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6/05/09
 DAILY CONCERT
THAT GIRL FROM ATLANTIC CITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9rJNgOu_D0 
THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBcprqxasRo 
THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9U6URQSF6U
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1JZly_jHeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QO0jQ0PB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qhwemir1Ag
GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBWTp9vzk4w
GIRL FROM HELL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y0bD5GdTLU
THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61xLSoAd86c
YOU'RE GONNA LOSE THAT GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSPmb0a5vZA
skylines:
CARRADINE DIED IN BIZARRE SEX ACT
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/05/carradine-may-have-died-from-sex-act-thai-police/ 

SPECTOR’S BIMBO WIFE SPEAKS
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-et-rachelle-spector5-2009jun05,0,7342546.story 

PRINCE CHARLES WANTS SQUIRREL GENOCIDE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/05/prince-charles-squirrel 

MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-b9cf5b38fe81102b553108624b39bfc8.html 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

STEM CELLS RESTORE SIGHT TO CORNEAL DISEASE PATIENTS
But you Jesus bastards just keep opposing their use. . .
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605081151.htm 

RIGHT-WING GROUP BEHIND EFFORTS
TO LABEL SOTOMAYOR A RACIST
(Of course, she is a racist)
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/05/corporations-behind-efforts-to-label-sotomayor-racist/ 
ASIDE FROM BEING A RACIST, SHE CAN’T WRITE
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/06/sonia-sotomayors-prose-problem 
Her opinion in the case runs 80 pages; reading it might be good punishment for law students who show up late for class. Early on, she devotes nearly an entire page to quoting EPA rules that instruct power plants on how to comply with the Clean Water Act. And it takes her 2,500 words just to sum up the basis of the case. A layperson would be hard pressed to glean from the opinion that Riverkeeper is a significant environmental opinion that puts Sotomayor squarely in the green camp.
’GOD HELP YOU IF YOU’RE A WHITE MALE COMING BEFORE SOTOMAYOR’
This overstates the problem, but it is a problem, even though it is articulated by Repug idiot Steele
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/05/steele-sotomayor-white-male/ 

MAD REPUG SENATOR SAYS OBAMA ON TERRORISTS’ SIDE
How does this country ever elect such sinister creeps?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/05/obama-muslim-speech-inhofe/ 

Israelity
ISRAELIS REACT TO OBAMA’S SPEECH
Is referred to as “Hussein Obama”
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/06/04/israelis-react-to-obamas-speech/ 
”Today, the State of Israel is paying the price of its leaders’ defeatism,” Yesha Council, the settlers’ lobby, said in a statement. “Hussein Obama gave priority to Arab lies, which have always been told with determination and daring, at the expense of the Jewish truth, which has been said in a weak and unconfident voice.”
PROGRESSIVES GIVE THUMBS-UP
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/eades/2009/06/israeli-progressives-back-obam.php?ref=reccafe
HAMAS REACTION ‘NOT WHOLLY NEGATIVE’
http://u.tv/News/Hamas-reaction-to-Obama/f1002745-079b-404f-8036-ce880bfbc56d 
PALESTINIAN LAWYERS PREPARE 936 LAWSUITS AGAINST ISRAEL
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,628773,00.html 
DUBIOUS IRAN NUKE DOCUMENTS TIED TO ISRAEL
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22765.htm

OBAMA IN DRESDEN: A NON-CONTROVERSY CONTROVERSY
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1903033,00.html 

OBAMA NIXES BUSH/NEOCON “REGIME CHANGE” POLICY
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0605/p02s05-usfp.html 

GOODMAN: FBI COULD HAVE PREVENTED DR. TILLER’S DEATH
 http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/140432/how_the_fbi_could_have_prevented_dr._tiller%27s_death/
George Tiller did not have to die. He was assassinated while in church in Wichita, Kan., on Sunday, targeted for legally performing abortions. His death might have been prevented simply through enforcement of existing laws.

Mashed Media
FOX NEWS LOVES TO JUXTAPOSE GUNS AND POLITICIANS IT DOES NOT LIKE
News director should be investigated by FBI
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/fox-nation-likes-pointing-guns-our-lead 
SANTA MONICA VIGIL FOR JOURNALISTS KIDNAPPED, IMPRISONED IN N. KOREA
The women face five years of hard labor
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/06/laura_ling_euna_lee_vigil.php 

WRECKAGE NOT FROM AIR FRANCE PLANE---
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/05/brazil-plane-wreckage-not-from-airbus/ 
---OR IS IT?
Plane was reportedly flying too slowly
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/04/air-france-crash-debris 
DID COMPUTER GLITCH BRING DOWN JET?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1902907,00.html 

Auto Motive
 LINDORFF: WHAT A LEADER WITH GUTS WOULD DO WITH GM
 http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/322 
LINDORFF: AUTO INDUSTRY NEEDS PUBLIC OPTION
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/321 
The workers in Detroit know how to build cars, and what’s more, they know what they and their neighbors want to buy and to drive. They also want their companies to be around for a long time—not just for them, but for their kids and their grandkids. Meanwhile, the American public wants car companies that will be around for a long time, and they also want to reduce both dependence on foreign oil imports and production of dangerous greenhouse gases, which means they want companies that will produce cars that are stingy about gas mileage. So I say let the unions and the public run these companies. It is only pseudo-religious free-market dogma that prevents us from making these companies truly public property.

(Lack of) Health
NOW LARD IS GOOD FOR YOU
Oh, sure it is. . .
http://www.slate.com/id/2219314/ 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE POIROT STORIES FOUND
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/05/two-unpublished-poirot-stories-found

ON THIS DAY IN 1966. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS-SKwutP_g

Animals in the news!
 PHOTOS: THE WEEK IN WILDLIFE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/jun/04/week-in-wildlife?picture=348367684 

Film
 INTERVIEW: GUILLERMO DEL TORO ON ‘THE HOBBIT’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/8084025.stm 

For Art’s Sake
THE PHOTOS OF CHRIS GULKER
http://www.gulker.com/wp/2009/06/03/portfolio-1976-1989/

And in the end. . .
GREEN TEA COCA-COLA
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/06/04/coke-releases-green-tea-flavored-cola/ 

6/04/09
 DAILY CONCERT
KOKO TAYLOR
Wang Dang Doodle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCa16-nxtM 
Insane Asylum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3QySTQlmI
Voodoo Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-o-s-5eAXc
Born Under a Bad Sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-feif-Q6Kok
I CRIED LIKE A BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IWL13X7N2c&feature=related
NOTHING TAKE THE PLACE OF YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arZL3jt20Xc
TRIBUTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf0lyq0sF6g
skylines:

SO LONG, DAVID CARRADINE
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-carradine-obit5-2009jun05,0,6342209.story
http://www.david-carradine.com/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine 
2005 INTERVIEW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UAi-ReXmbk 
Carradine talks to Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8jJWmg4g1Q 
“What happens in a man’s life is already written”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4sgXl7n3n4 

SIGN PETITION TO FREE JOURNALISTS HELD PRISONER IN N. KOREA
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/06/lisa_ling_urges_petiton_s.php 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-euna-and-laura 
SF protest
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/04/BAJ0180FI4.DTL

KID MAKES PRO-POT SPEECH, LIGHTS UP JOINT, IS TAKEN TO JAIL
http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/765250.html 

HOMELESS MAN REBUILDS LIFE, THEN DEFEATED BY CITY HALL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/04/MNJQ1807UK.DTL 

WATCH: FIORE---THE CALIFORNIA BANANA REPUBLIC
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/ 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

BRAVO! RIGHT-WING RADIO HOST ARRESTED
FOR INCITING VIOLENCE AGAINST ABORTION SUPPORTERS
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/conservative-radio-host-cinciting-violence/
Limbaugh: Obama is beating Al-Qaeda at destroying USA
Lock this fatass up and throw away the key
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/04/limbaugh-obama-beating-al-qaeda-in-race-to-demolish-the-america-we-know/ 

TILLER ASSASSIN GOT AWAY WITH FED LAW VIOLATIONS---TIED TO OPERATION RESCUE
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/maddows-devastating-expose-tillers-assassin-tied-to 

OBAMA SPEECH
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/04/obama-new-beginning-with-islam/ 
“The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.”
FULL TEXT OF SPEECH
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-obamacairospeech,0,937510.story 
HURST: OBAMA’S UNCLENCHED FIST
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hcTaOzxzly2Tt03YJdl-_HJ17-fQD98JRR380 
Harder is overcoming six decades of hatred and bloodshed, and the entrenched interests that face Obama at home, where it will be difficult to defend policy that appears to tip too far away from Israel.
 ANALYSIS: THE UNFINISHED SPEECH
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,628547,00.html 

ISRAEL CLAIMS BUSH AGREED TO WEST BANK GROWTH
(But Bush ain’t prez no more, Bibi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/world/middleeast/04israel.html?_r=2&th&emc=th 

Enviro Wacko
NEW CLOUD TYPE DISCOVERED?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/new-cloud-pictures/index.html 

SOTOMAYOR’S SUPPORTERS MAY SPIN HER OUT OF A JOB
Hope so! The country does not need a racist anti-abortionist on the Supreme Court
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/06/03/sotomayors-supporters-may-spin-her-out-of-a-job/ 
WHAT SHE SAID IN FIREFIGHTER RACE CASE
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/06/03/sotomayor-on-tape-what-she-said-in-firefighter-race-case/ 

All-melty dollar
6,000 FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY---EVERY DAY
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-06-03-bankruptcy-filings-unemployment_N.htm?csp=34 

FUEL STAINS LIKELY RULE OUT TERRORISM IN AIR FRANCE CRASH
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090604/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_plane

Mashed Media
ANOTHER CRETIN REPUGNICAN CHARGES “LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS”
Dumbshits dumbshits dumbshits dumbshits dumbshits
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/04/smith-media-bias-threat/ 

CHILDERS: THE STRANGE SIDE OF RONALD REAGAN
http://trueslant.com/childers/2009/06/03/the-weirder-side-of-ronald-reagan/ 
I’ll dive into the weeds of policy and process soon, I swear, but there’s still so much to say about how the Reagan image industry has sanded every rough edge off of a very textured and complex personality. Yesterday, I looked at how Ronald Reagan wasn’t always the happy-go-lucky Pollyanna he’s made out to be these days. Today, I’d like to look at how much we’ve forgotten the former president’s profound weirdness, in word and deed.

Don’t tase me, bro!
TEXAS COPS TASE GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/texas-cop-tasers-great-grandmother/ 

Science
RECHARGE BATTERIES BY WALKING
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/06/03/these-batteries-are-made-for-walkin%e2%80%99/ 
CELLS TURNED INTO CLOCKS
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/06/01/scientists-turn-living-cells-into-clocks/ 
’MAGGOT OINTMENT’ TO HEAL WOUNDS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090603-maggots-heal-wounds.html

Auto Motive
OH, NO---A CHINESE HUMMER?
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902478,00.html 

Animals in the news!
THE JURASSIC PARK OF FISHING
Why don’t these guys just leave the goddamn fish alone. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/04/SPFN17VF5E.DTL&type=living 

And in more important matters. . .

Obit
KOKO TAYLOR
She pitched a Wang-Dang Doodle
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-koko-taylor4-2009jun04,0,5036155.story 
KOKO TAYLOR: A REMEMBRANCE
http://www.theygaveusarepublic.com/diary/2871/koko-taylor-september-28-1928-june-3-2009 
http://lnmc.crooksandliars.com/maxmarginal/cls-late-night-music-club-koko-taylor 

Sports
KOBE’S GETTING OLD
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-kobe-lakers4-2009jun04,0,6421376.story 

THE AMAZING STORY OF HITLER’S PHOTOGRAPHER
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/27022/adolf-hitler-up-close 

For Art’s Sake
CYNTHIA, JULIAN LENNON OPEN EXHIBIT IN JOHN’S MEMORY
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m6d3-Beatle-news-briefs-for-64 
THE FINAL PAINTINGS OF BERYL COOK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/04/beryl-cook-last-paintings-exhibition 
VENICE BIENNALE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/venice-biennale 

Musique
MCCARTNEY TO TOUR USA AGAIN?
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m6d4-Report-Paul-McCartney-adding-Boston-dates-is-this-now-a-tour 
FRANCE LIKES GRACE THE FOLKSINGER
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0601/p17s01-almp.html 

And in the end. . .
BUCK UP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WMABRjTjM 


6/03/09
 DAILY CONCERT
I JUST DON'T LOOK GOOD NAKED ANYMORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_6I50oXAVM
LADY GODIVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtJ-G6vq6k
TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF WHEN YOU DANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpwMyTOleEc
THE STRIPPER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifEQfy9Ia0c
NAKED CITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNRf7Dg0lMg
skylines:

SPECTOR TWEETS FROM JAIL!
Is this really him?
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m6d2-Phil-Spector-tweets-about-the-Beatles-Yoko-and-his-feet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/02/twit_uptown/ 
http://twitter.com/philspector 

SHOCKER! OCTOPUSSY GETS REALITY SHOW
Who would ever have thought that she was scheming for fame?
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8078493.stm 

STORE OWNER GIVES CRYING ROBBER BREAD, $40
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090603/ap_on_re_us/us_odd_would_be_thief 

UNCLE BIN IS BACK!
Lives to taunt another day.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/03/international/i060925D98.DTL&tsp=1 

BOY CHOSEN BY DALAI LAMA WOULD RATHER QUOTE HENDRIX THAN BUDDHA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/31/dalai-lama-osel-hita-torres 

MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-31cb70e40b49d759648eed2003c91f30.html 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

AIR FRANCE BOMB THREAT DAYS BEFORE CRASH
Flaming wreckage spotted on water suggests mid-air break-up
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/Travel/story?id=7742900&page=1 
BUT COULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT DOWN BY TURBULENCE, HAIL
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/06/02/was-air-france-flight-brought-down-by-turbulence-or-hail/ 
Crash in “breeding zone” for storms
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090602-air-france-crash-2009-flight-447.html 

CHINA STUDENTS LAUGH AT GEITHNER
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/rutabaga_ridgepole/2009/06/chinas-best-and-brightest-laug.php?ref=reccafe 
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSPEK14475620090601

OBAMA OPEN TO TAXING HEALTH CARE BENEFITS
 http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/in-switch-obama-said-open-to-taxing-healthcare-benefits/ 

Lost Angeles
LITTLE ANTHONY SCHTUPPING ANOTHER TEEVEE NEWSBIMBO
Great that our tiny mayor so supports journalism!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/lu-parkers-boss-says-relationship-with-mayor-villaraigosa-isnt-an-issue.html
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/06/lu_parker_should_have_lun.php 
THIS IS WHAT A “JOURNALIST” LOOKS LIKE THESE DAYS
http://www.luparker.com/ 
”Lu Parker is a multi-faceted talent. She is a journalist, actress, author, former Miss USA, and a former teacher.”
SEND LU A FACEBOOK MESSAGE!
Here’s a suggestion: “Hey, Lu---How can I become a journalistic giant like you?”
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lu-Parker/61090376828 
HERE’S LU HAVING “SUPER FUN!”
But not as much fun as honking on the mayoral member!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2270754&id=61090376828&ref=mf 

America the Beautiful
LOPEZ: DODGER HOGS!
Welcome to the “all you can eat pavilion” at Dodger Stadium
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez3-2009jun03,0,6447736.column 

Enviro Wacko
ELECTRIC TREES!
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/th_almost_elect.php 
http://www.onearth.org/article/electric-trees 
IT’S A LANDFILL---NO, IT’S AN ECO-PARK---NO, IT’S A LANDFILL
 http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/06/03/it%E2%80%99s-a-landfill-%E2%80%93-and-an-ecopark/ 

The Torture Never Stops
CHENEY: DEATH ONLY OPTION FOR SOME IF GITMO CLOSED
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22752.htm
CHENEY AGAIN: DAUGHTER LIZ TO RUN FOR OFFICE?
Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/03/dick-wants-liz-in-office/ 

Iraq and Roll
HALLIBURTON STILL RAPING IRAQ
http://www.alternet.org/world/140412/how_to_stay_out_of_sight_while_making_millions_from_the_war_in_iraq/ 

Mashed Media
O’ REILLY CALLS LATE DR. TILLER “DR. KILLER”
Why is this human turd allowed on television?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/03/oreilly-killer-tille/ 
POOR U.S. WOMEN JOURNALISTS FACE TRIAL
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/06/trial_coming_for_journos.php

Auto Motive
 MOORE: GOODBYE, GM
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=248 
O’ ROURKE: THE END OF THE AFFAIR
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203771904574173401767415892.html 
The fate of Detroit isn’t a matter of economics. It’s a tragic romance, whose magic was killed by bureaucrats, bad taste and busybodies. P.J. O’Rourke on why Americans fell out of love with the automobile.

Asinine Commentary of the Week
 MORFORD: OBAMAS MIGHT “MAKE AMERICA COOL AGAIN”
(Do you suppose humankind will ever, every stop using the word, “cool?”)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/06/03/notes060309.DTL 

All-Melty Dollar
HOW WALL STREET FLEECED MILLIONS FROM WISCONSIN SCHOOLS
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/140208/the_looting_of_america%3A_how_wall_street_fleeced_millions_from_wisconsin_schools/ 

Jesus H. Christ!
THE EVILDOING OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
Why can’t these people---and other “evangelicals”---just leave people alone?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs1-2009jun01,0,5371613.story 

Kim Nook Yoo
SON OF DEAR LEADER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5428300/Kim-Jong-un-a-profile-of-North-Koreas-next-leader.html 

(Lack of) Health
’CARDIAC PACEMAKER FOR THE MIND’
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-nudeepbrain1-2009jun01,0,1520191.story 
Until recently, deep brain stimulation was approved in the U.S. only to treat certain movement disorders, primarily those of Parkinson's disease, for which it diminishes tremors and rigidity and improves mobility. To date, more than 60,000 patients worldwide have had the devices implanted. But now use of the technique seems set to mushroom.

Oh, by the way. . .
WHO ORDERED CONSTRUCTION OF BERLIN WALL?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,628052,00.html 
CANARIES THAT HEAR LOUSY SONGS AS KIDS STILL SING WELL AS ADULTS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527121053.htm 
ANCIENT MAMMALS SHIFTED DIETS WITH CLIMATE
Unlike modern humanity
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090602204255.htm 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

TeeVee
 GOODMAN: ALL THE “TONIGHT SHOW” HYPE IS NONSENSE
(And O'Brien has never been funny.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/02/DDTP17VDM1.DTL 

Books
TOURS KEEP RAYMOND CHANDLER’S L.A. ALIVE
by John Rogers
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-marlowe-0529,0,7962234.story 
GALLERY: LITERARY GREATS---IN THEIR OWN HANDWRITING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/gallery/2009/jun/03/classics?picture=348306052 

Musique
HOW TATUM’S ART CHANGED JAZZ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124286060905541009.html 
Tatum is unchallenged as far as sheer musical density is concerned: He played so many notes in a given performance that just counting them would be difficult, and actually transcribing one of his solos would be next to impossible.
A CLARINETISTS' FAREWELL
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104790741&sc=emaf

For Art’s Sake
LOVE MONSTERS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9EYmoMw7Q 

Garden Grow
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?
http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2009/06/02/the-transplanted-gardener-where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/ 

And in the end. . .
GLOWING GREEN MONKEYS
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/06/02/japanese-scientists-create-green-glowing-monkeys/ 

5/29/09
DAILY CONCERT
HIGH HEELED SNEAKERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjBVoADDVUM 
YOUR FEET'S TOO BIG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in1eK3x1PBI
STINKFOOT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf8TM4CIk5g
THE RED SHOES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slo5FZyPtfw
TAN SHOES WITH PINK SHOE LACES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-C2asQ5vyk
HEAD OVER HEELS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZNmZGM-A5E
WALKIN' IN THE RAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DOdqOkYjtA
skylines:
MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-de0d1390faaad19d1ef619f43e5b76f8.html

GRANNY CRAPS
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1901663,00.html 

JESUS APPEARS IN MARMITE
He’ll do anything for publicity, this Christ
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Jesus_in_Marmite?_Youll_love_it_or...&in_article_id=675250&in_page_id=34

ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME!
CRUISE WITH KARL ROVE!
We are not making this stuff up.
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/cruise-with-rove-for-5000/ 

ASSHOLES WHO TAUNTED SF ZOO TIGER GET HUGE SETTLEMENT
Never charged with taunting, they were convicted of public drunkenness at the time the tiger escaped and killed their companion
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/29/BAPS17T0BD.DTL&tsp=1 

THE MAN WITH FIVE KIDNEYS
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/05/27/indian-man-5-kidneys/ 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

WHY DIDN’T SOTOMAYOR EXPLAIN HERSELF
IN NEW HAVEN DISCRIMINATION RULING?
Obviously because it was an imperious, kneejerk decision in favor of minorities
http://www.slate.com/id/2219037?nav=wp 
But there is a mystery in Sotomayor's recent history: a brief, unsigned opinion in the difficult race case now before the Supreme Court, Ricci v. DeStefano. Sotomayor punted when Ricci came before her, to such a degree that she raised more questions than she answered.
SOTOMAYOR SUPPORTED BUSH
IN CUTTING OFF BIRTH CONTROL TO POOR COUNTRIES
http://themoderatevoice.com/33432/sonia-sotomayor-and-abortion-rights/
In a 2002 case, she wrote an opinion upholding the Bush administration policy of withholding aid from international groups that provide or promote abortion services overseas.
HER DECISION HELPED CAUSE 2 MILLION UNWANTED PREGNANCIES AND 77,000 CHILD DEATHS
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-23-2002-23030.asp 
KRISTOF ON THE BUSH BIRTH CONTROL POLICY
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/opinion/09kristof.html 
SOTOMAYOR’S WORK FOR PUERTO RICAN
DEFENSE FUND FUELS CRITICS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29puerto.html?emc=eta1 
PAT BUCHANAN IS RIGHT-ON ABOUT SOTOMAYOR
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/28/ED7817SOU8.DTL 
Judge Sotomayor will be excused because the media agree with her and she is a Latina who will use her court seat to impose upon the nation the values of the National Council of La Raza (the Race), of which she is a member.
‘HISPANIC SUPREMACIST’
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=546232 
‘LA RAZA’ WEBSITE
http://www.nclr.org/ 

World gone mad
HEY, KIDS, HAD YOUR DIRT COOKIE TODAY?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22902512 
Here’s the recipe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wHiYkcm-Ro 
CLIMATE CHANGE KILLING 300,000 A YEAR (AND WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED)
Yeah, let’s spend time and energy debating gay marriage. . .
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/29/annan.climate.change.human/index.html 

SUU KYI’S HEALTH A ‘GRAVE CONCERN’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8073933.stm 
THE AMERICAN WHO CAUSED ALL SUU KYI’S TROUBLES
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/05/28/the-american-mystery-man-behind-aung-san-suu-kyis-latest-troubles/ 

ARMY BASE SHUTS DOWN OVER SUICIDES
http://rawstory.com/08/afp/2009/05/29/us-army-base-shuts-down-after-rise-in-suicides/ 

BUSH REFUSES TO COMMENT ABOUT OBAMA
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/29/bush-obama-socialist/

Mashed Media
LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE GOING CELEB
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/05/more_unraveling_at_los_an.php 
WIKIPEDIA BANS SCIENTOLOGY FROM EDITING SITE
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/wikipedia-bans-scientology-from-editing-site/ 
OBAMA CREATES ‘CYBER CZAR’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/29/national/w005236D50.DTL&tsp=1 

The Torture Never Stops
WAS RAPE AN ‘ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUE?’
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22728.htm 

Kim Nook Yoo
DICKIE ‘SPIKE HEELS’ MORRIS: LET JAPAN HAVE NUKES TO COUNTER N. KOREA
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/dick-morris-thinks-convincing-japanese-dev
N. KOREA FIRES ANOTHER STUPID MISSILE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5406645/North-Korea-launches-seventh-missile-off-east-coast.html 

Animals in the news!
STINGRAYS SUFFERING FROM TOURISM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/29/wildlife-tourism-stingray 
BEAVERS BACK IN BRITAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/may/29/beavers-britain 
NOBLE BIRD BLOCKS DRAINPIPE TO PROTECT HER YOUNG
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5399061/Bird-uses-body-as-dam-to-stop-drainpipe-soaking-chicks.html 
WEEK IN ANIMAL PHOTOS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/week-in-news-pictures-132/index.html 

Spaced out
JUPITER-LIKE PLANET FOUND ORBITING SMALL STAR
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528141509.htm 

Auto Motive
MAKING BIODIESEL AT HOME IS DANGEROUS, KIDS!
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/05/29/no-brainer-of-the-day-making-biodiesel-at-home-is-dangerous/

Oh, by the way. . .
BERLIN HOSPITAL FINDS ROSA LUXEMBURG’S CORPSE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,627626,00.html 
HONGKONG LOVES LUNCH TIME KARAOKE
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1901682,00.html 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

SCREWBALL NAMES OF SF NEIGHBORHOODS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/29/MNV017O41C.DTL

POETIC JUSTICE AT OXFORD
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p06s07-woeu.html 
However, an unseemly row over the election of the first woman to Oxford University's prestigious post of professor of poetry – just weeks after the appointment of Britain's first female poet laureate – has pushed the art center-stage.

