and another one falls...

rest in peace, susan.

finally... some good news

cheers to the UK for getting this right... now if they'd just dump blair in iraq with a poorly armored humvee and wrapped in an israeli flag, the world would be a MUCH better place.

what a complete ass

this is quite possibly the most disgusting thing i've ever heard.

yet, strangely, it doesn't surprise me.

beWare

i wonder if dubya saw what happened to pinochet this morning and thought, if only for a fleeting instance, that this could be is future in 15 years.

probably not.

double-speak of the day

"I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that's a good thing. I think it's a very constructive exchange."

Donald Rumsfeld

the big "go fuck yourself"

seems like rummy's a little testy lately... i do think, however, that someone needs to inform him that you don't go to war with "the army that you have" - you go to war with the best army possible... and (here's the kicker) if you don't have the best army possible, you DON'T GO TO WAR.

amazing that the biggest fuck-ups in this cabinet are the ones keeping their jobs.

more idiocy

there's been acres and acres of ludicrous behavior happening since the election... this is just another example of uppity christians thinking they can continue to get away with it...

i think what we need to do now is throw a couple of 'em to the lions again... that'll straighten 'em out... (hey, it worked last time...)

no soup for you

freemans just became my favorite restaurant in NYC... (scroll down to the section on the bush twins)

classic...

jhon balance

for those of you who haven't heard, jhon balance of coil died last weekend... the grisly details are here...

this from one of his biggest fans, my best friend zeny...

balance!
in a time *without* balance...
i LOVE you.
and so shall i cherish you, in passionate retrospect...
the intangible hours!
you and your musick, to guide me (via chaos) to absolute truth.
these personal effects:
a reno apartment(!) a seattle subway(?) new york city(*)
an astral disaster; a peculiar itch... an eternal obsession.
blessings, dear jhon...
you have changed the pathways of my heart and of my mind,
and i am grateful to you.
travel in peace,
surrounded by light
and my love.
you are eternal...
blossom, my love!
z e n

rest in peace

a very nice diversion

there's some wonderful pics up of my daughter at the Dresden Dolls show in SF last week on my wife's site... i unfortunately was unable to attend due to my stubbornly ridiculous habit of working all goddamned week.

amerika

if someone ever abducted me, i would hope a witness would have the common decency to do SOMETHING... ANYTHING...

the world we've created here just seems to get sadder and sadder...

next

needed about a week off to let this all soak in... THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR COMMENTS... your views and commiseration helped me get through a rather difficult time... feeling better now and getting angry about herr bush and his cronies again, which i suppose is a good thing.

i've decided to keep this blog going... my initial reaction to the election results was to just give it all up, that it really wasn't worth it and wasn't making any sort of difference... i've realized that maybe it was a little too ideological (and probably a little egotistical) to believe that i actually could inspire any sort of change... so now i guess i just need somewhere where i can bitch as much as i want with no one shutting me up (and save my wife the agony of listening to me constantly rant)...

in happier news, michael and heather at messiahbomb have brought rowan cassidy into the world... here's to hoping we can make it a better place for him.

the ugly american is alive and well

well, it's over... no recount in ohio is going to save sanity for this nation... not with bush winning the popular count by over four million votes... and this morning, every moderately sane person is asking themselves the same question: what now?

judging by the way the votes went in the senate, there's a pretty simple answer - more of the same... expansion of the patriot act (hence, the further erosion of what civil rights we have left), drilling for a miniscule amount of oil in alaska (hence, furthering the cause of ecological disaster), continuation of an unwinnable war in iraq, as well as probably a new one in iran, continuing loss of stature and respect in the world at large, and finally the eventual triumph of fear.

this is what the majority of american citizens want. they've just said so.

and now the republicans are calling for a deeply divided nation to "come together" to work all these problems they created (or exacerbated) out... in good conscience, i simply can't do that... i can't join in a government that propogates fear and prejudice, regardless if the majority of the people i live with think it's a good idea... so i find myself where i was back in the hell of the reagan years - slinking back down into the black hole of apathy... i've lost any glimmer of respect i might have had for the majority of the people living in my country, and it's probably best just to slip back into the anonimity of the "unwashed masses"...

in short, i'm disgusted. and very, very depressed.

...and finally

tip #3: vote your conscience... there's been so much spin on this election from both sides that it's nearly impossible to get all the facts... i'd just like to throw a few irrefutable ones out there for you to ponder:

satan will NOT crawl up through your toilet and eat your children if you vote for john kerry, no matter what little dickie cheney says... the jury's still out on whether george bush will send your four-year old off to play in an iraqi sandbox if re-elected (or rather, if he's really elected at all)... michael moore and ann coulter are NOT coming to your work to humiliate you for your vote... bruce springsteen is NOT going to play at your cousin's bar mitzvah... curt schilling (while quite possibly having the best pitching performance in a postseason ever) is NOT better than you... arnold schwarzenegger doesn't even know you exist... and seriously, folks, no one REALLY gives a flying furry rat fuck what p. diddy has to say...

all this aside, just vote.

it can't hurt.

more helpful election time tips

tip #2: if you're a candidate and you haven't had a really good photo op lately, just make one up... come to think of it, maybe they can just photoshop out all that "mission accomplished" crap and forget the whole thing happened...

helpful election time tips

tip #1: remember that it's still illegal to try to run down candidates in your cadillac even if they desperately deserve it... and though a few semantically overzealous folks (and yourself) might label your actions as "exercising political expression", the Law has another term for this. it's called "attempted murder", and it's not too cool to go to jail for trying to kill a nazi. there are other, more productive and less time-consuming ways to go about removing these individuals from positions of power.

regardless, nice try. just be sure to cover up or remove your license plate beforehand next time.

threes

after the patriots won the super bowl and the red sox beat the yankees in the most improbable fashion imagined, i'm now completely convinced that john kerry is going to win this election... clean sweep for boston...

freedom inoculations

those filthy fucking frogs can keep their yellow-bellied life saving serums to themselves, thank you very much... what audacity! we don't need no "preventive medication" that could save thousands of elderly and young lives, especially when it comes from the FRENCH. we're AMERICANS, dammit. i mean, we'd never hand over the well-being of our citzens to a foreign nation, right?

um... right?

fear mongering and the high road

i don't think there's any question that little dickie cheney is the hermann goring of 2004... still, ya gotta love these kinda remarks...

coming soon

get ready kids... if dubya wins in november, this scenario may very well likely be staring us in the face come 2008...