Hey all you fans of This Modern World! You will be pleased to hear that the keynote speaker at the ACLU of Washington’s 2005 Bill of Rights Celebration Dinner will be Dan Perkins, a.k.a. Tom Tomorrow. The event will be on Saturday, November 19th at the Red Lion Hotel in Seattle.
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The Best Of The Colbert Report
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
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Fifty years ago today, James Dean was killed in a car accident near Cholame, California.
Californians commemorated his death by renaming the intersection of Highways 46 and 41 where he died the “James Dean Memorial Junction” and placed a memorial plaque there.
What should you do? I don’t know… maybe just go light up a cigarette and [...]
I read this story about Michael Brown’s “blame game” in this morning’s Seattle Times…
“Ironically, it started with an organization called horsesass.org,” Brown told Congress, “that on some blog published a false and, frankly, in my opinion, defamatory statement that the media just continued to repeat over and over. … I guess it’s the media’s job. [...]
During the second half of No Direction Home one of the musicians featured throughout the film (I think it was Dave Van Ronk, but I’m not certain…) said something about how Bob Dylan had absorbed, like a sponge, all the music and styles that he was exposed to and then invented himself as something [...]
The Common Dreams site has posted an excerpt from Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume One. It’s from the section of the book about his time spent in New Orleans recording Oh Mercy with Daniel Lanois. Here’s a bit of the excerpt.
There are a lot of places I like, but I like New [...]
We’ll get the debris removed, get the water up and running and get the bridges rebuilt. But what you need to do is develop a blueprint for your own future. We look forward to hearing your vision so we can more better do our job.
Dubya — Gulfport, Mississippi, Sep. 20, 2005
Well no wonder he [...]
There’s a great article at Common Dreams today by Jeremy Rifkin about Bush’s lack of vision and leadership. Here’s an excerpt:
If I could get the ear of George Bush, for just a moment, I would say: “Mr President, if you had looked deeply into the eye of the storm, what you would have [...]
That’s a direct quote from Rep. Don Young, Republican-Alaska. This he said when asked by a Fairbanks reporter whether he’d return the $223 million he had “earmarked” for a bridge near Ketchikan.
Don Young is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. For more information about this clown’s elephantine bridge to nowhere, visit [...]
Yesterday Molly Ivins proposed that our country adopt a “Media Accountability Day” and then reported on “Project Censored’s annual release of the 10 biggest stories ignored or under-covered by mainstream media.” Coming in at numbers one and two are:
No. 1: Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government.
This administration has drastically changed the rules on [...]
The British Insurgency
Published by September 19th, 2005 in Iraq, Middle East and al Qaeda. 1 CommentTwo British Marines were pulled over today by Iraqi police. The individuals, dressed in traditional Iraqi attire. Upon being pulled over, the undercover Marines opened fire on the police, only to be apprehended. Turns out that they were doing there best to get away from the police because their car was loaded [...]