NEW ‘DR. WHO’ ASSISTANT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8073734.stm 

Musique
WATCH: WONDERFUL PREVIEW OF KLAUS VOORMAN CHARITY ALBUM
Paul, Ringo, Dr. John, Manfred Mann, Bonnie Bramlett, Cat Stevens. . .
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m5d28-Beatle-news-briefs-for-529 
MORE ON POSSIBLE DYLAN/MCCARTNEY COLLABORATION
http://lnmc.crooksandliars.com/maxmarginal/cls-late-nite-music-club-dylanmccartne 
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner%7Ey2009m5d26-Exclusive-McCartneyDylan-collaboration-story-is-speculation-spokesman-says 
INTERVIEW: MARY HOPKIN REMEMBERS THE BEATLES
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/genres_artists/folk_traditional/mary_hopkin_rw.shtml 

Lost Angeles
OLD GORDON THEATER CLOSES
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/05/showcase_theatre_on_la_br.php 

Books
THE STORY OF VODKA
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124226917042118265.html 

And in the end. . .
STRANGE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RITUAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPeoO_mkJaI

hit 'refresh' for updates
5/28/09
DAILY CONCERT
FISH AND BIRD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDK9c8Yt_M
THE BLUEBIRD, THE BUZZARD, AND THE ORIOLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6QvFMd0uUA
FISH HEADS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpUVAcvWfU 
BIRDIE NUM NUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z7GYEIoF_k
TODO ME PARECE BONITO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHRbNu0yvQ
BLUEBIRDS OVER THE MOUNTAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CElweMY3ZQY
BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IERLMXtMZag
skylines:
MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-68e0b8c15a4882bbdbb840b0d483b0cc.html

PASSER-BY PUSHES SUICIDE MAN OFF BRIDGE
And on to air bag
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8069686.stm 

SPECTOR WANTS SHORTER PRISON TERM
After all, he only killed one actress. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8072004.stm 
Slide show: crazy Phil through the years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7998056.stm 

SCORE ONE FOR THE WHITE TIGERS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8069462.stm 

CAT GIRL OF RUSSIA
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98EMT980&show_article=1 

REBECCA, THE JEWISH DOLL
http://www.jewishjournal.com/community/article/american_girl_introduces_first_jewish_doll_20090527/ 

MOM ON ICE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/27/body-found-in-freezer

Lost Angeles
FAIRFAX HIGH’S NEW PROM QUEEN. . .IS A QUEEN
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prom-queen28-2009may28,0,2700821.story 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/28/state/n073959D94.DTL&tsp=1 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

HERE WE GO. . .’BITTERNESS’ IS NOW. . .MENTAL ILLNESS!
First sarcasm and irony became “mean-spirited,” now if you’re a cynic, you’re officially. . .mentally ill!
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-bitterness25-2009may25,0,4544029.story 
The disorder is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder because it too is a response to a trauma that endures. People with PTSD are left fearful and anxious. Embittered people are left seething for revenge. (You betcha!)

GINGRICH IS RIGHT: SOTOMAYOR SHOULD WITHDRAW
She is unfit to serve on any bench, anywhere. . .
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/latina-woman-racist-should-withdraw-gingrich-twitters/ 
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/gingrich-calls.html 
WHITE HOUSE HAS THE GALL TO TELL SOTOMAYOR OPPONENTS TO “BE CAREFUL”
What does that mean?
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/27/gibbs-sotomayor-warning/ 
ABORTION SUPPORTERS NERVOUS OVER SOTOMAYOR
Well, she’s Catholic. . .
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30974345/ 
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/05/28/sotomayors_views_on_abortion_g.html?wprss=44 
SHE WOULD BE 6th CATHOLIC ON THE COURT---
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/05/27/sotomayor-as-the-supreme-courts-6th-catholic.html 
---OR WOULD SHE?
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/religion_theseeker/2009/05/is-sonia-sotomayor-catholic.html 
LATINOS CHEER SOTOMAYOR---BECAUSE SHE’S LATINA
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/05/regions_latinos.html
SOTOMAYOR’S DIABETIC HISTORY
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-sotomayor-diabetes28-2009may28,0,5805297.story 
HOW YALE STUDENT SOTOMAYOR WON APOLOGY FROM LAW FIRM---CHARGING RACISM
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sotomayor-apology28-2009may28,0,2656066.story
Krall asked her whether she would have been admitted to law school if she were not Puerto Rican and whether law firms did a disservice by hiring minority students with inferior credentials and then firing them a few years later. (Perfectly reasonable question!)

Enviro Wacko
THE EVIL OF E-WASTE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/28/greenwash-electronic-waste 
I've seen these toxic waste operations in action. They call it recycling, but it's extremely damaging. In an industrial wasteland outside New Delhi in India, I watched as children as young as eight dunked bare circuit boards in acid to create a residue of copper for sale to a local works. Child labour? You bet. Health and safety? You have to be joking.
THE HIDDEN COST OF FOR-PROFIT HEALTH INSURANCE
http://germantownnewspapers.com/letters.html 
For-profit insurers (including auto) are also the biggest investment bloc on Wall Street. They use what was our health care money to invest in some of the most health-damaging industries on the planet, including cigarette manufacturing, tobacco pesticides, pesticides in general, oil, mountaintop removal coal mining, nukes, military contractors, genetically-engineered “foods”, plastics, chlorine, and so forth, not to mention investments in sweat-shop industries, firms that do animal testing, private prisons, union-busting firms, sprawl developers, and the rest. This is all public information available at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It’s not secret, just not discussed.

The Torture Never Stops
NEW ABU GHRAIB PHOTOS SHOW RAPE
Onward, Christian soldiers. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html 
The photos
http://www.atlargely.com/atlargely/2009/05/photos-obama-wont-release-include-images-of-rape.html 

HAYDEN: THE SILENCE OF MOVEON.ORG
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22717.htm 
This is no small matter. MoveOn has collected a privately held list of 5 million names, most of them strong peace advocates. The organization's membership contributed an unprecedented $180 million for the federal election cycle in 2004-2006. Those resources, now squelched or sequestered, mean that the most vital organization in the American peace movement is missing in action.

Mashed Media
L.A. NEWSTANDS BITE THE DUST
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-05-28/news/death-of-l-a-newsstands/
TWITTER THREATENS PAPERS
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1066006.html 
The danger is that Twitter will keep reporters off the streets and in front of their screens, that it will further skew journalism toward seeking out, listening to and serving the young, the hip, the technically sophisticated, the well-off -- in short, the better-connected. The people who aren't being heard now aren't sending out tweets.
CRAIGSLIST CEO: WE’RE VICITMS OF WITCHHUNT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/28/craigslist-jim-buckmaster-adult-ads 

(Lack of) Health
ASIA SET FOR DIABETES EXPLOSION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8069431.stm 

Science
WATCH: DRIVING ON THE OCEAN FLOOR
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8070563.stm 

Animals in the news
DOG BITES BUG
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/27/body-found-in-freezer 

Oh, by the way. . .
DANISH COURT RULES AGAINST COUNTERCULTURE OASIS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052600624.html?referrer=emailarticle 
‘MEN LIVE BETTER WHEN WOMEN ARE IN CHARGE’
Somehow, we doubt this. . .
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,627363,00.html 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

Lost Angeles
IS THIS VANDALISM ANTI-SEMITIC? OR THE WORK OF A PROUD JEW?
 http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/05/dan_the_miner_tagging_its_nothing_personal.php 

Musique
 INTERVIEW: JOAN BAEZ
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/28/DDC217Q9ID.DTL&type=music 

PICS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOLDEN GATE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/05/27/BAQI17R9ON.DTL&o=0 

DONALD DUCK: THE JERRY LEWIS OF GERMANY
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203771904574181722075062290.html 

Books
THE POLITICAL LIFE OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0905.odonnell.html

Film
THE CHINESE LEGACY OF TINSELTOWN
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051402660.html?referrer=emailarticle 

And in the end. . .
I’LL SWAN YOU TO DEATH
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,627139,00.html 

5/26/09
DAILY CONCERT
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLWBhNW3FM
GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqmid9MlFSw
EVENING BELL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDPZP94fIDY
MIDNIGHT HOUR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5mF11nLq4
ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_2blyBRp4
IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgllGNvvmfE
EARLY IN THE MORNING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItIaA5hhht8
TWELVE THIRTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bi7DSIshIA
skylines:
MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-5196887f2d3e15df692369d5cd1568dd.html 

ROAD GETS NAME CHANGE
 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Butt_Hole_Road_gets_a_name_change&in_article_id=671244&in_page_id=2 

NUNS ON THE RUN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/26/naughty-nuns-arrested-crete

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU, UH. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/24/LV7H17JGDO.DTL&type=living 

Lost Angeles
RETIRED CHEF CAUGHT IN GANG SWEEP
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gang-sweep26-2009may26,0,2002899.story 
MORE DEATH BY DEVELOPMENT
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/05/curbedwire_metro_plaza_project.php 
WHAT THE L.A. OFFICIAL REALLY MEANT WAS. . .
http://downtownnews.com/articles/2009/05/21/news/doc4a15e04532b03835260556.txt 

BARRY 'THE FISH' MELTON RETIRES
http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/1872827.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

Enviro Wacko
ASTRONOMER LOOKS INTO THE FUTURE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/26/future-planet-earth
If population growth were to continue beyond 2050, one can't be other than exceedingly gloomy about the prospects. And the challenge of feeding such a rapidly growing population will be aggravated by climate change.
WORLD’S MOST PRESSING ENVIRO PROBLEM: PEOPLE
41 percent of world pregnancies are accidental
http://www.populationconnection.org/site/PageServer 
WE HAVE PASSED OUR SUSTAINABILITY
(Scroll down)
http://www.overpopulation.net/ 
AND THE POPE REMAINS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ENVIRO PROBLEMS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/27/catholics-to-pope-lift-bi_n_115185.html 
DESTROYING THE OCEAN FLOOR
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/05/22/mining-the-ocean-floor/ 

World gone mad
SCHOOLGIRLS MAKE VIDEO SHOWING SIX WAYS TO KILL CLASSMATE
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/25/six-ways-to-kill/ 
SF SCHOOLS LOSING MUSIC, SPORTS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/26/BA9M17O26V.DTL 

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SUPREME COURT PICK
Hailed for being Latina, woman---what does that matter?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/obama-makes-decision-on-supreme-court-nominee/?hp
SOTOMAYOR HEADS FOR EASY CONFIRMATION
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1900915,00.html 
Fox Idiots: Sotomayor picked “to appease far left”
(Don’t they know that the “far left” is never appeased?)
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/26/fox-sotomayor-far-left/ 
She’ll be slightly to the left of Abbie Hoffman when the right wing is done with her. . .
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/obama-announces-scotus-pick-sonia-sot 
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/sotomayor-lightweight/ 

WHITE HOUSE ART GIVES WAY TO
P.C. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION-TYPE COLLECTION
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203771904574175453455287432.html
The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House. In a sharp departure from the 19th-century still lifes, pastorals and portraits that dominate the White House’s public rooms, they are choosing bold, abstract art works.

Brave new world
UK SOFTWARE WILL TRACK ALL CARS
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/british-police-state-clamping-down/

SHEEHAN: DAY OF THE DEAD
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22701.htm 
There are obscene amounts of people who have been slaughtered for the US Profit Driven Military Empire who do not count here in America on any day. People in Vietnam are still dying from the toxins dumped on their country by the US, not to mention the millions who died during that war. Let the carnage escalate in Afghanistan while we protect our personal images by turning a blind eye to Obama’s war crimes. Are you going to feel a lump of pride in your bosom when the coffins start to be photographed at Dover for this imperial crime of aggression? Will you look at those flag-draped boxes of the lifeless body of some mother's child and think: "Now, I am free." Is it better to be dead when Obama is president?

 RAIMUNDO: OBAMA’S DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITARIANISM
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/24/obamas-democratic-authoritarianism/ 
He’s not closing Guantanamo, he’s continuing the "preventive detention" policy of the Bush administration under a new rubric ("prolonged detention"), he’s on board with military commissions ("reformed," of course) and the denial of habeas corpus – and last, but certainly not least, his supporters in Congress have launched a campaign to give him and his cabinet officials the power to close down the Internet in the name of "national security."

 MOYERS:
WHY EXPECT AN INDUSTRY THAT PROFITS FROM DISEASE TO POLICE ITSELF?
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/140226/bill_moyers%3A_how_can_we_expect_an_industry_that_profits_from_disease_and_sickness_to_police_itself/ 
By the early ‘90s, the public was once again hurting in the pocketbook. Feeling our pain, Bill and Hillary Clinton tried again, coming up with a plan only slightly more complicated than the schematics for an F-18 fighter jet. This time the health industry acted more like Tony Soprano than Mother Teresa. It bludgeoned the Clinton reforms with one of the most expensive and deceitful public relations and advertising campaigns ever conceived – paid for, of course, from the industry’s swollen profits.

All-melty dollar
AFTER WOIK---WORK SONGS
http://hopehealinghelpfordownsizedworkers.blogspot.com/2009/05/work-songs-music-to-get-hired-by.html 
UNEMPLOYMENT RUNS OUT? HEY, NO PROBLEM! JUST. . .RETIRE!
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/unemployment-claims-run-out-many-work 

Science
NEW COMPUTER MEMORY MAY LAST A BILLION YEARS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090525105418.htm 
NANONEEDLES
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090522-nanoneedle-cells.html 

Obit
BENJAMIN CHINN: DOCUMENTED SF CHINATOWN
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-benjamen-chinn25-2009may25,0,4070258.story

Oh, by the way. . .
INTERVIEW: OBAMA’S GREAT UNCLE, WHO HELPED LIBERATE BUCHENWALD
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,626703,00.html 
JIGSAW KID
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5361788/Jigsaw-Kid-lives-with-jumbled-up-internal-organs.html 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

DONNA REED, ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/arts/25donna.html?_r=1&hp 

THE STREET CHEFS OF SF
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/25/MN6317MLGI.DTL&tsp=1 

GALLERY: WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES
http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=78 

For Art’s Sake
PICASSO IN ANTIBES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/26/picasso-antibes-age-of-renewal 

Film
REVIEW: O’ HORTON
Rip Post adds: It’s marvelous.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0522/p17s04-almo.html 
ON THE WILLIAM WELLMAN DEPRESSION EXPRESS
Surprisingly great early films by the director deal with tough issues of the time
 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/movies/homevideo/22dkehr.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=william%20wellman&st=cse 

Hey! Be-attle!
ON THIS DATE IN BEATLES HISTORY. . .
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m5d25-On-this-date-in-Beatle-history--May-25--its-all-too-much 

Books
The Jewish Odyssey of George Elliot
http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/jewishodyssey 

Where ya goin’?
THE BEACHES OF. . .SOUTH WALES?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/familyholidays/5386726/Pleasure-on-all-fronts-in-Wales.html 

And in the end. . .
FLYING FOXES
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=flying%20fox%20bat&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

5/22/09
DAILY CONCERT
SMOKIN' MARIJUANA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tetK1dLf2Vc
REEFER MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D44pyeEvhcQ
SWEET MARIHUANA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_0gyqhNz4
MARIHUANA BOOGIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlCPleSfu2w
GANJA SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vb3Fm4oijo
GANJA BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3LhCd1OP1s
IOWA POT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmTHCDws1LQ
STONED SOUL PICNIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSNbC9zK-w
I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6H516wz6g
skylines:
MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-d3b801457954053d837d088bf14df996.html

OBAMA HOPS A RIDE ON SF MUNI
Sort of
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/22/BA3H17OU75.DTL 

PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0521/ 

PORN FLOODS YOUTUBE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8061979.stm 
Well, it’s better than Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers, where it was planted. . .

WORLD’S OLDEST BLOGGER DIES AT 97
But did she Tweet?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/may/22/oldest-blogger-dies-spain-blog 

ANOTHER HAPPY FACE TRANSPLANT
Warning: this is gruesome
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Face_transplant_man_happy_with_results&in_article_id=669894&in_page_id=64 

TEACHER CANNED FOR SPRAYING STUDENTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5362785/Nursery-school-teacher-sacked-for-spraying-smelly-children-with-air-freshener.html

STRANGER THAN TRUTH: STATUE OF REAGAN IN LONDON
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5368442/Ronald-Reagan-to-be-honoured-with-a-London-statue.html

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE, AND IT IS INSANE
Woman builds $10k-per-month “job” out of Twitter blather---is called “social media” specialist
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/fashion/21whiz.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=tweeting&st=cse

CA. TRIES TO STOP VIOLENT GAME SALES TO KIDS
But it probably won’t work. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0521/p02s01-ussc.html 
California Attorney General Edmund "Jerry" Brown petitioned America's highest court to hear a video-game case concerning a 2005 state law that has been on hold since it was enacted, struck down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before it could go into effect. The law would ban sales to minors of mature-themed games and impose fines of up to $1,000 for violations.

PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES LEAK BPA IN EVERY SWALLOW
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521141208.htm 
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles -- the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and baby bottles -- showed a two-thirds increase in their urine of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). Exposure to BPA, used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and other plastics, has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans.

All-melty dollar
WHY GOLDMAN SACHS IS GREEDIEST OF WALL STREET PIGS
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/140166/why_goldman_sachs_is_the_greediest_and_most_dastardly_of_the_wall_street_pigs/ 
Accompanying music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58op7LDRTsY

The Other War
AFGHANISTAN WAR LIBERATES WOMEN? THAT’S A RUSE
http://www.alternet.org/audits/140174/the_military_hides_under_the_skirts_of_women_to_justify_war_in_afghanistan/ 
The Pentagon portrays Afghanistan as a moral battle to "protect" its women. Afghan women tell another story: more war equals suffering.

OBAMA SIGNS BILL TO CURB MILITARY SPENDING
http://www.wave3.com/global/story.asp?s=10408921

The Torture Never Stops
CHENEY LIED IN SPEECH
What the hell else is new?
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/cheney-lied-repeatedly-in-speech/ 
NEW GOP AD: CLOSE GITMO AND GET NUKE WAR!
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/22/gop-ad-gitmo-nuclear-war/
MILITARY ATTY.: ‘WATERBOARDING IS THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22672.htm 
According to Bradley, when Mohamed was first held at a CIA prison in Morocco, “They started this monthly treatment where they would come in with a scalpel or a razor type of instrument and they would slash his genitals, just with small cuts.”
LITTLE-KNOWN MILITARY THUG
BRUTALIZING GITMO INMATES UNDER OBAMA
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22674.htm 
EX-GITMO INMATE RECALLS TORTURE
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/21/iraq.abu.ghraib.inmate/index.html 
THE 13 BUSH OFFICIALS WHO MADE TORTURE POSSIBLE
http://www.alternet.org/rights/140192/the_13_bush_officials_who_made_torture_possible/ 

CHOMSKY: U.S. TORTURE IS AS OLD AS THE REPUBLIC
http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/1046/noam_chomsky_why_we_cant_see_t/
As Allan Nairn, who has carried out some of the most revealing and courageous investigations of torture, points out: "What the Obama [ban on torture] ostensibly knocks off is that small percentage of torture now done by Americans while retaining the overwhelming bulk of the system's torture, which is done by foreigners under U.S. patronage. Obama could stop backing foreign forces that torture, but he has chosen not to do so."

RAIMUNDO: WHY LIBERALS LOVE OBAMA
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/21/why-liberals-love-obama/ 
If I were a liberal Democrat – and, as my regular readers know, this is very far from being the case – I’d be mad as heck over the way President Barack Obama has reversed himself on key foreign policy and civil liberties issues. I’d be positively furious about his "reconsideration" of preventive detention, the revival of military commissions, rendition, JSOC-style assassinations, denial of habeas corpus, etc., etc., ad nauseam. Not to mention the general direction of his foreign policy, which rationalizes escalating the fighting in Afghanistan – and its extension into Pakistan – under the general exculpatory rubric of fighting the "war on terrorism."

ROBERTS: OBAMA MORPHS INTO CHENEY
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22671.htm 
Obama has defended the Bush/Cheney warrantless wiretapping program run by the National Security Agency and broadened the government’s legal argument that "sovereign immunity" protects government officials from prosecution and civil suits when they violate U.S. law and constitutional protections of citizens. Obama’s Justice Department has taken up the defense of Donald Rumsfeld against a case brought by detainees whose rights Rumsfeld violated.In a signing statement this month, Obama abandoned his promise to protect whistleblowers who give information of executive branch illegality to Congress.

NOBLE AUNG SUU KYI: I’M INNOCENT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8063817.stm 

People's Repugnic
HOW BEIJING IS BATTLING ECONOMIC CRISIS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,626274,00.html 
The West is pinning its hopes on China to revive the global economy. Beijing is orchestrating its efforts to combat the crisis as meticulously as it once planned the country's spectacular economic ascent.

TAIWAN STRUGGLES TO HANDLE TRIAL OF FORMER PRESIDENT
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0521/p06s14-woap.html

Animals in the news!
POOR TASMANIAN DEVILS DWINDLING FROM FACIAL CANCER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/5365817/Tasmanian-devils-placed-on-endangered-species-list.html 
GALLERY: THE WEEK IN WILDLIFE
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/may/20/wildlife-animals1?picture=347729979 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/5369069/Animal-pictures-of-the-week-22-May-2009.html 

Oh, by the way. . .
GALLERY: CANNABIS CULTURE
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1899641,00.html 
WATCH: MEXICAN PRISON SECURITY IN ACTION!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/5368617/Video-shows-53-dangerous-inmates-escaping-Mexican-prison.html

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

Auto Motive
LETTERMAN VS. THE CHEVY VOLT
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/05/21/letterman-on-the-chevy-volt-oops/ 
When Letterman pointed to his Tesla’s ability to go 200 miles on a single charge of its battery pack, asking why the Volt with all the might of GM couldn’t pull the same feat, Lutz explained that the company couldn’t survive selling $100,000 cars, and needed to sell the Volt in volume.
THE TOYOTA 2000 GT
Just for the hell of it. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_2000GT 

For Art’s Sake
MR. POTATO HEAD, AND MR. POTATO HEAD, AND MR. POTATO HEAD. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Artist_serves_up_a_raw_artistic_medium_from_spuds&in_article_id=669580&in_page_id=34 

Musique
LEONARD COHEN, SUCCESSFUL POET
(The Rip Post doesn’t like this guy, but a lot of people do, so. . .)
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/19/leonard-cohen-poetry-opinions-columnists-music.html 
BEATLES REMASTER TWEET
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m5d21-Beatle-news-briefs-for-522 

Film
MICHAEL MOORE TURNS SITES ON WALL STREET
http://rawstory.com/08/afp/2009/05/21/michael-moore-preparing-to-turn-sights-on-wall-st/

And in the end. . .
CAKE WRECKS
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/ 

5/21/09
DAILY CONCERT
DEEP BLUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999uKLFmt5w
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJe74PPo9g
BLUE TURNING GRAY OVER YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMXDOXcPYao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VHoEbQMt5Y
BLUE MONDAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3041kBbxGM
AM I BLUE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXCxb5bCqTE
BABY BLUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C53QAuOoSgc
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
(Orchestrated by Ferde Grofe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QxWxsK8_3s
skylines:
MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-9db1d1b0a53b5790569a0432fba7391e.html

SHERPA CONQUERS EVEREST 19 TIMES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/5359570/Sherpa-scales-Mount-Everest-record-19-times.html 

YOU LITTLE JACK ASS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5352799/Baby-mule-stands-just-20-inches-tall.html 

ALBERTSON’S SLASHES PRICES
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lower-prices20-2009may20,0,7219379.story 

FIORE: ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A LAND CALLED THE USA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/05/20/fiorenormal.DTL 


AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

Lost Angeles
MASSIVE LATINO GANG BUST---
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/huge-gang-sweeps-targets-latino-gangs-that-allegedly-targeted-blacks.html 
---WELL, NOT QUITE
Busting 88 members near Hawaiian Gardens leaves only about 22,000 in L.A. and vicinity
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE54K5ZF20090521
http://www.lacp.org/2005-Articles-Main/LAGangsInNeighborhoods.html

Animals in the news
BLUE WHALE COMEBACK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8518645
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/open-thread-1 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511140953.htm 
BLUE WHALE FACTS
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/blue-whale.html 

Enviro Wacko
TAIWAN’S AMAZING SOLAR-POWERED STADIUM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/may/20/solar-power-taiwan-stadium?picture=347648514 
WIND FARM KILLS GOATS IN TAIWAN
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8060969.stm 
SEA CITIES OF THE FUTURE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/seasteading-sea-buildings-pictures/index.html 
THE LOW IMPACT ‘HOBBIT HOUSE’ OF WALES
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2009/05/20/Hobbit_House_in_Wales.DTL&o=0 
RUSSIA GOING NUKE REACTOR CRAZY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,626125,00.html 


ASTOUNDING: OBAMA SIDES WITH BUSH IN PLAME MATTER
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/21/obama-plame-lawsuit/ 

OBAMA MULLS ‘PREVENTIVE DETENTION’
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/21/obama-preventive-detention/ 

91 PERCENT OF RIGHT-WINGERS THINK OBAMA IS “SOCIALIST,” “FASCIST”
Proves that 91 percent of right-wingers are brainless idiots
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/20/obama-poll-radical/

NOT ONE PERSON HAS BEEN PROSECUTED FOR 9/11
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/05/congresswoman-not-one-person-has-been.html

RAIMUNDO: AMERICAN DEATH SQUAD
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/19/american-death-squad/ 
Obama inherits Cheney's army of assassins – and promotes their commander

DIPLOMATS BARRED FROM SUNG KYI ‘TRIAL’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8060715.stm 

LATEST ON NYC TERROR PLOT BUST
http://rawstory.com/08/afp/2009/05/21/four-arrested-for-planning-new-york-terror-attacks/ 
TOO DANGEROUS TO PUT SUSPECTS IN PRISON WITH OTHER WOULD-BE JIHADISTS?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/21/synogogue-bombers-prison/ 

All-Melty Dollar
AFTER WOIK
http://hopehealinghelpfordownsizedworkers.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-get-help-paying-for-heat-phone.html 

Animals in the news
DOG-FIGHTING ABUSE SPREADS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5360097/Street-fighting-dogs-treated-for-stab-wounds.html
ABANDONED WALLABY FINDS HOME IN HAT
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5355841/Wallaby-uses-wooly-hat-to-stay-warm.html 

Obit
WAYNE ALLWINE, VOICE OF MICKEY MOUSE
Third after Walt, and Jimmy McDonald. . .
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5358222/Voice-of-Mickey-Mouse-for-32-years-dies.html 

And in more important matters. . .

