I bike daily. Even in Honolulu, a city of a million, I have near misses several times a day. I can only imagine what it is like to bicycle in China. When I was there, seeing hordes of bicyclists riding through Beijing was one of the most inspiring sites of my life. The only thing…
Month: September 2006
Death and Taxes: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go
Can you look at this and say that you are glad you are paying taxes? Did you ever think about not paying? Want to find out more? click here. cd Death and Taxes: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go About Death and Taxes: “Death and Taxes” is a representational graph of…
Unfinished Tolkien work to be published
NEW YORK – An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday. Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on “The Children of Hurin,” an epic tale his father began in 1918 and…
NY Times account of Catching The Dog
Here in Hawaii, huge crowds demanded that The Dog be let out of jail. When he was finally released, he started to speak to the crowd and was violently hushed by Beth who began cussing at his attorney for letting him speak.We’ll keep you posted… cd Duane Chapman of Dog the Bounty Hunter Finds Himself…
15 years since Nirvana
MTVNews.com: Nirvana — James Montgomery, with additional reporting by Chris Harris Fifteen years ago sure feels like a lot more than 15 years ago. In 1991, the biggest-selling artists in the United States were Metallica, Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd. There was no Internet, no pocket-sized cell phones and no PlayStation. And the name…
IRONIC FILES: Blind inventor killed crossing Oregon highway
The Seattle Times: Local News: Blind inventor killed crossing Oregon highway GLIDE, Ore. – A blind man who invented curbside markers to help the sight impaired was struck and killed while crossing a highway, the authorities said. Kevin Stockton, 47, of Glide was hit by a van traveling on Highway 138 East and then by…
Gore's impossible Dream
I love the guy and everything hse is trying to do, but get serious, the multinational corporations that control our governments are never going to go for raising the cost of doing business, creating an environment where people work less and keep more, or possibly missing out on the huge money they plan to make…
Willie Nelson…busted
Wow, it’s a good thing they busted Willie Nelson for some weed. He may have been on his way to destroy the Pentagon or board an airplane…oh wait…this is the war on drugs…that was the war on terror…I get my pointless, never ending, freedom crushing wars confused sometimes…. cd LAFAYETTE, La. – Willie Nelson and…
Art show features pink elephants and cockroaches
Here is a nice way to start your Monday. cd A live Asian elephant, painted in pink and gold, stands in a makeshift living room. Giant cockroaches swarm over copies of Paris Hilton’s pop CD. A dummy angel wearing a gas mask and a white parachute flaps in the blue skies. Even in free-wheeling Los…
Space Droids In The Desert
This is like a robot burning man festival…I would love to check this out… cd Space Droids In The Desert Arizona tourists may think they’ve stumbled upon a science fiction movie set if they find themselves near the state’s famed Meteor Crater in early September. Though they won’t get a glimpse of R2D2 or C3PO,…