A Dream

I am not psychic
The future that I see
is through the eyes of mad men
Eyes are the pathway to the soul
Twisted and tormented they are
sometimes can hardly be seen
I carry a flashlight
not always in my hand
Maybe one day I'll be able to see

100 People part 3

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America

Bernard Goldberg

80 – Kitty Kelley
Sleaze merchant extraordinaire. In 1991 Kelley published a book that claimed to expose the sordid truth about Nancy Reagan. In the book’s most sensational revelation, Kelley claimed that Nancy had actually cheated on the president in the White House – with Frank Sinatra.
It was of course the trashiest of lies. Even Max Frankel, executive editor of the Times, was finally forced to acknowledge that repeating it on page one of his newspaper was a "mistake."

79 – Harry Belafonte
As far as Harry Belafonte is concerned, Colin Powell is an Uncle Tom, maybe even a "house nigger." You decide. This is what Belafonte said about Powell in an interview that aired on a San Diego radio station:
"There is an old saying, in the days of slavery. There were those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master, do exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is committed to come into the house of the master, as long as he would serve the master,
according to the master’s plans. And when Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear,
he will be turned back out to pasture.
And you don’t hear much from those who live in the pasture."

78 – Norman Mailer
"This guy isn’t a murderer, he’s an artist," Norman Mailer said in 1981, pleading for the release from prison of convicted murderer-turned-writer Jack Henry Abbott. Mailer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning intellectual,
lobbied to get Abbott paroled. He said that to ignore his talent would be a crime and "culture is worth a little risk."
The campaign succeeded, Abbott was released and went to New York where six weeks later, Jack Henry Abbott got into an argument with a twenty-two-year-old waiter and stabbed him to death.

77 – Linda Hirshman
Not the best known feminist in town, but she just may be the most self-important, smug, condescending one in the whole bunch.
This is her view on women who choose to leave their prestigious jobs in order to stay at home with their kids: "These women are choosing lives in which they do not use their capacity for very complicated work, they’re choosing lives in which they do not use their capacity to deal with very powerful other adults in the world, which takes a lot of skill.
I think there are better lives and worse lives."
If you ever wondered why old-fashioned radical feminism
has become the butt of so many jokes
and the target of so much hostility,
if you ever wondered why it is becoming
more irrelevant by the day, now you know.

76 – Barbara Foley
What is it about higher education that encourages political idiocy?
Barbara Foley, a Marxist professor of English at Rutgers University in New Jersey posted a message on the internet, just one month after September 11, 2001, for her students. It dealt partly with readings for the class, partly with the terrorist attacks. "[W]e should be aware that, whatever it’s proximate cause, it’s ultimate cause is the fascism of u.s. [sic] foreign policy over the past many decades."
Translation: It was our fault. We brought the mayhem of 9/11 down on ourselves. And, by implication, we deserve what we got.

75 – Eric Foner
Professor of History at Columbia University, he isn’t just another run-of-the-mill left-wing academic. He’s a major-league player in his field,
a past president of the American Historical Association. Forner’s many books are used in high school and college classrooms throughout America, helping shape the perceptions of countless students about their country and its role in the world. Which is why what he had to say after September 11, 2001, matters a lot; and why it’s so depressing.
"I’m not sure which is more frightening," he said,
"the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House."
If the good professor truly isn’t sure which is more frightening, then a reasonable person can draw only one conclusion: That Eric Foner, despite his Ph.D., is a fool.

74 – Katha Pollitt
Just days after September 11, 2001, a journalist named Katha Pollitt,
a columnist for the left-wing magazine The Nation,
who also writes regularly for the New Yorker and the New York Times,
did a piece for The Nation called "Put Out No Flags."
"My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center," she wrote, "thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say:
The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war."
After a bit of give and take, during which Ms. Pollitt half-heartedly acknowledges that her daughter may have a point about how the flag can also mean "standing together and honoring the dead," they reach a compromise. "I tell her that she can buy a flag with her own money and fly it out her bedroom window, because that's hers,
but the living room is off limits." It’s heartwarming, isn’t it?