Books
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY TURNS TO MOTORCYCLE REPAIR
http://www.slate.com/id/2218650/pagenum/all/ 
When Matthew Crawford finished his doctorate in political philosophy at the University of Chicago, he took a job at a Washington think tank. "I was always tired," he writes, "and honestly could not see the rationale for my being paid at all." He quit after five months and started doing motorcycle repair in a decaying factory in Richmond, Va. This journey from philosopher manqué to philosopher-mechanic is the arc of his new book, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. It's appropriate that it arrives in May, the month when college seniors commence real life. Skip Dr. Seuss, or a tie from Vineyard Vines, and give them a copy for graduation.

Film
FILM ON NANKING MASSACRE STIRS UP TROUBLE IN CHINA
Portrays Japanese soldiers in somewhat sympathetic light
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fg-china-nanjing21-2009may21,0,3152777.story 

INTERVIEW: MICHAEL PALIN
 http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,625175,00.html 
”Laughter means catharsis. I think that it's very important to be able to laugh at yourself -- whether as an individual or as a society. The British may be more suited to that compared to other people.”

Where ya goin’?
THE DOORBELLS OF FLORENCE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/interactive/2009/may/19/florence-doorbells 
MY FAVORITE BEACH. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/may/20/beaches-favourite-ten-world 

Light reading
IN PRAISE OF DISTRACTION
http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt? action=cpt&title=In+Defense+of+Distraction&expire=&urlID=35262779&fb=Y&url=http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/&partnerID=73272  
(cut and paste link)

For Art’s Sake
NEFERTITI STATUE A FAKE?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,625719,00.html 

Garden grow
CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW, FULL COVERAGE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/chelseaflowershow/ 

And in the end. . .
’HELLO KITTY’ DIGS HER CLAWS IN
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/05/20/taiwan-hello-kitty-digs-her-claws-in/ 
http://www.hellokittyonline.com/us/ 
http://www.sanrio.com/ 

5/20/09
DAILY CONCERT
MIND GAMES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVG2wrKQKtY
THERE'S A PLACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYBwOM1sRE8
WHAT'S THE UGLIEST PART OF YOUR BODY?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUNXBfTDVjE
UGLIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqNhESzI6Rw 
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RKpIeZsRuU
GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuFU1dojwFU
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORLD IN THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxz-o5-Nr2o
MARA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlNmAcCinlE
skylines:
MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-015e316a6ad91b2b132c8e16980dedf6.html 

EXPENSIVE UNIVERSITY STUDY PROVES: DUCKS LIKE WATER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/20/research-proves-ducks-like-water 

PENTAGON ABANDONS BIBLE-QUOTING IN DAILY BRIEFING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/18/national/w151332D31.DTL 

FLASH! GNOMES BANNED FROM CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW!
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2009/may/20/chelsea-flower-show-gnome-controversy 

OH, NO! PARIS HILTON HAS ‘MEAN NEIGHBORS’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexd?blogid=7 

PICS: LENNON BROTHERS AT CANNES
http://www.purepeople.com/article/julian-et-sean-les-fils-de-john-lennon-ne-sont-plus-des-freres-ennemis_a31563/1 


AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

GLOBAL WARMING TWICE
AS BAD AS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519134843.htm
AS GLACIERS MELT, LAND RISES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/science/earth/18juneau.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

NEW HONDA HYBRID IS ‘BIBLICALLY TERRIBLE’ CAR
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article6294116.ece?print=yes&randnum=1242604714984 

DODGE DEALER FIGHTS TO KEEP FRANCHISE
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/A9/20090520/BUSINESS/905200319/1003 
George Joseph has 125 new Dodges on his lot. He has incurred a multi-million dollar debt renovating his dealership -- at Chrysler's insistence. He has $300,000 in parts that may soon be worthless. And he has more than 50 workers who depend on him for their livelihood. It's somewhat understandable, then, that Joseph also has a question: How can his business, Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, be wrested from his family after 35 years of ownership as part of the struggling automaker's reorganization in bankruptcy?

HOW RESOURCEFUL TAIWAN BEATS THE ‘RECESSION’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8048555.stm 

NEW ORLEANS: WHAT RECESSION?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0519/p02s13-usgn.html 

47-MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOSSIL REMARKABLY INTACT

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/20/MNC317NCMJ.DTL&tsp=1 
NEW FOSSIL LINKS HUMANS, LEMURS?
We should be in such good company. . .
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html 

CHENEY DARES U.S. TO INDICT HIM
Soon he will double dare, then double-dog dare. . .
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/19/cheney-dares-us/ 

SUU KYI ‘COMPOSED’ AT TRIAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8058804.stm
Quien es mas macho? Dick Cheney o Aung Suu Kyi?

POWELL: CHENEY HAS OWN VERSION OF GOP
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/20/powell-cheney-respond/ 

COST OF WAR
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home 
And cretin reactionaries have the gall to charge “socialism” for spending money on the USA

Mashed Media
WHY JOURNALISTS DESERVE LOW PAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0519/p09s02-coop.html 
Today, ordinary adults can observe and report news, gather expert knowledge, determine significance, add audio, photography, and video components, and publish this content far and wide (or at least to their social network) with ease. And much of this is done for no pay. Until journalists can redefine the value of their labor above this level, they deserve low pay. (Rip Post comments: This is ridiculous. Someone who has worked a beat for 20 or 30 years has an expertise that some Internet martinet could not hope to match. On the other hand, journalists at major newspapers have been wildly overpaid for decades---especially at the L.A. Times, where some made six figures to write a few articles a year.)
HUFFINGTON POST HIRES WASHINGTON POST EDITOR FOR INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003974848 

WHY IS GINGRICH QUOTED LIKE GOSPEL?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/140126/newt_gingrich_is_a_gop_nobody_from_the_%2790s_--_why_is_he_quoted_like_the_gospel/ 
So Gingrich has somehow cracked the media code for generating headlines? He has concocted some rhetorical formula such that when he speaks, reporters are forced to type it up as news? I don't buy it.

 LINDORFF: WHERE'S THE GODDAMN OUTRAGE?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/316
Polls show that a majority of Americans would like to have a union where they work, but very few of us seem willing to fight for that right. Maybe with polls showing that over 50 percent of Americans now worry that they may be laid off, and with companies clearly using the economic crisis as an excuse for bashing employees, that quiescence is ending. The only way to find out is for the labor movement to call for street action.

Technically
PENTAGON TO EMULATE CAT BRAIN
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/08/darpa-fake-brai/#previouspost
GOOGLE BLURS COL. SANDERS’ FACE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/5356031/Google-Street-View-blurs-face-of-Colonel-Sanders-at-every-KFC.html 

Lost Angeles
LAT TOUTS EVIL, HIDEOUS, AND OTHERWISE FOUL “L.A. LIVE”
Can you say. . .”prostitution?”
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lalive20-2009may20,0,5717648.story 

Obits
YOGA FOUNDER JOIS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8058905.stm

Oh, by the way. . .
SF DISCOURAGES CARS FROM MARKET STREET
Should just ban them from the whole city
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/20/BA4N17NHVC.DTL
SF MAYOR WANTS TO BAN CIGARETTE BUTTS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/us/19smoke.html?emc=eta1 
STUPID NEWS OF THE DAY
http://stupidnewsstories.blogspot.com/

And in more important matters. . .

DYLAN POEM FROM CHILDHOOD TO BE AUCTIONED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8059075.stm 

Books
POET GARY SNYDER AND MT. TAM
(We apologize for carrying an article written by a complete asshole)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/19/DD3017LFEM.DTL&type=books 

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur
 THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF CONAN DOYLE’S 150TH
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0519/p17s04-algn.html 
WHY DID CONAN DOYLE BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/conan-doyle-spiritualism 

Where ya goin’?
OLD CAT HOUSES OF CALIFORNIA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/17/TRP5178JAL.DTL&type=travel 

And in the end. . .
MAN-EATING CATFISH
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/05/18/goonch-vicious-humaneating-mutant-catfish/ 

5/15/09
DAILY CONCERT
THE ANSWER'S AT THE END
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3kwRZPEX6E&feature=related 
WORLD OF STONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0U4LYBNtf4&feature=related
NEVER GET OVER YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOEC5doC4Q&feature=related
LIFE ITSELF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86PGnk9jK84&feature=related
THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EToo66wwwt4&feature=related
IF YOU BELIEVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ytLQ1cB8c&feature=related

skylines:
COW ESCAPES SLAUGHTERHOUSE, FINDS FREEDOM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/pets/detail?entry_id=40043&type=pets 

97-YEAR-OLD OAKLAND WIDOW MURDERED
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/15/BALC17KQFS.DTL&tsp=1 

HE BIKED 180 MILES TO HAVE SEX WITH FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20090515_For_teen_sex__he_biked_180_miles.html 

GREAT NEW PHOTO OF LENNON’S ‘QUARRYMEN’ FOUND
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m5d14-Previously-undiscovered-photo-of-the-Quarrymen-comes-to-light 

CAVE DWELLERS!
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-cave-house14-2009may14-pg,0,5776508.photogallery 

MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-54ef9d94feaca43957af9d2e4ddfcdd3.html 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

U.S. USING NAPALM-LIKE SUBSTANCE IN AFGHANISTAN?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/us-incendiary-weapon-in-afghanistan-revealed/ 
LINDORFF: CAUGHT IN A LIE---U.S. USING PHOSPHORUS WEAPONS IN AFGHANISTAN
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/315 
When doctors started reporting that some of the victims of the US bombing of several villages in Farah Province last week‹an attack that left between 117 and 147 civilians dead, most of them women and children‹were turning up with deep, sharp burns on their body that ³looked like² they¹d been caused by white phosphorus, the US military was quick to deny responsibility.

OBAMA OKAYS MILITARY COURTS FOR GITMO PRISONERS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5328297/Obama-to-relaunch-military-courts-for-Guantanamo-suspects.html 
Little known “Thug Squad” still brutalizing Gitmo prisoners under Obama
http://www.alternet.org/rights/140022/little_known_military_thug_squad_still_brutalizing_prisoners_at_gitmo_under_obama/ 

NEW PRISONER ABUSE PHOTOS
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5325444/New-prisoner-abuse-photographs-emerge-despite-US-bid-to-block-publication.html  

MORE ISRAEL INFLUENCE IN FED GOV’T. EXPOSED
 http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/15/gop-democratic-leader-inadvertently-expose-israeli-lobbyists-behind-their-letter-to-obama/ 

WHO IS THE WACKO WHO TRIED TO SWIM TO AUNG SUU KYI?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/5328502/Vietnam-veteran-on-spiritual-quest-lands-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-in-prison.html 

SON OF RON PAUL
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/15/ron-pauls-son-launches-exploratory-committee-for-senate-run/ 

ROBERTS: WHO RULES AMERICA?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22611.htm 
These are the same financial gangsters whose unbridled greed and utter irresponsibility have wiped out half of Americans’ retirement savings, sent the economy into a deep hole, and threatened the US dollar’s reserve currency role. It is difficult to imagine an interest group with a more damaged reputation. Yet, a majority of “the people’s representatives” voted as the discredited banksters instructed.

 CHALMERS JOHNSON ON THE COST OF EMPIRE
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090514_chalmers_johnson_on_the_cost_of_empire/ 
Why does the U.S. government maintain over 190,000 troops and 115,000 civilian employees in 909 military facilities in 46 countries and territories? How long can the American taxpayer support this far-flung force given the severely weakened economy? And why has there been no public discussion by the Obama administration over scaling back our imperial presence abroad?

Enviro Wacko
’DON’T BUY ANY FOOD YOU’VE SEEN ADVERTISED’
http://www.alternet.org/environment/140029/michael_pollan%3A_%22don%27t_buy_any_food_you%27ve_ever_seen_advertised%22/

Science
TIME TO QUIT SQUABBLING AND UNITE TO PREVENT ASTEROID STRIKE
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/05/14/who-is-responsible-for-averting-an-asteroid-strike/ 

Mashed Media
 WATCH: STEWART ON THAT MISS CALIFORNIA INSANITY
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20090513_daily_show_the_pageant_of_the_christ/?ln 

Animals in the news!
IT’S A BIRD, IT’S A PLANE, IT’S. . .SUPERRAT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/15/super-rats-infestations 
TENOR SINGS TO HIS COWS
Makes for better ice cream, he says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5329062/Ice-cream-maker-flies-in-Italian-tenor-to-sing-to-cows.html 
JAPAN NOW PREFERS MEAT TO SUSHI
Oh, that’s good for animals and the environment. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8051573.stm 
PHOTO GALLERY: THE WEEK IN WILDLIFE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/may/14/animals?picture=347384027 

People’s Repugnic
CHINA TO OPEN SEX THEME PARK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/15/china-sex-theme-park-love-land 

Oh, by the way. . .
SWEDEN HARDLY A ‘SOCIALIST NIGHTMARE’
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/05/14/sweden-hardly-a-socialist-nightmare/ 
PORN INDUSTRY DOOMED?
Guess U.S. did not grant Larry Flynt the $5 billion bailout. . .
http://www.alternet.org/sex/140012/xxx%3A_is_the_porn_industry_doomed/ 


AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

Sports
THE SECRET OF THE CURVE BALL
http://www.aip.org/isns/reports/2009/051309visualillusion.html 

Fashionism
YES, PEOPLE ARE WRITING ABOUT MICHELLE OBAMA’S VARICOSE VEINS
http://www.doublex.com/section/arts/michelle-put-some-pantyhose 

PHOTO OF THE WEEK, MONTH, MAYBE YEAR
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/scienceandtechnologypicturegall/5329723/The-crew-of-space-shuttle-Atlantis-conduct-space-walks-to-repair-the-Hubble-Telescope.html?image=7

Lost Angeles
ANOTHER PRECIOUS ELITIST L.A. NOVEL
This stuff is just really sickening. . .
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/05/beverly_hills_adjacent_th.php 
The lead characters are an insecure actor and his wife, a UCLA poetry professor "whose job. . .makes her in but not of Los Angeles, with its illogical pecking order and relentless tribal customs." Her life apparently changes when a wildly successful producer begins lavishing her with attention."
WALK TO DODGER STADIUM FOR $625,000
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/05/new_to_market_elysian_park_remodel.php

Books
IS ‘CATCHER IN THE RYE’ SEQUEL A HOAX?
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/05/15/a-sequel-to-catcher-in-the-rye-is-it-for-real/ 
ADAM KIRSCH ON NEW CHINESE POETRY ANTHOLOGY
http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=cd5b73e0-bb67-4c8c-b986-14998b4382b9
The jeweled steps are already quite
white with dew,
It is so late that the dew soaks my
gauze stockings,
And I let down the crystal curtain
And watch the moon through the
clear autumn.

TOP TEN STUPID TOM HANKS HAIRDOS!
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1898694_1898695,00.html 

Film review
ANGELS AND DEMONS
http://www.slate.com/id/2218388/ 

For Art’s Sake
DAVID HOCKNEY’S COMPUTER PAINTINGS
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/gallery/2009/may/13/david-hockney-computer-drawing?picture=347305930 

Garden Grow
CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/chelseaflowershow/ 

And in the end. . .
SWEET JOB
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5325867/Child-lands-dream-job-as-a-Swizzels-Matlow-sweet-taster.html 

hit 'refresh' for updates
5/14/09
DAILY CONCERT
A DOODLIN’ SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnvYYTb69FY 
THE DIPSY DOODLE 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXhm5euZytI 
I WONDER WHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBSGaWrEn4 
BLUE MOON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3-_ZQjbCbY 
THE DIPSY DOODLE 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA253CWb7Mw 
LOOK-A-PY-PY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36ojJymYh40
MUMBO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWsjlf4FuRY
BOUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0KWyWwVp0E 
I'LL BE FOREVER LOVING YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7xcXL1MUT0

skylines:

POLISH MONK PUBLISHES SEX GUIDE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8049853.stm 

SLUMDOG’S HOME DEMOLISHED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8049735.stm 

FROG RIPPED UP BY LAWNMOWER IS SAVED BY SURGERY
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Frog_ripped_open_by_lawnmower_stitched_back_together&in_article_id=662128&in_page_id=64 

UFO OVER BRITAIN!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/5320041/UFO-spotted-over-Bristol.html 

PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0513/ 

Morning Bollywood
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-1652948ae097e7927391e66dec9c2728.html

‘CATCHER IN THE RYE’ SEQUEL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/14/catcher-in-the-rye-sequel 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

FLASH! SANITY IN D.C.!
DRUG CZAR CALLS FOR END TO ‘WAR ON DRUGS’
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/14/white-house-drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/ 

Lost Angeles
L.A. MAG COVER: VILLARAIGOSA THE “FAILURE”
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/05/los_angeles_mag_antonio_a.php 
YESSIRREE! JUST WHAT L.A. NEEDS---
A $50 MILLION PARKING STRUCTURE
http://downtownnews.com/articles/2009/05/13/news/doc4a04c037642e9371828634.txt 
GOV. WANTS TO SELL L.A. COLISEUM TO RAISE $$
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget14-2009may14,0,5258900.story
GRAFITTI SUSPECT GRABBED---30,000 TO GO
http://downtownnews.com/articles/2009/05/13/news/doc4a09b0f793fa0469995084.txt 
Interview: Architect who built downtown’s latest useless office tower
 http://downtownnews.com/articles/2009/05/13/news/doc4a04bbd97fb6f295684246.txt 
HAHAHAHA! L.A. RIVER TO BE 'NEXT GREAT L.A. PARK?'
Yeah, love that bucolic cement
http://www.cityprojectca.org/blog/archives/1467

Enviro Wacko
COCAINE, LSD IN THE SPANISH AIR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/5324427/Cocaine-and-LSD-found-in-air-of-Spanish-cities.html 

SIX NAMES LEAKED AS OBAMA SUPREME COURT PICKS
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/six-names-leaked-obamas-scotus-nomine 

93 KIDS AMONG THOSE AFGHANIS KILLED BY U.S.
Mission accomplished!
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22603.htm 

AUNG SUU KYI’S FATE GRIM
The U.S. really should take some major action with this stupid country
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8049187.stm 
FACES FIVE YEARS IN JAIL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/5323960/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-faces-five-years-in-jail-after-uninvited-visit-from-American.html 

People’s Repugnic
LATE CHINESE LEADER CONDEMNS TIAN AN MEN MASSACRE---
IN NEWLY PUBLISHED JOURNAL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5324065/Chinese-leader-condemns-Tiananmen-massacre-from-beyond-the-grave.html 
REYNOLDS: DAY-TO-DAY LIFE IN BEIJING
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/ 
BOY’S BATTLE BACK FROM QUAKE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8046004.stm 

Mashed Media
 CARTOON: FIORE---NEW MEDIA VS. OLD
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/ 
N. KOREA WILL TRY U.S. JOURNALISTS IN JUNE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8049238.stm
 
The Torture Never Stops
 LINDORFF: OBAMA SOUNDS MORE LIKE CHENEY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/314 
Obama at this point, by covering up for official torture, and by signing on to and expanding the war in Afghanistan, is dooming his presidency, further staining the reputation of the United States, and ultimately furthering the decline of the country that was set in motion by his predecessors.
PIGBOY ROVE: PELOSI AN ‘ACCOMPLICE TO TORTURE’
Also a perpetrator---have you read her novel?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124226863721018193.html 
REPUG DEFENDS GITMO: ‘THEY GET TROPICAL BREEZES’
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/14/tropical-breezes/  

All-melty dollar
 LINDORFF: CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY DON’T GO DOWN WITH THE SHIP
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/313 
It’s a sorry spectacle that is worth remembering the next time somebody tells you that you need to be more “businesslike,” as though that’s some kind of model behavior we should all be emulating.
AFTER WOIK
http://hopehealinghelpfordownsizedworkers.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-heard-news-today-oboy.html 
GERMANY’S LEFT PARTY HEAD: ‘WE WANT TO OVERTHROW CAPITALISM”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,624880,00.html 

Animals in the news!
RARE BIRDS GET OWN BEACH
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090513-rare-bird-beach.html
ZOMBIE FIRE ANTS!
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/05/14/tactic_makes_fire_ants_headless_zombies/

Auto Motive
CAR IS POWERED BY AIR
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/14/air-powered-car-hybrid-france 
MAN BUILDS AMPHIBIOUS CAR TO GO FISHING
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/05/13/chinese-man-builds-amphibious-car/ 

Obits
TRAVIS EDMONDSON, OF “BUD AND. . .”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/arts/music/14edmonson.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries 
THE GIRL WHO NAMED PLUTO
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-venetia-phair11-2009may11,0,826837.story 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

 INTERVIEW: IS THERE TOO MUCH MUSIC?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_mccormick/blog/2009/04/09/evolution_of_music 
"I can't say whether it's healthy or not, but I can note that it is contrary to tens of thousands of years of evolution. But so are computers - new does not equal unhealthy. In fact, one could argue the contrary, that such a diverse array of easily accessible music means that we can (a) broaden and enhance our aesthetic experiences, giving us more pleasure and more meaning to our lives, and (b) find music that we really like, rather than just listening to what everyone else is.”

For Art’s Sake
JESUS IN JEANS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5318718/Jesus-in-jeans-sculpture-unveiled.html 
NICE---PAINTING OF ‘DAY JOHN MET PAUL’
WILL HANG AT CHURCH WHERE IT HAPPENED
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m5d13-Beatle-news-briefs-for-514 
‘LENNON IN NYC’
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/05/08/arts/20090509-LENNON-slideshow_index.html 
MICHELANGELO’S HIDDEN WORK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/may/13/michelangelo-torment-of-saint-anthony?picture=347322465 

Film
REPORT FROM CANNES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0513/p06s12-woeu.html 
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,624782,00.html 
TOP TEN CANNES FILMS
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1898123_1898124,00.html 
INTERVIEW: CHARLIE KAUFMAN
http://www.tobyyoung.co.uk/profiles/1142/interview_with_charlie_kaufman.html 

Books
HEMINGWAY’S LIBIDINOUS FEAST
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/hemingway 

And in the end. . .
ROPED
http://soonereyo.blip.tv/#1762059

TAKING A BRIEF HIATUS
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 hit 'refresh' for updates
5/8/09
DAILY CONCERT
GOLLIWOG'S CAKEWALK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrdhgWR9Zk
THE LITTLE NEGRO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QluiksIIfF0
GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5VkTcmQxD8
SAIL AWAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE5k2euahDI
THINKING OF MY PICKANINNY DAYS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxrR1gQcSnU
AUNT JEMIMA SINGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUw-EpBv__o
SHINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0aIWyKn83s
EL NEGRITO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZYMWkgI9ak
skylines:

 BIG BUST BUST
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1178499/BRA-VO-Victory-women-Mail-M-S-axes-big-bust-surcharge.html 
FARRAH FAWCETT LOSING CANCER BATTLE
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Bed-ridden_Farrah_can_no_longer_be_treated&in_article_id=652870&in_page_id=7 

POLANSKI TO REMAIN EXILED FROM USA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5295602/Roman-Polanskis-sex-conviction-appeal-quashed.html 

GET YOUR GOLLIWOGS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5296198/Golliwog-doll-row-breaks-out.html 

OSTLER ON MANNY RAMIREZ
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/08/SPNQ17GOIC.DTL 
In the end, nearly everyone's a loser. This will be remembered as the season of A-Rod and Manny. In related news, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown has been converted to a Costco.
 Dodgers can’t fire Ramirez
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1896882,00.html 

PEE FLAT
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Germans_wee_in_brass_instruments&in_article_id=651215&in_page_id=2

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
SWINE FLU GENES TRACED TO MASSIVE
PIG CONCENTRATION CAMP IN N. CAROLINA
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/05/swine-flu-genes-traced-to-north-carolina-hog-farm.html

MEXICO’S NEW SWINE FLU RULES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5292205/Swine-flu-Mexico-imposes-tough-new-rules.html

OBAMA’S LETTER TO FIRED MILITARY LESBIAN
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/08/obama-under-fire-as-arabic-translator-and-iraq-vet-fired-for-coming-out/ 
Related:
 Film exposes anti-gay closeted gay politicians
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/08/MNMM17GI6S.DTL 
Kirby Dick, the film's director, told The Chronicle on Thursday that "it's not only the right thing to do, it's the responsibility of journalists and filmmakers to report on hypocrisy wherever they see it. (Kirby Dick---no kidding!)
 
