drat fink

wake up calling

Why militant Islamicists in Central Asia aren't going to go away.

frahm game

art frahm: the effect of celery on loose elastic

jeep ad with deer

saw a strange commercial yesterday for some jeep product. a jeep is festooned with what we assume are two deer taken down by a hunter. as the jeep winds its way through the woods, other hunters crane their necks in awe at the vehicle and its bloody haul. but once out of view of the hunters the driver gets out of the car and unties the deer and releases them. he hadnt killed them, he was trying to save them. i guess in this fantastic world the hunters dont move and the deer will understand not to go back into the woods. very odd, even stranger that it was aired during a football game. isnt that the last refuge for redmeat eaters? next youll be telling me that having cheerleaders is sexist. here is where you cant see it.

in it to win it

Is There an Islamic Problem?
Beyond Jihad Vs. McWorld
the making of a hawk
Listening to Our Inner Ashcroft
Will the New World Order Rest Solely on American Might?

eminence gris

the ny times moves ahead with its new building project on 8th avenue.

prow voyager

Freedom Ship today exists only on paper. But some 3,000 families and businesses have already signed on to live and work on it. When it does launch, in 2006, this leviathan of comfortable living will travel a lazy circuit around the world every two years.

pot shots

Illegal or not, domestic pot cultivation has made marijuana America's No. 1 cash crop, and proof is beginning to show in Washington.
Unprecedented fund raising and increasing national support for marijuana-policy reform has led the Washington-based Marijuana Policy Project to increase its full-time staff from five to 11 in just three months.
The project credits several unnamed "major donors" for doubling the project's budget from $500,000 in 2001 to more than $1 million this year. Now, organizations seeking to change state and federal marijuana laws — articulating tactics and strategies to regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol — will be eligible for first-of-a-kind grants of up to $50,000 each under a new program administered by the project.
We also see where longtime political strategist Billy Rogers, former fund-raising director for former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, has become the pot project's new director of state policies. In 1998, Mr. Rogers served as campaign manager for Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Garry Mauro, and prior to that helped launch and served as editor in chief of the Moscow Guardian, the first English-language magazine in Russia.

gnomenclature

gnome liberation society

youre gonna make it after all

(enough bubbly for me. those folks at canada dry have that carbonation thing down to a science.) ok. im really committed to this new year thing. ive taken everything down off the fridge that was held up by magnets. i might even get rid of some of the magnets. frayed looking magnets just wont do in 2002. you can see i mean business. so look out world, here i come! (wait? whats that? theres a gidget marathon on tv? ummm, world? ill have to get back to you. i really like that episode where shes a flying nun...)

hail hail

im really enjoying this taxi marathon on wpix. i watched a bunch last night and came across it this morning. meet the press be damned! i dont think ive seen a significant number of episodes since the eighties. they really hold up well.