Ann Slanders

2003-07-17T11:50:00.000-07:00

OK, I'm done.

2003-07-01T08:18:00.000-07:00

Just heard it on NPR

Republicans who describe themselves as paying close attention to the news on Iraq are the most likely to believe that weapons of mass destruction have been found there, according to a recent poll.
Is anybody surprised? I mean, these are the same people who think God appointed Drinky McDumbass to restor honor and dignity to the White House.

Ask Ann Slanders

Dear Ann:
I am given to going around saying that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. Recently I was wondering, what IS the difference?
Thanks, Really A Lying Phony Helping Nazis And Dictators Earn Respect

Dear RALPHNADER:

The difference is simple but profound. Democrats want to make the world a better place by getting rid of poverty, pollution, racism and greed. Republicans want to make the world a better place by getting rid of Democrats. I hope this helps, and thanks for reading!

2003-06-28T13:06:00.000-07:00

Aye, we're back to being Ann Slanders, and everything that implies...

Back by popular demand [cough], it's time for a language lesson!
Today, we're going to learn how to say "Bush lied, people died" in Spanish. Or
'mexican' as pResident Bunnypants would call it:

Bush lied, people died: 'Bush minti?, gente muerta.'
Now in German: 'Bush lag, die gestorbenen Leute.'
French: 'Bush s'est trouvé, les gens morts.'
And Dutch: 'De struik loog, stierven de mensen.'

In commemoration of the success of our recent appropriation of Michael 'Savage' Weiner, let's learn how to say "I file lawsuits to make up for the fact that I have a tiny little penis."
Here it is in German: Ich archiviere Prozesse, um die Tatsache auszugleichen, daß ich einen
kleinen kleinen Penis habe.
In Espanol: 'Clasifío pleitos para compensar el hecho de que tengo un pequeño
pene minúsculo.' Indeed.
In French: 'Je classe des procès pour compenser le fait que j'ai un petit pénis
minuscule.'

2003-06-27T09:54:00.000-07:00

Savage Hangover Day

Ann Slanders' International Headquarters will continue to be Micro Savage for the day. In the meantime, because ~~I am insufferably lazy~~ it's a classic, here's one of Ann Slanders' 'classic' posts...

Dear Ann Slanders:

I have a website and an IQ of 64. How can I increase traffic and attract venture capital?
BC in OK

Dear BC:
Two words: Clinton's Cock. Oooooh, that gave me a shiver. Let's say it again: Clinton's Cock. Mmmm. You just can't go wrong by fishing around inside Bill Clinton's zipper.
If you ever grow tired of Clinton's cock (as if that were possible), then hating liberals is almost as good. FOX and MSNBC were built (erected, if you will) on Clinton's cock and slagging liberals who all hate America. For variety, throw in the occassional bit of rah-rah flag waving and you'll be the next Drudge in no time!
Best of luck, and thanks for reading!

2003-06-26T14:58:00.000-07:00

No, I'm not making that last response up. I may have elided a few paragraphs from the source, but Michael Savage really did say "The era of skateboarders is over. The era of grown men riding around on bicycles with their butts in the air is over" in response to September 11, 2001.
A truly deep thinker, our Mr. Weiner.

2003-06-26T14:38:00.000-07:00

Dear Micro Savage:

I recently viewed some traitorous propaganda masking as news over at this site:

http://kid69.blogspot.com/2003_06_22_kid69_archive.html#105661829026803530

http://kid69.blogspot.com/2003_06_22_kid69_archive.html#105661716009447442

Is there any way you can take over this commie enabling site like you did with http://annslanders.blogspot.com and http://www.blah3.com?

Republicans Exterminating Democrats Need Every Conservative Klansmen's Support

Dear REDNECK:

I don't want to hear about them being brought to justice. I want to hear about carpet bombing! This means more than merely tracking down and arresting individual suspects. Where is the passion? Where is the emotion? Where is the banging on the podium? Where is the pointing of the fingers, saying "we will hunt you down, we will destroy you! All of you and all of yours!" Well let me remind you of something. A new era has begun. The era of skateboarders is over. The era of grown men riding around on bicycles with their butts in the air is over. You are facing your future. And this future is not assured.

2003-06-26T12:08:00.000-07:00

Micro Savage Day~

Ann Slanders is taking a day off of her rigorous (cough) schedule, so our advice today comes from your friend and mine, Micro Savage, America's most dangerous man with a penis under 1/2".

*Questions are made up, all replies are taken from Michael Savage's columns at NaziMax and other distributors of irrational bigotry.

Dear Micro Savage:
I am a fan of yours who only reads your online column. Can you please describe the content of your radio show? Thanks
Wannabe Savage Listener

Dear Wannabe:
The content is an unbroken stream of hate and chauvinism directed against women, people of color, liberals, immigrants and in particular people of Middle Eastern heritage and people of the Muslim faith. I hope that clarifies things for you. MS

2003-06-26T10:08:00.000-07:00

Spontaneous Demonstrations of Gratitude and Joy

Freepers voice their support for privacy and individual rights: "Kennedy is a senile old fool who ignored the 'how' this case got to the courts, the 'set up' perpetrated by the homos to get this case running the court system. The queers involved (three of them) had been trying to get a Georgia case going on homo marriage. Well, the senile old fart, Kennedy, has made their day!

In queer dens all over America, the homos are laughing their asses off, salivating over their 'victory'. If folks don't realize what's going on, here's a clue: the entire exercise was part of the homo agenda to force their deviant behavior to be protected and given the same right to marriages, etc., equal to the traditional institution of marriage. The homo agenda is to transform this nation into their deviancy play ground.

Frankly, it won't be as difficult as the queers were thinking it would be ... as Kennedy and others have proven for them. Homo marriage is the next case they will seek to push through the putrified court system. Democrats, with their decidely leftist pallor, will empower the deviants even more, all in the name of division and vote raking, and the hell with the nation. See, leftists realize but will not tell you, when they do finally take control of this nation, even if it means corrupting it to the point of mortality, they will then dictate how the nation is to carry on, under their whim regardless of those moldy old 'living, yet senile documents'. The democrat left will make other forms of despotism pale by comparison.