 LINDORFF: MORE STAND-UP FROM COMEDIAN OBAMA
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/311
First we had the president becoming First Car Salesman, offering federal guarantees for GM and Chrysler car warrantees so that potential car customers wouldn’t turn away from those two companies’ showrooms fearing that the manufacturers would go bust and leave them holding the bag.

 RACIST PRESSURE ON OBAMA FOR COURT PICK
Never mind qualifications, pick on the basis of race
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/05/08/hispanics-push-obama-for-a-supreme-court-seat/ 

Mashed Media
 LIMBAUGH’S $400 MIL SALARY (GASP) IS EVEN MATCH FOR CLEAR CHANNEL LAYOFFS
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/139891/limbaugh%27s_%24400_million_contract_is_an_even_match_for_clear_channel%27s_layoffs/ 
ADVICE FROM MOTHER TO DAUGHTER: STAY OUT OF JOURNALISM---OR NOT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dinkelspiel/index? 
GLENN BECK SECRETLY A ROBOT?
http://www.slate.com/id/2217903/

Lost Angeles
 LAPD OFFICERS NOW PAID TO DRESS, UNDRESS
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-policedress8-2009may08,0,2060482.story
$67 MIL IN BAILOUT MONEY GOES TO GOLD LINE
Sorry, that’s “Linea de oro,” as Councilmujer Gloria Molina has it
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/05/curbedwire_dogs_shamed_67_million_for_metro_gold_line.php#more 

All-melty dollar
 AMAZING: THE FREIGHTER GRAVEYARDS OF SOUTH ASIA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,623250,00.html 
UNEMPLOYMENT AT 25-YEAR HIGH (DO WE HEAR 50?)
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/us-unemployment-hits-highest-rate-since-1983-89/ 
STUPID TV TIPS ON HOW TO SAVE MONEY
 http://www.slate.com/id/2217907/ 
Like the rest of us, the stars of lifestyle programming must adjust to the recession. Today's Al Roker has highlighted budget-friendly beef dishes. The host of Rachael Ray, turning her attention to the "smartest shoppers in America," recently aired a segment on "Dollar-a-Day Dining." Just this morning, The Martha Stewart Show taught laggardly Mother's Day shoppers how to avoid shopping at all by crafting a "coupon book for Mom" from scrapbook paper.

 AFGHAN WAR COST TO TOP IRAQ NEXT YEAR
 http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/07/afghanistan-war-costs-to-top-iraq-by-2010/
Cost of Iraq occupation to date
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home 

HALF-MILLION ON THE RUN IN PAKISTAN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/07/international/i104600D34.DTL 

Democraps, Repugnicans
 JOE THE PLUMBER, HAVING ALREADY QUIT THE HUMAN RACE, QUITS REPUBLICAN PARTY
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/05/07/gop-disaster-first-specter-and-now-joe-the-plumber/ 
SPECTER USING CANCER SITE TO RAISE CAMPAIGN FUNDS
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/specter-using-cancer-research-website-to-raise-campaign-cash/ 
HAHA! GLOBAL WARMING FORCES SERRAH TO CANCEL D.C. CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/08/palin-global-warming-flood/ 
WATCH: WHAT’S PALIN’S PROBLEM?
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/countdown-whats-sarah-palins-problem 

(Lack of) Health
 WHERE HAVE ALL THE DOCTORS GONE?
http://www.slate.com/id/2217146/ 

Auto Motive
 TOYOTA POSTS LOSS, SEES WORSE AHEAD
First net loss for company since 1950!
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fiw-toyota9-2009may09,0,7872347.story 

Enviro Wacko
 ANCIENT FORESTS WHICH GAVE US THE APPLE IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/food/5294653/Ancient-forests-which-gave-us-the-apple-are-in-danger-of-extinction.htm l

Animals in the news!
 POOR ‘WHISTLING ORANG” NOW HAS CD
Funds will go for new ape enclosure, at least
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,623642,00.html 

Obit
 DOM DIMAGGIO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/08/sports/s032508D62.DTL&tsp=1
DANNY OZARK
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-danny-ozark8-2009may08,0,584296.story 

Oh, by the way. . .
 SRI LANKA DRINKS TEA---
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/05/08/sri-lanka-the-talk-is-all-tea/
---AND CHINA LIES ABOUT HONEY
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_honey_fraud.html?source=mypi 


AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

 OH MY GAWD. . .PEOPLE SPEAK KLINGON
 http://www.slate.com/id/2217815/ 

Film
 LASALLE ON ‘STAR TREK’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/07/MOR617GFVR.DTL 
More “Trek” reviews
 DARGAS:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/movies/08trek.html?ref=movies 
SRAGOW:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/bal-star-trek-review-0507,0,6929917.story 
EBERT:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090506/REVIEWS/905069997
Others:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1896513,00.html 
http://www2.seattlepi.com/articles/405993.html 

WINNERS OF SLATE’S “DEFINE BASEBALL IN 150 WORDS” CONTEST
http://www.slate.com/id/2217904/ 

BAD SEX INFO ON-LINE
 Is that info about "bad sex" or bad info about sex?
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2009/05/06/researcher-finds-bad-sex-information-online/ 

GALLERY: STRANGE TRAFFIC SIGNS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5278200/Sign-language-week-48.html 

Books
 NAPOLEON’S NOVEL SET FOR RELEASE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5293757/Napoleon-Bonaparte--the-romantic-novelist.html 
GOOD TIMES AREN’T COMING BACK, SO NOW WHAT?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/139895/the_good_times_as_we_knew_it_aren%27t_coming_back%2C_so_now_what/ 
ELEPHANTS
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/05/07/elephant-reflections/ 

For Art’s Sake
 JELLO WORLD
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/scavenger/detail?blogid=111&entry_id=39743 

And in the end. . .
 AN ENGINEER’S GUIDE TO CATS
http://www.moderncat.net/2008/04/23/an-engineers-guide-to-cats/ 

5/7/09
DAILY CONCERT
GET TOGETHER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4fWN6VvgKQ
WHEN I GET HOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Yyza4MH-Y
WHAT YOU GOT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06_foAyawlM
GET BACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6G7MkBMVxE
COME AND GET IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ignPJYr31yU
SOMETHING IN THE AIR (GET IT TOGETHER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAXKIKehbc
TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS (GOT TUH GOT TUH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dael4sb42nI
JOHN SINCLAIR (GOT TUH GOT TUH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86odkrzboyw
GET UP STAND UP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMlHdxiIZ8
GOTTA FIND MY BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fT27oah0lw 
GOTTA BE ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbLlCxK0pHY

skylines:
 YOKO SENDS ACORNS TO THE OBAMAS
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m5d6-Beatle-news-briefs-for-57 

52 PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY WANTS POT LEGAL
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/07/poll-majority-of-americans-support-legalizing-marijuana/

PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0506/

HUMANS REALLY NEED TO HAVE SOME FREEDOMS REVOKED
http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2009/05/please-stop-hurting-the-cardboard-box-scary-wolverine-claw-man.html 

Dept. of Titland Security
DISNEY STOPS BREAST SURVEILLANCE
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1895892,00.html 

FIORE: PURIFY YOUR PARTY WITH RIGHT-WING RALPHIE!
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/ 


AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

 THERE’S NO AMMO ON THE SHELVES
http://www.alternet.org/story/139872/there%27s_no_ammo_on_the_shelves_--_is_it_the_gun_nuts%27_fear_of_obama-lypse/ 

War in error
 400,000 STILL ON ‘TERROR WATCHLIST’
Including author of book on Rove
 http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/06/terrorist-watchlist-exceeds-400000/

ROVE ‘RATTLED’ BY OBAMA---CARLSON
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/06/margaret-carlson-rove-really-rattled-by-obama/ 

EARLY SMEARS ON RUMORED SUPREME COURT PICK
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/07/sotomayor-attacks/ 

MAN SWIMS LAKE TO VISIT AUNG SUU KYI
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/5290058/US-man-swam-Burmese-lake-to-see-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.html 

The Torture Never Stops
 BYBEE WANTS TO TELL HIS SIDE OF THE STORY
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/07/bybee-nevada-delegation/
LINDORFF: BYBEE AND THE STAIN ON THE LEGAL SYSTEM
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/310 

Mashed Media
 SMALL COMMUNITY PAPERS ARE DOING WELL
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0506/p09s01-coop.html 
MURDOCH: PROFITS DOWN. . .BUT WAIT---FOX SAYS PROFITS UP
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/07/murdoch-fox-news-earnings/ 
MURDOCH TO CHARGE FOR NEWSPAPER WEBSITES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/07/rupert-murdoch-charging-websites 

U.S. WIPES OUT 100 AFGHAN CIVILIANS
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22558.htm 

People’s Repugnic
 REYNOLDS: A CASE OF STOLEN IDENTITY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/ 
ORIGIN OF OLYMPICS’ GIANT ALGAE FOUND
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8026000/8026847.stm 

KLEIN: POOREST ARE PAYING FOR BANK BAILOUT
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/07/naomi-klein-poorest-most-vulnerable-paying-for-bank-bailouts/ 

COLLINS: BRISTOL PALIN’S NEW GIG
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/opinion/07collins.html?em 

Animals in the news!
 DUMPED DOGS TURN TO CANNIBALISM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8037635.stm 

Science
 POTTER’S CLOAK? NO, BUT IT’S STILL INVISIBLE
http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/05/05/harry-potters-cloak-no-but-its-still-invisible/ 

Auto Motive
 PORSCHE FAILS TO SWALLOW VW
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,623423,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
 NEW GENERATION OF GHANDIS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,623441,00.html 
CYPRUS FINALLY TO FIND PEACE?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0507/p06s01-woeu.html 
SF AIRPORT TO INSTALL “LIE-PODS”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/07/MN4H17G0L6.DTL 
HAWAII’S ‘GENTLE VOLCANO’ TURNS DANGEROUS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090506-hawaii-volcano.html 

Obit
 ‘SAVE THE CHIMPS’ FOUNDER CAROLE NOON
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/science/07noon.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

And in more important matters. . .

67-YEAR-OLD DYLAN TOPS THE CHARTS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8037386.stm
DYLAN WANTS TO WORK WITH. . .PAUL MCCARTNEY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/07/bob-dylan-paul-mccartney 

Books
 WATCH OUT, OPRAH---OBAMA IS BOOKSELLER-IN-CHIEF
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/05/05/obama-as-bookseller-in-chief/ 

Film
 BACK TO THE FINAL FRONTIER
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1893488,00.html 
POTTER’S HOUSE OF SEASHELLS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5291037/Harry-Potter-And-The-Deathly-Hallows-mystery-cottage-on-beach-in-Wales.html 

A NIGERIAN FINDS: AMERICANS HATE PUNS
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/ArtsandCulture/Books/5409495-147/story.csp 

HUNTING THE ARISTOCRAT OF BUTTERFLIES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/may/02/duke-burgundy-rarest-british-butterflies

Hey, Be-attle!
 AN ORAL HISTORY OF BEATLEMANIA
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595800328?ie=UTF8&tag=abbeyrdsbeatlesp&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1595800328 
BEATLES TUBE
http://beatlestube.net 

Where ya goin’?
 MENDOCINO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/03/TRUV174204.DTL&type=travel 
Accompanying music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIgnPAl5eI

And in the end. . .
 BATHING BUDDHA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,623258,00.html
VOLCANO BOARDING!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5291271/Boarders-surf-down-active-volcano.html 

5/6/09
DAILY CONCERT
FOLDIN' BED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iXzIvN4JI4
MY OHIO HOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj_2LRvUqEU
NO JOB BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXc92D_Qqw
MONKEY AND THE BABOON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UGH0JpN_dU
BLACK ACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qck-s79efuw 
WHISTLIN' ALEX MOORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW6sogeADRM
 skylines:
 WATCH: DICK CHENEY---HOW’D HE DO?
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/05/letterman-turns-tables-on-cheney-howd-he-do/ 

MISS CALIFORNIA TOPLESS!
So this is what a devout Christian looks like!
http://thedirty.com/2009/05/05/exclusive-image-miss-california-carrie-prejean-exposed/ 
http://rawstory.com/news/2009/05/05/nbc-miss-california-embroiled-in-topless-photos-scandal/ 

MOST CALIFORNIANS WANT POT LEGAL
http://rawstory.com/news/2009/05/05/poll-finds-for-first-time-majority-in-calif-support-legal-marijuana/ 
Schwarzenegger: time to debate legalization
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/05/05/dude-schwarzenegger-says-its-time-to-debate-marijuana/

AFGHANISTAN’S ONLY PIG QUARANTINED!
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5444XQ20090505 

LATEST JACKASS THRILL MACHINE---THE SCARPAR
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Board_stupid?_Go_get_some_tracks&in_article_id=646648&in_page_id=34 

SHOCKER! HIGH SCHOOL KIDS GO A WEEK WITHOUT ELECTRONIC DEVICES!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez6-2009may06,0,6709880.column


AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

 BILLBOARDS CRITICIZING ISRAEL TAKEN DOWN UNDER PRESSURE
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/04/billboards-criticizing-us-aid-to-israel-taken-down-under-pressure.html

AIPAC VS. THE WHITE HOUSE
Israel continues to try to set U.S. policy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/06/us-israel-palestinians-middle-east 

HARMAN FINDS WIGGLE ROOM IN AIPAC CONSPIRACY ACCUSATIONS
http://www.scpr.org/news/stories/2009/05/04/19_jane_harman_1_050409.html 
”I have absolutely no memory of anything like that happening. I am clear about one thing, which is that never in my long career ever have I intervened for leniency in some act of prosecution on behalf of anybody anywhere. So that never happened.”

 GIRALDI: IGNORE AIPAC AT AMERICA’S PERIL
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/05/04/ignore-aipac-at-americas-peril/ 
What do Charles Freeman and Jane Harman have in common? Nothing, apart from the fact that they are both involved in the truly ugly side of the Israel lobby’s activity in the United States and, for that reason, had their stories dropped by the mainstream media in record time.

 STEIN: AIPAC VICTORY---GAME, SET, MATCH
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000003108925&parm1=1 
Now, have no doubt about it: Israeli agents are busy stealing American industrial, technical and military secrets — witness the spy Jonathan Pollard — and tapping into its telecommunications lines through myriad avenues.

The Torture Never Stops
 U.S. INTERROGATORS MURDERED DOZENS
---HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/06/us-interrogators-killed-dozens-human-rights-researcher-and-rights-group-say/ 
GONZALEZ: TORTURE MORE!
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=53955&s2=06

Mashed Media
 WATCH: HOW FOX MANIPULATES THE NEWS
 See the Fox News cut of stories, followed by full video it did not screen
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/139820/busted%3A_fox_news_caught_repeatedly_cropping%2C_manipulating_video/ 

All-melty dollar
 PSST—HEY, BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A $34 BILLION?
BofA needs it. . .
 http://rawstory.com/afp/2009/05/06/bank-of-america-needs-at-least-339-bln/ 

HEDGES: BUYING BRAND OBAMA
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090503_buying_brand_obama/ 
Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers.
 RELATED: THE WOMAN WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO BRAND OBAMA
http://magazine.wsj.com/features/the-big-interview/desiree-rogers/ 
If there’s one thing Desirée Rogers and Desirée Rogers’ staff want you to know—and will keep reminding you until you get it—it’s that the president and Michelle Obama plan to open up the White House and once again make it the “people’s house.” They want to create an environment where average Americans might stop by and catch the first lady serving homemade huckleberry cobbler and caramel ice cream to students, tending to the vegetable garden on the South Lawn or watching the romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You” with her girlfriends.

Must read
 STEVENSON: ANTI-EDUCATION DUMBS DOWN AMERICANS
http://gaia-health.com/articles/000050-Education-Dumb-Americans.shtml 
What are Americans good at? Buying, of course. Having the latest and greatest of. . .well, of anything and everything, as long as the media tell them they should have it. It's how Americans measure themselves, how they determine their success. Who cares if someone can carry on a good conversation about the state of the world? Who even wants to listen? It's so depressing. Let's talk about the cool super-fast car that Joe just bought or the fancy house Jim and Mary are getting for no money down!
 ACCOMPANYING VIDEO: A SHORT HISTORY OF AMERICA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ym5n-ZZWUs

RAIMUNDO: JON STEWART---WIMP, MORAL COWARD
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/05/jon-stewart-wimp-wuss-moral-coward/ 
No, Stewart had apparently thought this one out, at least to some extent, because when May asked him if he thought Truman was a war criminal for nuking two Japanese cities, he didn’t just say "Yes" – he went into a whole riff about how, if we had first demonstrated the power of this new weapon on an uninhabited atoll somewhere, and then informed the Japanese government that they’d better surrender, or else that would happen in Japan, then and only then would it be okay to drop the Big One. The audience cheered him on, as he took apart the frenetically hysterical May, whose ferret-like features and organizational affiliations make him the perfect spokesman for a policy described by Stewart as "temporary insanity." Yet, a few days later, Stewart was back to the same subject, minus the rabid ferret, this time reversing his stance – and apologizing for calling the little haberdasher a war criminal.

WATCH: MCGOVERN SAYS OBAMA FACES LBJ-LIKE LEGACY OVER AFGHANISTAN
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/139816/mcgovern_warns_obama_of_lbj_legacy_in_afghanistan/ 
Concerns echoed by Rep. David Obey
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/432820/obey_issues_a_vietnam_warning?rel=hp_picks 

BASKETBALL PLAYER ELECTED DETROIT MAYOR
Could be worse. . .he could be a politician
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1896433,00.html 

Democraps
 SPECTER STRIPPED OF SENIORITY
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/05/senate_democrats_deny_specter.html?hpid=topnews 
Without any assurance of seniority, Specter loses a major weapon in his campaign to win reelection in 2010: the ability to claim that his nearly 30 years of Senate service places him in key positions to benefit his constituents.

 Repugnicans
 Rep. Pence: ‘I don’t believe in global warming, stem cell research, or evolution’
But he b’leeves in Jay-zuhs!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/05/pence-evolution-global-warming/ 
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/hardball-pence-wont-say-whether-he-believes-evolution 

Enviro Wacko
 HERE’S SOME NICE NEWS---SPIDERS GETTING BIGGER!
Eeeek
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090505-spiders-bigger-global-warming.html 

Oink
 DRIVING THROUGH EMPTY TIJUANA
http://www.alternet.org/story/139829/driving_through_an_empty_tijuana_in_the_midst_of_the_swine_flu/
 
 Animals in the news!
 VILE WOMAN CLAIMS TO KILL ELEPHANT ON A BET
—WITH BOW AND ARROW
 May she meet an unfortunate hunting accident very soon
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Female_archer_kills_elephant_for_a_bet&in_article_id=648555&in_page_id=64 
DOG SAVES MAN FROM MOUNTAIN LION ATTACK
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-mountain-lion6-2009may06,0,2968503.story 

Technically
 ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE COMPUTERS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8032886.stm

Science
 THE ASTOUNDING NANO-NEEDLE
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428124353.htm

Obit
 DOM DELUISE
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dom-deluise6-2009may06,0,1061426.story 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

 OBAMA TO TRACE FAMILY HISTORY IN GERMANY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,623130,00.html 

Musique
 OSLO’S SLEEK NEW OPERA HOUSE
http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5217&issueID=333 

BOXING MOM SEEKS RECORD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8034421.stm 

Cheap gossip about unimportant assholes
 KEIFER SUTHERLAND HEADBUTTS FASHION DESIGNER
Well done!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5282950/Keifer-Sutherland-headbutted-fashion-designer.html 
THE NEW-LOOK RICHARD BRANSON!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5283129/Richard-Branson-is-covered-in-tattoos.html

Stupid serious article of the week
 WHY IS THE PENIS SHAPED LIKE THAT?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secrets-of-the-phallus 

For Art’s Sake
 REMEMBERING DIANE ARBUS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/photography/5250229/Diane-Arbus-a-flash-of-familiarity.html

Where ya goin’?
 BLOOMIN’ DUBLIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/5283750/Dublin-the-perfect-break.html

And in the end. . .
 JACARANDAS
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=jacaranda&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi 


hit 'refresh' for updates
5/5/09
DAILY CONCERT
WITCH DOCTOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ats_GSLVOmc 
GOOD LOVIN'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUY1LvNX3Io
COVER OF THE ROLLING STONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XzGOZHYdA
DR. JOHN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4OVqVXvg_Q
LIME IN THE COCONUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxC3M-Yngs
DOCTOR, MY EYES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCTYxIsLThA
BLACK MOUNTAIN RAG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdUrg2Cqxdw
skylines:
FRANK’S GRILL CLOSES AFTER 50 YEARS
The Rip Post staff used to order burgers there, when they were small posts
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/may/05/franks-char-broiler-closes-suddenly-in-to/ 

MORNING BOLLYWOOD!
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/movie-uk-4f93926b64a0c03eb4bb86dc0bedf722.html

Joe the Plumber: watch out for queers!
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/05/joe-the-plumber-i-wont-let-queers-near-my-children-and-they-know-it/ 

MICHAEL SAVAGE BANNED FROM ENTERING ENGLAND
Now if he can be banned from entering the USA. . .
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/05/michael-savage-fred-phelps-banned-from-entering-britain/

LAKERS DON’T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE A CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke-lakers5-2009may05,0,881984.column  

CONDILLUSIONS
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/05/cartoon_condillusions.html 

Lost Angeles
 TOO CROWDED? WIDEN THE STREETS!
SUNSET IS THE LATEST HIT WITH THIS MADNESS
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/05/in_their_own_words_homeowners_on_sunset_widening.php

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

 OUTRAGEOUS: FOX NEWS SHOWS
RIFLE POINTED AT OBAMA, JESSE JACKSON
Fox hierarchy should be arrested for making terrorist threats
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/buy-one-get-two-free/ 

NRA TO GIVE SARAH PALIN AN M-4 ASSAULT RIFLE
This country is sooooooooooooo demented
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/sarahs-getting-a-gun/

RAIMUNDO: THE ISRAELI SPIES WHO GOT AWAY
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/03/the-spies-who-got-away/
After five years of legal maneuvering and orchestrated protests from the Lobby’s amen corner, Israel’s point men in Washington have finally succeeded in their efforts to quash the prosecution of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who had been charged with committing espionage on behalf of Israel. It is a victory that not only signals the continuation of the Lobby’s dominance in Washington, in spite of growing popular revulsion against lobbyists in general, but also gives the Israelis a blank check to spy on their American patrons to their hearts’ content.

HOMELAND SECURITY HAS MET THE TERRORISTS, AND THEY IS US
Nordic mystics, Mexican separatists, etc., but. . .what about gangs?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-30/who-you-calling-an-extremist/ 
Nordic boom in biker gangs
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0504/p06s10-woeu.html 

Oink
FRESTON: SWINE FLU NO MYSTERY---
COMES FROM CRUEL, CORPORATE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS
http://www.alternet.org/environment/139803/are_we_so_addicted_to_meat_that_we_can%27t_see_where_the_swine_flu_came_from_/ 
I must admit that this does feel like a wake-up call: Are we really so addicted to eating meat (even as we demand that meat be inexpensive, meat processors want to make more money, which means faster, meaner ways of raising and slaughtering animals for food) that we're willing to risk the millions who could die from such mutating viruses? Has our desire for gustatory pleasure at any cost pushed us into terrible consequences as we creep toward an ugly future? The "big one" may not be this particular version of the flu, but scientists say we have not seen the last of H1N1; not by a long shot.
 ‘PREMATURE’ TO ASSUME SWINE FLU VIRUS IS MILD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5276982/Swine-flu-premature-to-assume-virus-is-mild-warns-Sir-Liam-Donaldson.html 
FLU VIRUS “PARALYZES” IMMUNE SYSTEM
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504141843.htm 
NEW, FAST-EVOLVING RABIES VIRUS FOUND, SPREADING
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090504-rabies-evolution.html 

Jesus H. Christ!
 AMERICAN TROOPS RECRUITING FOR JESUS
Chaplains skirt “no proselytizing” rule with free bibles
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/04/soldiers-hunt-for-jesus/ 
OHMYGOD! 40 MILLION ‘SECULAR HUMANISTS’ IN THE USA! WE’RE DOOMED!
http://www.alternet.org/rights/139788/40_million_nonbelievers_in_america_the_secret_is_almost_out/ 

ESCOBAR: NO TALIBAN THREAT TO PAKISTAN GOV’T.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22542.htm
At least 55% of Pakistan's 170 million-strong population are Punjabis. There's no evidence they are about to embrace Talibanistan; they are essentially Shi'ites, Sufis or a mix of both. Around 50 million are Sindhis - faithful followers of the late Benazir Bhutto and her husband, now President Asif Ali Zardari's centrist and overwhelmingly secular Pakistan People's Party. Talibanistan fanatics in these two provinces - amounting to 85% of Pakistan's population, with a heavy concentration of the urban middle class - are an infinitesimal minority.

