Monday, December 30, 2002
02:40 p.m.

What does your garbage say about you? Who's looking in your garbage? Wouldn't it be fun to look in the Mayor's garbage?

Friday, December 27, 2002
11:24 a.m.

Fewer people are trusting Our President, George W. Bush.

Funny thing is, this CNN/Time poll only appeared in Time magazine, even though it seems to be a dramatic shift.

Dubya got a nine point drop in just one month, Nov.-Dec., giving him a 55% approval rating. Maybe people have begun to wonder what kind of a world would this be if Dubya were king over all. But it's still disturbing that 55% of us would consider that and think, "Sure, he can be my ruler any day!"

Thursday, December 26, 2002
11:13 a.m.

"It's safe to assume that, before he flushed his reputation down the toilet, Trent Lott had absolutely no idea what a blog was."

Monday, December 23, 2002
10:34 p.m.

Fuck.

Saturday, December 21, 2002
01:22 a.m.

"Hey listen, I got a gift to give to the world -- my music. Not to you, but to the world! That's why I call myself 'Shooby Taylor, the Human Horn'! Because I got feelings like everyone else! I'm talking about the nursing home, the people where I live. They expect a lot from me. They expect me to laugh all the time? Sometimes I don't speak, because I already spoke when I came in. I got a personal life! I'm not yelling at you or Rick or my fans at the radio station -- but at people who don't think I'm human. I'm the Human Horn!"

Hanging out with Shooby Taylor, the Human Horn.

Wednesday, December 18, 2002
12:42 p.m.

$10,000 Reward For Information Leading To The Identification Of The Eli Lilly Bandit

In November, as Congress finalized the legislation authorizing a new Department of Homeland Security, two paragraphs suddenly appeared in the bill giving drug maker Eli Lilly & Company something it desired: a shield from lawsuits by parents who claim the company's vaccines caused their children's autism.

Wednesday, December 18, 2002
12:33 p.m.

A math problem: If the major labels cut production 25%, and the amount of CDs bought dropped 10.3%, then how many music pirates are able to dance on the head of a pin?

After keeping the figure rather quiet for two years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says the industry released around 27,000 titles in 2001, down from a peak of 38,900 in 1999. Since year-on-year unit sales have dropped a mere 10.3 per cent, it's clear that demand has held up extremely well: despite higher prices, consumers retain the CD buying habit.

Increasingly hysterical comments from RIAA chairperson and chief random-number-generator Hilary Rosen suggest that many billions of potential sales have been lost.

Wednesday, December 18, 2002
11:04 a.m.

FBI warning of new terrorist-like acts by the antiwar movement.

Was that Johnny Taliban who spray painted "LIES" on Gazette paper boxes?

Tuesday, December 17, 2002
04:16 p.m.

... then smoke began seeping from Ari's ears as he started yelling in a suddenly mechanical voice, "BRAIN... UNIT... MALFUNCTIONING... CANNOT... CHANGE... FACTS..."

Monday, December 16, 2002
12:10 p.m.

Oh, the greedy lower-class working poor, always getting a free ride, and never paying as much tax as the poor rich. If only Our President could think of a way to shift the burden...

Friday, December 13, 2002
10:19 p.m.

Every now and then you come across a news story on the web that, well, it makes you wonder. It stops you cold. You start laughing, and then you think, no, this isn't an Onion story. It's no Weekly World News. You look at the headline, the headline... and you wonder, are there details that could follow that I might not want to read about, but I still have to read anyway?

Police Scan Alleged Internet Sex Cannibal's Videos

Friday, December 13, 2002
05:12 p.m.

Bad Days

Oh, shit. I just notice that it's Friday the 13th and it's late already. So above is a link of videos of people who seem to be having a bad day. Or maybe a bad life. Or are just on bad drugs.

I've been feeling like the Winnebago CEO a lot lately.

Friday, December 13, 2002
12:15 p.m.

Paula Zahn gets a lesson in how the government manipulates the media.