32 posted on 06/26/2003 7:51 AM PDT by MHGinTN

2003-06-26T08:34:00.000-07:00

Dear Micro Savage:

When you sobered up and took your anti-psychotic meds as scheduled, what was your impression of Fox News?
Anonymous

Dear Anonymous:

I noticed an alarming bias, and I knew this could sink the ship of truth. Surely other administrations have had their friends in high media places. Still, there were many voices and many views of dissent that found their way into the national media. But now we have a growing media blackout of some serious crimes and misdemeanors, all unsolved to the satisfaction of those with critical faculties of reason.
Thanks for reading

2003-06-26T08:26:00.000-07:00

Dear Micro Savage:

How have Fox and MSNBC changed the political landscape of America?

Conservative Lady In Texas

Dear, uh, Lady:
They have, together, both feminized and homosexualized America to the point where the nation has become passive, receptive and masochistic.

2003-06-26T08:20:00.000-07:00

Dear Micro Savage:

Sometimes I look at pornography at the office, and I get so worked up that I have to go to the bathroom to, ah, "relieve the pressure." I know I need help. Can you tell me what to do?
Worried And Nervous Klansmen Expecting Relief

Dear WANKER:
A man who will masturbate in an office sink lacks self-control. It leads to the sale (for campaign donations) of hard drives. From hard-ons to hard drives, is that the question?

Dear Micro Savage:

Er, no, that's not really the question. I'm looking for some help for my compulsive behavior. I know it's an issue of self control, but where do I start?

Thanks
WANKER

Dear Wanker:
As in decadent France, in the boy-man love capital of the New Whorled Order we will soon see the devolution of Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité into "Liberté, Equalité, Perversité” – while we are pulled, not led, into one thousand years of darkness.

2003-06-26T08:07:00.000-07:00

Guest Commentator*

We here at Ann Slanders are proud to bring you our special, guest commentator, Micro "Savage" Weiner. Micro is an acclaimed and beloved conservative commentator with a vast, intimate knowledge of herbal suppositories. Ann Slanders will be back soon with her regular updates (cough)!

Dear Micro Savage:

I want to throw a party for the Fourth of July, but I'm not sure what kind of accessories I need. Can you help me out?
Thanks
Socially Inept Conservative Klansman

Dear SICK

Here's a quick list: A blind mountain climber, welfare sponges (in all shades), a homosexual congressman calling for "fair and free trade" with the butchers of Beijing, a smiling actress (once a 10, now a 10+) introducing a Latino assemblyman in Spanish, the assemblyman giving a rousing La Raza stump speech, grandchildren galore, black reverends who outpreach the irreverent Democrat reverends, balloons (multi-colored), a ring announcer, searchlights, trophy wives getting down to the Repub-Muzak-elevator rock, gushing young entrepreneurs who made their fortunes while still in dorm rooms, and other niceties too numerous to recall.

*: All replies are the actual words of the litigous Michael Savage.

2003-06-09T17:08:00.000-07:00

Quote of the week, fo sho
Saw it at xoverboard.com.

Q. Why is anonymity so important to the right to travel?

"As Americans, we are pretty smug about our freedom; we don't even think about how we would take it back if suddenly a planned demonstration or political meeting was "canceled" because 90% of the attendees had been mysteriously stopped from flying or driving or taking the train or bus to attend. But the "transportation security" system and the profiling and databases behind it are all poised and ready to do exactly that. All it will take is a bureaucrat or politician who says "Do it", because all the mechanisms will already be built. It was only 60 years ago that hundreds of thousands of Americans were imprisoned solely for their Japanese cultural heritage. Only 40 years ago that anti-war and civil rights protesters were bugged, followed, smeared, arrested, impersonated, and disrupted by the supposedly lawful government. Only 30 years ago that a Republican President was bugging the Democratic National Committee. Only ten years ago that our prison population was half what it is today, with the increase coming from imprisoning black and Latino innocents over victimless crimes like drug use. Only two years ago that a Presidential election was stolen. I'm not talking about a banana republic somewhere else; I'm talking about our own country. Abuse of government surveillance, and suppression of unpopular minorities, are documented facts right here in the US, not unrealistic or remote fears."

2003-06-03T13:28:00.000-07:00

F.U.T.K.
While we're at it, F.U.G.B.
F.U.R.L.
F.U.M.W.
and F.U.A.C.

2003-06-03T13:25:00.000-07:00

CNN Wants to Know

Do you think the Bush Administration exaggerated reports of Iraqi weapons programs?
Yes 59% 50744 votes
No 41% 35487 votes
Total: 86231 votes

A very encouraging result on that poll. You should probably go vote on the CNN homepage before the freepers get to it...

2003-05-29T10:08:00.000-07:00

Hey, I was reading about whathisface resiging from the NY Times, and saw this: "In a May 11 editor's note, the newspaper's editors asked readers to contact them if they had concerns about previous New York Times stories. "

That sounds like an invitation to bring up Wen Ho Lee and all of the noxious trash the Times printed about Clinton, Clinton and Gore.

2003-05-29T10:06:00.000-07:00

Here is a nice summation of Ann Coulter and her work. The link from Bartcop takes you to today's article. It's also pretty good, but it's not about slanderous Annie.

2003-05-27T10:36:00.000-07:00

Ladies and gentlemen, Barry Crimmins:
If the US doesn't soon quell the anarchy that is running amuck in Iraq it risks losing all the goodwill it built up by invading the nation, killing thousands of people, and depriving them of food, water and electricity.

2003-05-26T11:06:00.000-07:00

Subversive Talk is living up to its name again:

"America has issues. We're broke, fat and sex-starved. And to compensate we bluster, bully and exaggerate. The surface is full of hope, joy and American Superiority. But beneath the veneer of confidence we are desperate, afraid and confused. We are a nation of losers in a game of "winner takes all."

We are easily manipulated and lied to. We are so unsure of ourselves that we fall prey to charlatans, carnival barkers and snake oil salesmen. We are in turmoil. We are in crisis. "

2003-05-23T14:01:00.000-07:00

Is it just me, or have you ever noticed that the same people who defend obscene CEO bonuses because "otherwise they would work at some other corporation. It's the free market," are the same people who say that giving more money to teachers just won't do anything to improve education?

If conservatives really want to run the government like a company, and if the educational system has trouble attracting and retaining quality personnel, isn't there one obvious solution?
Of course we all know that raising teacher pay would just be throwing more money at the problem. I have to admit to the logic of that. After all, look at the money we've thrown at the War on (some) Drugs and Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro and Mexican dirt weed both resolutely refuse to disappear. So maybe throwing money at the problem isn't the solution. I am also absolutely confident that the conservative route of gradually strangling the public school system will do nothing to improve education in this country.

