...more recent posts
"Bushido--The Way of the Armchair Warrior":
http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040607sh_shouts
(mea culpa--I don't know why the font turned large all of a sudden--Could it be the heroic scale of the Bushido art?)
seattle sonics
scapegoat. spelled : T, e, n, e, t.
You are Brody Dalle.You are a hot punk rock chick.
Tough as nails,Intelligent and fun. You've had
some hard times are empathetic yet. You can be
loud and attention getting but also aloof. You
make commitments but surprise everyone with
snap decisions that drastically change your
life.
Which punk rock goddess are you?
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get your spell on
My name is Shake-Zula, the mic rulah, the old schoolah, you wanna trip, I'll break it to ya. Frylock and I'm on top rock you like a cop, Meatwad you're up next with your knock-knock. Meatwad make the money see, Meatwad get the honeys G. Drivin in my car, livin like a star, ice on my fingers and my toes and I'm a Taurus. Cause we are the Aqua Teens, make the homeys say ho and the girlies wanna scream.
Anyone else as hooked on this show as me?
interesting animation
Bush keeps Saddam's handgun mounted like a trophy at the White House. The soldiers who captured Saddie the Baddie had it mounted and gave it to Junior as a gift. [via daily kos]
Some familiar names here: Diversion Media - "Charting the startup process for a new media company."
rip senior member of the chicago seven dave dellinger
I thought Gore's speech was good. (Has this been posted? I feel like it has, but I can't find it.)
first this, now this
but thats ok it will all fade into pay-per-view memory anyway (or not) unless moody keeps copies. buried pretty deep too
Is it cheaper to run a generator for your electrical power needs or pay for the power company for the same amount of kilowatt hours?
Abu Rhubarb? WTF? If the dude can't even pronunciatify the name of the prison, what are the odds that he has any understanding of the issues surrouding ah-BOO grehhb?
More front page NY Times online
NEWS ALERT The United States will demolish Abu Ghraib prison in consultation with a new Iraqi government, the White House said on Monday. (6:38 PM ET)The little spinners at work. My first thought: so they can hide physical evidence from future International Tribunals.
NY Times online cover story of the moment:
N.Y. Police Chief RisesDid you know we were on the front lines here? I didn't. Can we stop?
At a time when New York is on the front lines in the worldwide battle with terror, Raymond W. Kelly is emerging as the city's top general.
lockhart steeles curbed launches.
This post on Barbara Bush's beautiful mind has been completely rewritten. D'oh.
this last nights episode of the simpsons (the season finale no. 335) took a broad shot at the republicans. mr burns bought up all the media outlets in town (to controll his image) except for lisas popular independent small press. next everyone opened their own small presses a thinly veiled reference to blogging.
"There's been a lot of talk recently about the exact definition of "torture." Some say it's an accurate descriptor of what happened to Iraqi detainees in U.S. custody. Others say those detainees were not tortured, but simply "abused," and that "torture" is something out of Saddam's dungeons. In a Newsday op-ed this week, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg mused over the invocation of the word "torture". He joins Bob to discuss the political uses and abuses of language, and his new book, Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times."
i didnt want to crap up sally's post with this post since it was not specific to cycleists but there are a few people recording roadside memorials. at the top of the list is roadsidememorial.org