Cowboy up!

Yankees suck. :)

How much for thee girls?

I found this blurb in an article about prostitutes and strippers converging on the DNC interesting.

"We are looking for more girls right now," said Frank Caswell, who runs the Foxy Lady club outside Boston. "Obviously, hospitality and beauty are expected and the girls must bring something that is enticing to see."

The Foxy Lady is in Providence, 50 miles "outside" of Boston.

I know it's not politically correct...

But would the use of the phase "They got jewed" be appropriate in this case?

Canada's broadcast regulator has approved Qatar-based news channel al-Jazeera for the country's digital cable TV market, but with censorship rules that are so stringent it is unlikely to be carried in this country, say television executives.

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved al-Jazeera for digital distribution last week, but accepted demands from Jewish groups that the network be censored for anti-Israel and anti-Jewish comment.

I guess anti-arab coverage is still OK.

Back in the mid-90s, who did business with US-sanctioned, and charter member of the Axis of Evil, Iran?

Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney, that's who.

Progressives to Nader: Fuck you

Some leading progressives have issued a well reasoned open letter endorsing a vote for John Kerry in swing states and the Green Party's David Cobb anywhere else.

Notably absent from this letter was any mention of Ralph Nader. I know that some of the authors didn't vote for Nader in 2000, but the real slap in the face comes from Elizabeth Horton Sheff. You probably don't know who she is, but her name is very familiar to Green Party insiders because she's constantly elected to the Hartford (CT.) City Council, and Greens have the utmost respect for their own who hold public office. Elizabeth is also a wonderful lady and great speaker; I met her when she was invited to speak at a Green Party of Rhode Island meeting a couple years back. Being a black person in a political party that's practically lily white, she discussed how Greens need to convey their message so that the masses can understand it, and not just other like-minded political wonks.

Elizabeth Horton Sheff, a dyed in green office holder and political activist, has turned her back on Nader. This speaks volumes about what Nader has really become, and how many people he has stabbed in the back.

Remember Cynthia McKinney?

Come November, you'll probably be able to call her Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney again.

War stories

Some of you may wonder why I'm being so harsh on the Democrats today. Some of my bitterness comes from being thrown into a "free speech zone" at the 2000 GOP convention in Philly.

I went down to the First Union Center, where the Convention is taking place, and they have a designated protest area there. I asked where the protest area was, and a cop escorted me through four locked gates into an empty park and locked me in there. Yea, protest area! Nobody was there, and after half an hour, I wasn’t there, either.

Protest/"free speech zones" are bullshit. I've been in one, I know how intimidated and hopeless they make you feel. They are located nowhere near waht you're protesting, and nobody's listening. The point of protesting something is to get your message out, not stand around with other like minded folks for a mutual masturbation session. And maybe I'm being uneven with my criticism; after all, the Republicans will perform the exact same actions a month from now. But if this is how the Democrats intend to treat citizens who disagree with them, then they deserve to get bitched at.

If the Democrats were truly the party of the people, they wouldn't throw people who disagree with them into a cage.

So, where is this fabled "free speech zone"?

Nowhere near the FleetCenter, that's for sure.

That may look like it's near the DNC, but I've driven by this area a few times - it isn't. Not only do they stick the "free speech zone" in left field, but they've erected an 8 foot high fence that you can't see through.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised. The Democrats should be better than this, but when it comes to muzzling protesters, they do a great job of emulating the GOP.

Rights? You don't need no steeeenkin rights!

Random bag searches?

If Boston residents haven't realized that we live in a culture of fear - they will during the Democratic National Convention. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has released a "Security Statement" that uses fear tactics to allow police and transportation authorities to search bags and personal possessions during the Democratic National Convention. This policy comes on top of similar measures that the MBTA has announced it is undertaking that allow other measures such as allowing "police officers to randomly search T riders' bags" to protect riders from "bombs" and "terrorism".

The DNC police state is in the house!

A sterling example of the Democrats committment to allowing all citizens to have a voice in how our government conducts its business

Yeah, right.

Cement barriers, 8-foot-tall chain-link fencing, and heavy black netting have been installed around the protest zone outside the FleetCenter, angering protesters who say they will be penned in and closed off from Democratic National Convention delegates.

Much of the area is located under abandoned elevated Green Line tracks that slope downward. The setup, which one netting installer called ''an internment camp," will force tall protesters at the southern end of the zone to lower their heads to avoid banging them on green metal girders.