2003-05-23T13:20:00.000-07:00

It's hard to appreciate this if you were never a Macintosh ~~luser~~user, but my Mac has been up for 15 days and two hours.
Now, old Mac fans (you know who you are, as T-Rock sez) can you imagine going two weeks without a restart? Fifteen days without a cute little bomb icon and a very friendly and absolutely-opaque error message which was always a euphemism for "you're fucked, pal"?
MacOS X is the shiznit. Get it and you too will become a convert.

If you're some hot-shiite Windows nerd, you may be of the opinion that Apple's Kung-Fu is weak. That would be a mistake. Behind the shiny, helpful Macintosh interface is the steel of FreeBSD Unix. Your DOS bounces harmlessly off of my command line!

2003-05-16T13:50:00.000-07:00

Ya song opo yo zavung rempum.

2003-05-15T15:04:00.000-07:00

All praise the mighty Macintosh. I downloaded BlogPost, the Konfabulator widget, and now can post just by clicking on a box on my desktop! Yay! Does this mean I'll be posting more often? Hell no!

2003-05-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

Hey, here's a link that likely will automatically enroll you on any number of government watch lists. I'm not sure if they're advocating violent overthrow of the US government. Could be. I personally am not for violent overthrow of the government. Not today. I'll wait until 2004 to decide on that one....

2003-05-09T12:45:00.000-07:00

What you're missing if you're not watching MSNBC

If you're not watching Hardballs on MSNBC, you're missing out on insightful political dialog such as this:

RIOS: Congressman Armey, would you meet with the North American Man Boy Love Association? Would you meet with the Ku Klux Klan?
ARMEY: No, I would not.
RIOS: Why not?
ARMEY: I would not, but I’m...
RIOS: Why not? They’re Republicans.
ARMEY: Well, understand something. Well, first-now wait a minute. Wait a minute. First of all, you’re talking about organizations that take extreme and somewhat violent positions. This is not the people with whom...
RIOS: Yes.
ARMEY: ... the chairman of the Republican National Committee met.
Don’t...
RIOS: Congressman Armey, that’s the problem...
ARMEY: Don’t condemn him for...
RIOS: ... is you don’t-in all due respect...
ARMEY: Well, now wait a minute. This is...
RIOS: ... and you know I respect you...
ARMEY: You are being...
RIOS: This is an issue about which you’re not fully...
ARMEY: You are being so wrong here.
RIOS: ... informed. No, I’m not.
ARMEY: You’re-you’re condemning...
RIOS: You’re not fully informed about this.
ARMEY: ... the man for a meeting he didn’t have.
RIOS: No, we-I have not...
ARMEY: He didn’t meet with the Man Boy Love Relationship people.
RIOS: We questioned the Republican Party...
MATTHEWS: Let me-let me-I have to break this up for a second.
We’re going to...
ARMEY: Well, I’m sorry.
MATTHEWS: ... come back and talk about another issue on...
ARMEY: I’m sorry. You’ve got to talk about what is.
MATTHEWS: ... the conservative side of things.
ARMEY: ... not what your fears are.
MATTHEWS: Let me come back...
RIOS: I’m not saying...
MATTHEWS: Sandy, just a second.

With this level of discourse, I just can't understand why MSNBC's ratings are in the shitter

2003-05-08T15:42:00.000-07:00

I've been reading IndyMedia:
"Here are ten facts you want to know about the US government from the informative website www.wanttoknow.info. You can verify each statement by using the links provided direct to the original articles on major media websites like the NY Times. Go to www.wanttoknow.info/911coverup for instant verification of each fact. We share this with the intention of creating a better world for all of us.

Three times Clinton approved a direct hit on bin Laden, but the CIA director stopped him. [NY Times, 12/30/01]

In Oct 2000, a drill was carried out based on a hijacked plane crashing into the Pentagon. [Military District of Washington News Service, 11/3/00]

In spring 2001, an important government document advocated war with Iraq to control its oil. [Sunday Herald, 10/5/02]

From June to Aug 2001, Russia, Germany, and Israel all warned the US of suicide plane hijackings against US targets. [Fox News, 5/17/02] [LA Times, 9/20/01]

On Aug 27, 2001 an FBI supervisor told headquarters he was trying to keep a hijacker from â��flying a plane into the World Trade Center.â�� He was chastised for notifying the CIA. [Senate Intelligence Report (Hill #2), 10/17/02] [Time, 5/21/02]

On Sep 10, 2001 top Pentagon officials canceled travel plans for the next day. [Newsweek, 9/24/01]

On Sep 11, 2001 at 9 AM, a large US intelligence agency had an exercise planned of an aircraft crashing into their building near Washington, DC. [AP, 8/22/02]

Five to seven of the 9-11 hijackers may have had training at US military installations. [Newsweek, 9/15/01, Washington Post, 9/16/01]

Members of Congress said that the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department were not cooperating with the 9-11 inquiry. Bush opposed an independent inquiry until outside pressure forced him to agree to it. [NY Times, 10/5/02]

Big American bases set up in Afghanistan are almost identical to the projected route of the oil pipeline to go through the country. [Chicago Tribune, 3/18/02]

As caring citizens, we have a responsibility to know what is going on in the world. This information is not meant to cause fear or anger, but rather to inspire us to join together in creating a better world. There are many things we can do about all this. A two-page summary of suggestions is available at www.wanttoknow.info/newparadigm.

To understand why all this doesn't get more press coverage, go to www.wanttoknow.info. The entire website is designed not only to provide concise, verifiable information on things that are being hidden from us, but also to encourage us to work together towards a world more focused on love and cooperation. Thank you for caring, and please help to spread the word. Together we can and will create a better world for ourselves and our children.

Take care,
The wanttoknow.info team

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2003-05-02T15:08:00.000-07:00

Go forth, and read Orcinus:
"Remarks like Santorum's used to be commonplace among the Jesse Helms contingent, and the complicit GOP support for gay-bashing was a well-known reality among gays who are not Andrew Sullivan."

HAH! Sullivan is weaving... wait, HE'S DOWN; SULLIVAN IS DOWN!

2003-04-30T19:38:00.000-07:00

I was reading something about cloning, and reproduction issues and inferred that the desire to have genetic descendents caused a lot of grief. People want to pass their "heritage" on; they want blood descendants, as if it meant something. When cloning becomes available, I imagine more than a few infertile couples will opt to have a clone, rather than adopt a child. In the meantime, they'll continue taking fertility drugs, using surrogate mothers, whichever. Anything to avoid adopting a child that needs parents now.