 LINDORFF: RUMSFELD ORDERED TORTURE OF JOHN WALKER LINDH
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/309 

MILNE: THE MONSTROUS CRIME OF INVADING IRAQ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/01/iraq-britain-inquiry 

All-melty dollar
 INTERVIEW: GOLDMAN SACHS CEO DIBELIUS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,622951,00.html 
SPIEGEL: Perhaps greed is part of the genetic code of bankers.
Dibelius: If greed is hereditary, then that applies to everyone, not just bankers.
 OBAMA TARGETS OFFSHORE TAX HAVENS
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/05/04/obama-targets-tax-havens-and-corporate-america-shudders/ 

Repugnicans
 REPUG CRAZIES ‘UNPREPARED’ TO MAKE HEALTH CARE CONCESSIONS TO OBAMA
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/05/bipartisanship-health-care-gop/ 
PALIN JUST WON’T GO AWAY, WILL SHE. . .
 http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/sarah-palin-be-part-national-council-ne 

Mashed Media
 COKIE ROBERTS: THE BIGGEST WASTE OF TIME ON NPR
Remember, this woman ignores the Internet
http://www.slate.com/id/2216890/ 
CRUSADING NEWSPAPER BROKE SWINE FLU STORY
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-fg-flu-oaxaca5-2009may05,0,1361456.story 
NPR MARRIES TWITTER
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/05/04/when-newspaper-archives-meet-twitter/
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/nprbackstory-finding-value-in-news-archives-through-automation/ 
WILL THE KINDLE SAVE THE NEWSPAPER?
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/05/04/could-amazon-save-the-newspaper-not-by-itself/ 
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1895737,00.html

People’s Repugnic
 BEST-SELLING BOOK SAYS BEIJING SHOULD LEAD THE WORLD
 Beijing can’t even lead China. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5071299/Unhappy-China-bestseller-claims-Beijing-should-lead-the-world.html 
WHAT’S UP WITH CHINESE PEOPLE HAVING ENGLISH NAMES?
http://www.slate.com/id/2217001/ 

Technically
 NEW SOFTWARE COULD TRUMP GOOGLE
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/an-invention-that-could-change-the-internet-for-ever-1678109.html 

Oh, by the way. . .
 ELIZ. EDWARDS: HOW I SURVIVED JOHN’S AFFAIR
Yes, but how did you survive John?
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1895709,00.html 
HOW TO BUY AN ECO-FRIENDLY MATTRESS
http://www.slate.com/id/2217596/ 
WATCH: WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED?
”Like being buried alive”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2009/may/05/miscarriages-of-justice
 
 AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

 WHAT YOUR FAVORITE DEAD SONG SAYS ABOUT YOU
 http://www.slate.com/id/2217149/ 
One wants to salute the Dead for not just playing the old favorites, though that sentiment faded for this fan around the nine-minute mark of the drum-heavy psychedelic dirge "King Solomon's Marbles." Given that the band isn't shying away from some of its more—how to put this?—"challenging" material on this tour, it's a good time to assess where you fall in the spectrum of Deadheadedness.

 Film
‘WOLVERINE’ IS RIDICULOUS
http://www.slate.com/id/2217342/

For Art’s Sake
 WHO CUT OFF VAN GOGH’S EAR?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5274073/Van-Goghs-ear-was-cut-off-by-friend-Gauguin-with-a-sword.html 
THE MURALS OF THE SF MISSION DISTRICT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/05/05/BAN3172ACH.DTL&o= 
VIETNAM MUSEUM RIDDLED WITH FRAUDS
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1895737,00.html 

Hey, Be-attle!
 DYLAN PLAYS LIVERPOOL, TOURS LENNON’S CHILDHOOD HOME
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m5d4-Beatles-news-briefs-for-55 

WATCH: JOHN CLEESE TALKS ABOUT ‘FAWLTY TOWERS’
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2009/may/01/john-cleese-fawlty-towers 

Animals in the news!
 WATCH: THE LAST MOUNTAIN GORILLAS AND THEIR PROTECTORS
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/05/04/video-the-last-mountain-gorillas-and-their-protectors/
BABY GORILLA BONDS WITH SURROGATE MOM IN SF ZOO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/05/BAKO17EB13.DTL 

Books
 TOLKIEN HAS NEW BEST-SELLER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/5278837/Tolkien-book-is-posthumous-best-seller.html 
THE JAMES FAMILY
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1576/article_detail.asp 

Where ya goin’?
 MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/sunandsea/mediterranean-island-guide/ 

And in the end. . .
 SUSHI
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/05/04/jackie-chan-worlds-largest-sushi-roll/ 

hit 'refresh' for updates
5/1/09
DAILY CONCERT
THELONIOUS MONK---EPISTROPHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2s6LZUdYaU
GYUTO MONKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsUkrooRSQY
THELONIOUS MONK---BLUE MONK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY
GREGORIAN MONKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnUpV7iuL10
THELONIOUS MONK---DON'T BLAME ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyoHb2eEgaA
CRAZY MONKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7wc55oXWf8
GYUTO MONKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKjk8TCMXaA
THE CHIPMUNCKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXhuvxMTNOE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpi74DMtSMM

skylines:
 YOUNG SUSAN BOYLE
http://www.metro.co.uk/video/videoPlayer.html?inMediaId=37975&in_page_id=1 

TOY PARROT TELLS GIRL TO F--- OFF
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Toy_parrot_tells_girl,_5,_to_b****r_off&in_article_id=644577&in_page_id=2 

BRAZIL WANTS TO NAME HIV CARRIERS ON-LINE
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/01/brazil-hiv-rio-aids-identification

HEY, KIDS! FEMA PRESENTS. . .THE 9/11 COLORING BOOK!
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/30/fema-removes-911-coloring-book-for-children-from-website/ 

FUNGI REPATRIATED
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/chinese-fungi-repatriated/index.html 

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS LIZARD SPOCK
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-153 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

 CHARGES AGAINST ACCUSED
ISRAEL SPIES TO BE DROPPED
Now why is this no surprise?
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/01/charges-against-israeli-lobbyists-to-dropped/ 

AT LEAST ONE TOWN CAN’T WAIT FOR CHRYSLER TO LEAVE
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/05/01/one-town-that-cant-wait-for-chrysler-to-leave/ 

FAMILY QUESTIONS DEATH OF ROVE GURU KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/30/gop-it-gurus-sisters-question-events-surrounding-his-death/ 

America the beautiful
RIGHT-WING GUN NUTS SHARE THEIR WORLD VIEW
http://www.alternet.org/story/139018/armed_revolt_in_the_obama_era_right-wing_gun_nuts_share_their_paranoid_worldview/ 
They warned that the president's power grab would only begin with mass gun seizures. "If Obama takes away our guns," a young, .45-caliber-pistol-toting man from Reno told me, "it's just a step into trying to take away everything else." (Good idea!)

Oink
 MEXICO IN FIVE-DAY FLU SHUTDOWN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8028169.stm
HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS CLOSE IN TEXAS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/health/01flu.html?em 
SWINE FLU NAME CHANGE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090501/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu_name 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/health/01name.html?_r=1 
EGYPT STUPIDLY WIPES OUT POOR PIGS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/health/01egypt.html?em 
BIDEN MAKES REASONABLE STATEMENTS ABOUT FLU---UPSETS EVERYONE
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/30/biden-manages-to-anger-everyone-over-bad-flu-advice/ 
MEXICO CRUISE SHIPS ALL HEAD TO SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/01/BU7I17CGOP.DTL 
TALK SHOW HOST BLAMES FLU SPREAD ON ‘LEECHES’ FROM MEXICO
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/30/severin-immigrants-racist/ 

Lost Angeles
 MAY DAY ‘IMMIGRATION’ RALLIES FOR DOWNTOWN
Make that ‘illegal immigration’ rallies
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rallies1-2009may01,0,7459575.story 
STILL MORE DEATH BY DENSITY
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/curbedwire_medallion_project_rising_bel_air_monster.php 

All-melty dollar
 MEN HIT HARDEST BY JOB LOSS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,622373,00.html 

Mashed Media
 BOSTON GLOBE SINKING SLOWLY IN THE EAST
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/01/as-deadline-looms-will-ny-times-shut-down-boston-globe/ 
LA TIMES CALLS INTERNET “THE INTERWEB”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/04/swine-flu-conspiracy.html 
FORMER LAT EDITOR TURNS TO JELLY
http://ellellekitchen.com/
8 DAYS OF SILENCE SINCE HANNITY VOLUNTEERED TO BE WATERBOARDED
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/01/hannity-chicken/ 

JOHN DEAN: CONDI MAY HAVE ADMITTED CONSPIRACY
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/01/john-dean-rice-may-have-admitted-to-conspiracy/ 
“She tried to say she didn’t authorize anything, then proceeded to say she did pass orders along to the CIA to engage in torture if it was legal by the standard of the Department of Justice,” Dean said. “This really puts her right in the middle of a common plan, as it’s known in international law, or a conspiracy, as it’s known in American law, and this indeed is a crime. If it indeed happened the way we think it did happen.”

 MORFORD: HOW CRAZY IS THE RIGHT WING? THIS CRAZY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/05/01/notes050109.DTL 
The list, as they say, goes on. Witness every utterance of Michele Bachmann, see the new GOP promotional video featuring a burning Pentagon and Obama touching Hugo Chavez, or tremble in fear at a special Fox News report on how the SuperDevil is currently terrorizing Christian children with adulterous marmalade. I am so not kidding.

 Enviro Wacko
 NOW WHAT GOOD WILL IT DO TO SATIRIZE ‘GREEN’ ADVOCATES?
 Mike Judge, you’re a butt-head
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/may/01/goode-family-cartoon 
WALLACE AND GROMIT’S FAVORITE CHEESEMAKER GOES GREEN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/5257193/Wallace-and-Gromits-favourite-cheesemakers-goes-green.html 

(Lack of) Health
 WHITE TEA FIGHTS OBESITY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5255134/Ancient-Chinese-white-tea-may-fight-obesity.html 

Oh, by the way. . .
 MEET THE WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY---
DESCENDANT OF VOODOO PRIESTESS
http://magazine.wsj.com/features/the-big-interview/desiree-rogers/
If there’s one thing Desirée Rogers and Desirée Rogers’ staff want you to know—and will keep reminding you until you get it—it’s that the president and Michelle Obama plan to open up the White House and once again make it the “people’s house.” They want to create an environment where average Americans might stop by and catch the first lady serving homemade huckleberry cobbler and caramel ice cream to students, tending to the vegetable garden on the South Lawn or watching the romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You” with her girlfriends.

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

 People’s Repugnic

 REMEMBERING A BRAVE WOMAN POET WHO DEFIED MAO
And did not live to tell about it
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0501/p06s01-woap.html 
Lin Zhao asked the same question – in the time of Mao Zedong. I discovered Ms. Lin – an extraordinary individual by any reckoning – in my last months as a Monitor correspondent in Beijing. She was a prophetic voice, a thinker, a Vaclav Havel of China who believed deeply in the reality of what she called "truth."
She was executed in 1968 at the age of 36, probably by the order of Mao. She remains virtually unknown in her country.

 Books
 CHIANG KAI-SHEK, REVISED
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042303315.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 
Taylor reveals intriguing details, such as Chiang's decades-long secret communications, after his 1949 defeat, with Mao's No. 2, Zhou Enlai. He describes Mao receiving instructions and trunks full of Mexican silver dollars from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin -- without which, Taylor argues, the fabled Long March probably would have been impossible. He debunks the view that Chiang's entire military record was one of abject failure and sheds fresh light on Chiang's ties to the United States during the Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. Chiang strenuously warned President Lyndon B. Johnson against being drawn into the latter war. And Taylor adds depth and detail to the saga of the 1970s U.S.-China détente and Washington's eventual recognition of Beijing, describing how Chiang concealed his bitter loathing of President Richard Nixon.
IN (DUBIOUS) PRAISE OF THE EXCLAMATION POINT!!!!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/29/exclamation-mark-punctuation 
There are lots of people these days with figurative underpants on their heads. That's because in the internet age, the exclamation mark is having a renaissance. In a recent book, Send: The Essential guide to Email for Office and Home, David Shipley and Will Schwalbe make a defence of exclamation marks. They write, for instance, "'I'll see you at the conference' is a simple statement of fact. 'I'll see you at the conference!' lets your fellow conferee know that you're excited and pleased about the event ... 'Thanks!!!!'", they contend, "is way friendlier than 'Thanks'."

 Film
 PROFILE: SACHA BARON COHEN
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/sacha-baron-cohen-the-men-in-his-life-1675107.html 
It's been a while, now, since this ludicrously talented British comedian burst onto the scene. A decade since his character Ali G first demonstrated that you can make highly intelligent people say incredibly revealing things by asking them the stupidest questions imaginable. Three years since his Kazakhstani alter ego, Borat, toured Middle America exposing staggering levels of misogyny, anti-Semitism, and public ignorance. But now he's back. This summer, Baron Cohen will complete his trio of "mockumentary" films with a movie following the flamboyant exploits of Brüno, an outrageously camp fashion reporter from Klagenfurt, whose "MeinSpace" page proudly declares: "If I vas a Starbucks drink, ich vould be a tall, skinny Austrian mit a great personality und a really big brains."

Musique
 INTERVIEW: KEITH RICHARDS ON THE BLUES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/01/keith-richards-blues 
REVIEWED: MINI-OPERA, SHOW BY THE DEAD
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/altercation/431762?rel=hp_picks
ANOTHER DEAD REVIEW
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/arts/music/30dead.html?ref=arts

TeeVee
 GOODMAN: WHY DOES HIDEOUSLY UNFUNNY SNL ENDURE?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/01/DD3C17BJO7.DTL&type=entertainment 

And in the end. . .
 GROOVING BIRDS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5252413/Birds-can-dance-in-time-to-music.html 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430121936.htm 


4/30/09
DAILY CONCERT
MONKEY DOODLE DO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyqO8KUMd78
APE CALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrlBwe59CZ4
TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsK1OPt_tTI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXXy8EMEEM
MICKEY'S MONKEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpLVyZVRw3w
MONKEES, JOHNNY CASH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLu9Pr0_JuU 
MONKEES: HEAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOI-SDYGviM
TOM WAITS: LOWDOWN MONKEY BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXraRRtOQ_g
GYUTO MONKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qldyl2DB5CE

OCTOPUSSY QUESTIONED BY COPS OVER CHILD ABUSE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5250854/Octuplets-mother-questioned-over-son-with-black-eye.html 

WIFE CHIDES BERLUSCONI FOR ‘SHOWGIRL CANDIDATES’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8026437.stm 

PENNS TO DIVORCE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8026220.stm 

CONGRESSMAN READS LONG LIST OF SEX ACTS
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/30/congressman-reads-longest-list-of-sex-acts-on-house-floor/

ALMONDJOYAD STEALS OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN SLOGAN
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/04/29/ahmadinejad-steals-obamas-campaign-slogan/ 

PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0429/ 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

America the Beautiful
GEORGIA GOV CANDIDATE HAD SEX WITH MULE,
WANTS ABORTION DOCTORS SHOT
“I’ll kill my own son to secede”
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/30/candidate-for-georgia-governorship-says-hed-kill-his-own-son-to-secede/ 
We are not, sad to say, making this stuff up.
HOW INSANE IS THIS DUMBASS NATION? THIS INSANE. . .
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47283


BIDEN: AVOID SUBWAYS, TRAINS
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/30/white-house-backtracks-after-biden-says-to-avoid-trains-subways-over-flu/ 
HERE COME THE SWINE FLU E-MAIL SCAMS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gurley/detail?entry_id=39379&tsp=1 
HUH? SWINE FLU IS RELATIVELY MILD---SCIENTISTS
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-swine-reality30-2009apr30,0,3606923.story 
WHAT STATE OF EMERGENCY?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/30/california-state-emergency-swine-flu 
WHO: ‘ALL HUMANITY UNDER THREAT’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5247242/Swine-flu-All-of-humanity-under-threat-WHO-warns.html 
SWINE FLU DISCUSSION IN THE NEWSROOM. . .MAYBE
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/swine_flu_strikes_the_new.php

Auto Motive
WAVE GOODBYE TO CHRYSLER, KIDS---
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/business/01auto.html?ref=business 
---WHOOPS, MAYBE NOT---
CANADA, U.S. GIVE BANKRUPT AUTOMAKER $10.5 BILLION
 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aqGtF27fAJHA&refer=canada
A pictorial history of classic Chryslers
 http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/chrysler.htm 

LINDORFF: OBAMA CUTS SPECTER TOO MUCH SLACK
 http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/307
Now is the time that President Obama should be demanding that Specter back the key elements of his program. Now is also the time that progressives and labor activists in Pennsylvania should be letting Sen. Specter know that if he wants their support in 2010, he will have to support our issues. That means full-throated backing for EFCA, and for a single-payer health plan for America.

Lost Angeles
IF MY NEIGHBORS ARE GUNNED DOWN, CAN I BREAK MY LEASE?
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/ask_curbed_if_my_neighbors_are_gunned_down_on_my_doorstep_can_i_break_my_lease.php 
1 DEAD, FIVE HURT IN TACO TRUCK SHOOTING
Good old Tijuana---I mean, L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-taco-truck-shooting1-2009may01,0,5638554.story 

Enviro Wacko
PLANET EARTH: TOO BIG TO FAIL?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090511/radford?rel=hp_currently
Make no mistake: this is hardball. But for better or worse, hardball is what it's going to take to solve the climate crisis, create a green economy and meet the president's healthcare goals. At the end of the day, President Obama can't afford to let Congress set the schedule--or unilaterally decide the fate of the planet.

The Torture Never Stops
OBAMA: WATERBOARDING IS TORTURE
And it’s torture to have listened to this debated for years. . .
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/29/obama-i-believe-that-waterboarding-was-torture/ 
CONDI: SINCE BUSH ORDERED TORTURE, LET’S MAKE IT LEGAL
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/30/condi-president-makes-it-legal/ 

OBAMA: STATE SECRETS DOCTRINE SHOULD BE MODIFIED
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/30/obama-state-secrets/ 

Mashed Media
OBAMA IGNORES FOX NEWS---TIT FOR TAT
Rest of the country should follow suit. . .
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/30/fox-news-not-granted-a-question-at-obamas-press-conference/ 
THE GREAT STEVE GREENBERG GETS PICKED UP BY LAOBSERVED.COM
 http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/la_sketchbook_by_steve_gr.php 
"I'M NOT SURE THERE WILL BE NEWSPAPERS IN TEN YEARS"
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE53S9C520090430?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&rpc=23&sp=true

The Other War
AFGHANS RESORT TO ‘SUICIDE DONKEYS’
Yes, there’s a country worth saving. . .
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6194874.ece 

FRIEDMAN: U.S. SHOULD CUT MILITARY SPENDING IN HALF
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22516.htm
If we admitted that we are not going to fight a war with China anytime soon, we could retire chunks of the Air Force and Navy that are justified by that mission. Even with a far smaller defense budget, ours will remain the world's most powerful military by a large margin. The recently enacted GI Bill, which gives veterans a subsidized or free college education, offers a vehicle for transitioning military personnel into the civilian economy.

All-Melty Dollar
AFTER WOIK
http://hopehealinghelpfordownsizedworkers.blogspot.com/2009/04/spider-and-fly.html

World gone mad
BOTOX INJECTIONS FOR SALE ON-LINE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/apr/29/botox-for-sale-online
 
Asinine Commentary of the Week
WOMAN RUMINATES ABOUT BECOMING A STRIPPER
Why are women endlessly fascinated with this degradation?
http://www.alternet.org/sex/138649/should_you_try_stripping/ 

Obit
HANS HOLZER, GHOST HUNTER
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/books/30holzer.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

Oh, by the way. . .
ORANGE COUNTY WOMAN: MY DAD WAS THE ZODIAC KILLER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/30/MNFA17BE9N.DTL 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

Cheap gossip about unimportant assholes
SIMON COWELL’S BIG BREAK: POLISHING NICHOLSON’S AXE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5247331/Simon-Cowell-polished-Jack-Nicholsons-axe-for-The-Shining.html 
KIDMAN TAKES A SWING AT CRUISE
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Kidman_in_bitter_attack_on_Cruise&in_article_id=642582&in_page_id=7 

Musique
COMPOSER DAVID STUBBS ON OVERLOOKED MUSIC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8024000/8024205.stm 
FINNISH TEACHER UNLOCKS MUSIC FOR SPECIAL-NEEDS STUDENTS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0429/p47s01-lign.html 

Books
HOW BASEBALL HAS ENRICHED AMERICAN ENGLISH
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0429/p17s01-hfgn.html 

Where ya goin’?
WORLD’S NICEST CITIES
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/106994/The-Worlds-Best-Places-to-Live-2009

And in the end. . .
SEX ON THE QUEEN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5248440/Sex-on-Queens-lawn-at-Windsor-Castle.html 

4/29/09
DAILY CONCERT
BETTY DAVIS
THEY SAY I'M DIFFERENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTt1biOZX4 
NASTY GAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvvQq4leoo
FUNK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNcohPUr1PI
SHOO-B-DOOP AND COP HIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX1facJYABI
GETTIN' KICKED OFF, HAVIN' FUN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGBNI1wEBL4
YOUR MAMA WANTS YOU BACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L-A0A7ac94
GAME IS MY MIDDLE NAME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgmc6-L81bE

A MAN, HIS SPAM CDS, AND MAD MAGAZINE
Math prof concocts astounding tribute to Alfred E. Newman
http://www.cuadra.com/images/misc/MAD/ 
http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/mad500id.jpg 
http://www.cuadra.com/images/misc/mad500.jpg 

EH? ZETA-JONES WANTS TO PLAY SUSAN BOYLE?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/susan-boyle/5240752/Catherine-Zeta-Jones-asks-to-play-Susan-Boyle-on-screen.html 

POETIC JUSTICE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5243438/Judge-uses-poet-Philip-Larkins-words-to-warn-acrimonious-couple.html 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

SWINE FLU: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/in_mexico_city_more_quest.php 
CDC: SWINE FLU AND YOU
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/swineflu_you.htm 
SWINE FLU VICTIM WAS BROUGHT TO TEXAS FROM MEXICO!
Why does this lumbering, dirt-stupid government not shut the goddamn borders and stop all travel?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/swine.flu/index.html?iref=mpstoryview 
NOW TEXAS GOV. WANTS FEDERAL AID---FOR FLU
By the way, how old is this guy? Twelve?
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/28/gop-secessionists-ask-for-help-from-federal-government/
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s request for the federal government to provide his state with 37,430 courses of anti-flu medication from the national stockpile has come under fire in light of his earlier resistance to accepting federal stimulus money.
OBAMA SEEKS $1.5 BILLION FOR SWINE FLU
Maybe we can borrow back some of that $664 billion we’ve thrown away on Iraq
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/flu-spreads-around-world-obama-asks-c 
AIRLINE CHIEF DISMISSES SWINE FLU THREAT
Obviously hoping that swine flu does not dismiss his airline, he says it’s only a threat to “Asians and Mexicans living in slums”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6186585.ece 
‘REGULAR’ FLU HAS KILLED THOUSANDS THIS YEAR
Almost all casualties are among elderly, though, unlike swine virus
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/regular.flu/index.html 
RIGHT-WING PUNDITS MAKE XENOPHOBIC HAY WITH SWINE FLU
But. . .hate to say this. . .their observations are perfectly logical, and warranted. . .
http://www.alternet.org/immigration/138859/michelle_malkin_and_michael_savage_use_swine_flu_crisis_to_peddle_their_xenophobia/ 
HAHAHAHA! FREEDOM FROM SWINE FLU THROUGH GOD’S CARE!
Yeah, Gawd will protect us from the nasty virus!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0428/p18s01-hfcs.html 
WILL SURGICAL MASKS PROTECT YOU FROM SWINE FLU?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5239580/Swine-flu-do-surgical-masks-really-work.html 
SWINE FLU PHOTO GALLERY
 http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-41899.html 
TAIWAN INVITED TO WHO MEETING
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1894560,00.html 

Specter
OBAMA WELCOMES ‘ONE TOUGH HOMBRE’ TO DEMOCRAPS
President to continue working on Yosemite Sam impression
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/29/obama-welcomes-specter-to-democratic-party/ 
LINDORFF: SPECTER PUTS DEMS ON SPOT
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/306
There will, at that point, be no more excuse for Democrats to duck progressive, liberal, pro-worker, pro-ordinary person issues, using their old-standby excuse of needing to compromise and win over Republican votes. There won’t even be any need to cater to party turncoat Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) to get things done. For that matter, there won't be any justification for President Obama to seek "bi-partisanship" for his programs, by watering them down until they are meaningless.
SPECTER’S STATEMENT
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090428_sen_arlen_specter_on_switching/ 

Obama Nation
THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS---OF RIGHT-WING OPPOSITION
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/29/100-days-of-opposition/ 
NYT EDITORIAL ON OBAMA’S FIRST HUNDRED
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/29/obama-bush-100-days/ 
HEDGES: OBAMA HAS MISSED HIS MOMENT
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090427_obama_has_missed_his_moment/?ln 
Hyperinflation is never controlled domestically. It is created by outside forces. If China and other buyers of our debt view the endlessly increasing American deficit spending as a threat to the viability of the U.S. dollar they will abandon the dollar and reduce their purchases of treasury bills. Chinese leaders have already questioned the wisdom of keeping foreign reserves predominantly in the form of U.S. dollar-denominated treasury bills and bonds. And if they walk away from the dollar our currency will become junk and hyperinflation will race through the society like a plague.