73 – Barbara Kingsolver
My daughter cam home from kindergarten and announced,
"Tomorrow we all have to wear read, white and blue."
This is how novelist and left-wing social critic Barbara Kingsolver begins an op-ed right after September 11, 2001.
"Why?" She wants to know. "For all the people that died when the airplanes hit the buildings," the little girl explains. For most Americans, this would seem like a nice, loving gesture. Not to Barbara Kingsolver.
"I fear the sound of saber-rattling, dread that not just my taxes but even my children are being dragged to the cause of death in the wake of death," she writes. She asks her daughter why she can’t simply wear black. Why does she have to wear the colors of the flag?
What does that mean, she wants to know.
"It means we’re a country. Just all people together,"
the young girl innocently replies.
When a little girl in kindergarten sounds – no, make that is –
smarter than her mother, you know there’s a problem.

72 – Ward Churchill
On September 11, 2001, 1,600 very long miles away from the very nightmarish devastation in New York City, a college professor named Ward Churchill, who teaches ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, sat down to write about what happened to America that day:
"The most that can honestly be said of those involved on Sept. 11," he wrote, "is that they finally responded in kind to some of what this country has dispensed to their people as a matter of course." Of the innocent civilians who perished in the Twin Towers, Professor Churchill had this to say: "Well, really, lets get a grip here shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break."
After looking at the same horrors that the rest of us looked at, Professor Churchill, scholar that he is, decided that
the United States of America had brought it all on itself.

71 – Phil Donahue
No need to be cruel to a man whose time has come and gone. But that doesn’t mean we should go easy on him either. Phil Donahue is one of those pioneers who has had a huge effect on the most popular medium in human history, and by extension, on how we all live and think. Donahue’s show was so new and so fresh that we hardly even stopped to realize how far, even for a liberal, his ideas were from the mainstream.

What Is That Infernal Noise?

I have Yahoo! Music videos playing in the background when all of a sudden my ears start to bleed and I have the sudden urge to spew all the contents out of my (empty) stomach.
As I toggle between screens to investigate who is causing my agony, I am confronted with none other than Mr. RedShorts wearing, stomach sucking (in), former Baywatch Lifeguard
David Hasslehoff.

This video is the definition of a pathetic attempt to recapture what was once mediocre fame added with the creepy ick-factor of a now old guy trying to pick up chicks with his once babe-magnet Knight Rider car. Even the girls in the video know he’s just a dirty-old-man, the chorus they sing is: "No thank you Sir." "I know your game."

Why? Why release that here in the U.S.? I’ve heard whispers that you're huge in other countries, like Germany or something (dunno, guessing), but why subject yourself to the ridicule you know is coming from the vicious tinsel-town tarts and us lowly bloggers? I mean, you have a semi-decent job right now with one of the copy-cat talent shows and other forgotten celebrities. Are they not paying you enough money? Was your arm injury, being "removed" for intoxication at the All England Club, getting banned from a British Airways flight and divorce not enough bad publicity for you?


I'm begging you, please do not release any more of your music.
At least not here in the U.S.

Watch the video here at your own risk and for a good laugh -
it makes B-Movie's look high-tech.

In Memory Of A Birthday

Alejandro Barron
My Alex
My Allie
1975-2004

It was an early morning phone call
That got my attention
They called to tell me that you were gone
You were the strength of all my hopes and inspirations
You were the music in my song
Sometimes what doesn't seem so fair
That's what makes us more aware
I know you're smiling, I know you're singing
I know that you're in a better place
Where angels wings caress you
But I still miss you
More than leaves are falling this October
It's just that I wanted to stand with you for a while
Now I'm walking through a doorway to tomorrow
More like running, running out of time
Sometimes what doesn't seem so fair
That's what makes us more aware
I know you're smiling, I know you're singing
I know that you're in a better place
Where angels wings caress you
But I still miss you

Gotta Love TiVo

So, I'm browsing through the other programs that TiVo has automatically recorded according to interest and I come across
So You Think You Can Dance. And it's official, I've become obsessed.
What is it about these reality based talent shows that we love so much? Could it be the talent-less, waste of space spastics with delusions of grandeur trying to claim their 15 minutes of fame? I think so!

