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strictly gonzo
"It was announced in the US yesterday that Jim Henson Television has partnered with producers Team Todd and Fox Broadcasting Company to develop a new Muppet series that will feature a new crop of characters in addition to Kermit, Miss Piggy and other longstanding members of Henson's fuzzy troupe."
man with the plan
"Since Sept. 11, Friedman has demonstrated an admirable knack for making friends of his enemies and enemies of his friends. He has long been tolerated in the Arab world because he condemns Israeli settlement building and because he exposed Israel's culpability in the Sabra and Shatilla massacres. For the same reasons, the Israeli and American Jewish right-wing detested him as a traitor, calling him "anti-Zionist." Some right-wing Jewish leaders have suggested he shouldn't be invited to speak to Jewish audiences, because he's an enemy of the Jewish people. But these days, Friedman's criticism of Arab regimes and Yasser Arafat has endeared him to Israelis and American Jews and cost him in the Arab world."
tributary of light
"The World Trade Center: Before, During, & After"
find your own damn links
cursor
hotline
buzzflash
counterpunch
commondreams
suffer little children
"When he returned to Israel in 1962 his wife Margalit was killed in a traffic accident. Sharon describes this event with honorable restraint—precisely the same restraint with which he later describes the death of his beloved son Gur, who was killed at the age of eleven when another boy shot him unintentionally with a rifle that was in Sharon's house. But touching as they are, even these two tales require the corrections to be found in Benziman's book. Sharon ascribes his wife's accident to the fact that the car she was driving, which they had brought back from England, had right-wheel drive. But, according to Benziman, many of Sharon's acquaintances believe his wife committed suicide in the accident after discovering that Sharon was conducting an affair with her younger sister Lily, who, shortly after her death, became Sharon's wife and the mother of his children. Moreover, after his son's death Sharon was vengeful toward the boy who had shot Gur, accusing him of intentionally killing him. The boy and his mother, the widow of a pilot, were forced to leave their house, which was near Sharon's."
cataclysm
theres that
a cat
a hat
i do not want to be a cat in a hat
not that cat
not that hat
no hat
no cat
thats that
apres le deluge, meow
five per scent blew
the same question
the same words
overheard
still absurd
run and take it
well astray (dig deeper)
out of your hide and speak
away
is it really love
or just an alibi
an excuse to cry
OUT!
good grief, my stomach hurts
too many peanuts and charlie browns
animal planet
megafauna and creature features
ajudged newsworthy
"Judge says amateur news gatherers on public access TV have same rights as professionals"
sanguine efforts
"It's over. What do you want, blood?"
jail baiting
"When Arundhati Roy woke up at 5.30am this morning in Tihar prison, New Delhi, it must have struck her that reality was proving stranger than any fiction. Over the past week terrible communal violence in India has claimed hundreds of lives while the forces of law and order stood by. This has now been juxtaposed with the spectacle of a diminutive, softly spoken novelist being sent to one of the country's most notorious prisons to uphold what the supreme court called the "glory of the law" because she dared to criticise it. Images of what constitutes the law in modern India absurdly collide."
future cia assets
"Will the riots in Gujarat spread to Jaipur? The odds, according to Jaipur’s bookmakers, are between 1:4 and 1:6. Seventy bookies have been arrested in Jaipur for offering bets on the communal riots. And the police say that this isn’t all they were doing. The bookies were also spreading rumours so that an atmosphere of uncertainty prevailed in the city-and more bets came in."
safire when ready
"With the roundheeled Michael Powell steering the Federal Communications Commission toward terminal fecklessness; with the redoubtable Joel Klein succeeded at Justice's antitrust division by an assortment of wimps; and with appeals courts approving the concentration of media power as if nothing had changed since President Taft's day, the checks and balances made possible by diverse competition are being eradicated.
The longtime anti-business coloration of liberals reduces their ability to take on the convergence con. It is for conservatives to ask ourselves: Since when is bigness goodness?"
steel will
"Bush's measures are new taxes on American consumers -- approaching $1 billion annually just on purchasers of cars and trucks -- and are purely political measures. Think of them as an $8 billion contribution coerced from manufacturers and consumers of steel products, for the benefit of about six Republican congressional candidates in steel-producing districts, and for Bush's reelection campaign."
deficit spending
study of headlines about marijuana study highlights deficit in mentalities. we are absolutely positive that these findings are conclusively inconclusive. wait, what was i talking about again?