MARGOLIS: Paula, there is no doubt there is a large amount of VX nerve agent, the most advanced form that is and remains missing. The Iraqis say that they don't know where it is, or what happened to it. It is a big question mark. Whether Iraq sold it to al Qaeda through a third party as the story goes, I'm skeptical about that.

ZAHN: Why?

MARGOLIS: Well, as Winston Churchill said, truth is the first casualty of war, and we're getting a lot of sort of pro-war leaks and stories comes out of the government and other interested sources.

ZAHN: Wait, wait, wait a minute, Eric. This is a story that the Bush administration won't even confirm. They are saying they can't corroborate it. You are not suggesting that a member of the administration floated this story to the "Washington Post" are you?

MARGOLIS: Well, it seems to me to be a planted story that has come from someone in the administration, and when they don't have a hard story with facts and figures to it, they simply say, Well, we can't really deny or confirm it, we don't know it's true. But the net effect of this is that people who listen to the news here and say, Yes, Iraq is applying chemical or biological weapons to terrorist groups.

Thursday, December 12, 2002
02:08 p.m.

Stanley Crouch beats on Trent Lott

I met Crouch when he was a guest instructor at WMU in 1990. He's cranky, opinionated and has a great way with words.

Now there is plenty of talk, because Lott went to the microphone last weekend and let his collar slip, revealing the deep crimson in his neck.

Crouch lists various other red-necked views that Lott has spewed. Things like calling the Civil War a "war of Northern aggression."

Wednesday, December 11, 2002
04:06 p.m.

Dear World, we've got a little problem on the dubyadubyadubya, pleas bear with us and know that many of us here recognize the problem an are seeing what we can do to fix it. Thank you.

Wednesday, December 11, 2002
11:39 a.m.

I laughed, but it's really not funny...

In November 1980, following a speech by Strom Thurmond at a campaign rally in Mississippi for Ronald Reagan, Trent Lott told the crowd that "You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today."

Found on Cursor.org.

Friday, December 6, 2002
04:49 p.m.

"I said I wan -- I wan -- I wanna make you my, my chromium bitch..."

New Wave late '70s recorded in parents' basement. Gary Wilson captured a sound, an attitude that would've fit in on more progressive FM stations, except that he was a little... well, he recorded it in his parents' basement.

Found myself here, and that led me to listen here.

Thursday, December 5, 2002
10:30 a.m.

You heard Henry Flynt on SwaG! last night. In this bio written by Eugene Chadbourne -- obviously influneced by Flynt -- we find that he worked with the Velvet Underground and Yoko Ono, so he wasn't just some babbling freak. Much more here.

So who's a freak? Could a popular recording artist seem freakier than Flynt? Sure.

Reporters peppered the 44-year-old entertainer – who balanced on a crutch because he says his foot is swollen due to a spider bite – with questions but he only answered with a faint "Merry Christmas."

Wednesday, December 4, 2002
11:53 a.m.

I wrote the following as a post to a Plastic story on Sony's new plans to make a copy-protected CD. The Sony CD would need Sony softwear to play, and it would need to be registered on the Sony Web world to be heard on your computer, all for the low, low price of $19.68.

There's something wrong with the Plastic site, I can't post this there, but you know I got's to post it somewhere:

$19.68!?!?!? For a crippled CD?

This is all a good thing, musical culture wise. Independent labels that put out old-fashioned wide-open CDs will rise to the top, bringing along artists that will revitalize the moribund music world.

The same thing happened when ASCAP had what it thought was a monopoly and got uptight about alowing its music to be heard on the radio in the 1930s-1950s. ASCAP began charging insane fees to stations. They used the same type of argument as today's labels -- if people are going to hear our music for free, then they aren't going to buy it. BMI came along as an alternative.

From here:

When ASCAP announced yet another large increase for 1939, broadcasters took action and by the following year had established their own licensing organization, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). On 1 January 1941, as BMI labored to build a catalog, most stations stopped paying their ASCAP fees and restricted themselves to the airing of songs with expired copyrights and folk songs that had always been in the public domain. Stephen Foster melodies, such as "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," became radio staples.