So anyway, I was reading this and at one point scoffed, "they should just make it illegal, and force people to adopt." I caught that, and thought about it. I could be so cavalier about it because I would never be on the receiving end of that law. I am remarkably fertile, thanks. I'll never have to deal with that, and so it is easy to just say "it should be illegal."

It is so easy to wish away the rights of other people. Rick Santorum will never (guessing here) have sex with a man, so it's incredibly easy for him and people like him to equate homosexuality with a bunch of other stuff they would never, ever ~~admit to doing~~ do.
"Conservative patriots" such as Bill O'Reilly would never, ever protest against a war, so it's easy for them to say people like me should just sit down and shutup or be counted as traitors.

It's important to remember that when we talk about making things illegal, we're denying someone, somewhere the right to free action. It is incumbent upon all of us to make sure that the gain of any particular law outweighs any loss of freedom. Right?

2003-04-30T17:23:00.000-07:00

So, I'm wondering about the Rove administration's decision to pull out of Saudi Arabia. This was Osama's primary complaint if I remember correctly; he was unhappy about infidels (that's us) occupying the Holy Land. As an aside, I've seen Saudi Arabia. It didn't look like the holy land, but what's an infidel supposed to know?
Anyway, President Rove has to be aware of that. Is it supposed to be a sop to terror? A counterbalance to our ugly and illegal invasion of Iraq? Or does it just reflect our changed priorities? Now that we've got a ~~puppet~~ client state in Iraq, we can move our forces out of Saudi Arabia and still have a place from which to project force in the Middle East.
I wonder just how much will change on the "hate America" scale because of this. Sure, we're out of the holy land, but we just kicked the shit out of an essentially-defenseless Arab nation. People who are willing to fly jumbo jets into office buildings probably won't be pacified by this.

2003-04-29T18:19:00.000-07:00

Speaking of letters, I've traded a couple of letters with Herr Asshat (see below).
I notified that I was talking about him on my web site, so as to allow him to rebut. But he blew me off, so I wrote him back, where he blew me off again with this lame ass e-mail:
It's nice that you've found a hobby. I never thought of myself as being such a thorn in the side of the many Idiotarians out there, that someone (such as you) had nothing better to do with your time than to try and nitpick what I write. If you needed a hobby, I would suggest you learn to read for entertainment.

I appreciate the increased traffic, though, and rest assured that I'll be continuing to ignore you and your blog for the foreseeable future.

Oh, I am wounded, WOUNDED I tell you. Ah well. Mr. NoBalls can't be bothered to defend his opinions in public. However, he says on his blog that he is taking requests via e-mail, so why don't you write to Drummy and ask him why he thinks the attack on Iraq was an "unqualified" success?

2003-04-29T18:08:00.000-07:00

We get letters
Well, I got one, anyway.

From: Michelle
Subject: bushwars

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/sperry/

check out today's action figure dolls link. i laughed. and then i had
to go throw up.
i have tried most of my life to keep in denial that these kinds of
people exist. it's not working. what i'm finding out is that not only
do they survive, but they also reproduce.

oh. my. god.

sand. bring me sand. must bury head.

Ha ha! Thanks, M.

2003-04-29T15:10:00.000-07:00

Moore won.
Get over it.

2003-04-29T13:59:00.000-07:00

Dear Ann Slanders:

I am a conservative, but I am concerned about using that label. It sounds perilously close to "conservationist" which we know means "tree hugging enviro-nazi nature whacko." If we are conservatives, what are we conserving? Please advise.

Conservative Unless Nature Trumps

Dear, um Reader:

You're right. We conservatives have long since ceased to conserve anything. Our goal these days is not to "conserve" but "preserve." We shall preserve the status quo. We shall preserve our political power. We shall preserve our money and our rights to ourselves. We shall preserve Ronald Reagan and Charlatan Heston and roll them out when it is convenient. In short, we are not conservatives, we are Preservatives! Go forth, and remake the world under this new banner, ye forces of preservation!

I hope this helps, and thanks for reading

2003-04-29T13:50:00.000-07:00

The recent Supreme Court rejection of the Ten Commandments appeal has ignited something of a bonfire over at Freak Repugnant. It's always fun to watch the bible thumpers take sides against the libertarians and free thinkers.

It got me to thinking that there are, generally, two flavors of conservative. Interestingly enough, they both stem from the Bible, but from different chapters.

The first group is what you call your "Genesis conservatives." They're the economic conservatives who embrace (when it is expedient) the godly injunction to have "dominion over the earth." They tend to think of property rights as the source of liberty, and they're always ready to froth at the prospect of the guv'mint trampling on those rights. Oh yeah, they really hate to pay taxes, too. They oppose environmental protection if it infringes on current or future property rights and generally hold environmentalism to be mushy and soft-headed. Nature is there to be used and exploited, and conservation is good only insofar as it protects economic resources.

The other group is your "Leviticus conservatives." They loooooove to quote chapter and verse about sodomites and fornicators and sodomites and sodomites, but tend to overlook the, um, inconvenient parts of Leviticus. They're the Ric Santorum conservatives. They tend to think of God and Jesus as the source of liberty, and they're always ready to froth at the prospect of someone who disagrees with them. They oppose environmental protections if they think "nature" is being held more in esteem than Christian principles.

On balance, I prefer the Genesis conservatives, as they're much less dogmatic and much easier to get along with. I just don't like how their philosophy tends towards social darwinism, and the implicit assumption that the free market is a panacea for all socio-economic ills.

2003-04-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

Here's more from yesterday's wearer of the sombrero de la coolo. It's his "message" to us "leftists":

"Boo.
Hoo.
Get used to using those words, they will be replacing the anti-war chants currently in vogue. The United States won, exposed your lies and seditious behavior, and managed to re-arrange the world to the point where you get to keep whining (just like the chimpanzees in the zoo, only not quite as coherent). So remember these times. We certainly will."

Hoo boy, that's rich. "Anti-war chants currently in vogue?" Yeah, that's what's currently in vogue, sparky. Remember folks, this is the guy who called the "war" in Iraq an "unqualified success." What kind of drugs do you take to be this deluded? Governor Bush killed over 100 American troops fighting a third-world army over weapons of mass destruction that don't exist. The historical legacy of the entire human race was looted while the Ministry of Oil stood secure and as I type this, the radio tells me that US troops are shooting Iraqi protesters.
This is the Bush Voter's definition of unqualified success? I suppose it's similar in nature to Bush being unqualified for the presidency.

