“While the muslim world may indeed need to examine its collective psyche, the fact that we have them in a headlock might go a long way towards explaining why they are trying to punch us in the balls”
– Martin Holsinger, from a posting on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship-TN yahoo group
Hot Damn! I knew that Corker fellow looked familar, and last night TBS refreshed my memory.
Bob Corker
“Bill Kelley”, politician with a piss fetish
So I suppose this a Golden opportunity for us to Flush the G-O-Pee?
It seems that a fellow by the name of Mark Morice did a bit of the hero thing during Katrina, taking 200 people to dry land on a boat he stole. His thanks? The boat’s owner is suing him.
I bring this up because it speaks to part of why I’ve started to drift away from [...]
Excellent article by Joey King on the Lieutenant Watada matter.
See also: http://www.thankyoult.org
On a related subject, last night I saw The Road to Guantanamo — powerful stuff. It boggles my mind that anyone can actually defend what we’re doing there. Granted it’s a “docu-drama” and it’s hard to know where “director’s license” might be kicking in, [...]
It begins
I decided not to let the Bronte cut ahead in line after all. So I guess I’ll see you fuckers in about 1.5 kilopages…
I’m a Buddhist. My father’s in the tire business. How could I not repost this? (via NiT)
As Wintermute has mentioned, TN has a brand spankin’ new law simplifying the process for persons with past felony convictions to get back their right to vote, and the ACLU-TN is holding town meetings across the state to help everyone understand the procedure.
Nashville’s meeting will be:
Thursday, August 31, 2006, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Jefferson [...]
In honor of the news that our esteemed president has finally completed his 9th grade English syllabus –
(this is also to celebrate finally getting a new copy of Boys Don’t Cry, The Cure’s finest album IMHO, which has been a glaring hole in my collection for many years)
So I took in a movie doubleshot this weekend, and I’m proud to say that neither film involved snakes.
Not that I have anything against that particular phenomena, it’s just — well, to me the whole reason that thing has taken off is that “Snakes on a Plane” just sounds like the most awesomely stupid idea [...]
Heehee. So good ol’ Henry Thoreau talks today about a motherfucking snake in his motherfucking stomach…
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