Everyone

pay attention! This is what we have to do!

life in death
life in death
life in death
life in death
why dont you tell me
little bitch
what life in death can be

little puff
little sip
little chug
little hiss
little cough
little piss
little death
little miss

little bitch
little bitch
tell me what
i have missed
tell me what
i forget
when i gave up
life in death
life in death.

John popped a percocet discreetly from under the table and drank from his 32 ounce can of Pabst. He looked again at the girl sitting across from him. Shadows masked her face in the dim red light of the bar. Her dark brown, slightly greasy bangs masked one eye; the other seemed listless and blurred. In the background their group of mutual friends chattered on over the loud, punishing music, but neither he nor her could hear nor wanted to hear a word they said. His gaze held firm on her as her gaze drifted about, sliding over him occasionally but making no connection. After a moment of this he stood, and walked outside.

 

The Deadly Atom

Wow...

I just had to look up a word Obama used in his Iraq speech because I didn't know what it meant. And not in the "Is that even a word?" way I've had to do that with W. What a good feeling. 

“a bazooka in my pocket to pull out when we need it to shoot down”

That's what Treasury Secretary Paulson called the hastily-created bailout of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac..

The Bush Administration: Boys with toys.

So, wait..

The bankers said that if the government didn't bail the banks out of their financial woes, there could be negative impacts on the economy?
I'm stunned.

The smartest guy on Slog

gets angry.

The Document

There's an article at Salon that describes the efforts of a team of lawyers on behalf of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc. to sue George W. Bush for infringing upon their Constitutional rights through illegal wiretaps. The main piece of evidence in their case is what the author describes as "The Document." What is this document? "I can't publicly reveal what's in the Document because, well, it's a secret," says author Jon Eisenberg. The Document is a piece of top-secret classified material that accidentally made it into the hands of these lawyers along with a packet of non-classified material.

My question is this: Can The Document be used as evidence in a criminal court against not only George W. Bush, but against his telecom counterparts in this crime? I really want to know the answer. Any insights?  

Sorry, Brits

But those our our jobs. We pretty much need them right now.

Besides which, outsourcing national security just doesn't make sense. Globalisation be damned, some things need to stay national!

Data-rich or data-poor
all we want is data-more.
Not enough! Not enough!
We cry with every episode
Give us more! Give us more!
Our ever-hungry modern mode
Oh, Lord, oh, Lord
Give me more.
Give me more.

Drool...

Drool, drool, drool...

It boggles the mind.

Another compassionate conservative plan. How does anyone fall for these "have your cake and eat it too" arguments? At what point did it stop being ridiculous to claim that you can endlessly cut taxes and still increase benefits? Borrow and Spend Conservatism has destroyed our economy and the value of the dollar (working in tandem with the GOP's slashing of financial regulations), and claiming to have a plan to balance the budget while continuing untenable tax-cuts AND increasing federal spending is such an absurdity that it makes anyone paying attention scoff. 

Ever notice how much less you read books now that the Internet has become so wonderfully available?
Not that I'm complaining, but... These things make me wonder.
Are we becoming less literate, or differently-literate?
Is the world's great conversation eliminating our (or my) private moments of contemplation? Are these moments being drowned out in a sea of noise?

Oh, the impermanence!

Here today, gone tomorrow. When man takes complete control of a landscape, such as the internet, the alterations of that landscape occur at a speed congruent with the speed of mankind's interaction with its environment. Thus, the click of a button can vastly alter the topography of the world. 

It's not so different from mankind's other interactions with the universe, such as the tearing down of buildings and the creation of new ones, but the speed at which such alterations occur in a virtual environment is fascinating. 

This sort of thing really makes me want to host my own site, so as not to be at the mercy of the whims of Google.

Well, you have to attend a party...

When it's being thrown by your moneylenders.

And

DON'T tell me there's a loophole there for criminal suits, and that Obama's BIG SECRET PLAN is to exploit that and take the telecoms to court. Do we really think that will happen, or that those charges would hold up? How much evidence is admissible? Mmmm...

Barack Obama,

Thou hast betrayed me!

Chris Dodd

for President.

Goddamnit

Why doesn't he think he can win on a truly Progressive platform?