That's a pretty nifty setup the Democrats have going here. Heavy black netting over an 8 foot tall fence, that will make the protests really noticable! That's not stifling their freedom to speak in the least!

With freedoms like these, no wonder protesters break the law to make their voices heard.

It's a baaaaaaaaa day!

I only get ultra corny when I'm really, really tired. My apologies for not making any sense this morning.

Get off my lawn!

A decade from now, today's kids will look at the aging pictures of their childhood and say, "God, why the FUCK did I dress like such a fucking idiot?!"

Until then, we're subjected to this:

I really am getting old. (Ironically enough, as I posted this, my CD came to a song titled "I Like Young Girls.")

Still searching...

So, does Catwomen have a plot? And no, seeing Halle Berry run around in leather doesn't count. Nor is it worth $9.25. Maybe it's worth $1.99 at the super saver theater, but that's debatable on the factors of boredom and feelings of desperation. But for the latter option, at least you get to vocally express your feelings towards the shitty movies. "Hey, what do you think about this movie?" 'I think the director should be dragged out to the street and shot!'

Orwell plays peek-a-boo

You know, just reading about governments placing satellites which can track your every move into orbit gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Isn't it ironic?

The Guardian has an article about England experiencing a dentist shortage.

Afghanistan to model their voting system on Florida's

Well, not quite but this doesn't bode well for their elections.

A caller on the BBC radio service bragged about how he walked up to an election registration centre here and, without showing any identification, received a voter card. He claimed to have shuttled to another registration site where he was awarded another card, again without question. A local newspaper article told of people selling their voter registration cards — not card — to political parties for $150 a piece. When I visit one of these sites, an old man shoves me aside and asks me where the free food is. After a confusing exchange, I decipher the miscommunication: He believes his voter registration card is a coupon for free wheat. "Voting," he asks, visibly irritated. "For what? What’s an election?"

I was going to do more blogging...

Until my morning at work became the morning from hell. And after getting bitched out by an old lady, I'm just not in the mood to do anything productive. But, if time allows, I'll try...

Sudan: Colin and Congress strike back, and other news

If Bush isn't going to do the right thing on his own accord, I'm glad that Republicans are more than willing to put him in his place for once. Yesterday, Congress passed a resolution declaring genocide in Sudan. The vote in the House was unanimous, so this is truly a bipartisan effort.

At the UN, Colin Powell is pushing the US sponsered Security Council resolution to pass a measure placing sanctions on Sudan if the Sudanese government continues to support Janjaweed rebels. But if the sanctions resolution passes, it would take 30 days to take effect, giving the Sudanese government a chance to comply with our demands and avoid being sanctioned. 30 days seems like 10 years, given the nature of this crisis. I'm starting to wonder if we have waited too long to take action.

Indeed, with the Sudanese government already warning the US and UK not to interfer after being threatened with the sanctions, why should we consider giving the Sudanese government another month to act? They continue to support the genocide, and we should do whatever we can to stop it. Well, short of a bullshit, Iraq-style invasion. But we can't rule out the use of military against the Sudanese government and rebels if they fail to stop this crisis. Blair has given thought to sending in British soldiers, something I'm not completely against if it's done right.

The UK is also sending some planeloads of aid to Sudan, though the linked BBC article does not say how much aid is being flown over.

And on a my personal note, I wrote a letter to the editor of my local paper about the crisis.

In the 7/20/04 edition of the Providence Journal, I was disappointed to see that coverage of the ongoing genocide in Sudan only garnered a 50-75 word write up at the bottom of page A3. A million Sudanese refugees could die if the world community fails to act, and the United States could be leading the charge against the Sudanese government to save these lives.

Shouldn't a story of this magnitude be above the fold?

And their reply.

we have run a lot on this -- see yesterday's col on the op-ed page

Apparently, my "above the fold" comment went completely over their heads.

...Speaking of media coverage, I've been listening to NPR's Morning Edition all morning, and there hasn't been one mention of Sudan. Maybe they can bring Karl Rove on to comment on the crisis.

Fuck you, NPR.

I can't believe I donated to NPR

On today's Morning Edition, they had Juan Williams interview Karl Rove to provide analysis into the 9/11 Commission report.

Do I really need to say anything more?

Uh, George...

Linkie:

"Had we had any inkling whatsoever that terrorists were about to attack our country, we would have moved heaven and earth to protect America," Bush said.