To ASCAP's chagrin, no groundswell of indignation arose from the radio audience. Further, singers and instrumentalists replaced much of their repertoire with non-ASCAP material in order to keep their lucrative and visibility-enhancing radio bookings. Many performers switched from playing tunes by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin, to using non-ASCAP music from South America--a key factor behind the sudden 1940s popularity of the rhumba, samba, and tango. Combined with government antitrust pressure, these factors resulted in ASCAP's agreeing to offer per-program as well as blanket license fees and the rollback of rates to about half of what they had been collecting.

By the mid-1950s, the number of BMI tunes played over U.S. radio stations had come to parity with those licensed by ASCAP. Most of BMI's success was attributable to the explosion of rock and roll--a pulsating blend of rhythm and blues, country, and gospel music penned by songwriters outside of ASCAP's traditional constituency. BMI scooped up these composers and rode the rock-and-roll wave to dominance on many Top 40-format stations.

Well, BMI didn't exactly ride the wave, they helped cause it. ASCAP also was to blame. Stations could've played Sinatra singing Porter, something nice and safe, but it was cheaper to play Jerry Lee Lewis. The simple force of money helped to transform musical culture thanks to a monopoly's simplistic thinking.

Wednesday, December 4, 2002
11:05 a.m.

"We have ways of dealing with those clowns," Kissinger said.

Kissinger and Rumsfeld had some troubles working with each other back in the Ford administration. Could Kissinger fuck Rummy up with the 9/11 commission?Ÿ

Tuesday, December 3, 2002
04:40 p.m.

Target: Ratfink!

We, the public, need to do our own test of the Total Information Awareness system.

The SF Weekly's column by Matt Smith in the Dec 3 issue points out that there may be some information that John M. and Linda Poindexter of 10 Barrington Fare, Rockville, MD, 20850, may be missing in their pursuit of total information awareness. He suggests that people with information to offer should phone +1 301 424 6613 to speak with that corrupt official and his wife. Neighbors Thomas E. Maxwell, 67, at 8 Barringon Fare (+1 301 251 1326), James F. Galvin, 56, at 12 (+1 301 424 0089), and Sherrill V. Stant (nee Knight) at 6, may also lack some information that would be valuable to them in making decisions -- decisions that could affect the basic civil rights of every American.

Sunday, December 1, 2002
12:12 p.m.

Bush leave some of the children behind...

The Bush administration asked a federal claims court today to seal documents relating to hundreds of claims that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines, thimerosal, has caused autism and other neurological disorders in children.

Lawyers for the Justice Department asked for the protective order on behalf of Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, whose department administers a government fund to compensate people injured by vaccines....

"We're dealing with real injury to real children in a program that is funded by taxpayer dollars," said Michael R. Hugo, a Boston lawyer. "It is unbelievable to me that the president of the United States, in the name of trying to help the drug industry, would put the interests of the drug industry over the interests of neurologically impaired sick children and their parents."

Today's move comes on the heels of another controversy involving thimerosal.

Congressional Republicans inserted a provision into the domestic security bill, signed into law on Monday by President Bush, that is intended to protect Eli Lilly, thimerosal's manufacturer, from lawsuits over the preservative. The provision would force families to seek compensation through the vaccine court instead of civil courts.

Friday, November 29, 2002
02:24 p.m.

Some things I found:

Bomb Stunt

Fuck Hiphop

All from BoingBoing.

Friday, November 29, 2002
01:42 p.m.

The "Get Your War On" guy was here Sunday doing his book tour. He said he might not continue the strip.

Looks like he found some more inspiration: "Henry Kissinger? Jesus Christ, are we fucking MOVING BACKWARDS IN TIME???"

Wednesday, November 27, 2002
12:13 p.m.

And now for something completely stupid: Brak's Headkicker. Help Zorak kick Cloneborg in his robot crotch.

Wednesday, November 27, 2002
10:51 a.m.

It was "give me liberty or give me death," but now there's a third choice, "give me the comforting, all-seeing eye of the Homeland."

It can only be called Orwellian.

