Too much posting for a Saturday, I know, but otherwise the links pile up.
Emptywheel has more on the war crimes of 2001, and Juan Cole has more on Gen. Dostam. Bush’s personal fingerprints on aren’t on this crime (yet), but he’s been more strongly linked to the attempted intimidation of John Ashcroft.
I won’t resort to the crickets chirping joke, but the silence from the major media on Bush-Cheney’s sins is almost that deafening. Not so Obama Derangement Syndrome which is in full bloom even as we begin to explore the ongoing lunacy of The Family.
We live in a country where a man was just released from jail after serving 14 years for contempt, while liberals are reduced to graphing stupidity vs. dishonesty to explain the wingnut Wurlitzer (a little bit nutty and a whole lot of slutty).
Nanny state social conservatives have given us DUI checkpoints that arrest people for everything but DUI, Congresswomyn who trash talk Constitutionally mandated government services, and then fixate on an anonymous hand on the inner thigh. [more on checkpoints]
Still, it’s worse in the U.K.
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In light of California paying people with scrip, Grace Kelly takes a look at owing your soul to the company store, even as union-busting outfits continue to Soprano-tize labor.
Meanwhile, reporting on giveaways to big business has been all but criminalized.
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Phoenix Woman did the math I was too lazy to do, and figures out that Collin Peterson wasn’t the only Blue Dog not to sign the healthcare reform letter. (I looked at the actual pdf-ified letter and there are only signatures with no typed names so good luck deciphering the full list!)
Peterson gets a bum rap at times. It’s not every member of Congress who’d put their name on a freedom to manure bill.
I know, I know. That shit’s not funny.
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Arts and Bits:
The art of the bit (aka a schtick)
Land of 10,000 Loch Nesses
Paying to listen to music at work
& 2 music videos that are fannishly exclusive of one another: Kraftwerk*, Levon Helm
*The lead in video brought to mind this vintage Kraftwerk story about how during their ‘91 tour the band replaced themselves with robots midshow, leaving the state and letting remote-controlled robots perform in their stead. I can’t find a link, but even before then Kraftwerk had outraged audiences by walking on stage, turning on their equipment and then leaving the stage as the computers and equipment “performed” without human assistance.
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The rest of the links:
Turning the Sotomayor hearings into a referendum on affirmative action
Human-animal hybrids resurface
Fox finally starts Catholic bashing (now that’s the kind of conservatism I grew up with!)
More anti-abortion eliminationist cant/rant on Fox
Kilmeade on making Jews kiss Natzinger’s ring
How Cali scrip is working out
South Dakota ‘pugs froth over Sen. Tim Johnson’s son being appointed US Attorney (seriously, how many dozens of attorneys does SD have to pick from?)
Truthfully, I can say yes to everything on this list
Racism still flourishes at St. Cloud State University*
* I visited that campus with three women of color back in the early ’90s. I kid you not, heads turned, jaws dropped and in general people stared at us as we walked across campus. I think most of the students were trying to figure out if we were musicians or food service workers.
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Realizing that I can now stream Netflix movies with the mini has led to a brief resurgence in movie watching at Chez Wege. Camp mostly. My streamed entertainment has ranged from old Avengers episodes to a Hellboy animated movie to DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation. Last night I dug into the external drives for Breakheart Pass, a Chas. Bronson movie that holds up surprisingly well (except for the Cavalry setting a world speed record by covering the same ground the train took three days to cover in just twenty minutes).
What I really want is a new TV show to watch. I started The Rogues, a vintage David Niven series that lasted one season, but it was pretty dated and somewhat plodding. Tripping the Rift isn’t as funny as I used to think it was, and I’m just not fired up to watch Weeds. I’ve got seasons 1 & 2 of Heroes stashed away, and I’ve never seen the second Battlestar Galactica series, but neither sounds good to me.
What I really want to do is watch basketball. And no, the WNBA doesn’t count.