And this: "managed to re-arrange the world to the point where you get to keep whining." I'm sorry, this looks like English, but it doesn't make any sense. The attack on Iraq "re-arranged" the world so that we (people against the attack) can continue to speak out against the attack?

You're high, old man.

"Remember these times. We certainly will." Yes, I'm sure you'll think back often to these glorious times and get a stiff one as you think of our diminshing civil liberties; our broken economy; our tarnished international reputation; our ignoble, craven leadership.

Or do you mean, perhaps, that you're taking names? Making lists of the people to line up against the wall when the time comes? That thought probably makes you sport wood, too, huh?

2003-04-28T13:48:00.000-07:00

I accidently stumbled over an asshat's blog, where I read this particular bit of asshattery about the unilateral invasion of Iraq: "I'd say it was pretty much an unqualified success, but I don't see Janeane Garofalo with any bandages on her knees. I can only assume that she is continuing to chicken out and deny that she was wrong. I don't see Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins and Barbra Streisand and Martin Sheen and Tom Daschle and Nancy Pelosi and Woody Harrelson and Jessica Lange out there admitting that they may have been wrong in their opposition to this war."

Hey, dumbass

It was NEVER about whether or not we would win the military conflict. It was about if we should have been there in the first place, and the answer is still unequivocally "NO!"

I'll admit I was wrong in my opposition to this war as soon as Herr Drumwaster admits that Bush lied to get his war. I'll admit I was wrong as soon as anybody on the right concedes that pre-emptive war sets a bad precedent. And speaking of Bad Presidents, I'll admit I was wrong in my opposition to this war as soon as asshat central sends out a memo admitting that it's a bad idea to let unelected morons have control of the military.

2003-04-24T15:09:00.000-07:00

PATRIOT, n. A dangerous tool of the powers that be. A herd member who compensates for lack of self-respect by indentifying with an abstraction. An enemy of individual freedom. A fancier of the rich, satisfying flavor of boot leather.

2003-04-24T09:22:00.000-07:00

OK, haven't done one of these in a while...

Dear Ann Slanders:

These are scary and ambiguous times. Besides my faith in handguns and Jesus Christ, what can I rely upon to feel safe in my home against terrorists?

Scared and Heavily Armed in Texas

Dear SHAT:
You're right. These are scary, ambiguous times. As conservatives, we are obligated to hate ambiguity. The best way to react to ambiguity? Blow Shit Up. The best way to blow shit up? Nuclear weapons. Fortunately for all of us, our Divinely Inspired Leader has plans to start building more plutonium cores. Lots more.
I hope this helps, and thanks for reading!

2003-04-22T13:42:00.000-07:00

I know I'm probably the last person on the Internet to see this, but I'll post it anyway.

Looting. It's the American Way.

2003-04-22T12:30:00.000-07:00

A prayer for George W.

Excerpt:
"All sources are telling me that you are more than a little outta control. Way out of line. Off-leash and lost and drunk on dreams of global supremacy and in deep need of major karmic spanking, a divine colonic. The various world deities are shooting me urgent e-mails left and right. We gotta have some words, brother. Are you sitting down? Thinking cap on? Pretzels out of reach? Excellent. "

2003-04-22T11:46:00.000-07:00

2003-04-18T09:49:00.000-07:00

Here's a poll to counterfreep:
Do weapons of mass destruction have to be found in Iraq to justify the war?
Yes 47% 81515 votes
No 53% 91786 votes

2003-04-15T14:56:00.000-07:00

So, almost a week since I updated. Sorry. Took a three day weekend, and haven't had much to say since. Since I've got nothing else, you may as well go here.

That page is just a tiny part of this, which is the homepage of an American Expat living in Seoul, South Korea. Joe Bob sez check it out.

2003-04-09T18:48:00.000-07:00

Here's a little circulated news item courtesy of my buddy D-Rock, who goes by the name Winston Smith over at the High Times Dick Cheney Blog message boards.

"WASHINGTON (April 9) A rare television appearance today by US Vice President Dick Cheney was met with skepticism, as it has been assumed that poor health would preclude his ability to make a public statement. Some have speculated that the Supreme Court-appointed official could have died long ago, while the White House periodically releases statements attributed to the politician.

American political dissidents will continue to make voice analysis of the videotape, in an attempt to determine if the broadcast was genuine, or whether a body double was used. Administration officials were quoted on condition of anonymity, as saying "Dick is fine."

Critics countered the ambiguous nature of the statement, noting that most women would agree that dick is fine, but they are still unconvinced regarding the whereabouts of Mr. Cheney. While the broadcast appears to be genuine, many have voiced their concern that the administration may have prepared tapes in advance, to be broadcast at a later date.

A press release from the White House asked news organizations "to refrain from referring to the Vice President as "Dick" because Mr. Cheney never knows if he is being insulted or not."

In other news, Edwin Starr is still dead, the Dixie Chicks might as well be dead, and the fate of Saddam Hussein is still unknown."

2003-04-08T18:09:00.000-07:00

Here's another 96 Americans killed by George Bush. If this keeps up, he'll match his record as the former Texecutioner.

2003-04-07T16:26:00.000-07:00

It figures Freepers would lament a ban on cross burning:

This decision proves that members of the SC are just as much influenced by the pressures of conformity as any other group. The decision is logical nonsense and I am really disappointed in Scalia. I thought he was one who made decisions based on accurate thought rather than emotion. If they can make burning a cross a crime they can make absolutely anything a crime. All that is required is that there be enough political pressure.

Funny, a constitutional ban on flag burning doesn't seem to have the same chilling effect for many of these folks. I wonder why?

2003-04-07T08:38:00.000-07:00

Land of the Free? You Bet

American prison population reaches record 2,000,000.

2003-04-06T23:31:00.000-07:00

I'm giggling like an idiot over Jewish Haiku.

Some favorites:

Today, mild shvitzing.

Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz.

Five-day forecast-feh

After the warm rain

the sweet smell of camellias

Did you wipe your feet?

Harsh Scrabble discord--

someone has placed "putzhead" on

a triple word score

2003-04-06T22:59:00.000-07:00

Really and truly subversive talk.

