Mark Of The Beast

Courtesy of Blackwater’s newsletter, the Blackwater Tactical Weekly. Full text of the Blackwater hiring note: Security for Hurricane Gustav Blackwater is compiling a list of qualified security personnel forpossible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav. Applicants must meet all items listed under the respective Officerposting and be US citizens. Contract length is TBD. Law [...]

When I saw the title “Eight bad reasons to have sex”, I had a feeling it was more like “Eight bad reasons for women to have sex”. I was right. As I’m sure you’re well aware, there are many good reasons to have sex. In fact, sometimes you don’t need any reason at all — [...]

Teh kid introduced us to Banksy a few years back. The anonymous artist inspired him to do a lot of large pieces. I just saw in the Arts Briefly column mention of his recent New Orleans murals. BoingBoing has great photos and links.

Great minds think alike (and concurrently) tonight, so rather than push CC’s post down the page, I’m linking to mine from the storage unit. I’m still editing it, but I wanted to get the rant up, so see whatcha think so far.

…for her feminism without throwing in statements that have long made feminists want to scream when hearing them? Michelle Obama combines traditional values with progressive ones. Isn’t that the kind of equality women want? Kind of equality? I didn’t realize that there is more than one kind. Assuming there is though, I want the kind [...]

…to come out of the Denver convention: Billmon is back! Nope, sorry, still not thrilled by anything else I’ve seen thus far, even on PBS. Rather nauseated, frankly. Even the “Big Dog” is capable of lying or “acting” better than that. And don’t get me started on Biden. Can’t even talk about Hillary right now, [...]

I was gonna clean my room but I was a POWI gonna get up and find the broom but I was a POWmy room is still messed up and I know why- cause I was a POW [repeat 3X] I was gonna go to class before I was a POWI coulda cheated and I coulda [...]

Well I made it the Bread and Puppet show Sunday afternoon! It was a beautiful sunny day and the show was phenomenal! And I’ve got lots and lots of pictures to share. Because there are so many I’ll post most of them over at my blog that I haven’t used in ages to save space [...]

Presented without further preamble, my first crack at a YouTube video.

MaryAnne Gwinn had contacted Dan a while back about why we closed Jackson Street Books for her article about recent departures of other bookstores. It ran today. We’re glad she mentioned Toure Apparel. Maybe that parking lot will get some attention now.

When did it become a sin for progressives to question the decisions/positions of their own candidates? Why is it suddenly okay to tell those of us who have questions that we need to be quiet, or to, as someone over at Jaye’s place put it a few weeks back, “get in line” until the election [...]

Amazingly enough, this isn’t about the mind-bogglingly hypocritical IDIOCY of Obama wanting Joe Dunderhead Biden for veep, I’ll leave that for cooler heads to dissect. Okay, so after wrangling/neutering 85 fucking cats, too many bites & scratches to count, a truck that’s added at least 5,000 miles over the past 3 years, and the aforementioned [...]

Meet Robert (Rev. Helen’s son) and Powder The Psycho-Pussy……brought to you after this long wait caused by a pharmaceutical phuck-up, thanks to SOME REALLY SHITTY EXCUSES FOR PHARMACISTS.And, of course, as always, turns out that there aren’t 10-12 cats left over from the old man moving out of that red shotgun behind the post office [...]

.hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Dunno when it’ll be scheduled where y’all are, but there’s a Nova Special Investigation show coming on here tomorrow night (8EDT/7CDT) about Katrina. Look for it on yer local PBS stations, it looks like it’ll be relatively accurate, if not as brutal & [...]

BBC News video August 6th (2 days before Russian involvment) FOX “News” video of 12 year old California girl who was visiting her Ossetian grandmother when the Georgians attacked. Any bets that some one at that San Francisco affiliate didn’t get their ass chewed, or fired, for allowing something that didn’t support the Neo-Con Party [...]

Saturday was a scorcher in Seattle, 97 at least, and hotter than that in the sun in an over-crowded beach front park. This was the most crowded I’ve ever seen a Hempfest. If 150,000 came over the two days last year, this year they all came on Saturday. The strangest vibe was in the air, [...]

This is literally happening just a few short miles from the town where I went to elementary and junior high school: When classes start Aug. 25 in the tiny Harrold school district, there will be one distinct difference from years prior: Some of the teachers may have guns. To deter and protect against school shootings, [...]