What was the title of that Presidential Daily Briefing Bush received in early August, 2001, while he was on vacation? Somebody remind me.

No, fuck that. Somebody remind him. He needs it.

Now with 50% more pants shitting!

Ironically enough, Fahrenheit 9/11 has provided some Republicans with a rare moment of clarity.

Republicans initially dismissed "Fahrenheit 9/11" as a cinematic screed that would play mostly to inveterate Bush bashers. Four weeks and $94 million later, the film is still pulling in moviegoers at 2,000 theaters around the country, making Republicans nervous as it settles into the American mainstream.

"I'm not sure if it moves voters," GOP consultant Scott Reed said, "but if it moves 3 or 4 percent it's been a success."

I think it's safe to say that the more people who see F9/11, the more people who will vote against Bush. On that thought...

A Gallup survey conducted July 8-11 said 8 percent of American adults had seen the film at that time, but that 18 percent still planned to see it at a theater and another 30 percent plan to see it on video.

It just gets worse for the GOFU, doesn't it?

Good.

Strike 10, you're out

The 9/11 Commission will release their report today. In it, they will detail "10 missed opportunities" the govenment had to stop 9/11. Six of these opportunities occured during the Bush administration. I wonder how many of those six happened in the month of August...

Chalk another one up to the Good Fight

Senate Democrats successfully block another radical Bush nominated for the federal bench.

USAID conducts 30 airlifts, dropping essentials in Darfur

Given my ranting on Sudan yesterday, I'm posting this link in fairness to the parties that I have criticized.

As of July 21st, USAID has delivered a total of 10,830 rolls of plastic sheeting, 218,335 blankets, 38 water bladders, and 52,100 water containers via 30 airlifts to Darfur. USAID's contribution of plastic sheeting will provide shelter for approximately 682,290 beneficiaries. The total value of the commodities to date, including transportation costs, is approximately $6.8 million.

I'm looking for something, anything that I can praise Bush for on this crisis. Anything he does to help, I will support, therefore I will praise him for this action. But, honestly, it's merely a drop in the bucket.

So that's how Britney got them!

The new perk to joining the military will make some women very perky - Be all you can be with breast enlargements.

The New Yorker magazine reports in its July 26th edition that members of all four branches of the U.S. military can get face-lifts, breast enlargements, liposuction and nose jobs for free -- something the military says helps surgeons practice their skills. ...

Between 2000 and 2003, military doctors performed 496 breast enlargements and 1,361 liposuction surgeries on soldiers and their dependents, the magazine said.

This part is rich: "Something the military says helps surgeons practice their skills." You know, when a soldier is injured on the battlefield, I betcha the first thing they need is a bigger rack!

While they're at it, the military should start offering penis enlargements. We'd never have to call up the reserves again.

The Daily Show wins an award for "outstanding news and information programming"

Would I lie to you? My last name doesn't end with "ush", so of course I wouldn't!

Light blogging because of school work, again...

...but this should be the last morning I can use school work as an excuse. Hopefully another reason won't pop up tomorrow morning.

The Real News: Sudan

Being a blogger who writes daily dispatches on the articles I come across, I feel embarrassed to admit that I haven't held much interest for the news lately. There's a few good reasons for this: hectic work and school schedules taxing on my free time, not to mention my workload recently doubling, and matters in my personal life to deal with. Hell, in the time it took me to type this paragraph, I had to answer the phone five times and respond to multiple alarms. I've been stretched thin lately.

But there's another reason the news hasn't held my interest. There's a huge story that is being grossly underreported: The Genocide in Sudan. When a story this huge isn't on the front page, above the fold, every single day of the week, can you blame me for my lack of interest in the news?

There are so many facets to this story that we should see reported. I've mentioned the rape camps. The number of Sudanese dead or about to die from starvation is an astronomical 370,000 people. If we don't act soon, the death toll could top 1 million. Because the world has been slow to react, more than 1000 Sudanese day each week.

If that's not enough to raise an eyebrow, Human Rights Watch has obtained Sudanese government documents which "incontrovertibly show that government officials directed recruitment, arming and other support to the ethnic militias known as the Janjaweed." The Sudanese government will, of course, deny these charges, just like they have denied everything else said against them in the past. They will feign innocence while continuing to arm the rebels, block international aid for the refugees, and let the bodies pile up.

