is to be protected by it.

May 12, 2004

• • • Taking a break from politics, we need a few moments to soak up all the nastiness going on around the world.
Taking a page from our Prez, we don't want you to read too much so here's a lot to look at.

• • • We love Flash based web sites and we really love simple design. Therefore, we really, really love Andy Foulds. Refresh the page for a new backgrond image.

• • • Well... a little bit to read (hey GW, you can skip this part). The Burrough's (or Gysin) cut-up theory taken to the extreme in this poetry experiment. One Hundred Million Poems.

• • • We're willing to sacrifice our love for these photos.
Hirmes

• • • We knew origami was good for something.
JengaJam

• • • this piece was inspired by the retro-futuristic machines in the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam.
ElectriClerk

• • • We're suckers for natural textures.
Salt by Marshall Sokolof

May 7, 2004

• • • Yaphet Kotto and the Ray-O-Vacs. These are not your mother's 45's. Don't miss the Martian Hop.
A childs garden of record labels.
You'll need something to play these, the rPod? via irorbit

• • • Old and young coexisting peacefully "under" the same "ground", yeah that was a stretch. It's commercial free, does that make up for it? Chris B fav's the new, we prefer the classic.
3WK

• • • Yeah we listed it yesterday but we can't stress the importance of this site. MediaMatters.org counters the willfull misinformation campaign (P.C. for blatant f'in lying) by the right, with incredibly well researched debunking.

• • • Just type in your zip code and off you go...
REGISTER TO VOTE!

May 6, 2004

• • • Remember when Hillary said there was a vast right wing conspiracy against her husband. Well... one of the long since confessed architects of that conspiracy has turned his leaf and has created what looks like will be the ultimate real-time media lie detector. The NY Times article.
mediamatters.org

• • • Some people say we have too much time. #2

May 4, 2004

• • • Enough sitting on the couch with a stick in your hand...
real men play PacManhattan.

• • • We've been taking a little flak over a past Jesus related item. Let it be said that we are an equal opportunity offender...
punish your roommate with God's plagues.
While you're there...a lifetime of this indoor activity may leave you lacking some local color.

• • • We found this technology a little buggy but well worth the trouble. Discover the British Library's award-winning system Turning the Pages.

May 1, 2004

• • • OK, while our soldiers now are dying by the dozens, Sadam's generals are given control of their old forces, everybody close to the president is circling the wagons or writing books, and our "Dynamic Duo" are perfecting their Willie & Lester routine...
There seems to be some confusion about a certain candidate's medals. Let us simply clear the air:
When a soldier is awarded a "Medal" he actually receives three items:

1. a "Medal", the thing is made of metal usually hanging from a colorful piece of material attached to a pin.

2. a "ribbon", which are those colorful horizontal bars that you see all grouped together on the left chest side of the uniform.

3. a "lapel pin", reserved for display on civilian clothes.

All three are often referred to as "medals" by those in the military that have actually received medals.

So, when John Kerry said he threw his "medals" in protest and then clarified that he threw his "ribbons" after being called a liar to prove he was not lying, he is now being accused of lying about a lie he never lied about.

All this from a bunch of priviledged draft dodgers.

• • • Keepin it macho today...
30 great Westerns.

• • • Jesus loves suds.

April 30, 2004

• • • some bad-ass Russian designers. But after you check out the stuff be sure to peruse Money-Money...Swaziland?

• • • Ebay special: SIZE 12 WEDDING DRESS/GOWN NO RESERVE
Thanks Chris B.

April 27, 2004

• • • "in Bushworld, you don't consult your father, the expert in being president during a war with Iraq, but you do talk to your Higher Father, who can't talk back to warn you to get an exit strategy or chide you for using Him for political purposes."
Their reality.
Ms. Dowd's Bushworld

• • • A photo gallery dedicated to the love of rust and all that rusts.
Sounds silly but there's some great textures here.
rustfetish

• • • Big Head Bush & the Monsters...know your rights!
Local shutterbug Ed Ortiz sends us a few more pics.

• • • Need a Death Ray, Atomic Blaster, or New Combat Robot for your Space Age Lounge?
Brotron

• • • Deep from the archives of the open video project,
The trio laugh and stumble on the platform as if having a hilarious time, getting the attention of the policeman who attempts to stop their bawdy behavior.
Morality circa 1905... check out those legs!
click the mpeg to load.

April 23, 2004

• • • Isn't it about time you got to know our next President.