2003-04-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

Something tells me that this story won't be appearing on a lot of American news outlets.

Excerpt: Many Iraqis are already suspicious of US motives for invading their country and hostile to US support for Israel, whatever their opinions of their own government. No matter what the outcome of this war, families of dead and injured civilians may find it difficult to forgive.

Meanwhile on Faux News, Iraqi civilians are invisible until they materialize to wave American flags and throw flowers at their alleged coalition liberators.

2003-04-05T16:39:00.000-08:00

Yes, I am at work. Hence the weekend postings. As a matter of fact, I should be slaving over a hot Photoshop right now. So off I go...

2003-04-05T15:12:00.000-08:00

Here's a quote: ""What comes across as the most important source of Bush's uniqueness as president is the nearly unbelievable degree of his essential unfitness to be president -- his profound immaturity, his pathological selfishness, his cynicism, above all his relentless corruption."

Sound like anybody you know? Well, it's not. Michael Kelly said it a few years ago. He said it about Bill Clinton. I inserted Bush's name in there to illustrate the point that Michael Kelly was a partisan hack who fulsomely praised Bush while pretending that Bill Clinton was "relentlessly corrupt."
I am sorry that his two young sons have to grow up without their dad. Nobody deserves that, and nobody deserves to die because of their political opinions. That said, I disagree with Peggy Noonan. First off, in no way does he deserve to be buried in Arlington National Cemetary (yes, La Noonan really suggested that). Secondly, I say that journalism as a profession is only improved by the loss of Michael Kelly.
See you in Hell, pal.

2003-04-05T14:44:00.000-08:00

Anybody with an interest in transcribing / correcting / countering Rush Limbaugh should aquaint themselves with Rush vs. Reality. Though the site is on official hiatus now, it is a monumental effort, containing almost daily refutations of Rush's worst lies and bloviations. Worthy stuff, and I look forward to the time when the creator of the site decides to come out of retirement.

2003-04-05T14:37:00.000-08:00

You know, The Daily Howler is a great website. If they're not part of your daily round, I highly recommend them. They have their finger on the pulse of the Kool Kidz; the journalists who treat politics and their profession as if they were all in junior high school.

2003-04-04T18:00:00.000-08:00

OK. Bartcop's up. Whew. What a relief. I was jonesin' hard.

Now, you gotta go and read this.
Here's an excerpt:
"After using the "good offices" of UN diplomacy... to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed... the "Allies"/"Coalition of the Willing"(better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!

Operation Iraqi Freedom? I don't think so. It's more like Operation Let's Run a Race, but First Let Me Break Your Knees."

2003-04-04T14:05:00.000-08:00

Here it is, two o' clock in the frickin' afternoon on the west coast, and Bartcop still hasn't updated. Get the lead out, Cop! Fer chrissakes, I'm just a slacker with a blog, but Bartcop is an institution. I'm allowed to skip days. Not BC.

2003-04-04T14:00:00.000-08:00

Here's a poll to counterfreep.

Instant Poll: Was Natalie Maines' comment out of line?
Heck no! I agree with her 127 33%
Yes, it's un-American 166 43%
Yes, but I won't burn any Dixie Chicks CDs over it 44 11%
No, but performers should stick to performing 30 8%
Don't care 16 4%

2003-04-04T09:00:00.000-08:00

You probably know by now that a hideous alien she bitch is advancing on Florida, even as we speak. According to Ms. Coulter, "swarthy, patriotic Cubans" are "the nation's best Americans." (scroll down)
Ah, Ann. She can't decide whether she wants to round up the swarthy ones or just fuck them.

2003-04-03T15:56:00.000-08:00

Welcome back, Horse.

2003-04-03T10:38:00.000-08:00

Hell, I may have to go out and buy the new Pearl Jam album. Watch for the freepertrash to start organizing Pearl Jam boycotts over this:
Incensed fans walked out of Pearl Jam's concert Tuesday after lead singer Eddie Vedder impaled a mask of President Bush on a microphone stand, then slammed it to the stage.

2003-04-03T09:11:00.000-08:00

Thanks to T-Rock over at The Funny Farm for the note about my broken archive link. It is fixed now, and you can go back and read the posts from the glory day(s), when I was actually trying to be funny.

2003-04-03T08:36:00.000-08:00

Giving a new meaning to embedded journalism.
"two western journalists were allegedly arrested, beaten up and deprived of food and water in Iraq by American armymen. Luis Castro and Victor Silva, both reporters working for RTP Portuguese television, were allegedly held for four days, had their equipment, vehicle and video tapes confiscated, and were then escorted out of Iraq by the 101st Airborne Division of US army to Kuwait City, Jeddah-based Arab News reported.

It said that despite possessing the proper 'Unilateral Journalist' accreditation issued by the Coalition Forces Central Command, both journalists were detained.

"I have covered 10 wars in the past six years in Angola, Afghanistan, Zaire, and East Timor. I have been arrested three times in Africa, but have never been subjected to such treatment or been physically beaten before," Castro said in an interview to Arab News.

"I believe the reason we were detained was because we were not embedded with the US forces," Castro said. "Embedded journalists are always escorted by military minders. What they write is controlled and, through them, the military feeds its own version of the facts to the world. When independent journalists such as us come around, we pose a threat because they cannot control what we write.""

2003-04-02T07:16:00.000-08:00

Enzyme powered batteries that run on alcohol?
Hey, it's geeky science stuff with a practical application. If I had cash, I'd find a way to invest in this, yo.

2003-04-01T12:40:00.000-08:00

It's April Fool's Day, a time when all good Americans should feel a twinge of pity for George W. Bush. Maybe you could send him an email to let him know they didn't name the day after him.

2003-03-27T11:34:00.000-08:00

2003-03-27T10:06:00.000-08:00

Hey there. Gene Lyons has a new column up, but the only line you need to remember is this one:
"Attacking Baghdad in response to 9/11 is the equivalent of attacking China to avenge Pearl Harbor."
Thank you, Gene.

2003-03-25T08:23:00.000-08:00

If you haven't been to The Funny Farm lately, you should check it out. Tom's doing good work over there. As for me, I bumble along, ambivalent about the war (ambivalent as in I'm totally against it, and I want it to be over with minimum loss of life, but I don't want it to go too easy because a quick and decisive victory would be another feather in the cap of the fraudulent boy president, and I cannot abide that), and trying to not get too caught up in my own or anybody else's opinions.
As the Third Patriarch of Zen put it, "do not seek the Truth; only cease to cherish opinions." A tall order for any political junky.

