cutting through the fat of this world
Fifty-one years ago today, James Dean died in a car accident.
Watch Rebel Without a Cause tonight.
MOTHER: No! I don’t want you to go to the police! There were other people and why should you be the only one involved!
JIM: But I am involved! We’re all involved, Mom! A boy was killed! I don’t see how [...]
When things fall apart as they have over the last few weeks, it’s good to get away from it all for a while.
How?
Watch a Throw Rag video.
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That’s a song from their latest album, 13 Ft. and Rising. It’s all good!
Jello Biafra is featured on the last track, “Children of the Secret State.”
Go buy it.
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From the party that purports to represent tradional family values, we get another sick, twisted, hypocritical congressman.
Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page.
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The page worked for Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., who said Friday that when he learned of [...]
1. A very interesting look back at the first 8 months of the Bush presidency. It actually hurts to watch this.
2. A gigantic summary of the events leading to 9/11.
3. Someone’s top 10 Bushisms. Not really sure this is even funny anymore.
4. An intelligent analysis of the Chris Wallace and Bill Clinton interview.
5. This is [...]
We’ve come to expect that Republicans will compromise their integrity and vote for any bill that the president wants regardless of how obviously immoral and wrong it is to do so.
But what of the 11 Democrats that sided with the R’s?
Greg Saunders has it covered in this excellent post over at This Modern World:
Of the 10.5 [...]
On Sunday, Senator Arlen Specter said that he “vigorously” disagreed with the habeas corpus provision of the bill, and yesterday when he introduced an amendment to remove the provision, he said: “What this bill would do is take our civilization back 900 years to before the adoption of the writ of habeas corpus in medieval [...]
Just three weeks ago there were three Republican senators who appeared to have the guts to stand up to their president and fight against his demands for legal authority to carry out torture in the name of our country. Mr. Barnes wrote about here, and Zippy commented that there might be an appearance of a [...]
That title doesn’t apply to President Bush. It’s the president of Pakistan I’m talking about.
I just watched Jon Stewart interview President Pervez Musharraf on The Daily Show. You can watch the three parts here, here, and here.
One thing that struck me about Musharraf was that he has a much better grasp of the English language [...]
Forget the D.O.D. Bring on the D.O.O.
President Bush yesterday:
And so we’ve adjusted tactics and we’re on the offense to meet the threat and to defeat the threat.
I think it’s a mistake for people to believe that going on the offense against people that want to do harm to the American people makes us less safe.
We’re [...]
Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer is her baby’s father:
“Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer, Howard K. Stern, announced yesterday on CNN’s Larry King that he’s the father of her baby girl, finally completing the soap opera that is Anna Nicole’s life.”
(Via The Superficial - Because You’re Ugly.)
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