Las Vegas SUN: Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev. Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev. ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO, Nev. (AP) – Unused food and bottled water from the Burning Man counterculture festival is being stockpiled for hurricane evacuees arriving this week in Nevada. Burning Man celebrants began…
Category: Politics
A Wrinkle in Space
(shithead! cd) Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Two photos taken on the same day last week — one of a grieving New Orleans survivor, the other of President Bush in flagrante photo opp in San Diego. Photoshopped together, they reveal what the horrific scene at the Superdome might have looked like had the…
Yes, you can still get a drink in New Orleans – Sep 5, 2005
(In the midst of chaos, one can sometimes find order. Constants exist everywhere…cd) Dinia Straydog has a cigar Saturday at a bar on Bourbon Street, as another patron finishes off a drink. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) — At least two bars in New Orleans’ fabled French Quarter are honoring the tradition that drinking establishments in…
President Bush Declares War on Hurricanes
(for some reason this post didn’t get posted immediately, yet it still deserves fukn space today) President Bush vowed today to confront and destroy the “evil” of natural weather. President Bush declares war on hurricanes September 2, 2005 President Bush today showed the world that he’s “still got it” as a national leader when he…
Back in a Different World
Well, after a completely surreal journey in planes, trains, RV’s, and art cars….I am back. Burning Man was indescribable…at least at the moment it seems so to me as I putter around my little place here in Hawaii and try to figure out exactly what I am doing here. Jet lag, culture shock, and general…
Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola
(I find this story doubly odd in the new coke commercials I have to watch every time I pay to see a movie…cd) Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola D. Rajeev PLACHIMADA, India, Aug 21 (IPS) – In the end it was the ”generosity” of Coca-Cola in distributing cadmium-laden waste sludge as ”free fertilizer” to the…
Sufis Under Attack as Sunni Rifts Widen – New York Times
(This is a compelling reason for us to stay in Iraq. Fuck weopons of mass destruction and self protection. If we stay it should be to protect and llearn from a peaceful and wise order of Islam. Like the sufis….cd) As the twilight ritual of the Sufi Muslims reached its crescendo, the five drummers pounded…
Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered
( much to the consternation of Bush and his gang, the paper didn’t prove that the invasion of Iraq was justified….cd) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University’s Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars said Saturday. The handwritten manuscript…
Bush invokes Sept 11th card yet again…
(Wow, let’s let him use the same excuse..the dog ate my homework, the dog ate my homework, the dog ate my homework….I’m protecting the country from another sept 11th…etc…cd) CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) – President George W. Bush launched a counter-offensive against growing public discontent over Iraq on Saturday, when he defended the war as a…
Gates Foundation To Help India's Red-Light Workers – Forbes.com
Gates Foundation To Help India’s Red-Light Workers Greg Levine, 08.19.05, 12:31 PM ET NEW YORK – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building a bridge from the postmodern information age to the world’s oldest profession. The charitable group created by the billionaire chairman of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT – news – people ) helped distribute…