woo hoo!
we're #1! we're #1!
and don't you forget it, man.... ya want some o' this??? HUH?!?
(forgive me... lack of nicotine.)
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Monday, April 26, 2004
Thursday, April 22, 2004
screwed again
here's a shocker: evidently, poets die young.
the life expectancy of good vs. bad poets remains to be seen, but i believe that once you put pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard, as the case may be), you seal your doom.
here's a shocker: evidently, poets die young.
the life expectancy of good vs. bad poets remains to be seen, but i believe that once you put pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard, as the case may be), you seal your doom.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
ahhh yes
glad to know that shane is still just being shane.
maybe i'll have something more substantial a bit later.
maybe.
glad to know that shane is still just being shane.
maybe i'll have something more substantial a bit later.
maybe.
Monday, April 19, 2004
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
olive branch
at his little press conference last night (that the administration deemed necessary to be televised, dammit), bush had a slight problem remembering any mistakes that he has made since the events of September 11.
in good faith, and in our own special little way, we here at GWP would like to help the current president's memory along (if you have any that we missed, please feel free to add them under Comments):
1. war in iraq
2. justifications for war in iraq (hussein was a terrorist, got WMD's, etc.)
3. patriot acts I and II
4. millions of lost jobs
5. ridiculous medicare reform policy
6. dangerous foreign policy and attitude toward UN
7. no child (who can afford it) left behind
8. promoting divisiveness and mistrust in all levels of government.
we're just trying to help.
really.
at his little press conference last night (that the administration deemed necessary to be televised, dammit), bush had a slight problem remembering any mistakes that he has made since the events of September 11.
in good faith, and in our own special little way, we here at GWP would like to help the current president's memory along (if you have any that we missed, please feel free to add them under Comments):
1. war in iraq
2. justifications for war in iraq (hussein was a terrorist, got WMD's, etc.)
3. patriot acts I and II
4. millions of lost jobs
5. ridiculous medicare reform policy
6. dangerous foreign policy and attitude toward UN
7. no child (who can afford it) left behind
8. promoting divisiveness and mistrust in all levels of government.
we're just trying to help.
really.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
victory!
some blogs are merely words, floating around on the vast expanse of the internet, read by countless eyes and immediately forgotten or discarded... but some blogs make a difference...
bowing to immense pressure and bitter, painful scorn from your crack team of loyal journalists here at GWP, judge scalia yesterday issued an apology for his deplorable behavior...
we again remind you that El Gran Puerco Blanco stands for the truth (no matter how difficult), justice (no matter how brutal) and the american way (no matter how misrepresented)... yes, folks, remember - the properly applied power of the Pig can move mountains...
thank you for reading, goodday, and God Bless America... (insert audio track of that opera guy who opens all the yankee games singing the national anthem)
some blogs are merely words, floating around on the vast expanse of the internet, read by countless eyes and immediately forgotten or discarded... but some blogs make a difference...
bowing to immense pressure and bitter, painful scorn from your crack team of loyal journalists here at GWP, judge scalia yesterday issued an apology for his deplorable behavior...
we again remind you that El Gran Puerco Blanco stands for the truth (no matter how difficult), justice (no matter how brutal) and the american way (no matter how misrepresented)... yes, folks, remember - the properly applied power of the Pig can move mountains...
thank you for reading, goodday, and God Bless America... (insert audio track of that opera guy who opens all the yankee games singing the national anthem)
Monday, April 12, 2004
to the moon, alice
hey... now that we're nearly finished polluting our own planet, we can spread our shit around the moon. if, of course, ya got $6M bucks to piss away.
ladies and gentlemen, it's a fucked up world.
hey... now that we're nearly finished polluting our own planet, we can spread our shit around the moon. if, of course, ya got $6M bucks to piss away.
ladies and gentlemen, it's a fucked up world.
Friday, April 09, 2004
more on scalia
so it turns out that not only was the destruction of press recordings unfair (to say the least), it was probably illegal, too.
of course, this is merely a drop in the bucket of abuses that have been perpetrated by our "officials" since 9/11, so it should really come to no surprise to anyone.
so it turns out that not only was the destruction of press recordings unfair (to say the least), it was probably illegal, too.
of course, this is merely a drop in the bucket of abuses that have been perpetrated by our "officials" since 9/11, so it should really come to no surprise to anyone.
Thursday, April 08, 2004
stefani
my wonderful wife has (finally) put her site up...
just the beginnings now, but give her all the love you can... there's also a special message from The Pea for all those who couldn't make it to her third birthday party.
you know who you are.
and so does she.
my wonderful wife has (finally) put her site up...
just the beginnings now, but give her all the love you can... there's also a special message from The Pea for all those who couldn't make it to her third birthday party.
you know who you are.
and so does she.
supreme justice, or else
it seems supreme court justice antonin scalia is letting it all hang out lately.
dig the irony:
"Last year, Scalia was criticized for refusing to allow television and radio coverage of an event in Ohio in which he received an award for supporting free speech.
Scalia, who was appointed to the bench by President Reagan in 1986, told students that the Constitution's true meaning must always be protected.
