Saturday, April 17, 2004

Terrorist Smoked
The new head of Hamas, Rantisi, was killed by Israeli helicopter missiles yesterday in Gaza. Read it here, from New York Times. Remember that Rantisi was one who adamantly refused any negotiations with Israel, declared "death to Israel" and "death to America," and that the goal of his organization is the removal/death of all Israelis. Is it any wonder that Rantisi was not long for this world? Men and women of peace need to step forward. The Palestinians need to be treated like humans and get a homeland, but their rhetoric of terrorism wins no sympathy. Rantisi got what he was begging for.
9/11 Commission Scores
Despite all the "plausible deniability" and hiding beneath skirts, it looks like the Bush camp is really cooked. In today's NY Times, read about how the impending Al Quaeda attacks were repeatedly voiced to the highest levels of government, and were ignored. Read it here, from the New York Times. To reiterate: the attacks were discovered ahead of time and the Bush clowns were informed, and did nothing. It's no wonder that Bush fought the forming of this commission for over a year, and when he was finally forced to accept its inevitability, he underfunded it, and then sought to withhold that funding. Now you know why.
New Scientist On Mary Jane
The esteemed international journal of science, New Scientist, did a study on the evil plant Marijuana. Read their analysis of what legalization would bring about, based on the Dutch model. I like the penultimate paragraph:

Dutch teenagers get among the highest scores in the world on international science and mathematics tests. If there are serious problems caused by legalising marijuana, then twenty-plus years of the Dutch experiment has not revealed what they are.

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Air America Radio
Just a reminder that you can listen to Air America Radio on your computer. Go here and check 'em out.

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Apollo 13
The infamous Apollo 13 space mission calamity happened 34 years ago, tomorrow, when an explosion onboard almost killed the three astronauts. A daring blend of ingenuity, grit, and perseverance, saw all three come home alive. Thank God they weren't using Macs back then, or those 3 guys would've been toast. Read about it here, from the BBC News.
Sugarcult's second record, Palm Trees And Power Lines is in stores today. Go buy it, thank us later.
Save Those Emails!
Okay, maybe I was a little harsh on Dylan, but his recent commercialization strikes me as nearly criminal. I feel the same way about hearing Led Zep in those Cadillac TV ads, and whoever is responsible for this crime against rock should be put to death, preferably some slow and excruciating method. The main difference is Led Zep's catalog is owned by someone else and they did not have the power to aprrove or prevent their music from appearing in a commercial. Dylan lent his music, his image, and his credibility to selling panties. Granted, those are hot models, but at his age? Phraw! Come on.
Bush - Up To His Neck In It
You should read today's Robert Scheer opinion piece, here, and get new material for your righteous indignation which will sweep Kerrey into the White House and Bush into the dustbin of history. Here's the best paragraph from the piece:

But what is perhaps even more astonishing is that, because the Bush administration's attention was focused on the "war on drugs," it praised Afghanistan's Taliban regime even though it was harboring Bin Laden and his terror camps. The Taliban refused to extradite the avowed terrorist even after he admitted responsibility for a series of deadly assaults against American diplomatic and military sites in Africa and the Middle East.

Sunday, April 11, 2004

Iraq Is Fucked Up
Read this article, from CBS News, on the situation in Faluja. Over 600 killed in the recent fighting, hostages taken, women and children killed, US service personnel killed. And what's Bush doing about it? Fucking off at his ranch entertaining NRA officials. No joke.