During one of the shows they play some previously unseen audition footage that had me rolling! (This may be old to you, but it's new to me so shut-up & keep reading or get the hell outta my blog!) It's the very first audition of the season in New York and his name is Ian Benardo and I believe that this is his actual MySpace blog (curiosity & the Devil made me look him up).
These are some of the funnier things that he says: "When you are with yourself 24/7, you better understand yourself, otherwise you're gonna have problems and I do understand myself." "I exuberate fantasticisms."

He then goes on to say that he is a 'Superstar' twice! Which of course made me think of Mary Katherine Gallagher from SNL. I mean is this guy for real? That headband, ugh! Oh, and then those lips and that mink ... who is he kidding? So if you could use a good laugh right about now, click here
and enjoy a whole list of stereotypes
come to life right before your eyes.

Go Benji and Donyelle!


p.s. Stop my player before you click on 'here' so that the sounds don't overlap

A Beautiful Day

I may be more than a thousand miles away right now,
but my love and friendship never left you.
Happy Birthday Cesar.
I Love You.

You were born on a Wednesday
Under The Astrological Sign LEO
Your Birthstone Is RUBY
Your Ruling Planet Is The SUN
Your Birth Tree Is The ELM Tree
Your Plant Is RASPBERRY
You Were Born In The Chinese Year Of The RABBIT
Your Native American Zodiac Sign Is SALMON
The Julian Calendar Date Of Your Birth Is 2442616.5
You Were Born In The Egyptian Month Of Paopy
There Was A Full Moon On Your Birthday.

Celebrities Who Share Your Birthday:

Harold 'Pee Wee' Reese 1918
Elliot M. See, Jr. 1927
Bert Convy 1933
Don Drysdale 1936
Don Imus 1940
Martin Gore 1961
Woody Harrelson 1961
Slash 1965
Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967
Stephanie Seymour 1968
Charisma Carpenter 1970
Marlon Wayans 1972
Monica Lewinsky 1973
Nomar Garciapara 1973
Michelle Williams 1980
Daniel Radcliffe 1989

On This Day In History:

1885 - Former President Ulysses S. Grant Dies.
1903 - First Ford Model A Was Delivered to Buyer.
1904 - Ice Cream Cone Created by Charles E. Menches.
1925 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig Hits His 1st of 23 Career Grand Slammers.
1926 - Fox Film Corp. Purchases The Patents That Will Record Sound Onto Film.
1937 - Orson Welles' First Radio Drama, Les Miserables, Airs.
1967 - One Of The Worst Riots in U.S. History Breaks Out On 12th Street In Detroit.
1984 - Vanessa Williams, 1st Black Miss America, Resigns Due To Posing Nude.

100 People part 2

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America

Bernard Goldberg

89 - Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is an author of many novels and essays. She's a true-blue liberal and proud of it. She's also a first class bigot.
Right after election day 2004, she wrote a piece for Slate, graciously titled, "The Unteachable Ignorance of the Red States." Basically it's about how everyone who voted for George W. Bush is a moron and a bigot, not to mention dishonest, arrogant, and filled with hate.

88 - Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder is the creator of a comic strip called The Boondocks, whose hero is a black kid named Huey Freeman.

As the New Yorker put it in a profile of McGruder, Huey "has been treating readers of the funnies page to an unhealthy dose of indignation, paranoia, and hatred" and "has roughly equal contempt for Dick Cheney, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Santa Claus."
Michael Moore says The Boondocks is his favorite strip. Surprise!

