The things around me

lay down your weapons

lay down your weapons, originally uploaded by g.originals.

On November 16th, just more than a month ago, 357 people had been murdered this past year in Philly. Today, more than 400. That's 43+. FORTY-THREE PLUS people in little more than 30 days. That's a whole fucking lot of pain for a lot of people. I don't care if many were drug dealers or users or involved in the drug trade, they were people (young young young people) who at one point loved or was loved. That's a lot of wasted lives and possibilities that we squandered long before they died.

Insanity
Insanity
Insanity
Insanity

Perpetual Glee

Perpetual Glee, originally uploaded by *Snado*.

I wish we would get our environmental act together so that this fantastic tootums and his kids and their kids will experience summer, fall, winter, and spring in the way it was intended: with heat waves and ice storms and blizzards and frozen lakes and clean rain showers and blizzards and snow and more snow and then snow and did I say blizzards and swimming holes full of water and fish to swim between his toes and then some snow and an ocean that's safe to swim.

C'mon winter! We're waiting for you...Don't let global warming and corporate greed and lazy ASSES in their purposeless SUVs get you down.

Funneeeeeeey

, originally uploaded by tangentialism.

This makes me laugh. And I dedicate it to Marie, my high school friend, whose favorite book throughout high school was Helter Skelter. Today she has a Ph.D. in comparative religion.

Mecca

www.nationalstationeryshow.com

If you can read this, you're driving too close

How did we go from it being illegal to have stickers in your car window b/c a potential distraction and visibility hinderence to it being okay to outfit cars with televisions and computer ports. When I learned to drive, my AAA driving teacher told us that it was against the law to have any stickers in a car's rear window. I remember cause I remember thinking about all those people driving breaking a law they probably didn't even know about and all those cops letting them off because the cops have real criminals to go after (like the NY Cantor who, with his brother and another guy, molested his nephew -- sickos like that...). Anyway, I'd take a driver distracted by a 2 second read of a bumber or college sticker, than one distracted by talking on the cell, text messaging, watching a movie, checking email, or doing some combination of all.

Have we lost our fucking minds? Cantor, drivers, and all....

I Love Alicia

Ambition is the last refuge of failure...Oscar Wilde, as quoted by Grisom.

I love the internet. I love the people on the internet. I love the stuff you can find out on the internet. I love that people around the world can spot a trend, talk the same talk, and be part of this endless (which is also why I hate the internet) community.

cockeyed.com/citizen/spam/alicia/alicia.html

The Answer is FUCK!

Driving home from Brian's last night, heard a Terry G interview with two folks about FCC crack down on "indecency" in the media. One guy was Louis Wiley, producer of frontline; the other Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, (who was actually quite good and thoughtful and probably was under a different-than-Bush administration -- I'll stream and see...actually he serves now and was an aide to Tom Daschle). Anyway, it was a sickeningly interesting and mind-boggling weird discussion of indecency on the airwaves. So it got me to thinking that maybe all the fuckwads (good think this is the internets and still yet-to-be censored, cause that word'd get me in a lot o' trouble on the airwaves...), who think the key to evil is in language like fuckwads are onto something. I think probably all the kids being shot in Philly and the little girls whose uncle had his head between her legs on the floor of the Liberty Place mensroom and all the people who walked in and out of the bathroom and did nothing while he did it and Jack Abramoff and that FCC guy who was fired for molesting his kid and all those other people who are bad bad bad JUST heard too many curses when they were growing up. Hitler and Stalin were not possessed by Satan, their parents just never washed their mouths out with soap -- or rather Hitler's and Stalin's grandparents never washed H&S's parents' mouth out with soap, so H&S grew up evil.

IT'S SO OBVIOUS!!! DUH!

Forget poverty, injustice, brain tumors, insanity, poor education, violence, Grand Theft Auto...GET RID OF FUCK!!!!

Lookin Forward to His Book

My nomination for Man of the Year and in the category of I wish I knew the whole story behind his tenure...

Letters released from Powell, Rice
Associated Press
LA Daily News
Here are texts, released Thursday, of letters written by former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on detainee legislation.

Powell's letter:

Dear Senator McCain:

I just returned to town and learned about the debate taking place in Congress to redefine Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. I do not support such a step and believe it would be inconsistent with the McCain amendment on torture, which I supported last year.

I have read the powerful and eloquent letter sent to you by one (of) my distinguished predecessors as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Jack Vessey. I fully endorse in tone and tint his powerful argument. The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. [Actually, the world has doubted for a while -- since the beginning even -- it's a few idiots and maybe a sprinkling of well-intention slow-pokes who are slow to catch up.] To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk.

I am as familiar with "The Armed Forces Officer" as is Jack Vessey. It was written after all the horrors of World War II, and General George C. Marshall, then secretary of defense, used it to tell the world and to remind our soldiers of our moral obligations with respect to those in our custody.

Sincerely,

Colin L. Powell

What Money Would Buy

On the list of the most important things, this is not so high, I suppose. But on the list of my hope for the future, it's high...Someday I'd like open my closet and drawers (which will be much more organized and magazine pretty -- but not MTV cribs-like) to stuff that I liiiike and the body opening the closet will be model-shaped to fit all these fantastical clothes. And Anthropologie won't be owned by neo-conservative so I can shop there too. This might be some of the stuff in there...