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Kaki King: “Playing With Pink Noise”
Haditha, In their Own Words
Preliminary hearings began at Camp Pendleton for a Marine sergeant accused of seventeen counts of murder.
“When I opened the door there was just women and kids, two adults were lying down on the bed and there were three children on the bed … two more were behind the bed,” [Lance Corporal Humberto] Mendoza said.
“I looked [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”
—All’s Well That Ends Well, 2.1.145-47
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Nothing can come of nothing: speak again.”
—King Lear, 1.1.92
Offensive Portrait
British artist Jonathan Yeo has assembled a collage depicting President Bush, using clippings from porn mags:
The work was unveiled yesterday at London’s Lazarides gallery, which explains the motivation behind the thought-provoking piece: “Yeo was commissioned to undertake a portrait of US President George W Bush, but was later told his services were not required. He [...]
Why We Fight, Part 875
Thanks to Kerry for the link to Rolling Stone’s sharply-worded rebuke of the war profiteers who drove us into Iraq.
Now you can finally move out of your dull government housing on Bolling Air Force Base and get your wife that dream home you’ve been promising her all these years. The place on Park Street in [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!”
—Hamlet, 1.5.106
Gonzales Top Ten Redux
Letterman had funnier top ten reasons why Gonzo had to go:
10. Felt he wasn’t incompetent enough for the Bush Administration.
9. Secretly ordered himself to fire himself.
8. Was offered the John Travolta role in the touring production of Hairspray.
7. Trying his hand at failing miserably in the private sector.
6. Didn’t want to be around for [...]
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Carlos Vamos: “Little Wing”
Compare to Monte Montgomery’s fiery electrified acoustic version.
Top Ten Reasons Gonzales Had to Go
Avenging Angel on DailyKos counts the ways:
Lying Under Oath
Purging Prosecutors
Misusing the Patriot Act’s National Security Letters
Authorizing Illegal NSA Domestic Surveillance
Enabling John Yoo and Unchecked Presidential War Powers
Rendering the Geneva Conventions “Quaint”
Supporting Military Commissions and the End of Habeas Corpus
Blessing Unprecedented Expansion of Presidential Signing Statements
Facilitating a CIA Leak Cover-Up
Gutting Minority Voting Rights
We will be decades [...]
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