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Monday, January 05, 2004
Sarcastic "Response to a rant" *** UPDATE: Richard Pryor's advice to aspiring comics. *** OK- pimps, whores, sluts and bitches! Let's have a great 2004 and be productive and have a social conscience-ya know, like back in the day-when we cared about things other than bling bling and designer labels and Michael Jackson and when we marched on Washington with Dr. King for civil rights, stood along side him in Selma, Alabama fighting injustice and water hoses-banded together against that insane Vietnam war and finally brouught our poor lost men and women home. When women fought for birth control and the right to choose legal abortions. Where are we now?? We all need to ask ourselves what are we doing and how did we become so blind and lost. The good news about being lost is -we need to find ourselves! Let's all figure out what we can do-besides voting that toxic, corporate, visionless President Bush out of office-what can each of us do to give back and get back our self-respect and dignity- What book can we write? What piece of art should be created? What child can we help? What animal can we save? What block can we clean up? What voice can be given to the homeless? What food to the needy? What hug to the unloved? Please let us all find a way to find our way back to giving a shit!3:42 p.m. 01/06/04 UPDATE #2" From the file of things that make me laugh, in a November 29, 2001 lewrockwell.com article, Karen De Coster writes: If you are eating a vegetarian diet that consists primarily of grains, fruits, and vegetables, you are probably eating an unbalanced diet. If you are active, it becomes even more difficult. Although vegetarian athletes can consume adequate protein from their diet, they have to be willing to eat large amounts of plant proteins, and this becomes unrealistic in the long run. That's why veggie athletes are an uncommon lot. The fruit & nut & grain crowd harp on the evils of protein, and peddle their diets as the natural way, ignoring that we are natural carnivores and not omnivores or herbivores, as they would have us believe.There are no doubt vegetarians who fit this description but they are hardly in the majority. *** Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism 9:29 p.m. 01/06/03 UPDATE #3: Sounds like a good deal. *** That's good news but I suppose the same thing could once have been said about their father. *** Why don't I live anywhere near California's largest city? 11:45 p.m. 01/07/04 UPDATE #4: smart piece *** Ron Pisaturo's September 28, 2001 piece "Why and How to Conquer the Savages" has the following summary: "A murderous leader of a foreign government forfeits his right to life, and a murderous government forfeits its right to exist." But if they are in the domestic government... The author goes on to write, "We must destroy not only those governments that 'harbor' terrorists in the future, but also those that have harbored terrorists in the past." Oddly enough he doesn't mention destroying the U.S. government, although he does say, "[a]ny nation that does not support us in our moral action is not worthy of our friendship and should be cut off from trade with and military support from America" and then "[a]fter our nuclear and other overwhelming attacks, we must demand the total surrender of these evil regimes. We must confiscate all oil properties of all Arab nations." I wonder if this "actor, playwright, screenwriter, philosopher, and student of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism" has ever thought to consider what might be some of the possible complications from such actions. 12:34 p.m. 01/08/04 UPDATE #5: Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine *** What the fuck? 12:55 p.m. 01/08/04 UPDATE #6: Aluf Benn of Ha'aretz makes the not exactly risky prediction that there won't be much progress in achieving "peace" between the Israelis and Palestinians this year in a January 7 salon.com piece entitled "A year without hope." *** Interesting lists of items. 12:47 p.m. 01/09/04 UPDATE #7: Two more reasons to live on the east coast. *** *** Peace between India and Pakistan appears right around the corner. 8:50 p.m. 01/10/04 UPDATE #8: "US military stretched too thin?" is the title of Tom Regan's January 9 csmonitor.com blog entry. 5:59 p.m. 01/11/04 UPDATE #9: In a January 10 Guardian story, Angelique Chrisafis writes: Northern Ireland, which is 99% white, is fast becoming the race-hate capital of Europe. It holds the UK's record for the highest rate of racist attacks: spitting and stoning in the street, human excrement on doorsteps, swastikas on walls, pipe bombs, arson, the ransacking of houses with baseball bats and crow bars, and white supremacist leaflets nailed to front doors.I think of Liam (Stephen Frears, 2000). *** liberation 9:33 p.m. 01/11/04 |