And what has our government done about this crisis? In the past, I've given the Bush administration some credit for sending Colin Powell to Sudan and paying attention to the situation. No matter how partisan I am, I try to be fair and give credit where credit's due. But now I'm afraid I have to take back anything good I said about this president. His ignorance of the Sudanese genocide makes me ashamed to be an American.

Bush supposedly attacked Iraq for humanitarian reasons. Saddam was said to be butchering his own people, and we would find mass graves filled with hundreds of thousands of victims. Well, as fellow guest blogger at GC13 Tinheart reports, Saddam's bodycount is at 5000, not hundreds of thousands. And not to belittle such a huge number, but 5000 is really nothing compared to the crisis in Sudan. Even if the estimates of 400,000 buried in Iraqi mass graves turned out to be correct, it still wouldn't eclipse the crisis in Sudan.

If we can invade a country on the pretext that there might be 400,000 people buried in mass graves, why can't we help the persecuted Sudanese who we know will die by the hundreds of thousands in a few short months if we do nothing about it? It seems like the Bush administration is doing everything it can to avoid helping the refugees.

The Passion of the Present, a blog devoted solely to covering this genocide, commends John Kerry for labeling the crisis as such. But Bush won't call it genocide. Is it because he would actually have to take a proactive stance against the crisis if he called a spade for what it is?

No American president has been willing to enforce the 1948 UN Genocide treaty in order to prevent or stop a genocide. http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html

This treaty, signed by most nations of the world, was the single piece of international law to come out of the Holocaust. Because it is never invoked, except in retrospect, "never again" is rendered meaningless.

In fact, Bush won't even merely place sanctions on Sudan.

I'm not sure how to feel about the way Bush has handled the Sudanese genocide. On one level, I'm not the least bit surprised that he's practically ignoring it. Short of nuking China, nothing this man does can surprise me anymore. I've been desensitized to his actions. But how can you not be angry? How can you not feel disappointed? Our country has the opportunity to help the world, but we refuse. When I travel to another country, how am I supposed to introduce myself as an American and feel proud? How can I even hold my head up? If your country could have prevented a million needless deaths from happening but decided not to act, is there anything else to feel besides shame, frustration, and anger?

Make no mistake, we're on the cusp of seeing a million dead Sudanese.

The time to act is now. True Majority reports that there is a bipartisan effort in the House and Senate to hold Bush's feet to the fire, to make him call this a genocide and act to stop it.

Write your Representative and tell them to support "H. Con. Res. 467."

Write your Senator and tell them to support "S. Con. Res. 124."

And, perhaps most importantly, write a letter to the editor. The underreporting of this crisis is absolutely ridiculous. In yesterday's Providence Journal, my hometown paper, the news that Human Rights Watch uncovered documents which prove the Sudanese government is arming and helping the Janjaweed got a 75 word write up on the bottom of page A3. That's an insult to a story of this magnitude. If there's any issue that the media needs to hold our government's feet to the fire for, the Sudanese genocide is it. Will any media agency get a reporter to ask a fair question to the White House like, "Now that you've dispatched Colin Powell, what else are you going to do?"

I've frequently complained about how similar Bush and Kerry seem when you start looking at the issues. This is one instance where I wish I was correct.

[Crossposted to blunted on reality.]

[Also at blunted, there's been some debate over Saddam's bodycount.]

Eureka!

Fark's epiphany photoshop thread is more fun then seeing a crappy stand up comic meeting the business end of a baseball bat.

Light blogging...

The busy bug has bit me in the ass for another morning, but I promise there will be a sizeable post on Sudan later.

D-Blow is pitchin for the Sox tonight!

Shoot me now... Should I even bother listening to the game? Do I like pain?

A post on Sudan will be forthcoming

After I'm done with my homework.

...make that later tonight, because I am having the morning from hell at work.

...make that tomorrow morning. I don't want it to get buried, which it would if I posted it tonight.

Hey Bush, where's all the Iraqi oil money that's supposed to goto the Iraqi people actually going?

And how come at least $1.5b of it went to Halliburton? Henry Waxman wants to know.

The DFI [Development Fund for Iraq] was set up after last year's invasion as the depository for Iraq's multi-billion-dollar oil revenues and was administered, until June 28, by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) - with notional UN oversight.

