This video (shot by my best friend’s sister, an extremely talented experimental filmmaker out of Charm City) does raise the question of whether in killing Crap, Art has become its enemy, but I have to admit it’s real fucking funny.
Also funny is that if you watch this vid on iFilm there’s a disclaimer about how […]

Last week Tony Snow called it murder.
Today on Meet the Press, Josh Bolton, White House chief of staff, tried to defend the Bush position that using embryonic stem cells for research is murder.
Crooks and Liars has the video.
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Dark Entries - Bauhaus 1980

Pam from Pandagon: NC’s anti-cohabitation law ruled unconstitutional.
It looks like the commies have won again.

Waste Land Limericks - Wendy Cope
I
In April one seldom feels cheerful;
Dry stones, sun and dust make me fearful;
Clairvoyantes distress me,
Commuters depress me–
Met Stetson and gave him an earful.
II
She sat on a mighty fine chair,
Sparks flew as she tidied her hair;
She asks many questions,
I make few suggestions–
Bad as Albert and Lil–what a pair!
III
The Thames runs, bones […]

I’m going offline for the next week or so. See you all on the flipside!

Whiskey Bar: The Aesthetics of Fascism
Billmon.

Damn commie ACLU.
From a previous story on the issue:
Deborah Hobbs, 40, says her boss, Sheriff Carson Smith of Pender County, near Wilmington, told her to get married, move out or find another job after he found out she and her boyfriend had been living together for three years. The couple did not want to get […]

Well done Bill.

Killing a nation, one airstrike at a time | Salon News
Great on-the-ground coverage of life in Lebanon this week by Mitchell Prothero writing for Salon.