87 - Sheldon Hackney
When political correctness first began running amok on the nation's campuses, there were many lively-livered namby-pamby college presidents to help it along. But there probably was no one so pathetically cowardly as Sheldon Hackney of the University of Pennsylvania. That's why columnist John Leo, one of the nation's staunchest defenders of free speech on campus, named his annual award, which he symbolically gives to the college administrator who has done the most to stifle that right, "The Sheldon." "The Sheldon is a statuette that looks something like the Oscar," Leo explains, "except that the Oscar shows a man with no face

looking straight ahead, whereas the Sheldon shows a man with

no spine looking the other way."

86 - Chris Ofili
In early 1999, Chris Ofili was a young artist, pretty much unknown outside of his native Great Britain. Then one of his works appeared in a show called Sensations at New York's Brooklyn Museum. Overnight, Chris Ofili was a sensation himself, hailed in trendy, liberal circles not only as tremendously gifted, but (to his fans, even more important) as a courageous, principled fighter for artistic freedom.
Why? Well, he painted a picture of the Virgin Mary and because he's so cutting-edge, don't you know, he also painted a bunch of female asses on the canvas, then sprinkled the whole thing with that well-known artistic material...elephant crap. Only among the effete elites in the world of art is something like that considered an act of bravery!

85 - The Dumb Celebrity
Cameron Diaz: "Women have so much to loose.

I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies.

If you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote.

But if you think that you have a right to your body,

then you should vote."

Fred Durst (of the band Limp Bizkit, presenting an award at the Grammy's): "I hope that we are all in agreeance [sic] that this war should go away as soon as possible."

Kate Hudson: "Thoughts" on filming the movie Le Divorce in Paris: "Sometimes I'll be walking down the street and I'll hear some American and I'll just go, 'Of course they hate us, of course they can't stand us. We're the most annoying, boisterous creatures in the world.' I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's the ketchup for our French fries?' I'm like shut up.' "

Margaret Cho: "There is such a weird strangehold on the liberal community where we're so afraid to speak."

(Speaking on national television.)

Janeane Garofalo: "The Republican Party, their message and their politics of exclusion and their tilted playing field appeals to

the dumb and the mean. There is no shortage of dumb and mean people in this culture. So therefore...the dumb and the mean

find a nice home in the GOP."

84 - The Vicious Celebrity
Alec Baldwin: "If we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone [Congressman] Henry Hyde to death! We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families. What is happening in this country? What is happening? UGHHH!" (Playfully exaggerating, I think, on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, how "we" would deal with Hyde and other congressman involved in the Clinton impeachment.)

Wallace Shawn (playwright, actor, and darling of the New York intelligentsia, writing in the left-wing magazine The Nation):

"Why are we being so ridiculously polite? It's as if there were some sort of gentlemen's agreement that prevents people from stating the obvious truth that Bush and his colleagues are exhilarated and thrilled by the thought of war, by the scale, the massiveness of the bombing they're planning, the violence, the killing, the blood, the deaths...
"Why do they want this war so much? Maybe we can never fully know the answer to that question...Why do some people so desperately to have sex with children that they can't prevent themselves from raping them, even though they know what they're doing is wrong?

Why did Hitler want to kill Jews?"

Sean Penn: "I am not disturbed by Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's.

You know, there's not a lot of cleaner pictures of karma in the world. I mean, it's not a very Christian way of thinking. I do stray sometimes.

But I go right from him mocking the farm workers and eating grapes on television during the boycott to him dribbling today.

And I feel a sense of justice."

Janeane Garofalo: "What you have now is people that are closet racists, misogynists, homophobes and people who love tilted playing fields and the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative."

83 - The Dumb and Vicious Celebrity
Linda Ronstadt: "I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don't know anything about the Iraqi's, but they're angry and frustrated in their own lives. It's like Germany before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers."