• • • The latest on the environmentalist shopping list...
... basically, crushing the paper between textured steel rollers, to make little bumps on it. That way, when the paper is rolled up, the layers don't lie flat. And so the rolls feel soft, because there's air in them.
In some brands, the rolls are 60 or 70% air. All that air uses extra space and fuel during handling. But embossing doesn't make the actual paper soft— in fact, it can make it scratchier.
ShitBeGone

• • • Ahh, technology...not even the Zippo is immune.
stealth

April 22, 2004

• • • A must read. Timothy McSweeney does it again.
Read from the bottom up.
Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush

• • • We here in south Florida are a bit spoiled when it comes to Dali. Considered a Surrealist masterpiece, Un Chien andalou, a short film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
The prime inspiration for the music videos that kicked off MTV.
stills.
whole flick.

• • • Decorate your walls like "the Dude".

April 21, 2004

• • • An amazingly realistic, strange look into the future of Police security.
Sorry dial-ups this is a long download. theembassyfx

• • • A great B & W photo blog.
R. Gardiner

• • • Sometimes inspiration goes all the way.
Pirated-Sites

• • • Going coast to coast on a scooter, one of our favorites, Mike O'Neil and the Unrequited Loves.
SATURDAY, May 1st: A MOD SCOOTER RALLY in Odessa FLA. Bands playing (during the afternoon, beginning at 5 p.m.) include The Unrequited Loves, Light Yourself on Fire, The Evidents, Sophomore Effort and Pseudo Heroes; cover for this show is $5 if you are just coming for that; for Scooter Rally info, go to www.tampatwostroke.com.; Scooter Rally is April 30-May 2 at Camp Brorein in Scout World, 16901 Boy Scout Road, Odessa; (813) 817-3345.
Upcoming shows for Mike O'Neill include Sun. May 9
at the Hush Hush in San Francisco (Neil Martinson's cool "Smile" pop/psych/bubblegum night) and some other possibles; wish him luck. Upcoming Unrequited Loves include finishing "The Girls in Secret Me EP" and shows in south FLA and out of state; wish them luck too.

April 16, 2004

• • • Our resident web dude and dot manipulator supreme gives us one of his latest vidi tinkerings. Look for an apperance by long lost "Lyres" frontman Jeff "Mono Man" Connelly briefly backed by Tampa's own "The Unrequited loves" late last year. Also, look closely, that's our boy Aaron on the Tonight Show playing drums with Leona Naess.
Link

• • • Sort of the "learn the foxtrot numbered footprint" approach applied to art. Sometimes a picture aint worth poop.
Modernism101.

April 14, 2004

• • • We were watching one of our favorite movies Fight Club, and were wondering just exactly how the Paper Street Soap Co. makes their fine products. The Impossible Journey.

• • • It's official, we are now a paranoid society. I guess the lines will move faster if the kids know in advance to leave there pen knives at home. Security Check-in.

April 9, 2004

• • • Half satire, half serious rebuttal, an excellent counter to the right wing rhetoric. The companion blog to the radio show.
The O'Franken Factor.

• • • You have to go back to the 16th century to grow the strange fruit on this tree.

• • • This is one of our favorite news aggregators.
Maramushi's newsmap.

• • • The motherload of satelite maps.
NASA's Visible Earth. Death Valley never looked so good.

April 8, 2004

• • • Bush, The Donnas, and C.B.?
Recent photog from Ed Ortiz.

• • • You be the judge...Dylan and Jack White (of The White Stripes) perform live in Detroit. Listen

• • • 0n the sporting side...we'll probably jinx them but, hath hell frozen over? The Tigers are 3-0!
Also, Go Lightning!

April 5, 2004

• • • collage with a twist, truly bad comedy but we keep crackin' up.
Graham Rawle's Series.

• • • There are some professions where humor is a rare occurrence. The father of the Jackalope, Walter Potter.

• • • Hey Ms. Rice, have a look.

• • • Does this shit really still happen?! ...once roundly seen as barbaric.

April 1, 2004

• • • Finally the long wait is over...
The O'Franken Factor
Drug-Free Radio
Liars beware: Al Franken, co-host Katherine Lanpher and Team O'Franken invite you to spend three hours a day in the Zero Spin Zone.
Weekdays noon-3pm
Repeat: 11pm-2am

• • • Hey Mac users, did you know our fearless leader,
Steve Jobs has a web log.

Mar. 29, 2004

• • •Finally, a justifiable purpose for origami.

• • • One of our favorite movie makers is back in action, check out the trailer for Jim Jarmusch's, Coffee and Cigarettes.

• • • Here's a way to ensure you'll allways get mail.
Dear future me,

• • • Our paton's home town in the big city. Roosevelt Island.

Mar. 27, 2004

• • • Oh Ms. Dowd how we love thee...
Your weekend reading.
Terror? That was so Clintonesque...

Mar. 26, 2004

• • • Commission warned Bush...
"they preferred instead to put aside the recommendations issued in the January (2001) report (Hart / Rudman) by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. Instead, the White House announced in May that it would have Vice President Dick Cheney study the potential problem of domestic terrorism -- which the bipartisan group had already spent two and a half years studying."
Cheyney's commission never met.