And here's a little thing about why it's so creepy that they used that image for their logo. It's as bad as when George Bush I used the phrase "New World Order."

Tuesday, November 26, 2002
03:25 p.m.

Schools and textbooks hiding the fact that George Washington had what every man has... a prominent fob.

I never noticed it before. Novelist Henry James did, but that's not surprizing.

You don't know what a fob is? Heh-heh.

Tuesday, November 26, 2002
11:40 a.m.

Who Should Jesus Punch?

Tuesday, November 26, 2002
11:05 a.m.

Who Would Jesus Slap Upside The Head?

Monday, November 25, 2002
07:42 p.m.

Bollywood album covers

Monday, November 25, 2002
07:12 p.m.

Scary random image.

It's a record cover. 1969. For children.

Thursday, November 21, 2002
12:44 p.m.

Bill O'Reilly takes on newspaper pinhead. What an asshole.

Wednesday, November 20, 2002
11:03 a.m.

Get Your War On's In the Motherfucking House! David Reese, the guy behind the comic that captures war histeria with clip art and profanities, will be at The Space this Sunday, Nov. 24, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, November 19, 2002
12:23 p.m.

The Cranky Lil' Clip Art Guy explains why we're going to war.

Monday, November 18, 2002
03:27 p.m.

Who's side is Our President on? Pharmacutical companies' or kids' who might get autism from the mercury in vacines? No matter what, it's a very important part of Homeland Security.

Monday, November 18, 2002
10:07 a.m.

Our Arrogant President

"I do not need to explain why I say things. — That's the interesting thing about being the President. — Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."

Monday, November 18, 2002
09:51 a.m.

"The D Man" sent me this poem:

the late child of ladey slavey

i've got guano on my radio (accidentally)
I've exited (excited) empty ballrooms of

he saw open caterpillars

some sort of exploding dildo thing walks
among the fish headed

"what an incredible
flying machine[!]"

working on an new sort
bad trans a lation (translocation)

forgotten scales of music enter
in the time signatures of the
space men (SQUID
he plays the p(neo) MEN ATTACK
bad entrance !)
great exit wound

Friday, November 15, 2002
02:59 p.m.

Now that I'm looking for stuff...

Behold the Power of Soy Sauce

Speaking of thoth, er, sauce, or Thoth, here's the site of Thoth, who you heard on Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2 on the last SwaG!.

I said I wished I could show you his picture. Well, here he is. You can even see Thoth in action Oh my god. I hope he has something on under that loin cloth -- wait, he answers that in his FAQ.

Friday, November 15, 2002
02:42 p.m.

Parrot-sucker love: "Awrkk-arwkk-a-arkwkk-awrhkk"

I realize that I haven't posted much lately, and what I do post are bitter political rantings. Thanks to Mister Pants, I can stay on-task to providing SwaG! listeners with the information they need.

Wednesday, November 13, 2002
12:54 p.m.

We're doomed. Bill Moyers sez so.

Sunday, November 10, 2002
12:33 p.m.

The future of radio: Top song on Radio Disney is by a Disney Channel actress under contract to a Disney label.

Monday, November 4, 2002
10:46 a.m.

I caught part of this Saturday. Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" slams CNN, on CNN. Here's CNN's transcript, here's color commentary on Pundit Pap.

Howie: So you don't, you're not confusing yourself with a quote, "real journalist"?

Jon: No. You guys are!

Howie [dismissing the truth]: You're just making fun...

Jon [hammering home the point]: "You guys are confusing yourselves with real journalists.

Howie: Oh boy, you're loaded for bear today.

Jon: Instead of putting on shows like CROSSFIRE and GOTCHA and I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS With Tucker Carlson and LET'S BEAT UP THE SHORT GUY. That was just one that I...

Howie: I'm glad you're at least watching too much CNN, Jon.

Jon: I am watching it constantly. It's driving me insane. Make the ticker stop! You're in the middle of a damn sniper story, and all of a sudden underneath it, you know, "Liza Minnelli's first VH1 show to air."

Howie: There's a new thing out called...

Jon: What?

