Larry King is going to spend tonight wondering who might have killed Jon-Benet Ramsey. I thought about doing the same. But then I realized that that is bullshit.
What does Katrina mean to you, one year on? Sticking with my mourning of Hunter S. Thompson, I’d say the following kind of sums up how I feel about Katrina. Or rather, it summarizes the enigmatic something that is missing from the American character than allowed New Orleans to drown.
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a visciously overcrowded version of Phoenix— a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing… And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get….
* Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80s (1988)
A BEAUTIFUL DRIVE THROUGH AMERICA’S DAIRY LAND
See the cows. See the corn. See the citizens working to impeach George Bush.
The White Rose bus is on its way from California to Washington, D.C. Pat Tate, the president of VFP #116 has to be at Camp Democracy on 5 September for a reunion with Cindy Sheehan. You might remember that Cindy rode the VFP Impeachment Tour bus to Crawford, Texas last year to camp in a ditch and ask “What noble cause.”
But before that happens the Veterans for Peace Impeachment Tour will traverse Wisconsin, once the home of “Fighting Bob” LaFollette the famous progressive politician from the turn of the previous century. The bus will visit a number of gems of Wisconsin civic life to recognize the citizens for their stalwart work for peace and justice.
These citizens of small town, small city Wisconsin have been working hard to impeach George Bush and to bring the troops home. They didn’t wait for anyone’s permission. They didn’t need a well heeled not-for-profit to back them up. They saw wrong and set out to correct it. People from central Wisconsin have been going door to door collecting signatures to put impeachment and peace on the ballot. Wisconsin is a state with direct legislation. It’s a legacy of a different era – a progressive era – and era when at least some politicians were standing up for the little guy.
Now, over a hundred years later, the sons and daughters of Wisconsin have remembered where the real power lies – with the People. And, the Veterans for Peace Impeachment Tour members want to recognize and thank these people for their service. They are serving their country and neighbor well by refusing to stay quite and stay put.
Come on out, if you can. Red Wing, Pittsville, Wisconsin Rapids, Middleton,(30 August); then Watertown, South Milwaukee and Racine (31 August).
for all their railing against evolution, the Republicans and their allies on the Religious Reich are the true social Darwinists; it’s an “every man for himself” mentality, and if you’re too poor, too disabled, too old, or too young to take care of yourself, it’s obviously your own damn fault (and in the case of the Religious Reich, it’s the Will of God).
Jesus’ admonition to care for “the least of the brethren” (and sisteren) is totally lost on these folks…Matthew 25 doesn’t exist in their translation, evidently…
New site: AntiWarCandidates.com
The purpose is to make sure all the candidates are clearly on the record about their views on the war, and to make sure that the war is not sidelined in the next election as it was in the previous election…
Top GOP operative Campaign Solutions and CEO Donatelli are behind the scenes of VetsforFreedom.com, her revised Swiftboat 2.0.
ePluribusMedia investigative work Sealed with a KISS: Strange Bedfellows — Lieberman and the GOP we’ve cross-posted timelines a very public GOP strategy shift to support Joe Lieberman in CT. And set against that context, the report documents some of what was going on behind the scenes as ISupportJoe.com went Republican for one brief day, on which Lieberman lost the primary to Ned Lamont.
No website appeared there and the domain was moved elsewhere the following day. But it suggests that Joe’s concession speech that night may have gotten its inspiration from arrangements made earlier that reached across the aisle. The public face of the GOP has abandoned its own candidate since the CT primary while our work implies that shift started a week or two earlier.
Check it out here or @ ePM.
Please check out and recommend this diary about a speaker from the national office of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State coming to Columbus.
http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2006/8/29/204445/747
Even if you’re not from these parts, hopefully you’re interested in helping me get the word out that we actually have a chapter of Americans United here in Columbus. Lots of people are not aware of that fact, in spite of the organization having been around for a year.
According to The Raw Story, two attorneys representing claimants in the case have sent subpoenas to the White House Today.
I don’t know if this will mean anything since Bush and Cheney are so good at ignoring subpoenas.
Mea Culpa. I don’t read here often enough. I find this story important enough to post here: This comment over at DailyKos should be diaried by someone who has great research and writing skills.
The problem outlined would seem to be worse than just a California problem. It looks like Dennis Hastert single-handedly nullified/pre-empted the results of the CA-50 election by swearing-in Bilbray prior to certification by the San Diego County Registrar of Elections. Is this a test to see what can ‘slip under the radar’/set a precedent? This looks extremely important.
(That comment was mine.)