Category Archives: apocalypse
I had this dream where Britney was in Congress and the media was forced to cover what they really do in there
9:33 PM Laura: greetings 9:34 PM me: hi i’m reading the news Laura: how are you? me: meh Laura: meh is right me: I’m grouchy too much to do, not enough time Laura: I know that feeling. makes me cranky … Continue reading
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I kind of want to turn my face into a mask that never moves.
Setting: Jetblue flight from Long Beach, CA to JFK Airport, aisle 10. I’m seated in the middle, next to a beautiful 23-year-old woman from Los Angeles with perfect skin, discussing skin. Me: I was celebrating my birthday with friends from … Continue reading
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Americans Giving Up Friends, Sex, In Order To Be Online
This is just not okay. From Reuters: The poll, released on Wednesday, found the use of cell phones and the Internet were becoming more and more an essential part of life with 48 percent of respondents agreeing they felt something … Continue reading
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10 Things You Secretly Know In Your Heart Are True
240 million Americans are against the war in Iraq. Sitting US Senators are unconcerned that we lost the right of Habeas Corpus last year and are not taking action to restore it. If one of them is yours, contact them … Continue reading
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Dick Cheney in 1994 explaining on video why toppling Saddam Hussein would lead to a ‘quagmire’ in Iraq.
Via Rawstory/Editor and Publisher Related items: Iraqi Officials implicated in black market weapons deal with Italian Mafia— Iraqi contacts say they had US Approval. US misplaces 190,000 AK-47s in Iraq—The Daily Show investigates.
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james carroll on the connection between celebrity culture and war
From Today’s Boston Globe, via Daily Kos. In the emerging Democratic consensus, forged by Congressional leaders and presidential front-runners, supposedly in opposition to Bush’s war, “out now” is becoming “out when conditions permit” — which is, of course, Bush’s exact … Continue reading
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pinckney benedict reports in from the future
“I count thirteen head in there, Mister Scurry,” my father said. He looked at the clipboard in his hands. “So we’re four short.” It was always a mystery, how many animals these fellows were hiding. It might be a couple … Continue reading
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Utopia is the problem
Light and darkness — heavenly forces and a corrupted earth — are the twin engines of apocalyptic movements. For Christians awaiting rapture or Shiites counting the days until the Twelfth Imam appears, the trials and injustices of the known world … Continue reading
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nuclear proliferation is the real global warming
There’s a craziness that protects it. Why save the world from global warming if you’re just going to set it on fire? The excellent Jonathan Schell, after reading tonight at the Wesleyan Writers Conference from his new book on the … Continue reading
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Alice Sebold walks over Hollywood in big, King-Kong-sized shoes
In the LA Times today, via mediabistro‘s newsfeed email: THIS is a tale of two scripts, one that sold for a ton of money, one that remains twisting in the wind. Both are beautifully written, but in Hollywood, while scripts … Continue reading