All-melty dollar
ECONOMY SHRINKS 6.1 PERCENT
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6192178.ece 
CITI, BofA ‘MUST RAISE BILLIONS’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/28/citigroup-bank-of-america-stress-tests 
WHO WILL PAY FOR BofA’S COLLAPSE?
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/28/bank-america-shareholders 
CURRENT CRISIS HAS UNCANNY PARALLELS TO GREAT DEPRESSION
German perspective
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,621979,00.html 

Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA (YAWN) THREATENS AGAIN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8024235.stm

TALIBAN EXECUTES ALLEGED ADULTERERS
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5220532/Taliban-gunmen-shooting-couple-dead-for-adultery-caught-on-camera.html 

Israelity
 RAIMUNDO: CALAMITY JANE HARMAN SHOOTS SELF IN THE FOOT
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/04/28/calamity-jane-harman-shoots-herself-in-the-foot/ 
The exposure of the Jane Harman-AIPAC axis of treason has exploded the illusion of the Israel Lobby’s invulnerability. Here they thought they had the AIPAC espionage trial swept safely under the rug, or nearly so, what with the prosecution of two former top Lobby officials seemingly stalled indefinitely, and the Justice Department "reviewing" whether to pursue the case. Not only that, but accused Israeli spy Steve Rosen is riding high, having recently been instrumental in the downfall of Obama administration appointee Charles Freeman. Slated to take up a key post, which would have had him writing the president’s daily intelligence briefing, Freeman was lynched by a bipartisan mob of neocons and Israel-firsters, with the disgraceful (albeit not sufficiently disgraced) Rosen leading the charge.

Enviro Wacko
NO MORE FISH DINNERS?
http://www.alternet.org/environment/138874/imagine_a_world_without_seafood_for_supper_--_it%27s_nearer_than_you_think/ 

Animals in the news!
GALLERY: THE LIONS OF THE MASAI
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/5242986/Lions-of-the-Masai-Mara-filmed-using-remote-cameras.html
SIR DAVID CALLS FOR PROTECTION OF ORGANUTANS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5241749/Sir-David-Attenborough-calls-for-more-protection-for-orang-utans.html 

Obit
'GREAT ESCAPE’ WAR HERO
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5241905/Great-Escape-war-hero-dies-at-97.html 
BALLERINA MAXIMOVA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/arts/dance/29maximova.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries 

Oh, by the way. . .
JAPANESE FARM WOMEN GO ON-LINE
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/04/28/japan-farm-women-go-online/ 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

BEST PICTURES OF THE EARTH
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/best-pictures-of-earth/index.html 

Film
GORDON GEKKO COMING BACK TO WALL STREET
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8024187.stm 

Mashed Media
THE POST-GOOGLE ART OF PLAGIARISM
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=3sb7fgmhd1qszg1g6tgbtjx5kj95v8ny 
In these days of Wikipedia and blogs, Facebook and Twitter, traces disappear faster than ever before. But ironically, Internet reproduction actually serves to reproduce the blackberries intact, and that makes them easier to find. In the days before the photocopy machine, reproducing the whole substance of another scholar's work was laborious. Historians made short summaries that occasionally mangled meaning. With photocopying, exact reproduction became relatively cheap. With Web pages, cutting and pasting is instant, and duplication is precise: quotations, observations, references to grandmothers, the whole enchilada.
IN PRAISE OF THE NEWSPAPER OBITUARY
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article04220903.aspx 
And that’s the story of Margie. She was born, she was adopted, she got typhoid, she lived on Walnut Street, she died, the end. No mention of what kind of games she liked to play, if she wore ribbons in her hair, if anyone was sad that she was gone. Her obituary serves as witness. It was written, and therefore she existed.

Where ya goin’?
WORLD’S WEIRDEST FESTIVALS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/5188191/The-worlds-weirdest-festivals.html

And in the end. . .
HAIKU
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0428/p17s01-hfpo.html

hit 'refresh' for updates
4/28/09
DAILY CONCERT
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qpfGVUd8c
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ITrQXES8kU
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieJDbxRH-ck
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ne-CaUfiEQ
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ixBmDzylQ 
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_IAhVJfXVw

SKYLINES:
NO TWITTER NEWS HERE!

SWINE FLU MASK FASHION
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.metro.co.uk/galleryDetailPage.html?in_gallery_id=2206&in_page_id=3&in_image_id=27085&in_category_id=1679 

ALIENS PHOTOGRAPHED IN L.A.!
 http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Jacko_and_kids_shock_in_bizarre_masquerade&in_article_id=638170&in_page_id=7 

FACEBOOK GROPE COSTS MAN HIS FIANCE
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Traitor_pig__fiances__boob_fondle_caught_on_Facebook&in_article_id=638130&in_page_id=2 

AMERICA’S BEST BATHROOM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/28/national/a040030D13.DTL&tsp=1 

‘PRINCESS TAIPING’ IS SUNK
JUST SHORT OF ITS HISTORIC 14,000-MILE VOYAGE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/28/BA7917A0B3.DTL&tsp=1 

WHO THE HELL IS CHRISTOPHER POOLE?
 http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1894028,00.html 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

FORECLOSURE PETS: ANIMAL ABANDONMENT SOARS
http://www.alternet.org/story/138634/foreclosure_pets%3A_soaring_rate_of_abandoned_animals_are_the_latest_sign_of_a_deep_economic_crisis/ 

SWINE ROVE MOCKED FLU PREPARATION
Criticized Dems for $900 million in “pandemic flu preparations”
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/rove-mocked-spending-on-flu-preparedness/ 

REPUG SENATOR STRIPPED $780 MILLION
IN FLU-PANDEMIC PROTECTION FROM BUDGET
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine---the swine--- said it did not “stimulate the economy” (Well, no, it just stimulated. . .health)
http://www.slate.com/id/2216606/ 

SWINE FLU CANNOT BE CONTAINED---WHO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/28/swine-flu-mexico-scotland
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042800757.html?hpid=topnews
MEXICO SWINE FLU SITUATION WORSE THAN REPORTED
Why hasn’t the border been sealed, and all travel between U.S. and Mexico---or Mexico and the world---stopped?
http://susiemadrak.com/2009/04/26/12/27/mexican-reports-flu-much-worse-than-reported/ 
WHY IS SWINE FLU DEADLIER IN MEXICO?
http://www.slate.com/id/2217019/ 
BORDERS “TIGHTENED”
That’s laughable---returning travelers are being asked if they are sick!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/health/29flu.html?ref=global-home 
The World Health Organization raised its global pandemic flu alert level on Monday while recommending that borders not be closed nor travel bans imposed. But in a possible precaution to be taken by other nations, Japan said Tuesday it would no longer allow Mexican travelers to obtain a visa upon arrival.
IT ALL STARTED WITH FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY?
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/27/swine-flu-search-outbreak-source 
BRITAIN CALLS TOURISTS HOME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5235493/Swine-flu-British-tourists-repatriated-from-Mexico-as-virus-spreads.html 
U.S. MILITARY MONITORS SWINE FLU
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123146275 
SWINE FLU IN NEW ZEALAND, ISRAEL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8022437.stm 
SEVEN CASES IN TAIWAN
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/266150%2Ctaiwan-checks-suspected-cases-of-swine-flu--summary.html 
WHY ARE SOME COUNTRIES BANNING PORK IMPORTS?
http://www.slate.com/id/2217012/ 
ARE PIGS DYING OF SWINE FLU?
http://www.slate.com/id/2217008/ 
SWINE FLU FACTS, MYTHS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090427-swine-flu-facts.html

Mashed Media
FOX REFUSES TO CARRY OBAMA PRIME-TIME PRESS CONFERENCE
Yeah, that’s real responsible. . .
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/for-fox-programming-american-idol-trumps-obamas-100th-day/ 
TED RALL LAID OFF
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003964933 
LAT CUTS OFF YOUTH NEWSPAPER
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/times_cuts_off_la_youth_a.php 

WHAT DID TOP SPOOK BLAIR REALLY SAY ABOUT JANE HARMAN?
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/04/what-did-top-spook-blair-reall.html

HEY, KIDS, JOIN THE CIA AND GO TO TORTURE SCHOOL!
http://www.slate.com/id/2216702/ 

All-melty dollar
INTERACTIVE MAP OF DISAPPEARING JOBS IN USA
http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/ 
GM TO SHUT HALF ITS DEALERSHIPS
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/04/27/gm-to-slash-nearly-half-its-dealerships-to-survive/ 

30,000 FLEE NW PAKISTAN RAID ON TALIBAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/30000_flee_army_raid_on_NW_0428.html 

IRAN ‘ARMS SHIP’ TORPEDOED ON WAY TO GAZA
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22498.htm

PENTAGON DEVELOPS ‘INTERNET OF THE FUTURE’
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/the-next-generation-arms-race-begins/ 

WHITNEY: PINTER ON OBAMA
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22499.htm 
Obama is no fool; he knows he's being used. He knows he wasn't chosen for his enlightened views on health care and stem cells. He was picked because the men in charge needed a new posterboy to hide behind while they carry out their illicit activities. Obama is not so much of a Commander in chief as he is master illusionist, diverting attention from the stealth war that goes on relentlessly with or without his consent.

Jesus H. Christ!
WHY SO MANY AMERICANS SWITCH RELIGIONS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0428/p02s01-ussc.html 

People’s Repugnic
WHY AMERICANS ARE ADOPTING FEWER KIDS FROM CHINA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1894333,00.html 
International adoptions from China to the U.S. have dropped by 50%, according to the U.S. State Department. The new regulations require, among other things, that adoptive parents be married, under 50, not classified as clinically obese, not have taken antidepressant medications in the past two years, not have facial deformities and meet certain educational and economic requirements.
THE CHINA CITY WHERE NO ONE WANTS TO BE MAYOR
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8011569.stm 

Animals in the news!
SHARK FIN PROTECTION WELCOMED IN EUROPE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8018284.stm 

(Lack of) health
EXPLODING BUBBLES TRIM THE PROSTATE
Now there’s a headline.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090426094512.htm 

Obits
FRANKIE MANNING
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-frankie-manning28-2009apr28,0,502595.story 
GREG PAGE
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-greg-page28-2009apr28,0,1483302.story 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

Books
GATHER ‘ROUND THE CADAVER!
Book shows historical photos of med students with dead bodies. . .amazing photo gallery
http://www.slate.com/id/2216761/ 
DARYL STRAWBERRY SELLS HIS SAD STORY
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1894196,00.html 

Musique
PIANIST ZIMMERMAN’S ON-STAGE DENUNCIATION OF USA
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/world-renowned-pianist-declares-he-will-not-return-to-us/ 
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-zimerman-pol28-2009apr28,0,2990695.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/28/krystian-zimerman-missile-defence-poland 
WHY ZIMMERMAN WAS RIGHT TO SPEAK OUT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2009/apr/28/pianist-krystian-zimerman 
DYLAN’S (BORING!) NEW ALBUM REVIEWED
http://www.slate.com/id/2217018/ 
WATCH: A CHARMING MOMENT WITH GEORGE HARRISON
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d26-A-precious-moment-with-George-Harrison-from-1976-watch-the-video 

HEY, KIDS! THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE JOINING THE AMISH
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/25/4-things-to-consider.html 
3) Can You Find Where the In-Crowd Hangs Out?
Earn your dirt-road cred by taking a shopping trip to Spector's. This department store in Middlefield, Ohio caters to Amish customers. Since 1937, they've dealt in things like quilting supplies, fabric, and the other necessities of Amish life that can't be easily made on the farm. And with several locations around the state, it may well be the world's first Amish-centric chain store.

TOP TEN STRANGE LAWS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Top_10_strangest_laws&in_article_id=636209&in_page_id=2 

For Art’s Sake
TURNER PRIZE ARTISTS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/28/turner-prize-2009-meet-artists?picture=346566940 
GETTY RAISES PARKING TO $15
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/getty_raises_the_barrier.php 

And in the end. . .
PUT ON YOUR 3-D GLASSES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b96x2Qdm5E&feature=related 

4/24/09
DAILY CONCERT
ELECTRIC PRUNES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuOec305SQA
BLUES MAGOOS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGRTLn2uKY
COUNT FIVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbcMXJdGc0w
THE SEEDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmHTyLBIZ1g
THE YARDBIRDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLv7viCMGo8
BUCKINGHAMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1fpN1qWv8
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYh5oMDlWwQ

SKYLINES:
MOTHER HAS SURGERY TO LOOK LIKE DAUGHTER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8015981.stm 

MIND-READING HEADSETS WILL CHANGE YOUR BRAIN
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17009-innovation-mindreading-headsets 

MANDALA FOR THE LAMA
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-24dalailama-pg,0,5207261.photogallery?index=1 

SUSAN BOYLE UN-FRUMPS (SORT OF)
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Susan_Boyle_has_shock_makeover&in_article_id=634243&in_page_id=7 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/susan-boyle/5210442/Susan-Boyle-Britains-Got-Talent-star-gives-herself-a-secret-makeover.html  

TEEN SELLS VIRGINITY ON ‘NET
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/romania/5213302/Teenager-sells-virginity-for-9000.html

Lost Angeles
INCREDIBLE: CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL FACES DEMOLITION
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-lostla25-2009apr25,0,4004631.story 
PC MADNESS: L.A.’S ‘GOLD LINE’ IS NOW ‘LINEA DE ORO’
Why not just declare Espanol the official language? And shouldn’t we translate it into Chinese for the part that passes through Chinatown?
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/metro_says_si_to_linea_de_oro.php 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

The Torture Never Stops
 LINDORFF: FREE JOHN WALKER LINDH
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/303
Lindh, in fact, was never really an enemy of the US. Son of middle-class white parents in suburban San Francisco, he had developed an interest in Islam which, following his graduation from high school, he decided to pursue by traveling to Pakistan. In 2001, still just 18, he began studying at a madrassa, or religious school. There he learned about the struggle of the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan to free that nation of the influence of warlords who had collaborated with a brutal Soviet occupation. Attracted by what he saw as the nobility of that struggle, and with a youthful sense of adventure, Lindh volunteered.
REPUG CONGRESSMAN FAVORS TORTURE PROSECUTIONS
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/24/cao-torture/ 
CHENEY’S EVIL DAUGHTER: WATERBOARDING IS NOT TORTURE
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/daddys-little-girl-liz-cheney-tells-norah-odonnell-that-we-did-not-torture/ 

U.S. JOURNALISTS TO FACE N. KOREA TRIAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8015730.stm

COME, MR. TALIBAN, TALLY NUKE BANANA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1893685,00.html 
Taliban withdraws from key valley after U.S. anxiety
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/15852/ 

People's Repugnic
FALUN GONG SUPPORT GROWING IN CHINA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5213629/Falun-Gong-growing-in-China-despite-10-year-ban.html 
FALUN GONG MEMBER TELLS OF CHINESE BRAINWASHING, TORTURE
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/15833/ 
She escaped from China in 2006 and made her way across the border to Thailand. After being granted refugee status a year later, Zhang, now over 50 years old, lives in Queens, New York. She shared her story with The Epoch Times, telling of the terrors behind the the facade of the CCP “My reason of coming to the United States was to expose [its] evilness to the international community,” Zhang said.

Iraq and Roll
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER 60 DEAD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/24/suicide-bomb-iraq-baghdad 

Mashed Media
WHOAH---DAVID GREGORY SHILLS FOR BUSH
With reporters like these. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/David_Gregory_suggests_Bush_went_out_0424.html 
OLBERMANN OFFERS $1K PER SECOND TO WATERBOARD HANNITY
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/olbermann-1000-for-every-second-hannity-undergoes-waterboarding/ 

All-melty dollar
JERRY BROWN FILES SECURITIES FRAUD AGAINST WELLS FARGO
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/24/MNOI177TVN.DTL 
THE UNBEARABLE VAGUENESS OF TIMOTHY GEITHNER
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/unbearable-vagueness-timothy-geithner 
AFTER WOIK
http://hopehealinghelpfordownsizedworkers.blogspot.com/2009/04/b-word.html 
This week I start considering Bankruptcy. Not of our culture, but my household. Here I am, unemployed and in straitened circumstances. Since I squeeze by on, say, $15K a year while having amassed credit card debt of about $25K for various reasons, I'm wondering if maybe I'd qualify for Bankruptcy and if so, would they slap a lien on my house or leave it alone.

 RAIMUNDO: THE SHAMELESSNESS OF JANE HARMAN
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/04/23/the-shamelessness-of-jane-harman/

MORFORD: NEWSOM IN 2016
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/24/notes042409.DTL 

Animals in the news!
ECO-TOURISM COMPROMISING INDIA TIGERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audioslideshow/2009/apr/24/india-wildlife-holidays-conservation-safari 

Enviro Wacko
MASS EXTINCTION AND THE HAZARDS OF VANISHING BIODIVERSITY
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2007/05/gone 
We awake in our tents in the moonlight to what sounds like a dance troupe in wooden clogs practicing on rock under stunted juniper trees. It's a half-dozen Carmen mountain white-tailed deer, scraping at the ground with bootlike hooves, bending gracile necks to chew on wet soil and lick it dry.

(Lack of) health
TRUTH ABOUT VACCINES
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/138121/we_still_don%27t_know_if_vaccines_are_safe/ 
The truth is that no one without a vested interest in the profitability of vaccines has studied all 36 of them in depth. There are more than 100 vaccines in development, and no tests for cumulative effect or vaccine interaction of all 36 vaccines in the current schedule have ever been done. If I'm mistaken, I challenge those who are making such grand pronouncements about vaccine safety to produce those studies.

Spaced Out
GALLERY: HUBBLE’S GREATEST HITS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/hubble-top-discoveries/index.html 

Oh, by the way. . .
‘WATER PEOPLE’ OF THE ANDES FACE EXTINCTION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/24/andes-tribe-threat-bolivia-climate-change

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

Film
REVIEW: ‘THE SOLOIST’
A rave for the most hyped movie in years
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1893362,00.html 
And a knock for the most hyped movie in years
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-soloist24-2009apr24,0,4718808.story 
But by consistently and relentlessly overplaying everything, by settling for standard easy emotions when singular and heartfelt was called for, by pushing forward when they should have pulled back, director Joe Wright and screenwriter Susannah Grant have made the story mean less, not more. Instead of enhancing "The Soloist's" appeal, they have come close to eliminating it.
RAINER ON ‘GOODBYE SOLO’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0420/p17s01-almo.html 

Musique
SNIDE DYLAN REVIEW
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/24/bob-dylan-together-review 
As it is, it'll get drowned out by a different kind of clamour, one that perhaps has less to do with the music Dylan now makes than with the baby boomers' refusal to let go of popular culture.

MOST HATED TYPE FONT
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992364819927171.html?mod=yhoofront 

Where ya goin’?
HAWAIIAN JAVA JIVE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/24/alohafriday042409.DTL&type=travel 

And in the end. . .
TREE HOUSE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5209953/50000-tree-house-with-plasma-television-and-rope-bridge.html 

4/23/09
DAILY CONCERT
THE TORTURE NEVER STOPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwhtL0LNoQw
NO SPILL BLOOD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtlXUMmQUQ8 
WE CLOSE OUR EYES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqWou7WTFA
SKIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkGYun5mH8
FLESH 'N' BLOOD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jghz7TG-K9I
OUT OF CONTROL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWNP99CuJ14
JUST ANOTHER DAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b6opMEu-zM
DEAD MAN'S PARTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnjDuqOYPlw

SKYLINES:
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
 http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0422/ 

CLOWN CAN’T WEAR BIG SHOES---SAFETY HAZARD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5203363/Clown-cannot-wear-giant-shoes-due-to-health-and-safety.html 

THE TEN CRAZIEST THINGS ABOUT BOYLE ADORATION
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6564/ 
In the US, where Boyle is even bigger than in Britain, leading Christians have written about ‘Susan Boyle and the Love of God’. Apparently the whooping of millions of people at the sight of Boyle getting a standing ovation is evidence of our inner Christian leanings.

BECK CHOPS TREES FOR EARTH DAY
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/22/earth-day-glenn-beck-celebrates-by-cutting-down-trees/ 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT

UCSB PROF CRITICIZES ISRAEL---FACES CHARGES
ADL, students complain about Prof. William I. Robinson
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/23/ucsb 
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2009/04/37488.php 
Two students in the course dropped the class and filed complaints against Robinson. One student wrote that she felt "nauseous" upon reading the e-mail, and felt it was inappropriate. She wrote that the "demonization of Israel" is a form of anti-Semitism, and that she no longer felt comfortable in the course, after receiving the "horrific e-mail," and so dropped out.

DOJ MAY DISMISS CHARGES
AGAINST ACCUSED ISRAELI SPIES
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7407011&page=1 

HARMAN BACKTRACKS
ON ISRAEL SCANDAL DENIALS
Who says Israel does not have undue influence in U.S. politics? Israeli spy worked to get Harman appointed chair of the House Intell Committee
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Harman_begins_to_backtrack_denials_of_0422.html 
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) originally denied -- emphatically -- that she had in any way agreed in a plot to get herself appointed chairwoman of the House Intelligence Committee by getting an Israeli agent to work a major California donor to threaten to withhold campaign contributions from then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

ON NPR, HARMAN FUDGES, SQUIRMS
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22476.htm 

PELOSI ‘WENT BALLISTIC” OVER HARMAN/ISRAEL PLOT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pelosi_now_recalls_being_briefed_on_0422.html
Fuller coverage:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/pelosi-now-remembers-harman-wiretap/?hp 

LAT EDITORIAL: THE JANE HARMAN FILE
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-harman23-2009apr23,0,372649.story 
Congressional Quarterly reported that Harman spoke on the phone in 2005 or 2006 with an ally of the two AIPAC officials and promised to seek lenient treatment for accused Israeli spies. In return, she was reportedly offered help winning the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, a job she badly wanted.

 MONDOWEISS: PRESS CAN’T SAY IT, BUT BLOGGER CAN: HARMAN IS JEWISH
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/04/press-cant-say-it-but-a-blogger-can-jane-harmans-jewish-.html 
The front-page story in the Times yesterday on the Jane Harman allegations didn't say that she's Jewish. Neither does CQ, which broke the story. Chris Matthews didn't say she's Jewish in his report last night--though he's always talking about the Irish Catholics--and neither did Robert Siegel on NPR. I bet Andrea Mitchell didn't either.
HARMAN BIO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Harman 

RAIMUNDO: HARMANIC CONVERGENCE
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/04/21/harmanic-convergence/ 
The Harman corruption-of-justice case illuminates a subject that has long been simmering on the back burner, hardly ever covered by the mainstream news media, and that is the upcoming trial of the AIPAC defendants, which is so underreported that I can’t even find a reference to the trial date, except that it is "upcoming" and scheduled to occur sometime in June. . . And the proper response, to start with, is to make AIPAC do what every foreign lobbyist has to do, and that is comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act by registering as an agent of a foreign power. This would put legal restrictions in place that would cut the Lobby down to its proper size and help correct the Israel-centric distortion of American foreign policy, which has been so skewed in the wrong direction for so long chiefly because of domestic political pressures. It’s long past time to cut off that pressure at its source.

 KHODR: AIPAC IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/61678
Defense Lawyers for the two AIPAC suspects have successfully postponed the trial nine times thereby frustrating the prosecutors. The main strategy for the defense lawyers seems to be that the disclosure of such classified information is not illegal but is of the kind usually obtained by AIPAC freely from governmental officials given the “special relationship” we have with Israel. Sir, if such free flow of information exists that it is a national security nightmare.