Martin Sheen: "George W. Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."

David Clennon (star of the CBS program The Agency):

"I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush,

for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler."

Janeane Garofalo: "Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' - that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride."

82 - Laurie David
Laurie David is a pain in the ass. She's the wife of Larry David, the comedy writer and actor who created Seinfeld and stars in the HBO hit Curb Your Enthusiasm. She's also an environmental crusader and a Hollywood heavy-hitter when it comes to raising money for liberal causes. But mostly, she's a pain in the ass.

81 - Tim Robbins
I plugged the keywords "arrogant, know-it-all, whining, windbag" into one of those online search engines, and it spit out "Tim Robbins." Robbins reminds me of those middle-aged peace guys you see holding signs on the side of the road that say WAR IS NEVER THE ANSWER and HONK FOR PEACE. They mean well. But they're not too deep.

You Are Pissing Me Off!

Sometimes when I'm bored (like now) I like to blog browse.
Blogger makes it so easy, just click the little 'Next Blog' button
and you get to tromp around in someone else's little world.
It use to be fun, but not anymore!

There's a blogger out there who is creating tons of single post blogs. Maybe you've come across some of his/her/it/pain in the ass blogs. Almost every other random 'next blog' belongs to this mo'fo. Anyway, today I started keeping track of all the blogs that I've come across by this person and in less than 1 hour I've come across 23!
I started to notice these blogs a few days ago and have been leaving rather obnoxious comments on them. Today I've come across some of those same blogs and checked the comments section and all of my little accusing love notes have been deleted ... the nerve!

I mean, it's so obvious that one person is behind this little blog experiment. He/she/it/pain in the ass uses different templates but the layout is the same: 2-3 blog ads at the top, no name/about me section, no links, an eXTReMe Tracker icon and only the 1 post about 1 subject all done in the month of July. At first the name "Me" was listed as the "Who", but as I've seen today it seems as though this chronic blogger has multiple dull personalities in the form of:

'Alex', 'Blogger Poster', 'Me', 'The Lawyer' and 'Vio'.

I don't know why this bugs me so much but ... it just does!

So What!!!

Why has this become such a big deal?

OMG, *gasp* 'W' - said SHIT!

You mean to tell me that our beer drinking, cowboy boots wearing,

Crawford Ranch vacationing, good 'ole boy from Texas curses?!?

Well, color me not-stunned!

And for those of you living under a rock, this is what happened:

Apparently not expecting an open mic to pick up his remarks, Bush told Blair: "See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over."

All this was said while Bush was eating a buttered bread roll.

Eating with your mouth full? tsk...tsk -

now there's a talk-show topic to obsess about (yea, right)!

Thoughts

You have to leave the city of your comfort

and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

What you'll discover will be wonderful.

What you'll discover is yourself.

100 People part 1

I stumbled across this book the other day and it's title caught my attention, so I thought I'd share it with you:

(p.s., for a good laugh, click the MJ link at the bottom of this list)

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America

(And Al Franken is #37)

A few words about the list and how I came up with it.

First, I didn't take a poll. Forgive me for stating the obvious, but this is my list. There won't be two people in the whole country who agree with every name in the book. "Why in the world did you put him on it?" someone is going to yell at me. "How come you left her off the list?" Because the people on it are the ones I think are screwing things up. And it won't take long to notice that there are a lot of liberals on the list, which, of course, is just how it ought to be.

If I were compiling a list years ago, say, when I was in college, there'd be a lot of conservatives on it. But this isn't years ago, and besides, I'm smarter now than I was back then ...

-from the introduction

Bernard Goldberg

100 - Rick and Kathy Hilton

Okay, Paris Hilton has an excuse. She's a moron.

