to arms!

warning: politics

Consider yourself alerted. Bissette is galloping by your home, lantern in hand, calling you to WAKE UP and READ THIS! He's also again challenging morons like me to finally snap out of it and see the truth, be enlightened and coherent and smart and caring like he is. I think he may disown me if I don't flip over this one! Sounds like the camel's back is near the breaking point!

I'm going to digest this first. And read Jay's blog etc, get some more info. I'm also SWAMPED at the day job, so it may be a couple of days before I react. I'll give this the intense attention it so richly cries out for. YOU can express rage or apathy on Bissette's blog, or here, or Daily Kos, or to your "representatives" as quickly and as fully as you see fit.
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MEANWHILE, in Bissette's own back yard, another man's rights are being trampled! Here's an update on the Naked Man of Brattleboro!

Vermont: City Known for Nudity Opts for Emergency Coverage
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 19, 2007

People in parts of a Vermont town known for nudity are being told to keep their clothes on. In a 3-to-2 vote, town officials in Brattleboro passed an emergency antinudity ordinance for main roads and near schools and places of worship. A gaggle of naked teenagers who hung around a downtown parking lot had prompted the Select Board several months ago to think that clothing-optional was not working. Officials decided then to let winter take care of the problem, and never voted. But, they decided they had seen enough when an elderly man strolled through downtown last week wearing nothing but a fanny pack. Next month, Brattleboro will hold a public hearing on whether the ordinance should become permanent.

#@%&#@!

Somehow a post about about the amazing new Come Draw With Me activity turned into a spirited discussion of hate speech, so get your jew interloper ass over there and weigh in if you want to.
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I finished a bunch of Arties for Benny! I'll post one here if it's okay. I forgot to ask. I'll ask here! Benny, may I?
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Meanwhile here's a great illustration by Pic! I don't know what it's for, probably some kid's magazine in France? He just attached it to a recent email. © Pic! of course.

i love pets, but -

- ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It's time to clean house. Join the wave over at Crawford Ditch Northeast. My term, not theirs. But Ross Perot did not want to be a hero either - the people SPOKE! And FORCED him to become a great leader! Bissette is poised - let's all push! If idiots will only do their civic duty and die, wise men will rise up and lead.

BISSETTE / HEMLOCKMAN IN '08!

ramblin' man

The World's Greatest Cook is watching the Oscars and I got all my Monty Warts drawn for the day, so allow me to jabber "freestyle".


I'll throw this out first, simply because I have a graphic to go with it, and I like pictures. I hate history, and I am sick to death of hearing every side's side of the freaking Middle East situation. So imagine my surprise when Michael Oren starts speaking on C-Span's BookTV and I am fascinated for an hour listening to this guy talk about history and the Middle East. I have not read the book (I just saw him on C-Span a few hours ago) and to be honest, I cannot see myself reading a 733-page history book. But I'll listen to the book-on-tape when it hits the discount racks. Meanwhile, I hope everybody who feels passionately about the Middle East and has strong feelings about Cowboy Jingoism in the 20th Century will read this book, or at least read ABOUT it or watch Michael Oren on BookTV. Or read this interview.

I think history is pretty much like current events, in that each side will see reinforcement of their opinion in it. But at least you'll know this thing goes way way WAY back beyond - well, unless you already know why that copy of the Koran was in Thomas Jefferson's study, don't assume you know.
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The other thing I wanted to jabber about is this site that eeTeeD linked to. Just want to bring it up front here, out of the comments section, and second the motion that you check it out. It's always fun to listen to grouchy miserable people who hate their job and think that the industry they work in, once proud and noble, is now a cheap whore controlled by a rich pimp, churning out rancid product that the public devours greedily like a dog eating vomit.

HOWEVER! I must take exception to the popular sport of Simpsons-bashing! All of these elitists who say the Simpsons is crap now, and has been "ever since Season Whatever"...

I disagree.
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