Howie [in a maddening display of idiotic defensiveness]: There's a new thing out called remote control. We'll have to get you one.

Jon: But you're the NEWS! That works for entertainment. People need YOU! Help us! Help us!

Howie: Thank you for making us feel needed, Jon Stewart. Thanks for sharing.

Thursday, October 31, 2002
10:46 a.m.

Apocalypse Cow

Tuesday, October 29, 2002
11:19 a.m.

This Wednesday, the Zombie Guano presents... SwaG! Halloween!

That's right, Bat is rejoining the living, even though the laws of man and nature should have fed him to the worms long ago...

Tuesday, October 29, 2002
11:14 a.m.

SwaG! Crap Store back in bizniz with SwaG! stickers.

These should be better than the crap I've been making myself. Cheap, $1.99. No markup, so no profit. I just wanted real SwaG! stickers.

And Cafepress sez: Our stickers are printed on 4mil vinyl using water and UV resistant inks – meaning no fading in the sun or bleeding in the rain.

Friday, October 11, 2002
01:45 p.m.

So, are we all ready for the big war?

Yay. Our senator Stabenow voted against the war resolution. But she was in the minority.

But, as Our President said, war is not inevitable. So what's the big worry? Maybe in the days to come, he'll be too busy campaigning around the country at taxpayer expense to start the war. And in that time, Saddam will croak of a heart attack and we'll have a new democracy in Iraq. Maybe.

Thursday, October 10, 2002
03:44 p.m.

MP3 downloads of illegal songs.

Songs like "Happy Birthday To You.

Yes, the song the entire Western world sings at birthday parties is actually owned by a large corporation, and every time someone sings it in public without permission, it is an infringement of copyright. The song’s tune was published by schoolteachers Mildred and Patty Hill in 1893 as "Good Morning to All" in their book Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Children began singing it at birthday parties but with words they came up with themselves, which is how folk music typically develops. Nevertheless, the song–lyrics and all–is now owned by AOL Time Warner, the largest entertainment company on earth, and the corporation aggressively defends its property.

Wednesday, October 9, 2002
03:29 p.m.

Now, you all stop it!!! SpongeBob SquarePants is not gay! Now Squidward, maybe...

Wednesday, October 9, 2002
01:15 p.m.

More people telling us that Bush is feeding us bullshit on Iraq.

Who are these people, hippy peacenicks, Baghdad Janes? No, they're members of the Bush administration, intellegence agencies and military officers.

These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses -- including distorting his links to the al-Qaida terrorist network -- have overstated the amount of international support for attacking Iraq and have downplayed the potential repercussions of a new war in the Middle East.

They charge that the administration squelches dissenting views and that intelligence analysts are under intense pressure to produce reports supporting the White House's argument that Saddam poses such an immediate threat to the United States that pre-emptive military action is necessary.

"Analysts at the working level in the intelligence community are feeling very strong pressure from the Pentagon to cook the intelligence books," said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A dozen other officials echoed his views in interviews.

No one who was interviewed disagreed.

Monday, October 7, 2002
12:05 p.m.

Do what for God?

Friday, October 4, 2002
11:52 a.m.

Byrd rocks the muthafunkin' house, booyyyeee!

Wednesday, October 2, 2002
03:24 p.m.

Now they've gone too far: RIAA Sues Radio Stations For Giving Away Free Music

Wednesday, October 2, 2002
12:40 p.m.

Again, radio sucks, and will continue to sukck.

Interesting bit here: Seems that with the cost cutting and grabbing of monies, radio programmers aren't getting the payoffs from the "indie promoters," or those who channel legal payola. I don't know who to feel sorry for, here. Sucks to be an addict when your supply dries up.

Radio programmers also used to be able to get their seminar registrations paid for by indie promoters, but now, as Clear Channel properties, stations no longer had access to that money since CEO Randy Michaels had it all flowing directly into Clear Channel's San Antonio headquarters.