But her parents can't be left off so easily. If they gave Nobel Prizes for the mom and dad who raised the most vapid, empty-headed, inane, hollow, vain, tasteless, self-centered, useless twerp in the entire country - maybe in the entire world - Rick and Kathy Hilton would be on their way to Stockholm to pick up the medal.

99 - Matthew Lesko

Name doesn't ring a bell, you say. Maybe this will help: You're watching cable television, probably late at night, a commercial comes on, and there's a "grown-up" man wearing big eyeglasses, a black suit emblazoned with lime green question marks, and a lime green bow-tie emblazoned with lime green question marks, and while he's prancing around in front of the Capitol building in Washington,

he's shouting in a high-pitched voice about all the "free money"

the government has ... just for you!

The "free money" Lesko is talking about isn't really free at all. It's "tax money," which, in his way of thinking, is "everybody's money," otherwise known as "nobody's money."

98 - Sheila Jackson Lee

Sheila Jackson Lee is a black Democratic congresswoman from Texas who has put her finger on one of the greatest problems

facing African-Americans in these United States of America.

There aren't any hurricanes named after black people.

I guess that means there aren't enough hurricanes named Keisha, Jamal, DeShawn, or LaToya. I mean, black people also have names like (such well-known recent hurricanes as) Charley and Frances, but I'm pretty sure that's not what she's talking about.

97 - Todd Goldman

His name is Todd Goldman, but I like to think of him as the T-shirt Genius. Why? Well, because Todd Goldman is the "brains" behind a line of boy-bashing T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like these:

"Boys are stupid! Throw rocks at them!" "Lobotomy-How to train boys." "Boys cheat...Cut off their feet."

The fact is we live in a time when it's become okay to belittle not only men, but also future men. Never mind that in almost every negative statistical category - from failure in school to suicide - boys today are in worse shape than girls, and the gap is only increasing.

96 - Eve Ensler

You know the Grinch who stole Christmas? Think of Eve Ensler as the Loon trying to steal Valentine's Day! That's not how Ensler thinks of herself, of course. She thinks of herself as a wise and compassionate freethinker and social activist. And most important-trust me folks, this is not a joke-she thinks of herself as the Vagina Woman. In fact, Ensler is so proud of the vagina-her own and that of every other woman-that she wrote a very important play about it, called The Vagina Monologues.

95 - Courtney Love

Ho.

94 - Guy Velella

For years, Bronx Republican chairman and state senator Guy Velella was one tough hombre - especially when it came to crime. Most politicians wouldn't think twice about punks who commit mere misdemeanors, right? Velella wasn't most politicians. He rammed a bill through the New York State Senate ensuring that anyone convicted of three misdemeanors in ten years would be treated as a felon and have to do hard time. Enough coddling of these guys, he said; no longer would "criminals have a blank check when it comes to their number of misdemeanor convictions." This was in February 2004.

Three months later, Senator Velella got an even better chance to show how he felt about crime and punishment - his own. Facing up to fifteen years in prison after being indicted for taking $137,000 in bribes from contractors to steer state business to him and a couple of his partners, he leapt at a plea bargain that put him in jail for only a year; then paid his hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills from his campaign fund, all the while managing to hang on to his tax-free $80,000 pension.

As his campaign commercials used to say: One Special Guy!

Led off to do his time on Riker's Island with the other bad-asses, sixty-year-old Guy Velella behaved exactly as you might guess.

Like a man. A girlie man.

93 - Richard Timmons

Speaking of Whiners ... You know the old joke about the guy who killed his parents and expects sympathy because he's an orphan? Think Richard Timmons. If you're looking for a poster boy for victimhood gone wild, Richard Timmons is your man!

Timmons didn't kill his parents. He went one better.

On June 8, 1997, in New york City, he took an ax and brutally murdered three people: his wife (whom he beheaded), his seven-year-old son (whom he also beheaded), and his thirteen-year-old stepson (whom he stabbed to death). Then in March 2004, while he was serving three life sentences, Richard Timmons decided he was a victim, too. So he sued New York City in federal court for $80 million, claiming that he was beaten by the police while they were interrorgating him.