In the meantime, as we are "liberating" oppressed people abroad, we are being stifled at home. All glory to the Homeland.

2003-03-24T08:37:00.000-08:00

So, here's the plan for war without end. All glory to the Homeland.

2003-03-21T14:31:00.000-08:00

Friday again, and next week is deadline week combined with a big tradeshow which we will be covering. Forecast calls for very light blogging. Operation ~~Media Handjob~~ Iraqi Freedom will probably still be swinging when I get back to the keyboard. And how's that name for a little Bush Co. Orwellian doublespeak? Operation Clueless Warmonger would be more accurate. Operation Free Iraqi Petroleum would be spot on.

Have a good weekend, G.

2003-03-20T07:50:00.000-08:00

Stop me if you've heard this one:

President Bush and Colin Powell are sitting in a bar.
A guy walks in and asks the barman, "Isn't that Bush
and Powell sitting over there?" The barman says, "Yep,
that's them." So the guy walks over and says, "Wow,
this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in
here?"

Bush says, "We're planning WW III ." And the guy says,
"Really? What's going to happen?" Bush says, "Well,
we're going to kill a million Iraqis this time
and one blonde with big breasts.

The guy exclaimed, "A blonde with big breasts? Why
kill a blonde with big breasts?

Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and
says, "See, smart ass, I told you no one would worry
about the million Iraqis!"

2003-03-19T13:48:00.000-08:00

An important guide to dealing with terrorist attacks. For example:

"If a door is closed, karate chop it open. "

"Try to absorb as much of the radiation as possible with your groin region. After 5 minutes and 12 seconds, however, you may become sterile."

"Michael Jackson is a terrorist. If you spot this smooth criminal with dead, dead eyes, run the fuck away."

2003-03-18T15:01:00.000-08:00

Janeane Garofalo speaks the truth:

"Unfortunately though, in this country, as in many countries, there's always going to be groups of individuals who want war anyway. They like to be aggressive. They like to have an us-and-them attitude. They like to be isolationists. They like to be somewhat exclusionary and racist in their thinking anyway. If they have the opportunity to wrap it in a flag, so much the better -- you know what I'm saying?

You have a lot of people out there who are just straight-up bullies and thugs, no matter what. But if they can hide behind the flag and pretend to have the moral high ground, they are in hog heaven. They are absolutely thrilled that they can take their misguided anger, and their xenophobia, and their aggressiveness, and their belligerence, and hide behind the flag and Jesus, that is fantastic. You have a lot of right-wingers out there, and just a lot of nuts out there anyway, regardless of party affiliation or right or left affiliation, who are always eager to swing their fists and wave the flag at the same time."

2003-03-18T11:53:00.000-08:00

I have kids and I know that kids are innocent, especially the little ones. At three years, we are as honest and happy and innocent as we are ever likely to be. Despite the fact that they may be swarthy, Iraqi kids are also innocent. So when the shock and awe campaign kicks off, remember these faces.

Goddamn you, George W. Bush.

2003-03-18T10:23:00.000-08:00

No war but class war, as the anarchists say.

2003-03-17T09:14:00.000-08:00

How did I end up in a country full of idiots? According to USATODAY.com, more than half the respondents to a recent poll say France is "stabbing the U.S. in the back." Yeah, those pansy-assed frogs are against war, if you can believe that, and they've stabbed us in the back by not prostrating themselves before the intellectual might of the Bush junta.
"Mark Rozell, a political scientist at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., says the poll reflects the tendency of Americans to side with their president and military as combat draws near. "It's the classic rallying-around-the-flag. They may be uneasy about going to war, but they feel that criticizing now would be unpatriotic.""

Yeah, remember how much restraint and patriotism the GOP Senators displayed when Clinton had troops in Bosnia? Fuck that.

2003-03-14T11:29:00.000-08:00

Here's an excellent article on file sharing and why the music industry should adapt to it. It's on Salon, but no signup or any of that crap is called for.

2003-03-13T15:19:00.000-08:00

See what I mean?

2003-03-13T15:15:00.000-08:00

Another week gone and I'm nothing but a year older. Yeah, happy birthday to me, as of last Saturday. On Sunday I woke up with shoulders bearing bite marks, bruised nipples and sore thigh muscles. Remind me never to go to another meeting of Republican Women of Nevada.

I doubt that this is an original thought on my part, but it seems obvious to me that Bush and Co. are trying to damage the UN with all this Iraqi foofaraw. Bush has never missed a chance to play to his base, and his base hates and fears the United Nations.

So I'm sure that among the other objectives (avenging Daddy's failure; controlling Iraqi oil; diverting attention from the economy, etc.), damaging the credibility of the UN or otherwise retarding the organization is close to the hearts of the Bush White House.
Is it working? I don't know. Despite what look like attempts to paint the UN into a diplomatic corner on a few occasions, the other members of the UN refuse to play along. For whatever reason, the other members seem to want the United Nations to succeed. Probably because they're all commies and socialists.

2003-03-06T16:08:00.000-08:00

Yikes! Where did the last week go? Anyway, here' s a list of the year's best books. I especially liked Confessions of an Evil Cunt by Ann Coulter. Though this is good, too: "Why I Matter, by Christopher Hitchens. A British alcoholic who's switched sides in the culture wars attempts to explain his relevance to the War On Terror. Padded with page-long quotes from V.S Pritchett. "

2003-02-27T15:25:00.000-08:00

Hey, Funny Farmer, I know you're reading this.

Whenever I mention your name I throw in a link. But do you do that to me? From now on every word I write will be a link to your page . =>)
Phew. That was time consuming, especially considering it's not as funny as I thought it would be. Actually, I'm not taking kid69 to task, especially as he has a nice, prominent link to my unworthy web page.
I think it comes down to a difference in style of blogging. Tom has a great link gallery, and uses those links to good effect. I prefer to drop links into my posts, ideally as the punchline to a joke.
The late, great Suck did it the best.

Oh well, back to work.

2003-02-27T15:15:00.000-08:00

Currently listening to "The Black Regent" by Add N to (X). Reminds me of a not-quite-tuned-in but nonetheless melodic shortwave radio. Their homepage is down, so you get the Rollingstone.com page instead, lucky you.