Anyway, why not support real independent radio by going to the Barking Tuna Festival this Saturday? The line-up goes like this:

The Monokulators
Geoff White
Tracy and The Plastics
Bob Log III
Crooked Fingers
J-Live
Spoon

The Monokulators hit the stage at 5 p.m. I'd recommend you see them. Punk rock with costumes. Kinda funny, kinda scary, just like SwaG!. And of course you've got to see Bob Log III. WIDR disk jockeys will be spinning the tunes between sets. I, your radio friend Bat Guano, will be playing SwaG! after Bob Log. I'm excited.

Wednesday, October 2, 2002
11:22 a.m.

Call your rep. today! With all this Iraq stuff, people might have forgotten about another important issue facing congress.

Tuesday, October 1, 2002
10:29 a.m.

We don't need to prove anything, but we got to get rid of Saddam now, Now, NOW!!!

Publicly, President Bush's officials are touting reports that al-Qaida operatives have found refuge in Baghdad and that Iraq once helped them develop chemical weapons. Privately, government intelligence sources are hedging on that subject, suggesting there might be less than meets the eye.

Did Iraq really kick out U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said? No. "We made the decision to evacuate," says Charles Duelfer, who was deputy chairman of the U.N. inspection agency at the time.

And might Iraq really have nuclear weapons "fairly soon," as Vice President Dick Cheney alleges? That depends on the definition of soon, Cheney acknowledges, and no one outside Iraq really knows how close Baghdad is to that point...

But Rumsfeld says all the United States can do is present the risks as best they can be determined, not nail them down beyond a reasonable doubt. "Our goal is not to go into a court of law and try to prove something to somebody," he said.

Saturday, September 28, 2002
04:06 p.m.

Norman Rockwell's son is a freak. "There's what we can hope for after centuries of television."

Saturday, September 28, 2002
02:43 p.m.

Okay, I'm a sucker. The photo of Our President holding a book upsidedown is a fake.

Now if Bush would just give us the truth about the International Atomic Energy Agency reports on Iraq's alleged nuclear weapons capability that the IAEA claim never existed.

Let's all stop being suckers.

Saturday, September 28, 2002
01:20 p.m.

Lucia Pamela goes to outer space, (1904-2002).

Saturday, September 28, 2002
02:02 a.m.

Get Your War On's from the '80s. Now I know what it feels like when doves cry.

Friday, September 27, 2002
02:19 p.m.

Disturbing Auctions

Thursday, September 26, 2002
09:01 p.m.

But, but, but he gassed his own people!

Since Baghdad's deployment of chemical arms in war as well as peace was known at the time, the question is: What did the US government do about it then? Nothing. Worse, so strong was the hold of the pro-Iraq lobby on the Republican administration of President Ronald Reagan, it succeeded in getting the White House to frustrate the Senate's attempt to penalize Baghdad for violating the Geneva Protocol on Chemical Weapons, which it had signed. This led Saddam to believe that Washington was firmly on his side--a conclusion that paved the way for his invasion of Kuwait and the 1991 Gulf War, the full consequences of which have yet to play themselves out.

Wednesday, September 25, 2002
02:47 p.m.

"The National Security Strategy of the United States -- 2002" which Cheney and Wolfowitz have been peddling since Bush I, is "not acceptable... repellent, unnecessary and, above all, impractical... creepy, un-American... nuts... tricked out with rhetoric like earrings on a pig... reckless, hateful and ineffective...."

All the experts tell us anti-Americanism thrives on the perception that we are arrogant, that we care nothing for what the rest of the world thinks. Even our innocent mistakes are often blamed on obnoxious triumphalism. The announced plan of this administration for world domination reinforces every paranoid, anti-American prejudice on this earth. This plan is guaranteed to produce more terrorists. Even if this country were to become some insane, 21st century version of Sparta -- armed to teeth, guards on every foot of our borders -- we would still not be safe. Have the Israelis been able to stop terrorism with their tactics?

I don't know... is it just me, that I feel like shrieking like some indignant left-wing liberal at least a few times a day? Oh, you thought I was a left-wing liberal. You should know, I hate those damned hippies who got us Bush by going for Nader. And their damned street puppets aren't going to change jack. And you should know I voted for John McCain during the primaries, mainly because if he'd won, I wouldn't have felt like shrieking like some indignant left-wing liberal at least a few times a day.