The good news is that it took the jury less than one hour to reach its verdict. The jurors told Richard Timmons - who acted as his own attorney - to take a hike right back to his prison cell.

He didn't get one cent in damages.

On the other hand, you've really got to wonder about what's going on when a guy like Timmons gets to have a case like this heard at all. I know, in this country even monsters have rights. But you look at Richard Timmons and you have to wonder if we've lost our minds.

92 - Kerri Dunn

Kerri Dunn is one of those marginal figures that pop up every now and then to show just how far the world has spun off its axis. Think of Dunn as higher education's (white, middle-class) version of Tawana Brawley:

a self-dramatizing phony caught crying wolf,

revealing for everyone to see the stomach-turning role of victimhood-and PC idiocy in general-on today's college campus.

On August 18, 2004, Dunn, until recently a visiting professor of psychology at Claremont-McKenna College, was convicted in a Pomona, California courtroom of attempted insurance fraud

and later sentenced to one year in state prison.

91 - Barbara Streisand

I love Barbara Striesand. She is, without a doubt, one of the great singers of our time. And as a political commentator,

she is without a doubt, one of the great singers of our time.

Look, I don't really want to put her on the list. But, come on,

she's Barbara Streisand. How could she not be on the list?.

She's here because someone with such a beautiful voice shouldn't use it to say so many ugly things. I mean, she says, George Bush "stole the presidency." She says that "not only is he poisoning our air and water-he's poisoning our political system as well." And then,

when she's not denigrating W and knocking him down, she says,

"I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down.

It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick."

I'm tempted to say, "you're not funny, girl," but I won't.

90 - Michael Jackson

If I have to explain it to you, you shouldn't be reading this book!

Gray Day

I've got piss-all to say.
Just not feeling it today.

Idiot Box

I did something today that I rarely ever do.
I sat down in front of a T.V. and channel surfed.

First of all, I'd like to say: daytime programming sucks! Second of all, what is with all of the baby-mama-drama trying to find out who your babys-daddy is and endless parade of morons airing their disgusting and pathetic sex lives on national tv?! Then there's the supporter of legalizing marijuana and his psychic friend/guest-host (get me some hedge clippers for those fingernails) who is so blase about her answers. And how can we leave out the one show that was specifically tailor-made for all of the (cringe) trailer-park folks. Thirdly: why all of the court shows? Other than a Judge sitting behind his bench in a robe - I see no difference between baby-mama-drama, pot-head, or trailer park.

Oh man, then there are the soap-operas (why opera?) ...

everyone has slept with everybody - then they find out that they may be related somehow (eww), every other person has some sort of diabolical plot to rid themselves of a competitor and everyone who dies or are killed off, comes back from the dead (at least once). This is the standard plot-line to all soap-operas everywhere.

Anyway, to sum up this rant: Daytime T.V. sucks!

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BOMBAY BOMB ATTACK

India - Eight bombs exploded in first-class compartments of packed Bombay commuter trains Tuesday, killing at least 147 people and wounding hundreds in a well-coordinated terror attack on the heart of a city that embodies India's global ambitions.

PROTESTERS TRASH TIMES

"Freedom of speech doesn't mean you can aid the enemy in a time of war". Dozens of protesters yesterday denounced The New York Times for disclosing details of anti-terror efforts by the Bush administration. "Freedom of speech is a precious thing in this country . . .

The paper crossed the line".

40 AFGHAN TALIBAN KILLED

KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. and Afghan government forces killed more than 40 suspected Taliban in a ground and air assault on a militant stronghold in the south of the country yesterday, the U.S. military said.

