As a US citizen, what could you possibly do for your country now that your president has proven himself to be an unbelievably inadequate, lying, disastrously shortsighted hand puppet for corporate America?
Why, censure Jimmy Carter! Yeah! That’s the ticket.
Category: Politics
Frank Whips It Out
Another jem found at jam.zappafan.net: Frank Zappa at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings, way back in ’86. This man truly died a decade too soon. I would’ve loved to see him trash the current Bush administration.
Update! Scott Reinard sent me this mp3 of Zappa on Howard Stern back in ’84. Scott says:
I shaved down yesterday’s Friday Show on Howard 100 (Sirius Radio) to this 6.81 MB file. In it, the show’s moderators replay a Stern show from 1984 where Frank came in and talked about some important stuff. I don’t know if you can post it or not…I hope so. Excuse the quality.
Scott, you’re excused. Thanks!
Beyond Cringe Comedy
Oh my oh my oh my:
(youTube link, via)
Colbert Roasts Bush
I’m a bit late to post this, but if you haven’t seen these video’s yet, you really should because they’re brilliant: comedian Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner drops a couple of napalm bombs on the Bush Administration — in the presence of an increasingly annoyed Shrub. The video’s: parts one, two, three.
This Note’s For Neil
Warning: Neil Young Fan Entry Dead Ahead!
Spent all morning listening to the stream of Neil Young’s Living With War. What a motherfucker of an album. This is classic Neil. Imagine the joyously roaring guitars on Ragged Glory, add the grungy lyricism of Zuma, Sleeps With Angels, Mirror Ball and Greendale, throw in some lusciously direct lyrics, and you’ll get the idea. The whole album could well be the soundtrack to an imaginary protest march on the White House. Album of the year, as far as I’m concerned.
Update: downloadable mp3’s available here, until the album hits the shops.
This Note’s For You
Neil Young is set to release a new album called Living With War. The songs are — surprise! — anti-Bush / anti-war, and will be available as streaming audio on his site next Friday. There’s even a weblog:
This is about exchanging ideas… it’s about getting a message out. It’s about empowering people by giving them a voice. I know not everyone believes what I say is what they think. But like I said before.. ya know.. red and blue is not black and white.
Go Neil! But did you really need to get a myspace page?
I Am The Eggman
I am me and Rummy’s he, Iraq is free and we are all together.
(Related: RollingStone — The Worst President In History?)
Ban It, Burn It, Play It
Ha, brilliant: 10 banned albums, burned and then played.
Apocalypse
Hey, it’s Friday! So why not depress you with an article about the coming Apocalypse! No need to thank me.
The Idiot Bastard Bush
Yesterday, AmericaBlog asked: Let’s create a list of every idiotic thing George Bush has done in the past five years:
Seriously, I want to compose a real list of every idiocy, every scandal, every mistake, everything.
One day later: 1055 comments and counting.
The Bill Napoli Google Bomb
Remember this? Time, these gals figured, for some good old google bombing!
Coat Hang Wire
Welcome to the stone age, South Dakota! Here’s your new logo. (via)
Get Smart
The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity.
Calling Agent 86: the moon over Kentucky is blue. Please confirm.
Googling Tiananmen
This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad:
images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
versus
images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
Darwin’s Nightmare
Just saw the documentary called Darwin’s Nightmare – including russian pilots, drugs, disappearing species, secret weapon-transports, strarvation, and… Unbelieveable…