A classic opening ‘graf.
Nic Santiago fronted a band who put out a blistering single that’s a high point of my collection.
A friend hipped me to his MySpace page(!) where I found something so great that I had to share. I haven’t even read the rest, I liked this so much. I hope it doesn’t suck:
“When you’ve just been dumped by the love of your life and you use the salt from your always flowing tears to spice up the low sodium soup you’re slurping to get in shape for the rebound babe you’re destined to meet, don’t do what I did. The spring of 1987 started off swimmingly enough. I was freshly paroled fom a three year hell ride of heartache. It was nobody’s fault really but I began to suspect the end was near when during our ever more infrequent lovemaking we had resorted to role playing and would flip a coin each time to see who got to be G.G. Allin.”
Obama in Berlin
“they are our partners as they have not been since the middle of september 2001… as they could have been with us for days and weeks and years going forth… as they might once be with us again to fight the battles that have been thrust upon all the citizens of this big blue marble.
they are waving american flags in berlin and for the first time in a long, long time I am proud to be a citizen represented by and governed under those glorious stars and stripes.”
This year, we remembered.
Last year, we didn’t – neither of us (and not only me), thank heavens.
But no matter what, Lynn and I got married twelve years ago today.
It’s been a white-knuckle hellride at times, to be sure, but I don’t have any regrets.
How did we celebrate, you ask? Friday, we dropped the kids off at the grandparents for the weekend (thanks so much, guys!) and had a lovely dinner in the town where we were hitched, and last night we enjoyed the company of pals for some beverages at the new place at the end of our street.
All in all, a pretty good mile marker!
Friday Stopgap iPod Post
My iPod catalog has changed pretty markedly lately. Can you tell?
So What – Ministry
Regiment – Brian Eno & David Byrne
Anything At All – Over The Rhine
Space II – Butthole Surfers
Pink Dawn – Human Instinct
You’re Much Madder Than Me – Human Switchboard
Mulder & Scully – Catatonia
Dead Guy – Ministry
Hidas Kuula – Lau Nau
Burn On The Flame – Sweet
Schadenfreude, sort of…
Though I don’t think I particularly take any satisfaction or pleasure at the continuing misfortune of my old college classmate Evan Montvel-Cohen.
Laugh Out Loud Funny
Or at least I think so…
Balloon Juice, at least this part:
Should we get lucky and Obama wins the General, this will be my headline:
“Obama wins. Republicans and media rediscover Constitution, rule of law, limits on executive authority.”
The rest is just depressing, frankly.
The most basic arguments against Nader
For Dazy Po:
First off, for a leftist hero that’s different from those pandering Democrats, he’s quite the hypocrite. He railed against Gore and others for investing in not-so great companies, yet invests in such corporate monsters as Wal-Mart, GAP, the Limited, and HALLIBURTON himself. These all part of a Fidelity mutual fund that his own “Nader’s Raiders” denounced, companies that are reviled by the WTO protestors–people Nader supports in word. He casts himself as a proponent of labor, yet denies his workers the right to unionize. He talks up his consumer advocate history, but at the same time uses funds from his advocacy groups for stock market adventures.
Second, the premise for his run is a false one. He declares there is too little difference between the parties (there are plenty of life-and-death differences for people to vote on), and further states the reason half the people don’t vote is because the two party system doesn’t speak for them, tries to encourage apathy, etc. Well, he’s run a few times now, and I haven’t seen the other half of the country start voting again. It’s not that they don’t care about Republicans and Democrats, apparently Nader doesn’t blow their skirts up either. And if it’s the media’s or the public’s fault, how does Nader expect to fix those problems when it’s in the interest of the intrenched parties to maintain the status quo? Run again?
Finally, anyone who says he wants to “heighten the contradictions”, or prefers Republicans be in charge for that reason, should be thrown out on his ass. Ends justifies the means rhetoric doesn’t EVER fly with me and it certainly shouldn’t with you. For those who rightly criticize the argument that the IWR Dems were “giving W enough rope to hang himself with”, I hope you NEVER try to justify Nader’s statements that have the same basic and flawed idea. Putting Republicans in power so that their atrocities galvanize the populace is a sick way of using widespread suffering for political gain, and I want no part of it.
It’s from here.