Mar. 25, 2004

• • •Our jaws dropped after reading this one:
The group, "Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity," has produced some of the most credible, and critical, analyses of the Bush Administration's handling of intelligence data in the run-up to the March, 2003 invasion of Iraq.

• • • "You don't see Bill O'Reilly doing a USO Tour."

• • • An apology from the wrong man?
Something you will never hear from the Bush Administration:
"We tried hard," Mr. Clarke went on, "but that doesn't matter, because we failed. And for that failure, I would ask — once all the facts are out — for your understanding and your forgiveness."

• • • How can you put a price on art, The Passion of the Barcode. Dig deeper on this site for other priceless works.

Mar. 23, 2004

• • • Congratulations to Brian and Angela on their new baby boy.
For those of you at their wedding you may remember the best man, Tom Corvin. He was quite a "social" guy that day, little did we know...

• • • Dowd takes off the gloves (again) and takes a swing at Scalia.
Duck! "Why should the justice who put Dick Cheney in the White House stop helping him now?"

Mar. 19, 2004

• • • OK so you can't sing, can't dance, can you at least act? "the club, the Den of Cin, a basement party-rental room at 44 Avenue A, at Third Street, beneath the Two Boots..."

• • • The recording industry, in an effort to curb file sharing, is going to add computer content to their disks...This is 1983?
"slightly more involved was a program included on a record called 'XL-1' by Pete Shelly, former leader of The Buzzcocks"

• • • The Trip

Mar. 18, 2004

• • • As you may have noticed, the Bush camp has been painting John Kerry as having an indecisive and inconsistent record. Also, how we would be better off with the consistent leadership our President is providing. Well....

Mar. 16, 2004

• • • "Reportedly Marvin's music was the only music that Jackson Pollack would ever listen to while he painted, this respect was not reciprocated."
Marvin would kick your ass for nothing" Iggy Popp
Marvin Pontiac

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• • • “What takes TCP two hours to determine, BIC can do in less than one second,” We can only dream of when this will happen.

Mar. 15, 2004

• • • Remember the Picturephone you used to see in those world's fair "future" exhibits, or Disney's "Tommorrow Land"? Well the future is now! We've just had our first iChat experience and we can only say, wow! The picture is amazing and there's only a slight delay in the audio. If you're thinking of investing in an iSight camera, keep in mind any digital video camera will work.

• • • A brief history of Helium to be read aloud with the aid of Helium
BY JUSTIN DULLUM

Mar. 12, 2004

• • • Mark your calendar, March 31. Finally, a sane political voice on the airwaves.
"plans to call his midday show The O'Franken Factor.
"Bill, I want you to sue us,...""
Official Announcement on Air America

• • • We first saw his work way back in 1982 while wandering around NYC. Ever since we've been disciples. The odd (of course) world of Odd Nerdrum.

Mar. 11, 2004|

• • • From a reader:
Finally!!! Somebody figured this out...from the NYT

"Some point to the fact that the 10 Democratic candidates who ran for the presidency raised a collective $178 million through the primaries — as much as Mr. Bush plans to raise."

• • • Thanks to Chris B. for reminding us not to live without ...
the Onion.

• • • He's been around, but we've just discovered him. The photos of Carl De Keyzer.

• • • Yes, we rant too.
An open letter to packaging professionals:
If one has to pass through more than two barriers...you have failed.
If one has to incorporate a knife, teeth, scissors, pliers, pen, hammer, or other sharp or blunt instrument...you have failed.
(if an implement is absolutely necessary to opening the item, provide the implement! You may remember Spam® came with a "key".)
If the packaging is ruined in the process of opening an item...you have failed.
If a finger nail is ripped off in the process of opening an item...you have failed.
If the contents of the package spill or go flying through the air while opening...you have failed.
If one uses foul language while opening an item... you have failed.
If one vows never again to purchase your product, based on the vault you have placed it in...you have certainly failed.

Mar. 10, 2004

• • • The true father of Modern Art. Marcel Duchamp. He put the concept in conceptual. Here's a Masters level Art History lesson all in one handy Flash site. Link

• • • Our favorite resume, Elizabeth Salkoff.

• • • A close 2nd. Explore the identity that is Leif Parsons.

