Arrrrg, Mateys! Ye can be the captain of the seven seas of your tub! Shiver me timbers!

Pirate Shower Curtain

Q: Is it possible to form a complete sentence from the word "Terrorists?"

A: Watch and see for yourself!

Terrorists!

Terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists.

] Only now, in the increasingly bland, dry,
] bureaucratic-fascism of the Putin era, do we realize how
] much we miss the Russian Oligarchy, some of the most
] colorful, most amoral characters ever assembled. What
] happened to them? While many praise Putin's successful
] bitch-slapping of the oligarch class, few actually stop
] to wonder where they are -- which is too bad, because
] this story has all the juicy, depressing humor of an E!
] biop on the cast of Diff'rent Strokes, only on a grander
] scale.

BAHAHAHAHA!

eXile - Issue #200 - Feature Story - No-ligarchy: The Tragicomic Collapse of Russia's Former Masters - By Mark Ames

"Tomorrow, I'll go back to being funny... but your show will still blow."

[ Still the man. -k]

Who woulda thought the VJ would grow up to be a great man!?

Stewart's Post-crossfire comments..

] "We're talking about dozens of sites being dismantled," a
] diplomat said on condition of anonymity. "Large numbers
] of buildings taken down, warehouses were emptied and
] removed. This would require heavy machinery, demolition
] equipment. This is not something that you'd do
] overnight."
]
] Diplomats in Vienna say the IAEA is worried that these
] facilities, which belonged to Saddam's pre-1991 covert
] nuclear weapons program, could have been packed up and
] sold to a country or militants interested in nuclear
] weapons.

How many of us will die a firey death because of our mistakes in Iraq?

CNN.com - Iraqi N-sites 'stripped carefully' - Oct 14, 2004

] ...because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, "At
] times, to be silent is to lie."
]
] ...One actually has to be something of a specialist, today,
] to even begin to grasp quite how fantastically, how
] baroquely and at once brutally fucked the situation of
] the United States has since been made to be.

He made a funny joke now, about Billy.

William Gibson is blogging again...

] A global map of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere has
] revealed the most precise view yet of pollution hotspots
] around the world.
]
] The map, based on 18 months%u2019 worth of satellite
] data, shows very high levels of NO2 above major European
] and North American cities and across much of north-east
] China. South-east Asia and Africa also have raised
] concentrations of the gas due to their burning of
] vegetation.

Check out China, even compared to Gary Indiana.

Article: World's pollution hotspots revealed from space�| New Scientist

] anuary 19, 2001 -- If humans had radio antennas instead
] of ears, we would hear a remarkable symphony of strange
] noises coming from our own planet. Scientists call them
] "tweeks," "whistlers" and "sferics." They sound like
] background music from a flamboyant science fiction film,
] but this is not science fiction. Earth's natural radio
] emissions are real and, although we're mostly unaware of
] them, they are around us all the time.
]
] "Everyone's terrestrial environment almost literally
] sings with radio waves at audio frequencies," says Dennis
] Gallagher, a space physicist at the Marshall Space Flight
] Center (MSFC). "Our ears can't detect radio waves
] directly, but we can convert them to sound waves with the
] aid of a very low frequency (VLF) radio receiver."

Earth Songs

] The ''shock and awe" attack that toppled Saddam Hussein
] in three weeks is often touted as a brilliant strategy
] that defeated Iraq with relatively few US casualties. But
] new information suggests that the United States may have
] played into Hussein's plans for a quick war followed by a
] long guerrilla insurgency.

If I didn't call this then, I should have. There were two ways Saddam could have played an invasion by the US. Neither was a conventional military victory.

Boston.com / News / World / Study ties Hussein, guerrilla strategy

] The frightening truth is that we here in Russia are
] actually living through "it" as "it" is happening. And
] you can kind of see why the Jews were so slow to react.
] The vise of fascism isn't applied abruptly the way it is
] in real-time when we watch movies and documentaries.
] Rather, the laws and violence are applied slowly,
] quietly, with just a little increase in the pressure
] every few months. Each time the screws are tightened, a
] few people squeal. But within a few weeks, when most
] people realize that nothing day-to-day really changed
] much, the clamor dies down and the new,
] slightly-more-fascistic-norm-than-before suddenly feels,
] well, normal. You stop noticing it until the next
] incremental increase, when you hear the same squeals, get
] used to it, go on with your life, and so on. It's like
] deep sea diving -- if you were to drop too deep too
] quickly, you'd die from the pain. But slowly submerging,
] you get used to the pressure to the point that it feels
] no different from the pressure on the surface.

eXile - Issue #199 - Feature Story - Shvidler's List: The Black 100s 1 Reasons Russia is Fascist