CHECH-MATE

MOSCOW - Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev was killed yesterday when a dynamite-laden truck exploded in his convoy. Basayev, 41, was behind some of Russia's worst terror attacks, including the seizure of a Moscow theater in 2002 in which dozens of hostages and militants died, the Beslan school hostage-taking that killed 331, and the seizure of about 1,000 hostages at a hospital in Budyonnovsk that killed about 100.

EINSTEIN WAS TRUE PHYS-SEX GENIUS

Being faithful to his wives - and 10 girlfriends - was a matter of relativity for Albert Einstein, new documents show. Einstein freely discussed his affairs - and complained of being chased by the love-crazed women - in letters to his second wife, who was also his cousin, and even to his stepdaughter. "Out of all the dames, I am in fact attached only to Mrs. L., who is absolutely harmless and decent," he wrote to Margot. "I don't care what people are saying about me, but for mother and Mrs. M it is better that not every Tom, Dick and Harry gossip about it."

The author of the Theory of Relativity donated his personal papers to the university before he died in 1955. Margot gave it another 1,300 of his letters, with the stipulation that they couldn't be made public until 20 years after her death, which came July 8, 1986.

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Lil' Kim

Tune in on Sunday

Watch the latest "Meet the Press" in its entirety, free of charge, on-demand and online beginning at 1:00 pm, EDT on Sunday afternoons.

Earlier this week, North Korea defied warnings from the United States and regional powers in Asia and test-fired missiles. The Bush administration called this action "provocative behavior." While the international community continues to be divided over sanctions, what will happen in negotiations with North Korea and the rest of the world? To answer these questions: Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

Insights and analysis on the future of American foreign policy with North Korea. Guests: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who has visited North Korea five times, Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM); former Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, who currently serves as Co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; and former Ambassador Robert Gallucci, who was the chief negotiator for the 1994 North Korea Nuclear Agreement and now serves as the Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

I Can S-P-E-L-L

Push for simpler spelling persists …

Wuudn’t it maek mor sens to spel wurdz the wae thae sound?
Those in favor of simplified spelling say children would

learn faster and illiteracy rates would drop.

Opponents say a new system would make spelling even more confusing.
Eether wae, the consept has yet to capcher th publix imajinaeshun.

(wow, misspelling is hard!)

As if the public education system in our country isn’t already a

world-wide joke; there are those who want to

remove the meaning and origins of our language.

Why, why, why – just why?
click here to read about these idiot advocates

Just Wanted Attention?

"This is something that we've been seeing coming for a while, so it's not a particular surprise." "None posed a threat and no action was required." - Missile failed after about 35 seconds.
Japan likely to impose economic sanctions against North Korea by banning ships from ports ... read story at Washington Post

At least 6 missiles were test-fired over the sea of Japan on Wednesday morning in defiance of warnings from President Bush and the governments of Japan, South Korea, and China.
- obviously was a failure ... read story at NY Times

Finally ... the weapons of mass destruction have been found! Oh, no, - those WMD's are from N.Korea not Iraq, but wait! ... Iran also has nuclear weapons ... hmmm ... two separate countries that we know have weapons aimed at us and or our allies, yet we choose to storm a country that "daddy" had unfinished business with?!
Yes, I know he's a bad man so don't start with the "but what about's" -
just trying to make a point, besides, I don't have the time or energy right now
to tell you what I really think about that spider-hole-hiding mo'fo.

Celebrate

Fourth of July Presidental Address by George W. Bush

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Happy 2nd of July!

It's a badly kept secret among scholars of American history that nothing much really happened on Thursday, July 4, 1776.

Although this date is emblazoned on the Declaration,

the Colonies had actually voted for independence two days earlier;

the document wasn't signed until a month later.

When John Adams predicted that the "great anniversary festival" would be celebrated forever, from one end of the continent to the other,

he was talking about July 2.

"But the day is past. The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance, by Solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires, and Illuminations, from one End of this Continent to the other, from this Time forward forever more."

~ John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776

Anyway, Happy 2nd of July America!

So why do we celebrate on the 4th? Find out here.