...Mr [Congressman Henry] Waxman is curious about "the [Bush] administration's last-minute 'draw-down' of billions of dollars from the DFI for unspecified expenses" prior to last month's transfer of sovereignty. "For example, $1bn [about £550m] was withdrawn from the DFI during the last month of the CPA's existence for unspecified 'security' purposes."

The administration provided no information about how these funds would be spent, Mr Waxman says, and has yet to do so. ...

He wants to know whether CPA officials obstructed the auditors, KPMG, who were employed by the UN-created International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB).

And he also asks why the White House has "failed to comply with numerous IAMB requests [for information about] payments of approximately $1.5bn in DFI funds to Halliburton" - the Texas-based oil services company formerly headed by the vice-president, Dick Cheney.

Hmmm.. No corruption here. Nothing to see, folks, move along!

[Crossposted to Gotham City 13.]

Colorado could give outsourcing the shaft

And thank god. Colorado's November ballot could feature an initiative which bans the state government from hiring anyone but legal residents.

The initiative would bar state government from hiring temporary foreign workers here on a visa. And only legal residents could perform services for the state - from cleaning the Capitol to processing unemployment claims. Private companies that work with the state could employ foreign workers, but not for work on state contracts.

I can't believe I just read this quote

"If they don’t have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, ‘I don’t want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don’t have the guts, I call them girlie men."

He. Just. Called. His. Political. Opponents. "Girlie men."

This just in: Ahhhhnald elected the governor of second grade. Declares first grade is too "girlie."

What a fucking moron.

Things I learned from reading Skippy

Ever want to beat the shit out of our president? Well, now you can with the inflatable Bush punchdoll!

Noticing that Fox News is guilty of false advertising since there is nothing "fair and balanced" about their coverage, Alternet has filed suit with the FTC to force Fox to shed their slogan and start telling the truth.

Fark Headline of the Day

Filed under DUMBASS: "Bill O'Reilly cites the "Paris Business Review" to bolster his claims of a successful boycott against France. The "Paris Business Review" does not exist"

The "D" Word

I haven't had time to write today, but that wasn't the case for Greg Palast. His latest dispatch graced my inbox, and now my blog.

BLACK AMERICANS DISCOVERED BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KERRY MENTIONS THE 'D' WORD

Like Christopher Columbus blinking in shock at first seeing an American Indian, John Kerry has just discovered African-American voters.

On Thursday afternoon, Kerry landed at the NAACP convention, stepped off his slow-moving campaign boat and announced that he was exploring for one million missing Black voters.

Let me explain -- because the New York Times won't. In the 2000 elections, 1.9 million ballots were cast which were never counted --"spoiled" is the technical term. Ballots don't spoil because they are left out of the fridge. There's always a technical reason: a stray mark, or my favorite, from Gadsden County, Florida, writing in Al Gore's name instead of checking a box.

According to data from the US Civil Rights Commission and the Harvard University Law School Civil Rights Project, about half the nation's spoiled ballots -- one million -- were cast by Black folk. Just as African American communities get the worst schools, the worst hospitals, they also get dumped with the worst voting machines, which eat, mismark, mangle and void ballots.

Poof! A million Black votes gone, zapped, vanished.

And the nasty secret is that for years that suited many white leaders of local and state Democratic organizations -- Zell Miller of Georgia is a case in point -- who feared Black voters as much as they feared Republicans.

But change is coming, and not because John Kerry and the men who think for him have changed. Change is coming because African-American leaders are getting uppity about the Democratic Party taking or leaving the African-American voter as the mood and arithmetic pleases.

Here's how Senator Kerry got the message: Two weeks ago, when I was in Chicago, Jesse Jackson asked me to join him for breakfast at the Marriott Hotel. To my surprise, he'd also invited Senator John Edwards. Jackson had made copies of my editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle on the missing one million votes ... and wouldn't let the wannabe Veep touch his bagel until he'd read every word.

Just when Edwards thought he could have a sip of coffee, Jackson required him to watch the segment of our BBC television special, "Bush Family Fortunes," with the latest analysis on the non-count of Black votes in Florida. In the 2000 race, 95,000 African-American votes were dumped in the Florida swamps, marked as spoiled.

Edwards, succumbing to hunger, caffeine deprivation and Reverend Jackson's intense interrogation, caved in and promised to take the message of the missing Black votes to the white side of his party.

Congresswoman Corrine Brown joined us. When she read the story and saw the film, she was ready to spit bullets. She was especially upset that British television covered the story while, in the USA, the Black story was blacked out.

