"The Final Blow" by Eric Joyner


DailyKos linked to The Sneeze today, and I found this great painting there. Follow the genesis of "The Final Blow."

Charlie 

Still thinking about the Doctor

Came across another blog's Hunter S. Thompson entry. I thought this blog put together a nice little link page, so here you go.

THRASHER

Plus, I like the choice in blog templates. Nice taste.

Oh, and I almost forgot- here's a place where you can download the fonts of your favorite bands. Thank you Jesusbaby for the internets.

Rogues Gallery 

I love this picture 

So long and Mahalo.

R.I.P., HST

Just got in on a rainy night in the devil's cauldron of Liberalism and Feel-Good Sinnery, having contributed positive vibes to the taping of the Naked Trucker and T-Bones' DVD at the Troubadour, when I learned via the internets the Hunter S. Thompson killed himself today.

I read the Great Shark Hunt when I was 18. I dressed as the good Dr. for Halloween my freshman year for the South Street debauch in Philly.

My dorm room was adorned with a homemade poster, the opening quote to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man- Dr. Johnson."

Read his final column , Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray, here.

Maybe the Rapture has begun, and the Lord took the truest of believers before the going got really weird.

R.I.P.

wikki wikki, bruddah


(images from Ralph Steadman's website)

Snoop Dog in concert in Amsterdam 

Bushes don't get old people.

According to an ABC News story tonight, the Bush Administration "doesn't understand" why their social security agenda isn't more popular with seniors, who won't be affected by any changes to the system.

They don't understand because they are conservatives- people who believe in looking out for number one, that if it doesn't hurt me then I don't care . Conservatives are notoriously short-sighted.

They can't fathom that our older generation might want their children and grandchildren to have what they have. The Greatest Generation is patriotic and doesn't delight in the idea of fucking over the people they will leave behind.

See, as Anne Frank reminded us, the majority of people are good at heart.

The Bush Administration cannot understand this.

Banana Republicans

I was wondering this morning if this country really is sliding into Banana Republic-hood. I'm afraid this move might be permanent.

Attention right wing nuts: your media lies to you constantly. Truth is good for you and our country. The media you think is "liberal" looks right wing to us liberals. The media you think is fair and balanced is right-wing propaganda. Your disregard for truth is shameful. Soldiers are dying because you are too lazy to seek truth- you prefer pabulum, jingoisitic candy. You like it all dumbed down and hooray for our side right or wrong. And you believe the crap that they say about liberals.

You deserve the country you get, you lazy, dumb fucks.

Hey looky- here's another Bush shill exposed as a "reporter". Do you even give a fuck that our country and our press used to be better than this?



jeff gannon, fascist toad




Who is this pervert Jeff Gannon anyway, lobbing softball partisan questions at your President Gump?


is this talon's jeff gannon, scott mclellan's pal? 


Of course, it has been worse in some respects, like the days of the Palmer Raids and all that- I'm just afraid the glorious country of my youth, a country I likened to Atticus Finch more than Uncle Sam, has morphed into a fat, dumb Lush Rimjob- for good.

Until somebody nukes us into dust.

The Al Franken Show at The Magic Castle today... 

Photo shoot.

Jesuspuppet friggin' talks too much. 

A good day in Iraq.

Oh, how hard it is to be against the War on Election Day in Iraq.

Even if the polls numbers are wrong and it wasn't a 72% turnout- if it was a 50% or less, the fact that Iraqis risked their lives to go out and vote is a wonderful display of bravery and freedom.

I am happy for them.

But I still wonder if the ends justified the means. I was always an advocate of Preemptive Democracy as way to minimize or hopefully avoid casualties in an Iraq conflict...


Are the neocons right?


What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along?
February 1, 2005
BY MARK BROWN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Random thoughts: Bush legacy... poor planning... gambling with other people's lives.... little Osamas... Democracy at the point of a gun- is that freedom? How many Iraqi civilian casualties matter to you? How many American lives? All? Some? None?

Did the people oppressed by Saddam deserve to be killed for their freedom by our military?

It's not like we came in and joined someone's rebellion. We invaded an organized Stalinist state, but it doesn't seem that we had a clear plan for the occupation. The contractors were very organized and ready to go. The Humvees still aren't all armored. The Defense Secretary is glib, flip, and cock-sure. Iraqi's power and water is still intermittent... $9 billion dollars are missing...

Baghdad Burning

Operation Truth


What does the Project for the New American Century have to say? Nothing so far, it seems... Shouldn't they be bloviating wildly now?

My great hope is that Bush knows the War wasn't the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am his advisers told him it would be- it's ending up somewhat more like the VietNam War he avoided as a wealthy young man. So my hope is that Bush the masterful politician is looking to "fix" this nagging war and his legacy by beginning to pull out our troops. Even a "cosmetic" pull out- a few thousand at first- would be wonderful. I hope that his ego will motivate him to begin the pull out...


Even if, as a liberal, I am left in the uncomfortable position of wanting our troops to not leave the place in sheer chaos... I want NATO or the Arab League or somebody in there to help...

I don't care about being right about this... I want to be wrong, actually...

But I'm afraid this will embolden them. The neocons. The Bushes. The right wing.


