oh damn

Well, we can think of his whole life and musical innovation as a Squidmas gift, eh?

RIP JB.

Wednesday lyric

Fish On (Fisherman's Chronicles Part II)
Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Primus

Felt a pang late one afternoon
I was fishin' off Muir beach
With Larry LaLonde
Grabbed a tuna salad sandwich
And I started to chew
Pretty soon Ler's yellin
Fish on!
Fish on

I was just a little pup
And it was derby day
Was dad and me and Darrell
Out in San Pablo bay
Taco flavored Doritos
And my orange life vest
Dad caught a hundred pound sturgeon
On twenty-pound test
Now he fought that fish for an hour an a half
Darrell'd say "Jump ya sons a bitch!"
And he grabbed for the gaff
When we got him in the boat
He measured six feet long
I was so danged impressed that
I write this song called
Fish on

T'was a bright and sunny day
It was me and Todd Huth
Fishin' shark & Stingray
Out of Bohuas Lagoon
Well hey, hey, hey I'll be screwed,
Blued and tatooed
Looks like I got me one of them fish on
Fish on.

Incomparable.

i almost puked

here.

while i was too young to see this in the Vietnam War, here it is again: body counts to claim victory. because that ground up, lifeless hunk of flesh that was once a person is a signpost on the way to winning the war against a tactic.

jesus fucking hell.

whoa dude!

what's with the guys over at AOL?!

funny

tom delay started a blog! he left commenting on!
the expected happened.

it is to laugh.

greg

Greg Palast is one of my personal heroes. I paid $100 for a signed pre-release copy of his latest book, Armed Madhouse (from Powells), and get his newsletter. The latest came up today and it talks about stuff I was yammering about, just more lucid, hard-hitting, and, well, better. In talking about the suggestions from the ISG:

They're kidding, right?

James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the "Iraq Study Group" have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.

Baker's Two Big Ideas are:

1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq is a disaster getting more disastrous. The Baker Boys' idea: cut the disaster in half -- leave 70,000 troops there.

But here's where dumb gets dumber: the Bakerites want to "embed" US forces in Iraqi Army units. Question one, Mr. Baker: What Iraqi Army? This so-called "army" is a rough confederation of Shia death squads. We can tell our troops to get "embedded" with them, but the Americans won't get much sleep.

2. "Engage" Iran. This is a good one. How can we get engaged when George Bush hasn't even asked them out for a date? What will induce the shy mullahs of Iran to accept our engagement proposal? Answer: The Bomb.
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Right on. Here's his homepage, gregpalast.com. I'd really recommend any of his books, especially if you don't like blatantly political stuff. He's more into smarm than politics, and numbers than heresay.

pathetic

So, I'm sure you couldn't avoid but hear that there was a group of white-haired old men meeting for the last 9 months talking about how fucked we (well, mainly our soldiers stuck there) are in Iraq. Now the news has been going on a full-out deepthroating of this Iraq Study Group, despite the fact that a) none of their work is in the slightest way binding or 2) these ten dudes had to come in and tell the fucking federal government, the billions of dollars and thousands of workers, elected and appointed, what they should do, and iii) they didn't come up with a single new idea.

Fucking. Pathetic.

We have an executive branch that cannot...I don't even know the word to use, it gets into such a philosophical arena, the nature of conscioiusness, cognitive abilities, etc...cannot think. These people have such a severe disconnect from the reality of what's happening, at least the public faces of the fiasco, Bush, Lieberman, Cheney, Rummy (rot in hell), and the rest, that it's hard to understand what their motivations are. It's like trying to guess the motivations of a sea sponge. Except it's a sea sponge that's been responsible for the deaths of 3,000 soldiers (and over 6,000 civilians in Katrina and on 9/11), countless (countless!) civilians in foreign countries, and the squandering of our reputation and treasure around the world (funneling it conveniently into coroporate pockets, Dem and GOP).

These people, in the Congress, decided that they couldn't come up with anything on their own. So they hired HW's old hand James Baker (noted oil hitman), current SecDef nominee Robert Gates (former Reagan Iran-Contra hand), and some other stiffs to tell them how bad it was. Is this what we give these people such massive resources for? To not be able to analyze facts on their own? Why would the leading deliberative body in our nation not be able to...welll...deliberate? It makes me fucking batty. Moonbatty.


This is seriously like an oracle or wise man situation, where the king asks some learned subject to advise him. Shouldn't the fuckin' King be able to see the probability of this fucking happening? It blows the mind. How many anti-war folks were RIGHT ABOUT THIS? This war generated the largest protest rallies ever. Vietnam took 5 years to generate that kind of opposition. The incredibly asinine Iraq invasion started protests when it was a THEORY. I believe I've heard ONE major press figure (and I can't even remember who, it was a link on Eschaton I believe) say that we oughta start listening to the people who were right in the first place, namely the anti-war left & center, and (though it can be dangerous and stupid) the libertarians.

Ah well. I'm going to go douse myself with a bucket of cold water. Perhaps some naked racquetball to take the edge off. I give you all permission to go "EW!"

desi did another show

Go check it out on her blog

Wednesday lyric

Modest Mouse(crazy loud intro screen on that site)
The Moon & Antarctica
"Third Planet"

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart, I've got
this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over
My boss just quit the job says he's goin' out to find blind spots and he'll do it
The 3rd Planet is sure that they're being watched by an eye in the sky that can't be stopped
When you get to the promise land your gonna shake that eyes hand

Your heart felt good it was drippin' pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass to me
Outside naked, shiverin' looking blue, from the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels fly around you reminding you we used to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end

A 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the
water, didn't know then was it a son was it a daughter
When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
around in the water in the oceans in our bodies and
another had been found another ocean on the planet
given that our blood is just like the Atlantic
And how

The universe is shaped exactly like the earth if you go
straight long enough you'll end up where you were

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart, I've got
this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over.

come join me

I'm Grabulater, the Disco Bandit. Right now I'm a level 3 Chill Crook. Refer me if you play. You might end up battling this:

Paper Towelgeist.

I stopped playing this a while ago, then started, because, well, it's awesome.

oh hell

i want the terrorists to win, apparently. via pz myers

Your 'Do You Want the Terrorists to Win' Score: 100%

 

You are a terrorist-loving, Bush-bashing, "blame America first"-crowd traitor. You are in league with evil-doers who hate our freedoms. By all counts you are a liberal, and as such cleary desire the terrorists to succeed and impose their harsh theocratic restrictions on us all. You are fit to be hung for treason! Luckily George Bush is tapping your internet connection and is now aware of your thought-crime. Have a nice day.... in Guantanamo!

Do You Want the Terrorists to Win?
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