GOLD: NAZIS ARE HIDEOUSLY ALIVE AND WELL---IN POPULAR CULTURE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/23/nazi-culture-film-hitler
I thought the whole point of the second world war was to eradicate Nazism from the face of the earth. No more swastikas, no more shiny boots, no more dwarf narcissists giving vegetarian dinner parties and shooting liberals. It was supposed to be over in 1945. But we seem to have a new kind of Nazi domination - a cultural domination - and it's silly. There is no point to it: it exists just for itself. And it turns our eyes from the evils that we should be noticing today. It is a big dressing-up box, full of distraction.
Related story:
HITLER PAINTINGS GO ON SALE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/8013945.stm 

Israelity
ISRAEL ARMY ADMITS ‘ISOLATED MISTAKES’ IN GAZA
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0422/p06s10-wome.html
HERE ARE A COUPLE OF THOSE ‘MISTAKES’
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3705363,00.html 
And a couple more. . .
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92339&sectionid=351020606 
And a few more. . .
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1076773.html 
And a whole bunch more!
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=GAZA+DEAD+CHILDREN&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=sYjwSaqiPKCMtgOrx7n8Cg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title 

PSST. . .PAKISTAN ABOUT TO GO TALIBAN
Coming soon: Crazed Ragheads with Nukes!
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1893370,00.html 

The Torture Never Stops
IRAQIS TORTURE GAYS WITH ANAL GLUE
Isn’t it great we spent $662 billion (so far) on these wonderful, civilized people?
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/report-iraqi-militia-kill-gays-with-anal-glue-torture/
FBI'S MUELLER: ‘COERCIVE METHODS’ HAS NOT PREVENTED TERROR ATTACKS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/politics/23detain.html?_r=1&hp 
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2008/12/torture200812?printable=true&currentPage=all
QUEEN CONDI GREEN-LIGHTED WATERBOARDING
 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rice_gave_early_waterboarding_green_light_0423.html 

Your Corporatocracy at work!
U.S. URGED BofA TO BE SILENT ABOUT MERRILL LYNCH DEAL
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53M14820090423 

PALIN FANS ADMIT: SHE’S A CLOWNISH, VINDICTIVE AMATEUR
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/fans_of_sarah_palin_now_see_her_as_a_%27clownish%2C_vindictive_amateur%27/#137975 

Hot in here
WATER LEVELS DROPPING IN WORLD’S MAJOR RIVERS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421101625.htm 

(Lack of) Health
BRING BACK THE ‘70’S---WE WERE HEALTHIER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8004257.stm 

Science
PREHISTORIC SEALS HAD ARMS, LEGS, TAIL
Dogs of the sea!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090422-seal-evolution-missing-link.html 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422132832.htm 
STRANGE NEW MOLECULE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8013343.stm 

Oh, by the way. . .
LIFE IMITATES BOND: BRITAIN SEEKS REAL-LIFE Q
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1893038,00.html
‘GREAT TRAIN ROBBER’ APPLIES FOR PAROLE AT 80
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1076773.html 
EXECUTE THESE PEOPLE
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/04/21/father-throws-10-monthold-boiling-water/

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

Musique
PLACIDO DOMINGO TO MAKE OPERATIC DEBUT---AS A BARITONE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/22/placido-domingo-royal-opera-house-season
CAROLE KING AT (GASP) 67
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/helenbrown/5201808/Carole-King-interview.html

Film
EMMA WATSON TELLS OF SADNESS AT LAST ‘POTTER’ FILM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5205723/Harry-Potter-star-Emma-Watson-tells-of-sadness-at-end-of-final-movie.html 
EBERTFEST!
 http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1892939,00.html 

Where ya goin’?
727 RETREAT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/5207030/Holidaymakers-in-Costa-Rica-offered-hotel-suite-in-Boeing-aeroplane.html

And in the end. . .
HAPPY FACE SPIDER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5199409/British-scientists-study-Hawaiian-happy-face-spider.html 

4/22/09
DAILY CONCERT
SAVE THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9TLm9198E
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIXSPau74og
WONDERFUL WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzaYdjWQwxA
ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1m9U92n_5g
THIS LAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tq7mWykxVQ
EARTH SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOf8T5PDOhM
GOLDEN EARTH GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKLGq-qRCe8
WORLD OF PAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmq4sYpSFBg 
GOOD OLD WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJFMq557xYw

SKYLINES:
NO SUSAN BOYLE NEWS WHATSOEVER!
MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=uk&code=4cd5bb022e4d9508e0e71dd9a7addc2d 

VIN SCULLY IS MR. L.A.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/mister_la_we_have_a_winne.php 

FREE ROXANA SABERI
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/04/news_free_roxana_saberi.html 

BOBBY JINDAL AND KARL ROVE IN. . .
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/04/cartoon_karl_roves_creepshow.html 

. . .AND MICHAEL JACKSON IN ‘CREEPSHOW 2’
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Mystery_as_Jacko_covers_up_with_surgery_mask&in_article_id=630439&in_page_id=7 

MIA FARROW TO GO ON HUNGER STRIKE FOR DARFUR
Yeah, that’ll help
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/22/mia-farrow-hunger-strike-darfur 

‘REFRIGERATOR’ PERRY IN HOSPITAL
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-perryhospitalized&prov=ap&type=lgns 

FAT PEOPLE CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2387203.ece 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

Earth Day
EAT LESS MEAT---WATCH THE WORLD IMPROVE
http://www.alternet.org/environment/137737/13_breathtaking_effects_of_cutting_back_on_meat/ 
Excrement produced by chickens, pigs, and other farm animals: 16.6 billion tons per year -- more than a million pounds per second (that's 60 times as much as is produced by the world's human population -- farmed animals produce more waste in one day than the U.S. human population produces in 3 years). This excrement is a major cause of air and water pollution.
OBAMA PRAISES WIND ENERGY, LIMBAUGH PRAISES PLASTIC BAGS
There’s a “bag of wind” joke in there somewhere
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/22/its-earth-day-obama-and-limbaugh-celebrate-it-differently/ 
SLIDE SHOW: THE PLANET
http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/20090504/slideshow_evolvingplanet?rel=hp_picks 
THE PLANET’S FUTURE MAY WELL DEPEND ON CHINA
Rotsa ruck, Earth.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/parenti?rel=hp_currently 

LINDORFF: ARE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
---AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT---BEING BLACKMAILED?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/302 
I’ll admit that I considered the idea of blackmail a bit far out. But now suddenly there is at least some evidence that such seemingly wild speculation may not have been off the mark, with reports that the NSA was indeed monitoring Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), and that the Bush Administration used the evidence it had obtained of her improper conversations with and promises to assist agents of the Israeli government and its lobby here in the US, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to blackmail her into supporting the NSA’s warrantless spying program—the very kind of spying that led to her being caught on tape plotting with an agent of a foreign power.

 MORFORD: ON OBAMA’S HANDSHAKE WITH CHAVEZ
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/22/notes042209.DTL 
See, what we do is, we stomp in. We huff and snort and make a portentous entrance full of cold swagger and terse, screw-you-if-you-disagree handshakes, ignoring the clammy mitts of those inflammatory commie jerks we don't like because they've called us icky names in the past but whose illegal narcotics we will gladly purchase by the megaton and whose oil we're going to go in and forcibly steal anyway ha ha sucker.

Argh, Jim-boy!
A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR HIM!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8010061.stm 
PIRATES ARE TEN-TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BUY MUSIC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pirates-buy-more-music
WATCH: BLACKWATER PIRATES
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-144

The Torture Never Stops
LINDORFF: MAKE JUDGE BYBEE EAT HIS WORDS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/301 
While Bybee himself may have never personally tortured anything but the English language, his eventual prosecution for war crimes could be facilitated by a little legal research he did in that same memo. For as Bybee noted in that memo, the USA PATRIOT Act, in addition to eviscerating much of the Bill of Rights, also amended Section 2340A of the US law prohibiting torture to include the offense of “conspiracy to commit torture”--and if Bybee’s memo doesn’t meet the definition of conspiracy, I don’t know what the word conspiracy means.
LEAHY: BYBEE SHOULD GO BYE-BYE NOW
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Leahy_Judge_Bybee_should_step_down_0422.html 
PIGBOY ROVE FREAKS OUT OVER PROSPECT OF TORTURE PROSECUTION
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/hearing-footsteps-rove-freaks-out 
GLUG GLUG---AL QAEDA AND IRAQ WERE TOGETHER, RIGHT?---GLUG GLUG
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/22/senate-torture-report/ 

Mashed Media
FOX NEWS’ INSANE OBAMA ATTACKS STIR UP RIGHT-WING MILITANTS
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/137738/fox_news%27_unhinged%2C_irrational_obama_attacks_stir_up_violent_right-wing_militants/ 
MATT DRUDGE: THE NEW HOWARD HUGHES
http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=33037aaf-848f-4b79-8a75-34d6c793457e 
NEW GUINEA TRIBE SUES THE NEW YORKER---EH?
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/21/new-yorker-jared-diamond-business-media-new-yorker.html?feed=rss_business_media 
MADDOW ‘BRINGS CIVILITY’ TO TV NEWS, COMMENT---MCCLATCHY
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/22/maddow-civility/

Animals in the news!
PHOTO GALLERY: WAVE GOODBYE TO THE NICE GIRAFFES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/21/maasai-mara-wildlife-conservation?picture=346255072 
Scientists at the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) have found that the numbers of giraffes, hartebeest, impala, warthogs, topis and waterbuck all fell “markedly and persistently” throughout the 580 square mile reserve between 1989 and 2003. They believe increased human settlement around the unfenced park is to blame.
PHOTO GALLERY: THE DOGS AND HORSES THAT HELP
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2009/apr/22/support-dogs-horses?picture=346238232 
ASININE COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK
Yeah, praying will really help endangered species, all right
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0422/p18s01-hfcs.html 

Enviro Wacko
GREAT BARRIER REEF LUCKS INTO RECOVERY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/22/coral-barrier-reef-australia 

Obit
FREDDIE MAC HEAD DOES THE RIGHT THING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/22/financial/f051408D90.DTL&tsp=1 

Oh, by the way. . .
ICELAND’S WOMEN BLAME THE MEN, GRAB POWER
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,620544,00.html 
COUPLE ABANDONS THREE CHILDREN IN RESTAURANT
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,620515,00.html 
WWII COUPLE REKINDLE LOVE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5200106/Couple-separated-in-Second-World-War-rekindle-romance-after-60-years.html 
CHOCOLATE-POWERED RACING CAR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5199485/Chocolate-powered-145mph-racing-car-made-of-vegetables.html 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

AND WHAT DO REAL TEA DRINKERS SAY ABOUT THOSE STUPID ‘TEA PARTIES?’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/22/apop042209.DTL&tsp=1 

MICHELLE OBAMA’S FRESH FOOD REVOLUTION
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/hertsgaard 

Film
50-YEAR-OLD MICHELLE PFEIFFER IN COMEBACK ROLE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/22/michelle-pfeiffer-cheri 

Where ya goin’?
 THE DRACULA TOUR
http://www.thedraculasociety.org.uk/romania2009.htm 
A REAL ‘FAWLTY TOWERS’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8012064.stm 

For Art’s Sake
LITTLE TOKYO STREET FANS
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/curbedwire_little_tokyo_street_fans_gatsby_pricing_announced.php 

Books
LATEST RAGE: IRISH THRILLERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/22/mcgilloway-irish-crime-novels 

And in the end. . .
A TINY ACT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5201242/Indian-comedy-star-Ajay-Kumar-is-worlds-smallest-actor.html 

hit 'refresh' for updates
4/21/09
DAILY CONCERT
POSITIVELY 4TH STREET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54qhjlTNVn0
WELL RESPECTED MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvsQwiW_hxc
THE PIANO HAS BEEN DRINKING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVP6Xta84rU
ESTIMATED PROPHET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzOyHuRzzq0
COZMIK DEBRIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9R3c5P0xJw
CRIPPLED INSIDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxi-3Hi_T2A
I ME MINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e11x_5Yl6Uw

SKYLINES:
MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=uk&code=58ad3b097f01483708261e0ce739625b 

JACKIE CHAN PLAYS THE ‘OUT OF CONTEXT’ CARD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8009576.stm 

HERE IT IS---THE AL-QAEDA WORKOUT!
Flex those killer abs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5192454/Workout-tips-for-jihad-offered-by-al-Qaeda-supporting-magazine.html 

BILL CLINTON, BUSH TO DEBATE
Can you think of anything less consequential?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/20/bush-clinton-debate/ 

PLANE TURBULENCE PARALYZES PASSENGER IN RESTROOM
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-04-20-flier-paralyzed_N.htm 

JESUS APPEARS IN KIT-KAT BAR
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Face_of_Jesus_found_in_a_Kit-Kat&in_article_id=627906&in_page_id=2 
Musical accompaniment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5kHx1itU8c 

FISH GET SEASICK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionvideo/?bcpid=1909906876&bclid=1364171422&bctid=20027624001 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

 Israelity
HARMAN DENIES SEEKING
LENIENCY FOR ISRAELI SPIES
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-harman21-2009apr21,0,5391331.story 
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003098713 
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/21/1901071.aspx
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/politics/21harman.html?_r=3&hp
HARMAN, AIPAC, NSA
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/04/harman-aipac-nsa-what-did-i-kn.html 
HILL HOLDS FIRE ON HARMAN. . .FOR NOW
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_117/news/34122-1.html

CHINA-MADE DRYWALL: ONE FAMILY’S NIGHTMARE
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/15617/

Lost Angeles
INSANE PLAN TO WIDEN 405 THROUGH
SEPULVEDA PASS PUT ON HOLD!
How can the peabrains who okay these things not commit the funds instead to light rail????
http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12187845

ANIMAL RIGHTS BOMBER ON FBI MOST WANTED ‘TERRORIST’ LIST
He blew up empty cars. . .Never mind the Mexican Mafia. . .gangs. . .the Zetas. . .
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/21/BABH176A4V.DTL&tsp=1 
OH, YOU HAVEN’T HEARD OF LOS ZETAS?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3Z8QqUgtE
TWO ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CHARGED IN UCLA THREAT
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-animal-terrorism21-2009apr21,0,5575265.story

World Gone Mad
GODFATHER II GAME IS MORE VIOLENT THAN THE FIRST
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/21/DD59175IHQ.DTL 

Obama Nation
OBAMA TO OPEN TORTURE PROBE
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/21/obama-open-to-hill-probe-of-harsh-interrogations/
OBAMA: TALKING TO ENEMIES STRENGTHENS U.S.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/18/international/i003028D24.DTL 

Mashed Media
JOURNALISM SCHOOLS TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO TEACH
. . .in wake of collapsing print media
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/education/edlife/journ-t.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 
PULITZERS: DOES GREAT JOURNALISM PAY?
Watergate probe wouldn’t happen today---too expensive for fading papers
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1892831,00.html
ROLLING STONE CLOSES SF OFFICE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/17/BUH9174HB7.DTL&type=business

Iraq and Roll
IRAQIS OUTRAGED OVER BLACKWATER’S SLOW EXIT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/education/edlife/journ-t.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 

Enviro Wacko
REBUILDING NATURE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0419/p07s01-wogn.html 
Humanity's footprint has grown so large that, increasingly, conservation means restoration of degraded landscapes and the reintroduction of species. Six case-studies with varying degrees of success show some hurdles and idiosyncrasies facing efforts to rebuild nature.

(Lack of) Health
STATINS MAY PREVENT BREAST CANCER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5188443/Statins-may-help-prevent-breast-cancer.html 
WOMAN DIES FROM OVERDOSE OF ‘INTERNET DRUGS’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5194541/Coroners-warning-after-woman-dies-from-overdose-of-internet-drugs.html 

Auto Motive
FLUNKIES OF DAN QUAYLE---DAN QUAYLE?---PUTTING GREED FIRST
Jesus H. Chrysler!
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/20/dan-quayles-and-john-snows-flunkies-putting-greed-ahead-of-america/ 
MEET THE APTERA
George Jetson might have liked this thing
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/topdown/detail?entry_id=38813 
ELECTRIC CAR FUTURE IN CHINA?
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1892845,00.html

Spaced Out
SKY SHOW!
http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/04/21/the-moon-venus-and-lyrids-to-put-on-early-morning-show/ 
ANOTHER EARTH-LIKE PLANET FOUND
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421080502.htm 
SUN AT ITS DIMMEST IN 100 YEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5194381/Sun-at-its-dimmest-for-nearly-a-century-say-scientists.html 
Musical accompaniment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC-5vpJNlUk

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

Animals in the news!
GIANT NAZI COWS!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Giant_Nazi_cows_on_the_loose_in_Britain&in_article_id=628693&in_page_id=34
RARE ‘SNUBBY’ DOLPHINS SPIT TO HUNT
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090420-dolphins-spit-hunt.html 
THE PIGEON LADY OF SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/21/DDJT171QBL.DTL 

INTRODUCING CHINESE CHARACTERS
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/15233/ 

PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0420/ 

THE HOBBIT: OUT OF AFRICA
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1892606,00.html 

Light reading
A WRITER MORE CONDESCENDING THAN POE? NAME ONE
 http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/04/27/090427crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all 

And in the end. . .
WORLD LEADERS ON FACEBOOK
http://www.theatlantic.com/a/facebookhumor.mhtml 

4/20/09
DAILY CONCERT
PHIL OCHS AND JOHN LENNON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BHp6f92QUc&feature=related
DAVID BOWIE AND JOHN LENNON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfeaNKcffMk
CHUCK BERRY AND JOHN LENNON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9kgu71d81U
BOB DYLAN AND JOHN LENNON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzXLbKrxlc
KEITH RICHARD AND JOHN LENNON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etd9Vp15w7Q
MICK JAGGER AND JOHN LENNON
(John produced.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etd9Vp15w7Q
GEORGE HARRISON AND JOHN LENNON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B21cu38tFI
ELTON JOHN AND JOHN LENNON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smzbYbrYkxw
PAUL MCCARTNEY AND JOHN LENNON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey64bKA2mKA

SKYLINES:
DID ‘SLUMDOG’ FATHER TRY TO SELL DAUGHTER?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8008359.stm 

CONDOMS TOO BIG FOR INDIA MEN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8008108.stm 

GET RINGO A HOLLYWOOD STAR---PETITION
http://www.petitiononline.com/starwalk/petition.html 

GROUP SEX AT TACO BELL
http://carnalnation.com/content/5203/3/group-sex-unlocked-taco-bell-bathroom-you-cant-make-stuff-sfw 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

STRANGE CLOUD FORMATIONS DUE TO LEAD IN THE AIR
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090419-lead-clouds-global-warming.html

OCEAN DEAD ZONES TO EXPAND
Deep sea creatures can’t breathe
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417161506.htm 

THE BOOK CHAVEZ GAVE TO OBAMA
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/04/18/obama-chavez-meet-chavez-gives-obama-a-book.aspx
CHAVEZ TO OBAMA: “I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND”
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/428393/obama_goes_to_summit_gets_a_galeano_book_and_detente?rel=hp_picks 
THE RIGHT-WING BACKLASH BEGINS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQwsxHiaY0 

9/11 MASTERMIND WATERBOARDED 183 TIMES
Why not 184?
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/memo-911-mastermind-was-waterboarded 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/20/waterboarding-alqaida-khalid-sheikh-mohammed 
The May 30, 2005, memo, quoting a 2004 investigation by the C.I.A. inspector general, says that in March 2003, waterboarding was used 183 times against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

GONZALEZ STOPPED FBI PROBE OF SEN. HARMAN---
BECAUSE HE NEEDED HER SUPPORT ON WIRELESS SURVEILLANCE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/20/gonzales-harman-nsa/ 

People’s Repugnic
JACKIE CHAN’S COMMENTS FUEL CHINA TYRANNY---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/20/jackie-chan-china-freedoms 
---AND PROTESTS IN TAIWAN
http://news.bostonherald.com/track/celebrity/view/2009_04_20_Jackie_Chan_s_comments_spark_protest_in_Taiwan/srvc=home&position=recent 
MORE CHAN BACKLASH TO COME
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2009/04/20/jackie-chan-comments-spark-online-backlash/ 
GREAT WALL IS GREATER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8008108.stm 

POT LEGALIZATION GAINING MOMENTUM AS ANTI-BORDER VIOLENCE TOOL
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pot-legalization-favored-by-some-to-stem-violence-2009-04-19.html 
WAR ON POT ON LAST LEGS?
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/137389/is_it_possible_the_war_on_pot_is_on_its_last_legs_/ 

MCGOVERN TO OBAMA: LEAVE IRAQ IMMEDIATELY
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcgovern20-2009apr20,0,1546602.story 
“Has either the great God above or his creatures here below designated us to run the Middle East? What do we say to the Iraqi people who have indicated overwhelmingly in several polls that they want U.S. troops out of their country now? Why would we not understand this sentiment considering that our military equipment has smashed Iraqi homes, public buildings and infrastructure, including electricity and running water?”

 KLEIN: ALL IS NOT WELL IN OBAMAFANLAND
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/klein?rel=hp_currently 
Hopelash. Like a backlash, hopelash is a 180-degree reversal of everything Obama-related. Sufferers were once Obama's most passionate evangelists. Now they are his angriest critics. Sample sentence: "At least with Bush everyone knew he was an asshole. Now we've got the same wars, the same lawless prisons, the same Washington corruption, but everyone is cheering like Stepford wives. It's time for a full-on hopelash."

DICKERSON: OBAMA DEBATE-O-MATIC
http://www.slate.com/id/2216314/

RAIMUNDO: BUSH’S TORTURERS
You didn’t really expect them to be prosecuted, did you?
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/the-torturers/

Don’t tase me, bro
TWO TASERED TEENS DIE WITHIN A MONTH
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090418/METRO/904180395/Crowd+attends+funeral+today+for+teen+killed+by+Taser

Animals in the news!
BORDER FENCE IS STOPPING ANIMALS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/us-mexico-border-fence-wildlife/index.html 
POLO HORSE (POISONING?) DEATH TOLL AT 21
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/20/national/a001120D42.DTL&tsp=1
TRAGIC END OF A TRAGIC BEAR’S LIFE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,619948,00.html 

Auto Motive
‘ART CAR’ PIONEER APPARENTLY DROWNS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/14/BAIE171Q3K.DTL&type=autos 

Obit
JAMES T. HOUSTON, CALIFORNIA WRITER
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-james-houston18-2009apr18,0,2803256.story 

Oh, by the way. . .
FIVE-POUND MISSILE
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chinalake20-2009apr20,0,7799907.story 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

HOKUSAI ‘WAVE’ IS TRASH!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/chris-jordan-massive-photomosaics/index.html 

THE WOMAN WHO CAN’T FORGET
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-04/ff_perfectmemory?currentPage=all 

CONTEST: DEFINE BASEBALL IN 150 WORDS
http://www.slate.com/id/2216333/ 

Musique
YES, YOU CAN SING LIKE SUSAN BOYLE
But why the hell would you want to?
http://www.slate.com/id/2216332/ 
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SPOKEN WORD POP HIT
But not brief enough
http://www.slate.com/id/2215040/ 

Film
BEETHOVEN DOCUMENTARY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/19/in-search-of-beethoven-review 

For Art’s Sake
RARE 19TH CENTURY CHINA PHOTOS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8007041.stm 
HENRY VIII’S PALACES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/5159071/Henry-VIIIs-palaces.html 

O Paradiso
EARLY FLOWERS
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=specials/april_flowers/ 
SIX PLANTS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT
http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2009/04/20/the-six-plants-i-cant-live-without/ 

And in the end. . .
FLIPPY AND HIS DOMINOES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhl1Idcrtdg 

4/17/09

DAILY CONCERT
CIGAREETS, WHUSKY, AND WILD WILD WOMEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVtcIjy6SPM 
SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIN8MmMloZE 
SMOKE RINGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfYW8OQzynA
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEuJqlrfEZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz68KvMtHOA
SMOKE ON THE WATER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n10E3XwV5kA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jp3de50_d8
ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_1pgFgagbE
WHISKEY IN THE JAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISAeECFCmU
FUN WITH CIGAR BOXES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZWq14uD-A

Skylines:
A LITTLE BIKERIDE. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5170356/Artist-hangs-upside-down-on-bicycle-on-tightrope-3000ft-above-Norwegian-fjord.html

POSSUM TIME IN L.A., BABY
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/video_baby_opossum.php 

MORNING BOLLYWOOD
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=uk&code=fefc94eee37c088369d92ec4995f334f 

COUPLE CRUSHED BY MCDONALD’S GOLDEN ARCHES
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Couple_crushed_by_McDonalds_arches&in_article_id=624980&in_page_id=2 

PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0416/

WATCH: NEW ‘HARRY POTTER’ PREVIEW
Dunno. . .since final book blew it, interest in final films might not be there. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/5170811/Harry-Potter-and-the-Half-Blood-Prince-trailer-released.html 

MORFORD GETS PRETTY NUTSO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/17/notes041709.DTL 
In our perverse, celeb-crazed culture, there's really only one surefire way to redeem your reputation as a young, alcoholic, borderline insane, wannabe Jew/lesbian tabloid queen who trashed her once-promising film career in favor of hopping in and out of rehab until about 2017, at which point she will marry Stephen Baldwin and devote her life to a very creepy version of Jesus that you should never, ever pray to. Two little (hyphenated) words: self-deprecation.

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

OBAMA WANTS HIGH-SPEED RAIL FOR U.S.
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0416/

OLBERMANN: “MR. PREZ, YOU ARE WRONG”
 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Olbermann_Mr._President__you_are_0416.html 
LINDORFF: MR PREZ, YOU ARE WRONG
http://thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/299 
And now our president—whose own wife and daughters are descendants of slave victims of another era of American atrocities—is telling us we should do the same thing as Germany and Japan: forget and move on. But the president is wrong. Darkness does not go away when the fog comes. It just gets darker.

DID BUSH AUTHORIZE "TORTURE BY INSECT?"
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-align-with-account-that-911-suspects-children-were-tortured/

Secession
 RAIMUNDO: THESE UNITED STATES---TOO BIG TO FAIL?
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/these-united-states-too-big-to-fail/ 
Speaking at one of many “tea party” anti-Washington protests held throughout the country on April 15, Texas Gov. Rick Perry touched on a theme that could, I believe, prefigure a growing trend in American politics – and, indeed, throughout the world. He hit all the partisan talking points that are so familiar to my readers that I won’t bother reiterating them, and then remarked that Texas is doing relatively better than some other states, in spite of the “federal budget mess.” According to the Dallas Morning News, at this point “some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, ‘Secede!’” The Governor took up this theme in remarks to reporters afterward:

 Iraq and Roll
U.S. AIR RAIDS KILL MOSTLY WOMEN, CHILDREN
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22431.htm 

All-melty dollar
COPPER STANDARD FOR WORLD CURRENCY?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5160120/A-Copper-Standard-for-the-worlds-currency-system.html 
JAPAN SUICIDES UP
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,619608,00.html
GLENDALE GALLERIA OWNER FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
http://la.racked.com/archives/2009/04/16/malled_glendale_galleria_owner_files_chapter_11.php 

The French, they are a funny race
FRANCE ANTI-TOBACCO LAWS ROB MONSIEUR HULOT OF HIS PIPE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/17/monsieur-hulot-pipe-tati-retrospective 
SARKOZY INSULTS WORLD LEADERS RIGHT AND LEFT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5168147/Nicolas-Sarkozy-insults-world-leaders-over-lunch.html 

Animals in the news!
INVESTIGATING CRIMES AGAINST CREATURES
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891834,00.html
Ever wonder where did the feathers on your fancy piece of jewelry came from? What about the ivory in your souvenir statue? The illegal wildlife trade nets about $20 million a year — less than drugs but more than weapons — and ounce-for-ounce, some animal products (such as rhino horn and bear gall bladders) are literally worth more than gold. With so much money on the line, to whom does one turn when someone breaks an animal protection law?