He might be a lame duck on social security- but he sure is a wartimepresident

Cold Dick

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, center, is flanked by his wife Lynne, right, and Israel's President Moshe Katsav, left, as leaders from 30 countries gather to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops in Oswiecim, southern Poland on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)


Dick Cheney is an asshole and he has no class.

Dick Cheney, Dressing Down
Parka, Ski Cap at Odds With Solemnity of Auschwitz Ceremony
By Robin GivhanWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, January 28, 2005; Page C01

Why should he care about looking like the elementary school janitor cleaning the driveway at a Holocaust memorial ceremony? He's running his very own concentration camp in Guantanamo right now.

It looks to me like he's wearing some kind of military parka. Combined with the "Staff 2001" knit cap on his head, it is apparent Cheney went to Aushwitz wearing swag. Free stuff. Junk.

But wait- there's more! More offensive than the shlubby get-up, were the words that came out of his crooked mouth. From Alternet.org:

Posted by Evan on January 28, 2005 @ 8:58AM
Dick Cheney didn't miss an opportunity for opportunism at yesterday's Auschwitz memorial conflating the Nazis with the war on terror in a speech to survivors: "You survived terror," he told them. It's not that the word doesn't adequately describe the horrors they endured -- few would argue that. But the word contains far too much political baggage that simply didn't need to be toted over to Poland on this occasion. Too bad Cheney couldn't just back off for just one day.

I'll have to find the transcript and see if he mentioned 9/11.

Can't wait for the spin.

Bold Move By President Gump

Bush Orders An End To Hiring Columnists

Oh boy. My fucking hero.

I like this part:

"All our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda any more,' Bush said at a news conference. 'Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet from now on.' The president said he expects his agency heads will 'make sure that that practice doesn't go forward much longer.'"

Ok, the bold parts are mine, of course.

Government propaganda is usually a bad thing. Last year, according to the aforeposted link, the Bush Administration spent... well, just read it:

"On Wednesday, the House Committee on Government Reform released a report on the use of taxpayer dollars for public relations campaigns. It found the administration spent a record $88 million on government-funded public relations contracts in 2004 - more than double the amount spent in 2000, according to the report prepared for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democrats. "

Bold not mine, sadly.

Public relations. Propaganda.

And propaganda is one of the Riders of the Apocalypse, my friend.

Well, she ought to be.

gianormous 

pretty friggin cute 

Kitten tooth! 

Monday Night: '84

This is where I'll be performing Monday night, in San Francisco. Come see it and try to figure out which one is me.

Michael Sullivan's Eighty-Four.


Unrelated: PatriotActors has got Joe Trippi's number, alright.

StraightBob JesusPants causing trouble

More on The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard (tm)

Woke up yesterday to hear both KFI AM Los Angeles (serving Fake News and Right-Wing Nuttery for far too long) and ABC News (anchored by a CANADIAN!) both report as fact that Nile Rodgers' We Are Family Foundation did create a video that promoted homosexuality.

It's a quirky story with heroes and villains, folks, but here are some links to get to the truth. Since the media is just gonna lie and goof on this creepy right wing stunt, here- just judge for yourself.

First, here's Nile Rodgers' We Are Family Foundation: www.wearefamilyfoundation.org

Here's the pledge that's causing all the trouble:

"Tolerance is a personal decision that comes from a belief that every person is a treasure. I believe that America's diversity is its strength. I also recognize that ignorance, insensitivity and bigotry can turn that diversity into a source of prejudice and discrimination.

To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own. "

http://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/tolerance_pledge.asp

Now that pledge comes from www.tolerance.org, an offshoot of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Here's the site for the homosexual support group from South Carolina , WeAreFamily, that's caused some confusion on behalf of a few "Christians": http://www.waf.org/

And here's the sanctimonious Focus on the Family: http://family.org/


My guess is that someone at Focus on the Family understandably confused the two groups both using the name "We Are Family." When they assumed the actual gay activist We Are Family was issuing a a videotape directly to schools featuring SpongeBob SquarePants, that must have jolted them right through their sensible shoes. I mean, BINGO! Smoking Gun! One more off the Rapture Ready checklist (the Left Behind Scorecard?).

But then Nile Rodgers burst their bubble by pointing out that it was his unity-and-diversity-and-stuff group issuing the videotape to 60 million-odd schools. Not the gay group- the anti-racism group.

Looks like the Jesus Squad had blown it, coming off like a bunch of yokels (a-gin! dadnurbit!... oops..forgive me, Lord) - UNTIL they checked into the website of Rodgers' group and found the tolerance pledge, which of course does ask people to pledge to be tolerant of people even if they're swishy, and SHA-ZAAM! They pull out of the nose dive and they're back on the trail of the homosexual agenda! Whew! Even though the tolerance pledge isn't on the tape at all, anywhere.

Of course, it's Tinky-Winky all over again. And at the end of the day Jerry Falwell did succeed in making Twinky-Winky into a gay icon. The same thing may happen with SpongeBob now- the gay community adopts SpongeBob as another icon of protest, and Focus on the Family get to snort, swish their forked tails, and sputter "we told you he was a faggot."


Mission Accomplished.