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2002 Clinton Library Commemorative Ornament
Friday, November 29, 2002
Hey it's the holiday season, so if you must buy lots of overpriced useless crap, why not pick up one of these lovely Christmas ornaments courtesy of the Clinton Presidental Center. I'd tape little pictures of Ken Starr and Monica Lewinsky to mine. They belong together, don't you think?
Thanks, Politics in the Zeros :)
Bush the First sells the same kind of shit too.
You can also go to WhiteHouseChristmas.com.
Must. . . buy. . . $500 Teddy Roosevelt nutcracker!
Arctic Perennial Sea Ice - Gone By End of the Century?
Friday, November 29, 2002
A NASA study finds that perennial sea ice in the Arctic is melting faster than previously thought-at a rate of 9 percent per decade. If these melting rates continue for a few more decades, the perennial sea ice will likely disappear entirely within this century, due to rising temperatures and interactions between ice, ocean and the atmosphere that accelerate the melting process.
The Big Thaw accelerates.
Study reveals climate change in Western Canada
Warming study indicates water problems in the West
It will be interesting to see the population shifts on the North American continent in the next fifty years. If you live in the Southwest, your grandkids are probably going to have to find somewhere else to live. Climate change will no doubt result in the splintering and breakup of many geographically large nations including the United States, I suspect.
At War No More
Friday, November 29, 2002
This is a fascinating article on the role of cartoons in political propoganda.
The old modes of armed international conflict were forever buried in the radioactive rubble of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From then on, the possibility that the next war would be the last moved out of the realm of science fiction and into our waking nightmares. Popeye might be able to stop a tank, or Daffy Duck a Nazi goat, but nothing could survive a rain of missiles, any one of which could incinerate hundreds of thousands of people in one swift nuclear flash.
It is certain that the Vietnam/Watergate era once and for all crushed the faith of U.S. citizens in it's elected officials underfoot. Cartoon figures pushing for war with Iraq would seem utterly ridiculous to us understandably cynical civilians.
Here's more on cartoons and political propoganda.
A Thanksgiving Prayer by William S. Burroughs
Thursday, November 28, 2002
Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.
Bush rules could speed up commercial forest projects
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
The Bush administration is poised to release new rules as soon as today to speed logging and other development in the nation's forests by weakening a requirement that the Forest Service must maintain viable populations of sensitive wildlife.
It's payback time for Bush's corporate masters as the war on the environment rolls out like a bulldozer. What else can we expect when the Forest Service is being run by a former timber lobbyist?
The Bush/Cheney checklist:
Gut the Clean Air Act? Done.
Gut the Clean Water Act? Done.
Keep the public in the dark about pollution? Done.
Oil and gas drilling in National Parks? Done.
Now look the other way! Over there! Saddam Hussein!
(Dick Cheney and Jabba the Hutt - Separated at birth?)
Face transplants 'possible within a year'
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
I don't know if I'd be comfortable with a replacement face from a dead person, but I suspect that face transplants combined with silastic implants could be big with criminals and spies.
Live Nude Ghouls!
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
The staff of the Liquid Assets lounge in South Plainfield says a gaggle of go-go loving ghouls invaded their burlesque hall after the club's owners spotted an otherworldly image on a security video last summer.
Can Catholic priests exorcise strip clubs? Sinners!
Iluminatornia Gnosis - Zdzislaw Beksinski
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
Maybe he appeals to the scorched wasteland of my soul.
Maybe I just like the fact that his art vaguely reminds me of album covers by crappy 80's metal bands like Dio and Iron Maiden.
You know how much I like bones and graves. . .
True to the image of his work, Beksinski is a secluded man. He does not appear in public, and does not exhibit his paintings. When museums or collectors exhibit them he does not show up. He works on his paintings twelve hours a day against a background of classical music. They are always painted on hardboard, signed on the back, and they bear no titles.
I wonder, sometimes, if they have private hells as deep and black as mine.
Harvard Mulls Offensive Speech Ban
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
Members of the Black Law Students Association, which called for the policy, say it is possible to curb chronically offensive behavior without infringing on the First Amendment.
Bullshit. If we don't have free speech in our universities, then where can we have it? Sorry folks, free speech applies to everyone, not just people we like. You can't have it both ways. That's the entire point of the First Amendment.
When law students start sounding like Ari Fleischer, consider me scared. I guess that's why so many of them end up as politicians.
Pending offensive speech ban creates stir
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