Tuesday, September 24, 2002
12:54 p.m.

SHOOBY TAYLOR HAS BEEN FOUND!!!

The Human Horn had a stroke a few years ago, lives in a nursing home, but he's lucid -- as lucid as he ever was, probably -- and is happy to know that everybody loves him, except for those suckers at the Apollo long ago.

Go direct to the realaudio interview, featuring some never-heard Shooby cuts.

SHOO-DEELOO FVWEEBE, PHUH!

Tuesday, September 24, 2002
12:22 p.m.

Remember how they made fun of President Ford because he tripped a couple times? Or when Carter was attacked by that rabbit? Or when Clinton was found to be just way too horny? Remember? Do you remember?

All I can say is, we got this saying in Michigan: "Fool me-you can't get fooled again."

Sunday, September 22, 2002
03:59 p.m.

Saw The Dirtbombs at the Club Soda Friday night. They were the epitome of all that is good and fun and lewd and loud in rock and roll.

Will they and their dirty Detroit bretheren and sisteren be all over the radio in a short time? Will they save rock and roll? Who knows. But in times of war and economic hardship, popular culture always takes an interesting turn or two.

Sunday, September 22, 2002
01:23 p.m.

Here's the plan for the future from September 2000, as put together by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wofowitz, Jeb Bush (how the fuck did he get into this? Oh that's right, Florida...) and Lewis Libby: First we piss off the world, then we go to war with it. Or maybe first we go to war...

It says: 'The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.'

So if Saddam was, say, shot in the head by a coup of Kurds, we'd still step in to keep thing secure. Or if he was shot in the head by Communists, Islamists, Socialists, Jeffersonian Democrats, Amish, etc...

It also calls for the US to 'fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars' as a 'core mission'.

That's what's called "world war."

...spotlights China for 'regime change' saying 'it is time to increase the presence of American forces in southeast Asia'. This, it says, may lead to 'American and allied power providing the spur to the process of democratisation in China'

That's what's called "new-clear war."

...hints that, despite threatening war against Iraq for developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may consider developing biological weapons -- which the nation has banned -- in decades to come. It says: 'New methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal', biological -- will be more widely available ... combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ... advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool'

Specific genotypes like just the genes of Saddam, or just the genes of Middle-Eastern-looking men? That's what's called "geno-cide."

Friday, September 20, 2002
11:37 a.m.

Oh, yes, the fifty-first state! It'll be just like Texas, big and full of oil.

Friday, September 20, 2002
11:36 a.m.

Vanished Kalamazoo

Damn, I miss Missia's.

Wednesday, September 18, 2002
01:28 p.m.

Oh my god. It was Jimmy Carter, not Ronald Reagan, who brought down the Soviet Union.

Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said that we suckered the Russkies into their own Vietnam: Afghanistan. That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Wednesday, September 18, 2002
01:20 p.m.

Sorority Girls Ate My Brain

Tuesday, September 17, 2002
10:44 a.m.

So, do you really know what bullshit tastes like? Lies and assumptions on Iraq inspectors and Shoney's "prank". When the news won't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Saturday, September 14, 2002
11:26 a.m.

It's time to call bullshit bullshit. There's too many damned questions raising doubt over Bush's pushing us into war.

Sure, we should go after the bastards who attacked us. But, no matter how much of a bastard Saddam is, that wasn't Iraq. We have a gun trained on Saddam, we have since August of 1990. If he tries anything, bam. But Bush and Cheney say we gots to shoot now. Weeks, not months. Preferably before November elections. Give congress a chance for debate, just ignore the pressure of war frenzy and the coming election.

Friday, September 13, 2002
11:38 a.m.

Why war now? Well, maybe the real war won't happen until 2004.

Thursday, September 12, 2002
08:23 p.m.

Rap fans! Go to see Ill Mitch! He come to this country to rap and ride skateboard and hit boxing bag. Some are mad when rap, but he is fun!