Here’s a winner: John Cleese’s Wine for the Confused.
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07/11/2009 at 4:25 pm
MNO
Nancy Botwin rules.
07/11/2009 at 5:55 pm
Mark Gisleson
Not having seen the show yet, I had to google your reference. I hope knowing her name doesn’t ruin too much of the plot line for me.
I followed up the Cleese with Superman Doomsday, and now finally understand the B&W Superman suit thing, kind of.
07/11/2009 at 5:08 pm
DeKadent
Well, Al’s Bar is no longer, but I left at five and the revelers will still relevating out in the parking lots and almost onto excelsior. Channel 5 was there, at least the vans were, the occupants may have joined the last hurrah.
So drunks went there, now where? Drunks can be wise and worthwhile as long as nothing is invested, such as family or money. What good will come with another mixed use retail/residential plot? Nothing, but good returns for the developers.
Do anyofyas ever ask yourselves, where are the strip joints in Apple Valley? The better question is where would you put one after nobody wants to rent out all of the excess retail space. Point being, some of this lowlife stuff should exist and it cannot be gentrified, well maybe it could but it would lose a sense of qualia.
A word I discovered researching sleep
http://www.slphistory.org/history/als.asp
07/11/2009 at 5:34 pm
suDoKu apprentice
In my neighborhood there is a shifty plot smack dab in the middle of coolness and liberalness called MCCL. Very close by is the Anodyne coffee shop (way hip) and the Corner Table restaurant along with Road Runner Records (albums, kiddies) and a Motorcycle shop. The sign for MCCL is not much bigger that the type you are reading, it is a sign in the door window 6 inches wide by 2 inches high. Intelligent but ignorant individuals would try to decipher the Roman numerals and come up with 1250 AD which isn’t very far off from the actual Minnesotans Citizens Concerned for Life.
I don’t know if I like them there very much. Especially, after one of their flock shoots a doctor in the face in a church. Why the sidewalk is not bloodstained already, and at least fake blood stained is a testament to the easy going life of South Minneapolis and my doctor prescribed addiction to fluoxetine.
http://www.mccl.org/Page.aspx?pid=183
I know, yuck phu, I am sorry to make one go to such a sight. Listen to the Decemberists “The Rake’s Song” to get the bad taste out of your mouth.
What can one do when one is widower
Shamefully saddled with three little pests
All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life
So my burden I began to divest
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright
Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove
Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath
Isaiah fought but was easily bested
Burned his body for incurring my wrath
Alright, alright, alright
Balanced sickness I know. Twhat is art anyway?
07/11/2009 at 6:08 pm
Brion Emde
I didn’t think I’d like “Dexter” and I did; very much, in fact. But it’s not streaming and there are only 4 seasons available on DVD so far. Netflix has it and it’s worth it, in my opinion.
07/12/2009 at 6:55 am
Rob Levine
Try Entourage – you can get the first five seasons on DVD. Best show on the tv machine.
07/12/2009 at 3:46 pm
Steve Monaco
WEEDS sucks; not even Albert Brooks could make it watchable.
So you want a new show to watch? Two words: BREAKING BAD. Trust me on this and get them all.
P.S. As for the story about Kraftwerk “leaving the state and letting remote-controlled robots perform in their stead,” who can blame the audience for being pissed? It’s one thing to pull an Elvis and leave the auditorium, but the whole goddamned state??
07/12/2009 at 7:20 pm
Mark Gisleson
Well, having altered history with that typo, I can’t very well go back and fix it without risking further damage to the space-time continuum, now can I?
07/12/2009 at 6:47 pm
Brion Emde
I watched “Weeds” and didn’t think it sucked. I did think it has a sort of “Perils of Pauline” serial heroine-gets-in-more-and-more-danger-each-episode feel, that was getting hard to take for me, since I get a season at a time and kind of watch them serially. It’s especially true if you develop an affinity for the heroine.