 Argh, Jim-boy!
”PIRATE BAY” FOUNDERS JAILED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8003799.stm

Israelity
NOW ISRAEL SAYS IT WILL NOT STRIKE IRAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Israeli_president_We_will_not_strike_0416.html 

People’s Repugnic
CHINA WOMAN FACES DEATH PENALTY FOR PYRAMID SCHEME
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8004002.stm 

Enviro Wacko
1,500 INDIA FARMERS COMMIT SUICIDE
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/137059/1%2C500_indian_farmers_commit_mass_suicide%3A_why_we_are_complicit_in_these_deaths/ 
MEGA-DROUGHTS FOR AFRICA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/17/MNCN173NB5.DTL

World gone mad
WOMEN IN SURGICAL SEARCH FOR ‘THE PERFECT VAGINA’
http://www.alternet.org/sex/136909/in_search_of_the_%22perfect%22_vagina%3A_women_spend_and_%28spread%29_to_achieve_porn_ideal/ 
EDIBLE SYRIAN UNDERWEAR
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,619610,00.html 
It's the "latest thing," Abdullah Hayek says, holding the garment up. It's an almost non-existent bra and thong, which consists of strings and a tiny triangle. It's s made, not of fabric, but of sugar fondant, which has been rolled out until it is wafer-thin, held together with elastic cords.

 Oh, by the way. . .
FLASH! WHITE BLUEBELLS FOUND!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/5171581/Rare-white-bluebells-found-in-park.html 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

NEW DYLAN ALBUM REVIEWED
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/neilmccormick/5170256/Bob-Dylan-Together-Through-Life-review.html
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article6106544.ece 
DYLAN CO-WROTE NEW ALBUM WITH GRATEFUL DEAD LYRICIST ROBERT HUNTER
http://www.digitalspy.com/music/a152949/dylan-co-wrote-new-lyrics-with-poet.html 
MCCARTNEY’S COACHELLA SHOW TO BE WEBCAST
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d16-Beatle-news-briefs-Coachella-fest-to-be-webcast 

Film
 WERNER HERZOG’S “ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/16/werner-herzog-antarctica-film-encounters-at-the-end-of-the-world?picture=346059977 

Gallery
A PHOTOG’S JOURNEY THROUGH BORNEO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/apr/17/photography-wildlife-travel-national-geographic?picture=345750930 
CLONED GOAT, ETC.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/week-in-news-pictures-126/index.html 

Thought for food
RAMSAY USES PRE-MADE MEALS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5169631/Gordon-Ramsay-accused-of-using-ready-meals-in-his-restaurants.html

Oh, by the way. . .
INBREEDING RUINED THE HAPSBURGS
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/revealed-the-inbreeding-that-ruined-the-hapsburgs-1668857.html 

And in the end. . .
EIGHT FEET
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5169254/Is-8ft-Zhao-Liang-the-worlds-tallest-man.html 


‘4/16/09

DAILY CONCERT
SHE'S MY BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F6FP11GVSI 
SHE'S MY BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yidJbNm8Uo
SHE'S MY BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP-4IizUtPs
SHE'S MY BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5AZIDktDs0
SHE'S MY BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzaUZJo3PBA
YOU'RE MY BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR6hV5CWYIE

Skylines:
 BUS DRIVER FIRED FOR SAVING TOAD
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,619314,00.html 

OBAMA WINE’---PROFITS TO DARFUR
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,619359,00.html 

TEABAGGING---THE MOVIE
 http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/04/cartoon_teabagging_the_movie.html

SNAKES ON A PLANE!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8001644.stm 

OCTOPUSSY WANTS TO TRADEMARK “OCTOMOM!”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0415091octo1.html 

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

90,000 ACRES OF NAT’L. FOREST TO BE PAVED AND LOGGED?
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/15/will-roadless-national-forests-soon-be-paved-and-logged/

Africa, paradise on earth!
STARVING ZIMBABWE EATS ELEPHANTS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8002284.stm 

KRISTOF: HUMANITY FOR NON-HUMANS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/opinion/09kristof.html?_r=1 

TEXAS GOV.: WE MIGHT SECEDE FROM THE UNION
By all means! Please do! Sooner the better!
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/15/texas-could-secede-from-the-union-governor-says/ 
And take troglodyte Glenn Beck with you
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/16/beck-endorses-secession/
Texas Secede.com
http://www.texassecede.com/ 

Iraq and Roll
SOLDIER GETS LIFE FOR MURDERING IRAQIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/5165167/US-army-soldier-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-murder-of-Iraqi-prisoners.html 

Mashed Media
 RIGHT-WINGERS, COWARDLY CORPORATE MEDIA OUT TO DESTROY OBAMA
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/136834/right-wingers_are_desperately_trying_to_destroy_obama%2C_and_the_cowardly_corporate_media_are_helping_/
Watching Glenn Beck of Fox News rant about "progressive fascism" -- and muse about armed insurrection -- or listening to mainstream pundits prattle on about Barack Obama as the "most polarizing President ever," it is hard to escape the conclusion that today’s U.S. news media represents a danger to the Republic.

 Repugnicans
TEN REPUGNICAN LIES FOR TAX DAY
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/10-republican-lies-tax-day 
HEY, ‘TEABAGGERS’---WHAT REAL PROTESTS LOOK LIKE
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/014002.php 

Enviro Wacko
SEA LEVELS RISING REAL FAST
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891605,00.html 
There is enough water locked on Greenland alone to raise global sea levels by 23 ft. (7 m) if it melted, which would swamp coastal cities like London and Shanghai and all but wipe away small island states like the Maldives and Tuvalu.
RED MEAT OR CHICKEN? LIKE CHOOSING BETWEEN HUMMER AND SUV
http://www.alternet.org/environment/136648/red_meat_or_chicken_that%27s_like_choosing_between_an_suv_and_a_hummer_/
THE WARBLER’S LONG WINTER JOURNEY JUST GOT LONGER
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891579,00.html 
HONEYBEES CONTINUE TO VANISH---BLAME PESTICIDES
http://www.alternet.org/environment/136827/honeybees_continue_to_vanish%3A_don%27t_blame_aliens_--_it%27s_our_addiction_to_pesticides_that%27s_at_fault/ 

All-melty dollar
 THE UNEMPLOYED COUPLE
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1891475_1891477,00.html 

War on drugs
THE VILLAGE THE COCAINE BUILT
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1891417,00.html 

War in error
LONDON COPS DELETE TOURIST PICS FROM CAMERA---TERROR FEAR
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/16/police-delete-tourist-photos

Technically
BOO! WATCH OUT FOR SCAREWARE
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123976230407519659-lMyQjAxMDI5MzE5NjcxNjYyWj.html 
THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF E-MAIL SPAM
 http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/04/15/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-email-spam/ 

Unreal Estate
SOMEWHERE IN THE SUNSET
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/16/BU1H171SVV.DTL 

Oh, by the way. . .
CHINA FARMERS SET UP DIALYSIS CLINIC---
WHEN GOV’T. HEALTH CARE FAILS THEM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5165350/Chinese-farmers-set-up-DIY-dialysis-clinic-in-battle-to-reform-crumbling-healthcare-system.html
U.S. COURT STOPS DEMJANJUK’S DEPORTATION TO GERMANY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,619226,00.html 
FEMALE ANT NO LONGER REQUIRES MALES FOR ANYTHING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5163589/Females-get-along-fine-without-males---in-the-world-of-tropical-ants.html 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

WHY NOT BOO?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123758739465399861.html 

SOON TO GROW ON THE MOON: BRUSSEL SPROUTS, FLOWERS
http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2009/04/16/soon-to-grow-on-the-moon-brussels-sprouts-and-flowers/ 

PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0415/ 

Musique
BARENBOIM TO LEAD CAIRO PHILHARMONIC
A one-man Middle East peace
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8002684.stm 
DUDAMEL’S MUSICAL REVOLUTION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8000661.stm 

For Art’s Sake
FIERCE IMAGES, SERENE TONE
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123983525102722719.html 

And in the end. . .
GROUCHO VS. THE MILLIONAIRE
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-138 

4/15/09

DAILY CONCERT
SOUND OF MUSIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gWQzqd6Bh0
SOUND OF MUSIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpsOvrGrPs8
CANYONS OF YOUR MIND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PgNsps7k30
WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ETiQvL6alI
URBAN SPACEMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbLDI5lNdRQ
ROCKETMAN (HAHAHAHA!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3MGN899yE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzrKlEtxTx4
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc9lkSjYjc
TAXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dwksSbD34

Skylines:
PICS FROM GEORGE HARRISON DAY
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d14-More-celebrity-pictures-from-George-Harrison-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame-star-ceremony 
NBC WANTS TO DROP BLAGO IN COSTA RICAN JUNGLE
Good idea!
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1891405,00.html 

AMERICAN APPAREL SLAMS WOODY ALLEN’S SEX LIFE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/15/national/a051916D05.DTL&tsp=1
"Woody Allen expects $10 million for use of his image on billboards that were up and down in less than one week. I think Woody Allen overestimates the value of his image," Slotnick said.

ITCHING? SCRATCH IT!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6046414.ece 

TREE GOT PLENTY OF AIR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5152953/Surgeons-find-fir-tree-growing-inside-patients-lung.html

MAN BITES DOG---ER, SNAKE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/5157479/Kenyan-man-bites-python-in-struggle-to-survive.html 

PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0414/


AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

TALIBAN TAKING OVER PAKISTAN
Can you say “nuke?”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0415/p06s13-wosc.html 
MUST WATCH: CHILDREN OF THE TALIBAN
If you did not see “Frontline” last night, watch it here
 http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/pakistan802/ 
Related:
Afghan women protest rape laws, are pelted with stones
Yes, occupying this stone-age mess of a country will do a lot of good.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/15/afghan-rape-law-protest/ 

LONG ROAD BACK FOR CHATSWORTH TRAIN CRASH SURVIVOR
Remember this, jackasses, when you are texting while driving, like that train "engineer"
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-metrolink-survivor15-2009apr15,0,2690607.story 

Good news!
BANKING CROOK LEAPS TO DEATH
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/article992277.ece 

Lost Angeles
 LOPEZ: TOKYO SHAMES L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez15-2009apr15,0,4025192.column 
This is the cleanest city I've ever visited, and residents seem to take great pride in that. One day my wife and I saw a uniformed man on his knees, scraping a tiny wad of gunk off the pavement, and we saw no graffiti anywhere. In Los Angeles, why do we think it's OK to foul our own nest?

ST. JOE MINISTERS TO THE ORPHANS OF THAILAND---
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/26/st-joe-teaches-thai-orphans-%e2%80%98to-be-good%e2%80%99/ 
Then Maier calls on a blind girl with AIDS who was raised in a municipal garbage dump by her scavenger parents until they both died. Now she goes to a school for the blind and lives at the Mercy Centre. Her Braille reading and typing skills are improving, she tells “Khun Phaa” (Mister Father) proudly.
---AND L.A. ‘FOOD CLUB’ IN 45TH YEAR OF GLUTTONY
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-foodclub15-2009apr15,0,3931090.story

AT AN AGE OF MUSIC AND DREAMS, REAL LIFE INTRUDES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/us/15land.html?emc=eta1
Her name is Tiffany Clay and she is 18, with light brown hair tied in a ponytail and large eyes that always seem at the edge of tears. She has been on her own, more or less, since she was 16, and the violin in her delicate hands was bought for $175 on eBay by her music teacher. She is a complicated young woman, says that teacher, and a gifted musician. Consistently at or near the very top of her class. Should be going to a top college, on scholarship. Should be, but won’t be, because she feels a need to make money more than music.

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: CURB WORLD POPULATION
Well, of course. . .about 50 years overdue. . .
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6087833.ece 

Argh, Jim-boy!
DOLPHINS STOP PIRATE ATTACK---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/14/content_11184581.htm
---SO DO THE FRENCH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8000447.stm
PIRATES IN ROCKET ATTACK
 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pirates_stage_rocket_attack_on_US_0415.html 
PIRATE ROUND-UP
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=04&year=2009&base_name=pirate_roundup 
RAIMUNDO: BARRY AND THE PIRATES
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/ 
The greatest danger is that this upsurge in "piracy" – i.e., private individuals engaging in activities that are normally monopolized by government agencies – will provoke a new wave of pundit palaver calling for the U.S. to "do something" about the problem by going after the "root causes." This is code for undertaking a full-scale military and social engineering project to "rescue" poor little Somalia from the cruel orphanage of statelessness.
Exclusive Pirate Footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv0mNkT8D00 

SPECTOR: ‘TRUST ME. YOU DON’T WANT MY LIFE’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/phil-spector/5154302/Phil-Spector-nobody-would-want-his-life-now.html 

GAWD HELP US: GINGRICH TO RUN IN 2012?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Gingrich_eyes_presidential_run_in_2012_0415.html 

LINDORFF:
IT'S APRIL 15, TIME TO PAY FOR WAR, KILLING AND OPPRESSION AGAIN!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/298
As you’re mailing out that tax return again this year, it’s time to remember once again how much of your hard-earned bucks are being devoted to destruction, imperialist domination, slaughter and war, to funding ridiculous programs like the failed anti-missile system, and also to supporting a massively bureaucratic and overstaffed military.

 SCHEER: ENDGAME FOR GRAMM?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090414_endgame_for_gramm/
Sure, Phil Gramm lost his position as the co-chairman of John McCain’s presidential campaign when he blamed the recession not on the banking deregulation he championed but rather the people of the United States, which he described as a “nation of whiners.” But that was a sideshow compared with the serious charges now swirling around UBS, charges that may finally prove to be Gramm’s undoing.

QUEENAN: DEAR RICH ASSHOLES---HANDS OFF OUR RECESSION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/15/joe-queenan-us-recession
The global economic meltdown has reached the stage where even the planet's wealthiest people are beginning to feel it. According to the New York Times, executives who once broke bread at the finest bistros in Gotham are holding meetings in diners. High-powered attorneys have been spotted eating in restaurants that take coupons. Socialites occasionally wear previously worn dresses to formal events.

 MORFORD: BETTER TO BE RICH ‘N’ SLOTHFUL, OR LEAN ‘N’ PANICKY?
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/15/notes041509.DTL
From the ashes, multiple phoenix. From the Bush, the Obama. From the realization that we're long overdue for a wake-up call and a grand social emetic, the rare and precious chance to slap ourselves awake before it's too late, even though it probably is. The delicious Rule of American Irony holds: When we are rich and pampered and living far beyond our means, we can get very stupid, very quickly. We waste, abuse, deny, ease watchdog efforts and spawn Bernie Madoffs, AIG and Dick Cheney. Addiction to inflated prosperity often breeds laziness and greed, a violent fear that someone is going to come along and take it all away.

Mashed Media
GITMO PRISONER PHONES ‘UNCLE’---IT’S REALLY AL-JAZEERA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,619195,00.html 
NEWSPAPER DISAPPEARS IN A WIRED TOWN
http://www.csmonitor.com/patchworknation/csmstaff/2009/0415/a-newspaper-disappears-in-a-wired-town/ 
GUEST PASSES OUT ON GLENN BECK SHOW
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/guest-passes-out-glenn-beck-show 

Kim Nook Yoo
WHAT IS NORTH KOREA THINKING?
Not much!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0415/p02s01-usfp.html

Animals in the news!
WAVE GOODBYE TO THE BEAUTIFUL TIGERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/15/bengal-tigers-faces-photography?picture=345983658 

Science
ALGAE COULD SUPPLY ENTIRE WORLD WITH AVIATION FUEL
Better to just supply the entire world with algae
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,618859,00.html
PHOTO GALLERY: NORTHERN LIGHTS
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/scienceandtechnologypicturegall/5153963/Northern-lights-photographs-of-the-Aurora-Borealis-around-the-Arctic-Circle.html 
SOLAR EXPLOSIONS IN 3-D
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090414-3-d-solar-storms.html 

Unreal Estate
PAINT-BY-NUMBERS L.A. JOINT
Hey, looks nice to the Rip Post, but then, we have no taste
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/new_to_market_painting_by_the_numbers_in_los_feliz.php 
CHI-CHI Z GALLERIE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
Hahahahaha
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/retail/article991961.ece

Obit
JUDITH KRUG: HEROICALLY FOUGHT BOOK BANNING
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/us/15krug.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries 

Oh, by the way. . .
 FIDEL CASTRO: STOP THE BLOCKADE
http://www.alternet.org/audits/136665/fidel_castro%3A_mr._obama%2C_the_blockade_of_cuba_takes_lives_and_brings_suffering/ 
CUBA: OPEN FOR BUSINESS---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/14/cuba-us-sanctions-obama 
---BUT NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO AMERICANO TURISTAS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/5155027/Change-is-slow-in-Cuba--and-that-suits-just-about-everyone.html 
Brief history of U.S./Cuba relations
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1891359,00.html 

AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .

HERE IT IS: THE YOUTUBE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/5157542/YouTube-symphony-orchestra-heads-to-Carnegie-Hall.html
Will play Tan Dun’s first symphony---also first symphony composed for the Internet
http://www.hauwaerts.be/2008/12/14/internet-symphony-no-1-eroica-tan-dun/ 


Film
TROUBLE WITH BOYHOOD LENNON BIOPIC
Author claims to  own memories of his subject?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/apr/15/john-lennon-sam-taylor-wood

For Art’s Sake
GUERNICA, DECONSTRUCTED
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7986540.stm 
BEACH RUBBISH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/14/beach-rubbish-andy-hughes-photography?picture=345942126 

Fashionism
 THE DAY I THREW AWAY FASHION
Took her sixty years. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/15/fashion-older-women-magazines 

Auto Motive
VW GOLF GTI REVIEWED
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/carreviews/5131191/Volkswagen-Golf-GTI-review.html
 
 Where ya goin’?
BATHING IS BEST IN BUDAPEST
And the rain in Spain stays. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/5154381/Hungary-Bathing-isbest-in-Budapest.html 
BRAZIL BEACHES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/15/beach-brazil-top-10 
PARIS CAFES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/15/paris-pavement-cafes-bars-france

And in the end. . .
PARROTS
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=PARROTS&aq=f&oq=

4/14/09

DAILY CONCERT
MORGAN THE PIRATE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE0c_F44xZI 
GEORGE THE PIRATE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGbRHxM4X2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSIjlUMV6Is
YO HO HO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcv5TJkJBA
YO HO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIN-MqaA_Dk
WHISKEY JOHNNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4phA6qPDE
A SALTY DOG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6BzNEZxbiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYpN3xuOio

Skylines:
HAPPY GEORGE HARRISON DAY
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d13-Beatle-news-briefs-Its-George-Harrison-Day 
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/e3i89d7632ddc985bd187a802f747282395 

SAVED BY A BRA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/5152632/Bra-saves-womans-life-in-robbery-shooting.html 

R.I.P. POOR MARILYN CHAMBERS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/13/entertainment/e113715D45.DTL 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6QW55Xvm8 

MAN KILLED BY PALM FRONDS
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/14/national/a070701D92.DTL&tsp=1 

OCEAN IN A ROOM!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audioslideshow/2009/apr/14/japan-aquarium 

TESTE DRIVE
http://digg.com/d1ocut

AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .

GERMANY BANS FRANKENCORN!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,618913,00.html 

SCIENTISTS: WORLD WILL NOT DEFEAT GLOBAL WARMING
 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/14

ANIMAL MURDERERS PAY $35K TO SHOOT A POLAR BEAR
This race doesn’t deserve to survive. . .
http://www.alternet.org/environment/136469/bag_a_polar_bear_for_%2435%2C000_--_hunters_in_rising_numbers_willing_to_shell_out_for_exotic_trophy/ 

STEM CELLS REVERSE TYPE 1 DIABETES
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891122,00.html 

POT: AMERICA’S UNUSED CASH CROP
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/136467/legalizing_pot_makes_lots_of_cents_for_our_cash-starved_government/
the retail value of the total U.S. marijuana market now stands at a whopping $113 billion per year. Using standard tax percentages obtained from the Office of Management and Budget, he calculates that the diversion of this market from the taxable economy deprives taxpayers of $31.1 billion annually.
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE (LOSING) WAR ON DRUGS. . .
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm

Bordering on madness
 LINDORFF: AMERICA IS SIMPLY LOSING IT
http://thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/297 
People really flipped out after 9-11, and many still think it’s okay to treat “furriners” differently than we treat our own citizens, but aside from the fact that the US Constitution doesn’t distinguish between citizen and tourist or illegal resident, the growing number of arrests, detentions and even deportations of American citizens by the INS shows what can happen when we start saying that some people don’t deserve the protections afforded by that document.

 CHOPRA: THE DILEMMA OF THE ‘GOOD’ MUSLIM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/13/chopra041309.DTL&type=living
So for us to believe in good Muslims, we need more. We — and here I mean the entire world — need the vast majority of Muslims to wake up and then to stand up. Fear is the greatest ally of terrorism, but denial comes in a close second.

 Israelity
 HEDGES: ISRAEL’S RACIST-IN-CHIEF
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22406.htm 
Israel has changed. And the racist virus spread by Kahane, whose thugs were charged with the murders and beatings of dozens of unarmed Palestinians and whose members held rallies in Jerusalem where they chanted "Death to Arabs!" has returned to Israel in the figure of Israel's powerful new foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman. Lieberman openly calls for an araberrein Israel-an Israel free of Arabs.

 Mashed Media
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. . .
EBERT’S LETTER TO BILL O’ REILLY
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904079997 
PALIN FILMMAKER CALLS COURIC AWARD ‘OUTRAGE’
 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_filmmaker_outraged_at_media_award_0413.html
The Rip Post agrees---not because of her Palin interviews, though---she’s just a pinhead
LIMBAUGH/JONAH GOLDBERG SMACKDOWN!
Not since Godzilla met the Smog Monster. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_filmmaker_outraged_at_media_award_0413.html 
BRAIN POLICE: KEEP YOUR CULTURAL REFERENCES CURRENT. . .
Or you’ll be thought of as irrelevant by the Eloi
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003961768
(And for those of you who do not know who the Eloi are. . .)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv7J9LtT95w 
CRAZY IRAN PUTS U.S. JOURNALIST ON TRIAL
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_puts_US_reporter_on_trial_for__04142009.html 

Argh, Jim-boy
FOUR MORE SHIPS TAKEN BY PIRATES
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090414/ap_on_re_af/piracy 
SAVAGES TAKE 60 HOSTAGES THIS TIME
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/14/international/i004934D49.DTL&tsp=1 
Exclusive footage!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6WV_NapWg 

People’s Repugnic
 REYNOLDS: WHAT HAPPENED TO CHINA’S OLYMPIC STADIUM?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/

 Repugnicans
GONZALEZ TO BE INDICTED?
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/scott-horton-bush-six-be-indicted
PALIN’S AG DEFENDED STATUE OF KKK MEMBER
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/14/wayne-ross-kkk/ 
HERE COMES “DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/14/ensign-drilling/ 
KRUGMAN: DON’T LAUGH AT NUTTY REPUGS---
THEY COULD WIND UP IN POWER AGAIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/opinion/13krugman.html?em 
But everything that critics mock about these parties has long been standard practice within the Republican Party. Thus, President Obama is being called a “socialist” who seeks to destroy capitalism. Why? Because he wants to raise the tax rate on the highest-income Americans back to, um, about 10 percentage points less than it was for most of the Reagan administration. Bizarre. But the charge of socialism is being thrown around only because “liberal” doesn’t seem to carry the punch it used to.

 EHRENS: WAR STINKS AND WE NEED TO SMELL IT
http://thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/296

Asinine Commentary of the Week!
NYC MAYOR WANTS RESTAURANTS TO CUT SALT---
THIS HYSTERIC THINKS IT IS HUMAN ‘EXPERIMENTATION’
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/science/07tier.html?_r=1 

Animals in the news!
A WOMAN AND HER ANTEATER
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Cute?_No,_this_anteater_can_be_aard_vark_at_times&in_article_id=618046&in_page_id=34&in_a_source= 
CLONED CAMEL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5153780/Worlds-first-cloned-camel-unveiled-in-Dubai.html 

Oh, by the way. . .
GIRL CHOOSES PARENTS OVER JAPAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7998048.stm 
GOD’S HAND FOUND
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hand_of_God_seen_in_space&in_article_id=619381&in_page_id=2 

And in more important matters. . .

DENNY’S: WHERE FOOD IS FREE AND DRUNKS CAN PEE
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1890709,00.html 

THE LATEST UTTER DEGRADATION OF FINE ART
Leave it to Robert Wilson and Rufus Wainwright to defecate on Shakespeare
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,618968,00.html 

Musique
A VIOLIN AMID IRAQ VIOLENCE
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/violins.php
REVIEW: L.A. OPERA’S “DIE VOGEL”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/arts/music/14bird.html?adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1239725150-jq+5eJ1IFY91mNNR0j78hQ 

Cheap Gossip About Unimportant Assholes
SCARLETT JOHANSSON FIGHTS UGLY DIET RUMOR!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/14/scarlett-johansson-iron-man-2-no-crash-diet 
related:
HEY, SCARLETT---HERE’S A RECIPE YOU MIGHT LIKE!
 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4hvio_haiti-starvation-mud-cookies_news 

Books
 GRAPES OF WRATH: CLASSIC FOR TODAY
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7992942.stm 

Obit
PRODUCER SIMON CHANNING-WILLIAMS
Great collaborator of the great Mike Leigh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/apr/14/simon-channing-williams-mike-leigh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/7998019.stm

For Art’s Sake
THE DAY THE MONA LISA WAS STOLEN
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6067646.ece?token=null&print=yes&randnum=1239697599328 

And in the end. . .
DO, A DEER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k



 


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