The film clip would get the Congresswoman in hot water. This past Thursday morning, in Washington, she again watched a preview of the BBC film and then marched down to the Capitol and denounced the Republican Party for stealing the election in Florida. For telling this truth she was censured by a straight-up party-line vote in the House of Representatives and her remarks stricken. (I would note that the President's flat-out fibs about weapons of mass destruction remain on the record.) [Heh.]

Senator Kerry is no Corrine Brown. The man who would be President is first trying out the 'D' word in front of the friendly natives at the NAACP. But still, it's a first step: mentioning out loud the massive, systematic Disenfranchisement of the Black vote.

But the real change won't come until Kerry can say the 'D' word in front of say, a gathering of the members of his wife's country club. And until he confronts the boys holding the electoral lynching ropes in both parties.

I have a dream. I imagine John Kerry taking this message to the floor of the convention next week and proclaiming, "Three decades after Martin Luther King's murder, one million African-Americans cast ballots never counted. This will not stand!" Imagine it: At that moment, for the first time in a generation, the Democratic Party will have nominated a Democrat.

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The preview of the updated investigative report, "Bush Family Fortunes," is included on Punk Voter (Volume 2) CD-DVD, which will be released on August 10. "Bush Family Fortunes - the DVD" will be released in September.

Taking another monday off...

I hate for this to become a regular thing. Here's the problem with being a third shift worker and trying to blog: I get two days off in a row, and on those two days I instantly revert back to first shift mode, thus screwing up my schedule completely. You never, ever get used to third shift hours. When you have a day off and there's sunlight outside, you get up. Period.

So now when I should be doing my usual early morning blogging, I'm sleeping like a baby. And school just complicates matters more, because then I have to roll out of bed, study, goto class, come home, and nap before work so I don't drop dead from exhuastion.

So, that's my life and my explanation. And on the topic of exhaustion...

Because nobody is watching this movie and it certainly won't change anybody's mind!

Fahrenheit 9/11 has grossed $93 million in the US; $100 million globally.

I really need to pay more attention to Sudan

In the meantime, I just found a blog that's updated daily with news on the Sudanese crisis: The Passion of the Present. I plan on checking it everyday and linking to it liberally.

Sunday is (intermittent) Sex Day!

From a spoken word piece by Jello Biafra: "Lost Orgasm"

Ever thought of what a sadomasochistic culture we really have? How much of out emotional pulse really revolves around pain? How many people cling to grim religions based on torture? Afraid to break the cycle out of fear of the unknown? It’s so much more secure just to hate your own guts. Break down, kneel down, confess, and think of all the horrible things that are going to happen to you if you don’t confess! It’s a crime to open your eyes, it’s a sin to look around and explore too far. Threats from above keep people whipped! Sadomasochism on a stick.

And what do we talk about at parties to get attention? Pleasure? Love? Nuh-uh. We talk about pain, like showing off the busted leg to the chums in the locker room or at the ski lodge. Or, “Look at all these gnarly scars I got when I wiped out on my skateboard!” War wounds. Pain. The proof of purchase of adventure. I crashed and burned, therefore I’m alive.

When was the last time you heard someone reminisce about the orgasm they had the other day? What kind of reaction do you think they’d get, anyway? So far I hear, “Heh heh heh” [nervous laughter]. Or say something like that at a department store it might be, “Oooh, pervert! Guards, take him away!” Or, in the ever more uptight sectors of our more political-than-thou underground scene, you might get the reaction, “Ew! Sexist!”

I mean, I don’t agree with a lot of what hip hop artists like Ice-T, or 2 Live Crew, or the Ghetto Boys, have to say about women; but I do think Ice-T has an interesting point. Imagine what life would be like if we all felt relaxed enough and comfortable around each other that a person of either sex could go up to somebody else of either sex, that they secretly found attractive or radiant, loveable, in need of a hug, whatever, you know. Male-female, female-male, male-male, female-female. Just go up and come right out and say, “Hey! Let’s get buck naked and fuck!”

So, when's the last time you talked about a good orgasm?

Sunday is Cartoon Day!

As always, the latest from Ted Rall.

Beat my guest

You may have noticed from the last post that I'm guest blogging on GC13 now. I've also become a perma-blogger at blunted. I'm not everywhere yet, but I'm getting there.

The new Bush campaign ad!

In response to Allahpundit.

[Crossposted to Gotham City 13.]