CNN, 4/30/04:
“I share a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated,” Bush said. “Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people. That’s not the way we do things in America.” […]“I didn’t like it one bit,” Bush added during an appearance in the White House Rose Garden […]

Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain
received the artillery pieces on loan from the Army and began using them last year to fire rounds into mountainsides and knock snow loose. […]“It was designed to kill people, but it’s a very valuable safety tool for us,” said Rachael Woods, a spokeswoman at Lake Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows, where […]

That’s some mighty loose language:
The Ecstasy Awareness Act
(H.R. 2962) would throw anyone in jail who “profits monetarily from a rave or similar electronic dance event knowing or having reason to know” some event-goers may use drugs at the event. Similarly, Section 305 of the CLEAN-UP Act (H.R. 834) makes it a federal crime - […]

GOLEMS, people. That’s the next logical step from this:
It is an experiment you could do in a school chemistry lab.
But it produces weird growths that, although made purely from inorganic materials, share some of the characteristics of living organisms.
Most chemical mixtures quickly settle into an unchanging state. So the fact that dynamic cell-like […]

You know, if the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy can break the fragile, malnourished reed of public support for Democrats when the current administration’s fuckups prove to be enough of a crushing leaden albatross of Infinite Justice to drive Never-Got-Past-Lame-Duck Kerry and his inbred autocannibalistic excuse for a political party screaming impotently into the bubbling muck of […]

http://www.i-am-asian.com/This… Man, this is just the saddest example of focus-grouped lowest-common-denominator post-trendy corporate art I’ve seen in a while. (dude with the guitar’s pretty cool, though.)
and: …also Catholic / Irish / Italian / Jewish Girl. No Black Girl, though, which implies a level of self-awareness sufficient to realize that this is a […]

Holy fuck, the band behind this song includes Alan Moore and David J!
{ Neil Gaiman }

Darren Aronofsky’s directing Watchmen. Which may just be enough to save it from utter craptitude.
Come on, Watchmen? As a movie? Bullshit, unless it’s a nine-hour trilogy, and even then… Okay, maybe with a self-contained three-hour flick you could do the origin of the first Minutemen, take it through pre- and post-war […]

I could do some research and write up a nice long post about the March for Women’s Lives (1,000,000+. rock.) yesterday. I could put up some thoughts about abortion and control of one’s body. I could throw down some linkage re: current judiciary bastardry (bastardage? bastardarianism?).
But it’s much much easier to send […]

August makes us all look stupid:
So forty years ago, the idea of a candidate being influenced by Rome was a reason to fear for his election. Now, when Rome is actually trying to influence politicians, the Republican Party embraces it for the sake of mocking John Kerry.