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11:42 am EST, Mar 27, 2003 |
The footage was the most disturbing thing on television in some time. There was US President George W Bush, being prepped for his televised declaration of war. It was not the combing of his hair, the only aspect of the coverage reported by any American media outlet (the Washington Post in this case), which was cause for embarrassment; everyone expects that. Rather, it was the demeanour I would say antics of the president himself. Like some class clown trying to get attention from the back of the room, he started mugging for his handlers. His eyes darted back and forth impishly as he cracked faces at others around him. He pumped a fist and self-consciously muttered, "feel good," which was interestingly sanitised into the more mature and assertive, "I'm feeling good" by the same Washington Post. He was goofing around, and there's only one way to interpret that kind of behaviour just seconds before announcing war on Iraq: the man is an idiot. ... I've seen the footage they're talking about. It's not the hair combing, it's the antics. I watched as he sat there trying to practice his serious face and asking if it was good or not. It was pretty sickening. George's little antics |
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3:20 pm EST, Mar 1, 2003 |
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| Many people have had precognitive dreams and
| successful intuitive hunches and would like to know,
| "Am I psychic?"
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| We've created some informal tests for "Psi" abilities
| based on the same techniques used in more formal
| laboratory experiments. You'll get immediate feedback
| about your performance. However, keep in mind that
| your results should be considered suggestive, as high
| scores in these tests can be due to chance as well as
| to actual abilities. Only repeated testing can
| distinguish between "lucky" scores and genuine skills.
`---- Are you psychic? |
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San Francisco Police Chief and Deputies Indicted in Cover-Up |
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1:26 pm EST, Mar 1, 2003 |
,----[ Decius wrote: ]
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| A grand jury today indicted the police chief here,
| the assistant chief, two deputy chiefs and six other
| police officers on charges related to a fight
| outside a bar in November involving off-duty police
| officers and to accusations of a cover-up after the
| fight.
`---- The war between the SF DA's office and the SFPD goes
thermonuclear. If you live in San Francisco, this
party is shaping up to be just plain awsome. San Francisco Police Chief and Deputies Indicted in Cover-Up |
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1:19 pm EST, Mar 1, 2003 |
'A Feast of Snakes', Harry Crews. 'Forced Entries The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973', Jim Carroll. ,----[ http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/spring2001/persp_on_harry_crews.html ]
| Critics have called Harry Crews a "mad genius" and
| "Flannery O'Connor on steroids." His novels chronicle
| the southern world on the edge of insanity. His
| characters set out to eat an entire car on national
| television, attend rattlesnake round-ups, and become
| obsessed with training hawks when their suburban lives
| collapse. Crews has created a bizarre literary
| landscape, and this book is a critical collection
| devoted to helping readers traverse it.
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George W. Bush, Jr. - The Dark Side |
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11:32 am EST, Feb 8, 2003 |
Here's a look at Bush's rap sheet. Drug arrest, draft evasion, insider trading... George W. Bush, Jr. - The Dark Side |
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6:33 pm EST, Jan 11, 2003 |
How bad are you? Badvogato |
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CRUMB PRODUCTS - 3-D Figurines, Comics, Books, Posters, More... |
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3:01 pm EST, Dec 29, 2002 |
Here's a funky little site which appears to have been put together by one of Robert Crumb's kids. I have no affiliation yadda, yadda, yadda... CRUMB PRODUCTS - 3-D Figurines, Comics, Books, Posters, More... |
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