2003-02-26T17:46:00.000-08:00

Working late again. Currently I-Tuning "Five Years" by Yo La Tengo. Transcendent guitar pop that is unbelievably good, considering it came off their first album. If I was in a band, I would be so incredibly intimidated by an exquisite first effort like Ride the Tiger. Hell, I'm NOT in a band and it's intimidating. These guys are good, and if you love rock and roll you'll go buy that album today, you hear me? You can also listen to a sample. If you have windows media player.
OK, back to work.

2003-02-26T10:39:00.000-08:00

Did I mention I fucking hate HTML tags, especially on this piece of shit blog?

Good.

2003-02-26T10:36:00.000-08:00

Let's go see what

2003-02-26T10:34:00.000-08:00

Your quote of the day, courtesy of Drinky McDumbass. "We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great country and rid the world of evil."

Yes, he really said that, completely unscathed by the metric ton of irony implicit in using death and violence to get rid of evil. What is he, a fucking action hero?

2003-02-25T18:19:00.000-08:00

More trivia since I'm supposed to be working.
Current tune: Atari Teenage Riot, "Cyberpunks are dead."

2003-02-25T14:15:00.000-08:00

File under "As If You Cared"
Current tune: Anarchy Burger (Hold the Government) by the Vandals. Juvenile, but great stuff. It's classic SoCal punk rock.

2003-02-25T12:06:00.000-08:00

Sorry about the quiet week... Yes, it's deadline time again, and I have to turn my attentions away from this mighty engine of publishing that is my Blog. Go read Bartcop, or something.

More later.

2003-02-19T10:48:00.000-08:00

Here's a shout out to Michelle over at M's News Page. Thanks for your kind words and the link.

2003-02-19T10:38:00.000-08:00

Here's a link I need to add to the link list.

Good stuff, Maynard.

2003-02-17T13:32:00.000-08:00

The funniest 404 error you'll ever see.

2003-02-13T14:24:00.000-08:00

This guy sent me a nice letter when I first started this blog, and I never wrote him back. From what I saw, his blog's not too bad, either.

2003-02-13T11:08:00.000-08:00

Twas Bushlig,

And the slithey Roves

did spin and simbol on the tube,

All cheney were the Patrilogues

and the Corpgrafts outre.



Beware the JabberJock the son

his cause to smite install'd perchance.

Beware the Rumrum urge to fun

with handshakes from the past.



He took his Nato sword in hand,

a long viagred foe was sought

and putin'd he by a crawford tree

and wondered what was thought.



As in oafish thought he brood

the JabberJock with tie of blue

came whiffeling to the UN too

with Guernica wrapped and tame.



Forty one plus two

boo hoo boo hoo

the Nato blade went eurothwack

He's left no cred that grimacing head

can liberally yell attack.



An hast thou slain the ultra hawk?

Scooter yer clubbies via rightish blog

raptures the way

frist lott delay.



Twas Bushlig,

And the slithey Roves

did spin and simbol on the tube,

All cheney were the Patrilogues

and the Corpgrafts outre.



Sean Malloy

This is from MWO's poetry page.

2003-02-13T10:12:00.000-08:00

Picked this up on one of my message boards.

Q. Why did the man cross the road?

A. He heard the chicken was a slut.

It's funny 'cause it's true. Most guys are easy, and they want an easy girl.

Mine was named Debbie. We used to hook up on an irregular basis and bang each other's brains out. It was barely a relationship, because when we got together we were too busy tearing each other's clothes off to talk about 'us.' Like the song says, we had one thing in common, we were good in bed. Ahem.

Anyway, we lost touch after I got married and moved across the country and that was good, because... well, because the close proximity of a wild fucking machine like Debbie may have been bad for my marriage during the inevitable rough spots.

A couple of weeks ago I was reading the paper and I saw a picture of Debbie. She had gotten married. At midnight. In a graveyard. The bride and groom wore black, natch.

I thought briefly about contacting her, but what would I say? "Hello sunshine. I know we haven't spoken in nine years and you just got married, but do you wanna fuck?"

No, better to let that crypt remain sealed. Goodbye, Debbie.

2003-02-12T14:57:00.000-08:00

I'm a Fukuoku 9000! I'm a little offbeat and may
fly in under the radar, but my sneakiness gets
me big results.

What kind of sex toy are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

2003-02-12T13:49:00.000-08:00

Our quote of the day, brought to you by Kurt Vonnegut:

"I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.”"

Mr. Vonnegut goes on to detail the attributes of a psychopathic personality. It's very interesting reading.

If you read Bartcop today, we're linking to the same Vonnegut interview. Bart was first, of course.

2003-02-12T08:26:00.000-08:00

Here's something interesting I picked up from a message board at Beliefnet:

Lord Arthur Ponsonby (1871-1946) wrote in "Falsehood in Wartime" about the the lies and propaganda of wartime leaders. Belgian historian Anne Morelli recently distilled Ponsonby's findings as follows:

1. We do not want war
2. The other side is solely responsible for the war
3. The enemy has the face of the devil
4. It is a noble cause that we defend and not particular interests
5. The enemy commits atrocities knowingly; if we make unfortunate mistakes it is involuntary
6. The enemy uses unauthorized weapons
7. We suffer very few losses while the losses of the enemy are enormous
8. Artists and intellectuals support our cause
9. Our cause has a sacred nature
10. Those who question our statements are traitors

Is it just me, or do all those sound eerily familiar?

2003-02-11T09:16:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure what it is, but it's called Serendipity Magnet. It's about geopolitics, drugs, religion, music and more.

2003-02-10T16:01:00.000-08:00

You know who's a certified scumbag? Michael Savage.

2003-02-10T15:40:00.000-08:00

I sent a letter to MWO asking about their new, crappy schedule. Well, crappy might be harsh. Matter of fact, their new publishing schedule is quite the opposite of crappy. It is irregular. Or at least rather constipated.

Before they took their extended break (what was it, three months?), it seemed that no matter how early I checked in each day, MWO had a new story or link up, complete with outrageous headline and breathless decks. Almost always, they updated several times a day.

Now, the pace is a bit more leisurely. Now, I'm not getting the instant gratification of a fresh hit every time I type "mediaw" in the Location bar. Far be it from me to kvetch about other people not publishing in a timely manner. I just think MWO is one of the best things going on the Internet, and I don't want to see it diminish.

Whatever they case, they didn't respond to my letter. I'd just as soon they concentrated on more updates, anyway.