Monthly Archives: July 2006

Support Our Troops, part III

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National Guard moves in on Kent State studentsSupport the troops. These troops killed four and wounded nine unarmed anti-war student protesters at Kent State University in 1970. The soldiers from the Ohio National Guard were absolved of responsibility. They need your support.

On July 14, Bastille Day, the day on which the French celebrate the storming of their notorious Bastille prison, let’s consider the tough stance the soldiers had to take, firing at their own citizens, making the struggle for freedom and justice just that little bit more lethal.

Yes, support the ignorant, uneducated, bastard, patriotic mother-fucks being armed to stand against you the people.

Kenneth Lay sightings

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He may not turn up at Burger Kings or any of Elvis’s haunts, but I have no doubt that Enron CEO Kenneth Lay will turn up one of these days.

I offer no evidence at all except to speculate about what YOU might do if you had gobs and gobs of money, all the most powerful allies in the world, and had agreed never-the-less to serve as the scapegoat to an American public clamoring for some semblance of justice in the face of rampant corporate malfeasance.

How much money would it cost to arrange one’s demise from public life, sooner than face even one day of confinement, even in a minimum security country club for white collar criminals?

I’m not even suggesting that Kenny-Boy was threatened with linens of unacceptable thread-count. I’m sure there’s a boutique dentention facility to rival the luxuriousness of the network of boutique hotels about which common Americans know nothing. I’m simply thinking that a man of sixty, with the world leaders in his pocket, would not waste a moment of his life in confinement.

Life is good TM

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I encounter the LIFE IS GOOD mantra across hundreds of leisure products carried by boutique retailers. While the enjoy-life ethic would seem highly likeable, it does seem particularly ghoulish to be asking Americans to stop and smell the roses over the mass graves of our current third world horrors. I think it’s as perverse has handing everybody lemons so you can smell the lemonade.

I’d like to solicit readers to submit any photos of westerners wearing LIFE IS GOOD gear in the vicinity of global or environmental injustice; perhaps a grinning American traveling through a refugee camp in Darfur, Indonesia or Pakistan?

Meanwhile I may have to doctor such a photo, as Americans aren’t really looking at refugees, are they? Submissions will be published here.

The Taco Bell Fourth Meal gambit

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for insomniac fatsosIn case we’re not getting fat quickly enough. Taco Bell is trying to schedule a fourth daily meal -the 24 hour day that is- somewhere in the vicinity of MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
 
And a meal of junk food at that. What do they take us for- big fat idiots?

As if we need to break up our sleep time (bad health and weight-loss planning), stick a meal immediately between sleep times (very very bad for digestion and weight-loss), add another full meal (three full meals a day is already unwise nutrition, better to eat small meals between activities), and again it’s high-fat, high-colesterol, hi-sodium fast food.

When Morgan Spurlock of SUPERSIZE ME took a wide-ranging survey of nutritionists to ask what would be a safe percentage of fast food meals which could be incorporated into a balanced diet, the consensus was: “ZERO.”

Go to Hell.

Desecrating the flag

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This fourth of July I was enjoying the usual cook-out buffet, everything looked quite patriotic, Red White and Blue everywhere, including of course the table ware, including the napkins.

Every time I wiped barbecue sauce from my mouth, it was into an American flag. Would burning a flag be more irreverant?

There are countries which forbid the representation of their national flags in any form other than a flag. This even extends to wearing the flag. Such laws are probably to prevent the juxtaposition of their patriotic symbols with impropriety. Would you say wiping one’s mouth or feet on the flag might be an applicable example?

In this country, we’re only concerned about flag burning, the symbolic repudiation of our country’s questionable actions. Maybe that is worse.
 
Writing on US currency is illegal. So is writing on the lids of missile silos.
 
Here’s our chimp-in-chief on a rare occasion, doing something legal. 		  autographing flags

My Little Server

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Whirlpool serverMi Fa Mi Re Sol. Very inexpensive with the basic configuration, easily modified for RAID and backup. Made by Whirlpool, with an emergency shut-off that’s aesthetic.
 
A time back we wrote a parser to handle text blocks, from INI files to content, for a website content-handling system. What do you call a universal PHP function that does everything? The tidyness of it all brought to mind only a jiggle. Mi-fa-mi-re-sol. My Little Parser.