Mar. 9, 2004

• • • Correct us if we're wrong... but weren't those huge tax cuts for the rich supposed to create new private sector jobs? And while we're at it, what happened to the Republicans standing for smaller government? Those 21,000 jobs created this month that were supposed to be 150,000, well, FYI, they were not private sector jobs they were all Government jobs!
"What you see in this chart is the signature of a corrupted policy process, in which political propaganda takes the place of professional analysis." Link

• • • Every once in a while you have to step back and look in the mirror. Unfortunately, all of our mirror manufacturing has been outsourced. So...we turn to our friends across the pond for a fresh look.
"In essence you don't run for President directly, you ask the media to run you for President. Reaching the voters relies almost entirely on how the media choose to perceive you and your campaign." Link

• • • It aint brain surgery, it's knee surgery. Hmmm, where did I put my Swiss Army knife? Link

Mar. 8, 2004

• • • textual malfeasance and other misspoilings. It is brain surgery. Link

• • • Why is everyone around here smiling?
We said we wouldn't post sites like these but this one is tough. Link

• • • I thought they were stealing old Perry Mason and Kojak plots, sticking them together and voila! But now I know how they do it. Link

• • • Ever since Rosemary's Baby we've had a secret crush on Mia Farrow, if only we'd spotted her earlier Woody would've never gotten his slimy paws on her. Link

Mar. 5, 2004

• • • Contrary to the views of our current administration... the earth is not flat:
"Scientists have lamented the predicament, saying researchers in other countries like Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom are leaving U.S. scientists in the dust, and that American researchers are fleeing to those countries to do their work freely. Doug Melton, the Harvard biologist spearheading Harvard's effort, took matters into his own hands..." Link

• • • Maureen scripts a hypothetical TV ad for the V.P.
See Dick Run. The weekly Dowd. Link

• • • "Smoke On The Water" no longer . Link

• • • While you're at it , learn the damn words. Link

Mar. 4, 2004

• • • "Little did I know that I was about to be plunged into a netherworld of obsession and longing, an online universe where untold thousands of women around the world congregate..." Link

• • • The Oscar reviews are in:
"Squarer than robot shit. All the joy and irreverence of a hotel management seminar. Strictly by the book, and the book was the New Zealand census, apparently, and less interesting..." Link

Mar. 3, 2004

• • • Bill's grip loses a finger. Open Office, an open source version of M'softs Office Suite, officially launches. Link

• • • Fox News doing some of their best reporting:
"26. Do not live or work in a highly urban area that most likely would be a terrorist's target, such as New York City, Washington, D.C., or San Francisco." Link

• • • Watch your step, then look closely. Link

Mar. 2, 2004

• • • We can't put our finger on this one. "Whether we're sipping green tea or enjoying a Big Mac®..." Link

• • • For all of our fashion friends. Link

• • • What if Burroughs had written Lord of the Rings? Link

Mar. 1, 2004

• • • A few days late but here's the weekly Dowd. Link

• • • Ocassionally we come across a site design that is so different we just have to share. Yea the navigation is tricky and who wants to promote another DJ, but we just love that old "vector" look. Oscar Mulero.

• • • recalcitrant cumquat, I win!
Have you Googlewhacked?

Feb. 29, 2004

• • • Watching Biill Mahr this weekend, on the topic of changing the constitution to exclude gay marriage as a matter of law, one of his guests, Sir Ian McKellen recited a very interesting quote from Thomas Jefferson. It's interesting that the Repub/Relig/Right are constantly quoting the "intent" of our founding fathers. Link

• • • Wile you're at it, you should refresh yourself with how progressive our most important founding Father, Jefferson, really was. Almost the antithesis of who and what leads this country today. Link

• • • A good reason for recycling cardboard. Link

Feb. 28, 2004

• • • "In the future, all books will be digital"...well, this is a good start. Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books...10,000 and counting! Link

• • • A few search sites worth a try:
Soople, easy expert searching.
Kartoo, a different "look" at searching.

Feb. 27, 2004

• • • A poem, I guess. "When Your Mother Was a Spy" by Kevin Fanning scroll down past the mugs. Link

• • • Isn't physics fun. Cordin Co. has uber speed cams. Be sure to check out the images page and click the flash movies under the pic sets.

• • • Patriot act prevents cashing Federal Tax Return check...
So, I'm standing on line at the bank... with refund checks from the Gov that are made out to my spouse and I. Both of us signed the checks, but... because we do not have a joint account they would not deposit them unless we were both physically present. Bear in mind we have 4 accounts and 2 loans at this bank. They cited the Patriot Act as the reason. I feel much safer now.

Feb. 26, 2004

• • • If you missed our "coming soon" page, here's one more chance to see our resident angel.

• • • Always in step and one our fav's. Maureen Dowd is the voice the right wishes Ann Coulture coud be. Read her when she puts out or you'll have to pay later. Mel and George hangin' at the manger. (You will have to register with the NY Times to read their content. It's painless and you only have to do it once. They won't sell your info or spam you. That's right, the NY Times for free!)

• • • Somehow, after reading this, I'm a much more patient driver.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
by Carlo M. Cipolla illustrations by James Donnelly

• • • I was at the Museum and I overheard someone say "I could do that".

• • • How would you redoo Google.

• • • The long awaited birth of tinylittledots.com