Thursday, September 12, 2002
01:28 p.m.

Says Who? Says God.

Here's a clueÑif they say they're doing it in my name, they're lying. ÑGod

Thursday, September 12, 2002
01:13 p.m.

Heh, heh, heh.

Scientists Grow Penises in Lab

Heh, heh.

Thursday, September 12, 2002
12:45 a.m.

Some confused listener thought that Negativland was no more, or being sued, or something, because of something on their web site. There's nothing like that there, but there is God Nose, some new project that you can download. Hmmm... who's nose is that? The answer may be blowin' in the wind.

Wednesday, September 11, 2002
01:27 p.m.

Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon Conspiracy Theorist

Buzz is 72, the other guy 37.

He punched him to the moon, I heard.

Wednesday, September 11, 2002
01:21 p.m.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists points out the bullshit coming from Bush and Cheney. Tubes going to Iraq don't mean they're going to have the bomb anytime soon.

Wednesday, September 11, 2002
12:48 p.m.

Last year -- scroll to Sept. 11 post.

Monday, September 9, 2002
09:54 a.m.

Would Bush tell us anything to get us into a war? His daddy did.

But all of Dubya's men are looking hard. Will they find the smoking gun, or in this case, the gun which might be smoking if Saddam was crazy enough to shoot it sometime in the near or far future? Can they depend on our intelligence sources to find that evidence, no matter what?

Senior U.S. officials with access to top-secret intelligence on Iraq say they have detected no alarming increase in the threat that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein poses to American security and Middle East stability.

But some top officials, notably Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, argue that American intelligence can't be counted on to spot Iraqi nuclear, biological or chemical weapons breakthroughs in time to defend against them. Therefore, Cheney, Rumsfeld and other officials say, the United States has no choice but to remove Saddam before he can use such weapons or give them to terrorists.

In other words, the argument is still "we gotta go to war because Saddam might do something bad."

Sunday, September 8, 2002
11:01 a.m.

"I don’t know what more evidence we need," Bush said as he greeted Blair for a brainstorming session on Iraq. "We owe it to future generations to deal with this problem."

How about evidence that's RIGHT? Saturday morning, a 1998 report said Iraq was six months away from nuclear weapons. That's what Bush said, anyway.

Saturday night, the White House says that was a "missstatement." That Iraq was six to 12 months away from nuclear weapons before the 1991 war, and "based on all credible information available to date ... the IAEA has found no indication of Iraq having achieved its programme goal of producing nuclear weapons or of Iraq having retained a physical capability for the production of weapon-useable nuclear material or having clandestinely obtained such material."

Jackass. And I say jackass because this idiot is pushing for a major war and he can't even get his facts straight. Or else he's just feeding us shit.

Saturday, September 7, 2002
04:48 p.m.

You are going to go see The Dirtbombs at the Club Soda Friday, Sept. 20, right? With KPOWW and The Breaks, right?

Are you still kicking yourself for missing The White Stripes when they played Harvey's (RIP)?

Note--this is a correction. I got my weeks mixed up. They aren't playing this Friday.

Saturday, September 7, 2002
12:42 p.m.

Read about WMFU, New Jersey independent, non-commercial, freeform station.

They actually broke free of the college that was their host.

Shortly before the closing of Upsala College on May 31, 1995, WFMU purchased the license from them, and is now fully independent. This meant a whole new layer of ghastly new expenses, but it also meant great new opportunities for high media subversion.

They live off of nothing but listener donations. They do have the advantage of broadcasting to the dense population of NYC, but still, it's good to know that someone out there is showing that they can do good with a format that's a lot like SwaG!.

And yes, you can hear their stream on the Web. From their site:

We   Won't   Stop   Streaming   Until   They   Pry   The   Mouse   From   Our   Cold   Dead   Fingers.

Saturday, September 7, 2002
11:26 a.m.

If he put it on his Web site, it must be true. Bob Log III to play a certain festival in Kalamazoo.

Saturday, September 7, 2002
10:43 a.m.

Ah, a clean slate. Go here for the last post.