The Scream Heard Around Iowa
Posted on January 26, 2004 - Filed Under funny, government | Leave a Comment
For the love of honesty and passion in politics, quit giving Dean such a hard time. Mainstream Democrats suck for turning. nay shuffling away, their spineless backs on someone trying to energize their losing party. Your false sense of propriety will only get you a loser candidate. Losers.
Nonetheless, Dean’s scream was funny. […]
“Liberal” Media; Outsourcing Backlash; Food Politics
Posted on January 26, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government | Leave a Comment
The latest headlines from Alternet:
MoveOn Protests Network’s Decision: CBS has refused to air the winning ad in MoveOn’s ‘Bush in 30 Seconds’ contest during the Super Bowl — citing a policy against advocacy advertising. In the meantime, they’re accepting advertising from the White House’s Office of National Drug Policy, which was responsible for the ad […]
The Return Of Saturn
Posted on January 16, 2004 - Filed Under government, new orleans | 1 Comment
During my drive into work yesterday, traffic was backed up at the western (uptown) entrance to New Orleans’s Warehouse District. As I inched up towards downtown, the bottleneck turned out to be a couple of police trucks, off which several on-duty officers were unloading barricades. This being the usual parade or visiting-dignitary routine, […]
Read More..>>A Streak Of Fog
Posted on January 13, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, new orleans | Leave a Comment
… makes its way from the riverbend all the way to the horizon, blanketing the Marigny and Treme in its path. Lake Ponchartrain in the distance looks like god hastily ran a dirty eraser over it to make new plans. Will the lake be blue, green or grey later today? Bridges and […]
Read More..>>Tacoma #1, New Orleans #3 In Study Of America’s Most Stressful Cities
Posted on January 11, 2004 - Filed Under new orleans | Leave a Comment
From research published by BestCities.com, here are America’s Top 10 most stressed-out cities:
1. Tacoma
2. Miami
3. New Orleans
4. Las Vegas
5. New York
6. Portland
7. Mobile, Alabama
8. Stockton-Lodi, California
9. Detroit
10. Dallas
Guess it wasn’t a good time to unearth the statistic that New Orleans has twice as many people as Madison, WI, but 33 times the murder. […]
Tintin Turns 75!
Posted on January 9, 2004 - Filed Under books, funny | Leave a Comment
A billion blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon! Joyeux anniversaire, Tintin!
[BBC News Article]
I want this Euro!!! [BBC News Article]
Also a ton of info on the making of the movie when you go to the official Tintin site.
Happy Listen NOT From Your Pals at Apple
Posted on January 7, 2004 - Filed Under music, science & technology | Leave a Comment
JRSB emerges from the chem cave to talk to us:
“This is a perfect /. summation of the recent announcements behind Apple’s new mini-ipods. As it stands, the mini’s are only $50 less for 4GB instead of 15GB for the old “big” ipod at full price (good marketing, but everybody is going to bitch that […]
Bush To Protect and To Serve … No One
Posted on January 5, 2004 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
In an effort to snip the burgeoning national deficit in its bud, El Presidente For Life G. W. Bush has decided to blow up his own country rather than have it explode by the doings of those Islamic America-haters. Sabotage America from within … terrorists couldn’t have done it better themselves. Note to […]
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