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Wright's cartoon on Op-Ed page of 6/22/03 Times Picayune--shows four panels with a simple picture of a rock drawn in each one. The four panels read:
1. This rock doesn't believe weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.
2. Or that Iraq actually used such weapons.
3. Or that Iraqis were among the 9/11 hijackers.
4. Which, according to polls, makes it smarter than most Americans.
And conservative columnist George Will chimes in with this (from his recent column entitled The Search For Credibility)--
"Some say the war was justified even if WMDs are not found nor their destruction explained, because the world is 'better off' without Saddam. Of course it is better off. But unless one is prepared to postulate a U.S. right, perhaps even a duty, to militarily dismantle any tyranny--on to Burma?--it is unacceptable to argue that Saddam's mass graves and torture chambers suffice as retrospective justification for pre-emptive war." He ends with this--"Until WMDs are found, or their absence accounted for, there is urgent explaining to be done."
There is nothing new about this sentiment but that it comes from the mouth of George Will I think is an important turning point.
As I mentioned on my page, I found my old blogger username and password while going through some papers today. I signed in, and everything is still there. Here's the first post to this page (although I think this was the front page of the site at that point.)
[10/21/1999 5:32:09 PM | jim b]
Hello there. This is a beta version of the main page at digitalmediatree.com. I'm not at all sure what is going to happen here. My log, which is pretty much the same as what use to be here, is now inside (the link is on left.) This section can be updated by multiple users through the incredible blogger.com. But if you're seeing this you already know about that. Oh well. It's an interesting idea, although I don't know if it could work. memepool seems to run on a similar sturcture (although I don't think they use blogger.) Anyway, like I said, I have no idea what this should be, but it seems cool to be able to do it, so I'm trying to. Seen anything interesting lately?
Did everyone see the article in the times about Rivington street?
Bill Moyers addresses the Take Back America conference
Steve, she also did Crumb.....
Time passes; there are things that are timeless and will repeat over and over again.
The Birches lawn was always perfect.
Laura always met Dan at the driveway
Claire got a Camaro
Gene was a son of a bitch
Penny smoked too much
The kids did not know what was going on.
There's a mouse in my living room
SD&Z (simmons dylan & zappa)
(via fmu msg board)
What happened to Word?
my cat has a big fat lip, she leap jumped a huge bee, went down to eat it (why do cats like bugs so much??), it stung her and flew off, she's now in the corner not in any pain it seems with one puffy side...
good street reports on the RFTT show @ maxwells last night. richard lloyd was the quiet television wannahe ?
From the Washington Post
At least 19 people in three Midwestern states have contracted a disease related to smallpox, marking the first outbreak of the life-threatening illness in the United States, federal heath officials said yesterday....
The disease, known as monkeypox, usually only occurs in central and western Africa. It is caused by a virus known as an orthopox virus, which is the family of viruses that includes the smallpox virus, one of the most dangerous diseases known to man and a feared biological weapon....
While much about the monkeypox virus is unclear, it does not seem to be as deadly as smallpox. Authorities estimate that monkeypox has a mortality rate of between 1 percent and 10 percent, compared with a mortality rate of about 30 percent for smallpox.
The monkeypox virus is believed to spread through physical contact with a sick person or infected animal, or through infected body fluids, although health officials said it apparently is not as easily spread as smallpox, which is highly infectious.
Marijuana guru freed after day in jail
I'm going to go have a state's rights celebration, and call it a day!
The floating island: a moden adventure with pykrete:
In late 1942, Lord Louis Mountbatten - the British military's Chief of Combined Operations - paid a visit to Winston Churchill at his official country home, Chequers. Mountbatten had with him a small parcel of great importance. A member of Churchill's staff apologized that the Prime Minister was at that moment in his bath.
"Good," said Mountbatten as he bounded up the stairs. "That's exactly where I want him to be." Mountbatten entered the steaming bathroom to find Churchill in the tub. It was generally not a wise thing to interrupt Sir Winston in his bathtub.
"I have," Mountbatten explained, "a block of a new material that I would like to put in your bath."
3 Farms Festival on the East River. I think MB is involved? Our pal Samoa is playing, and I'm interested in David Johanson's folk act, the Harry Smiths. It ain't Jazzfest, but could be a good time.
Nice pictures of the baby Red-tailed Hawks on Fifth Avenue, posted on Marie Winn's page. She's the author of Red-tails in Love as well as The Plug-In Drug and translations from the Czech, including Vaclav Havel.
heres one for mr and mrs expectant.
jessica lynch story fabricated
I don't think I've ever written a fan letter before but I just wrote one to Sen. Robert Bryd.
We want to know what our resident golf-lover thinks about Annika vs. "the guys".
The NY Post has a package of iPod stories dominating the entertainment section today. No news, but this sort of buzz must make Apple happy. Fittingly, the online paper doesn't include the hardcopy's "opinion" piece by pseudo-reactionary fop Jared Paul Stern, wherein he rails about geeks losing touch with the "real world". He's also found out about "something vaguely disgusting sounding called 'blogging'", which he identifies with "self-absorbed, gibbering baboons who obviously never leave the confines of their Dumbo studios." He does like gawker though, perhaps because, like him, they proudly wallow in their own snarkyness. (How's that for an ugly word, or is it snarkiness?) Anyway, it's the sort of criticism that's only leveled at success.
iPod therefore I am
It slices it dices, more than just music
Fashion mavens got it covered
Party in a pocket
Down with download sites
Forecast:
"Audacious shades of pink, orange and yellow capture the eye and evoke a sense of excitement."
Now I'm looking at the Austria trip pics for the first time. Outstanding photo chronicle jimb(ob)
Great news from the wilderness. If the link gets deflected search for the Washington Post ad or go to the FTW homepage menu. Vote with your money !
its stopped being fun / will return when the vibe improves...
Meme this!