'The Constitution of the United States is extraordinary and amazing. People just don't revere it like they used to,' Scalia told a full auditorium of high school students, officials, religious leaders. "
ahh, i can see it all now... scalia standing in front of a podium, pontificating on the sublime wisdom of the concept of freedom of speech while federal marshalls run around the crowd confiscating recording equipment like sonny corleone at his sister's wedding...
does the right honorable justice scalia fear something from having his words recorded? judging from the incident reported last january, and the obvious hypocrisy inherent in the above quoted remarks, one would tend to think so.
it all boils down to yet another reason why NO ONE should ever be appointed to a position of power for life.
it seems supreme court justice antonin scalia is letting it all hang out lately.
dig the irony:
"Last year, Scalia was criticized for refusing to allow television and radio coverage of an event in Ohio in which he received an award for supporting free speech.
Scalia, who was appointed to the bench by President Reagan in 1986, told students that the Constitution's true meaning must always be protected.
'The Constitution of the United States is extraordinary and amazing. People just don't revere it like they used to,' Scalia told a full auditorium of high school students, officials, religious leaders. "
ahh, i can see it all now... scalia standing in front of a podium, pontificating on the sublime wisdom of the concept of freedom of speech while federal marshalls run around the crowd confiscating recording equipment like sonny corleone at his sister's wedding...
does the right honorable justice scalia fear something from having his words recorded? judging from the incident reported last january, and the obvious hypocrisy inherent in the above quoted remarks, one would tend to think so.
it all boils down to yet another reason why NO ONE should ever be appointed to a position of power for life.
Friday, April 02, 2004
ten years later
frontline on pbs last night aired an incredibly powerful documentary on the horrors of the rwanda genocide and UN inaction... if you get a chance, look into it.
it's painful, but it'll do your soul good.
frontline on pbs last night aired an incredibly powerful documentary on the horrors of the rwanda genocide and UN inaction... if you get a chance, look into it.
it's painful, but it'll do your soul good.
the crimes of the intellectual
sorry for the delay in posting, gentle reader(s), but my attention has been diverted to other matters the past few weeks...
a few quotes i'd like to throw at you-
"In some Christian denominations the intellectual life is looked at askance; anything beyond basic literacy is regarded as presumptuous." - Library Journal
"We [the German air force] will be the terror of our enemies, those Jewish elitists and intellectuals... I want in this army iron men with a will to action... When the Fuhrer in his Reichstag speech said that we would no longer tolerate the suppression of ten million German comrades beyond our borders, then you know as soldiers of the air force that, if it is to be, you must back these words of the Fuhrer to the limit. We are burning to prove our invincibility." - Hermann Goering*
"It is 'deeply offensive and contemptible' to hear 'elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail' dismiss progress in Iraq since last year's overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the elder Bush said in a speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention." - Bush the Elder
at first glance, one might draw the conclusion that herrs bush, goring, and the fine folks of the fundamentalist christian community are advocating the opinion that our society should consist solely of mindless, drooling idiots blindly following whatever mandates are put in front of them, not criticizing or offering better ideas or methods.
not exactly... it's interesting how fascists have always used the excuse that anti-intellectualism is a stance against "haughty educated types, who have no experiences in common with the common man, believing they know what's best for them, or pushing them around like pawns in pursuit of nebulous or lofty goals" (thanks, ian)... in earlier - or simpler - times, this would generally be ascribed to the western idea of the Great Evil of Communism...
bush's choice of the phrase "elites and intellectuals", by which (i assume) he is alluding to dissenters of the war in iraq, shows exactly how out of touch the thinking of the "ultra-conservative republican" (for lack of a better phrase) is in a world where the communist arch-enemy no longer exists...
* from "berlin diary", william l. shirer, copyright 1941, alfred knopf publishing, pp 94-95.
sorry for the delay in posting, gentle reader(s), but my attention has been diverted to other matters the past few weeks...
a few quotes i'd like to throw at you-
"In some Christian denominations the intellectual life is looked at askance; anything beyond basic literacy is regarded as presumptuous." - Library Journal
"We [the German air force] will be the terror of our enemies, those Jewish elitists and intellectuals... I want in this army iron men with a will to action... When the Fuhrer in his Reichstag speech said that we would no longer tolerate the suppression of ten million German comrades beyond our borders, then you know as soldiers of the air force that, if it is to be, you must back these words of the Fuhrer to the limit. We are burning to prove our invincibility." - Hermann Goering*
"It is 'deeply offensive and contemptible' to hear 'elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail' dismiss progress in Iraq since last year's overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the elder Bush said in a speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention." - Bush the Elder
at first glance, one might draw the conclusion that herrs bush, goring, and the fine folks of the fundamentalist christian community are advocating the opinion that our society should consist solely of mindless, drooling idiots blindly following whatever mandates are put in front of them, not criticizing or offering better ideas or methods.
not exactly... it's interesting how fascists have always used the excuse that anti-intellectualism is a stance against "haughty educated types, who have no experiences in common with the common man, believing they know what's best for them, or pushing them around like pawns in pursuit of nebulous or lofty goals" (thanks, ian)... in earlier - or simpler - times, this would generally be ascribed to the western idea of the Great Evil of Communism...
bush's choice of the phrase "elites and intellectuals", by which (i assume) he is alluding to dissenters of the war in iraq, shows exactly how out of touch the thinking of the "ultra-conservative republican" (for lack of a better phrase) is in a world where the communist arch-enemy no longer exists...
* from "berlin diary", william l. shirer, copyright 1941, alfred knopf publishing, pp 94-95.
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