DAILY NEWSLINKS

Rip Post correspondents are scanning the world's news services in search of links to news and commentary that you might not find in your local Picayune-Intelligencer. This page is updated daily, or when the editors feel like it. Special thanks to E. Pluribus Sputum for contributions.

Quotatious:
"You can't run a country by a book fo religion/ not by a heap, or a lump, or a smidgeon. . ."---Frank Zappa.

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President."---President Theodore Roosevelt.

"Take care, beware of greedy leaders/ they'll take you where you should not go. . ."---George Harrison.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ---July 26, 1920, H.L. Mencken in The Evening Sun.
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NEWS AND COMMENT

5/1
SKYLINES:

FISHERMEN CATCH DEER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2069789,00.html

RINGO FORGOT PLAYING ON GEORGE’S “ALL THINGS MUST PASS”
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/04/27/ringo_starr_couldn_t_recall_recording_al

PROTESTERS UNFURL ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’ BANNER IN D.C.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/50foot_Mission_Accomplished_banner_unfurled_in_0430.html

SF TANKER DRIVER HAD DRUG RECORD
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/01/MNGQUPIKI01.DTL

ITALIANS ARE LIKE CHIMPS---STUDY
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=47338&in_page_id=34

And on to news and comment. . .

Lost Angeles
L.A.---THE MOST POLLUTED CITY IN THE COUNTRY
Psychologically, too!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_sc/polluted_cities
Related:
BEIJING CAR BAN CUT POLLUTION 40 PERCENT
Light rail and bicycles are the only sane future
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12684

War in error
FORGED ‘YELLOWCAKE’ MEMO LEADS TO CHENEY
---EX-CIA ANALYST
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ExCIA_analyst_Forged_yellowcake_memo_leads_0430.html
BIN-LADEN LOOKALIKE ARRESTED TWICE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MDJ2B4RVZB4ADQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/05/01/wuswar201.xml

Electile Dysfunction
CLINTON SUPPORT FADING?
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Obama_gains_on_Clinton_in_US_presid_04302007.html 

Mission accomplished!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED---BY THE NUMBERS
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/01/mission-accomplished-07/
MUST VIEW: BUSH IRAQ SPEECH CONTRASTED WITH HEADLINES
“Mission Accomplished,” by Juan Cole
http://www.juancole.com/2007/05/mission-accomplished-4-years-on.html
TERROR ATTACKS UP 40 PERCENT IN THE LAST YEAR---MOSTLY IN IRAQ
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6610345.stm

FEINSTEIN PLAN WOULD CLOSE GITMO
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/feinstein-proposes-plan-to-close-gitmo-2007-04-30.html

Iraq and Roll
THE WIDOWS OF IRAQ
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17626.htm
AL-QAEDA LEADER IN IRAQ BELIEVED DEAD
Before invasion, there was no Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2069653,00.html

Your Corporatocracy at work!
COST OF WAR: $500 BILLION
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050107J.shtml
SEE IT BROKEN DOWN IN TERMS OF HEALTH CARE, SCHOLARSHIPS, HOUSING, ETC.
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

THOMPSON: BILLION-BILKING BUSH
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2387
The late Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois put it best. "A billion here, a billion there," Dirksen said. "Pretty soon we're talking about real money."

Wolf-Man
WOLF-MAN ANGLING FOR AN EXIT?
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2069518,00.html
VENEZUELA TO QUIT WORLD BANK
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=8190&sectionid=3510207

Mardis Grave
PUMP BID FOR NEW ORLEANS RIGGED?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/30/pump-bid-for-new-orleans-may-have-been-rigged/
When the Army Corps of Engineers solicited bids for drainage pumps for New Orleans, “it copied the specifications — typos and all — from the catalog of the manufacturer that ultimately won the $32 million contract.” That manufacturer: MWI. “MWI employed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, President George W. Bush’s brother, to market its pumps during the 1980s, and top MWI officials have been major contributors to the Republican Party.”

ROBERTS: BUSH HAS DESTROYED IRAQ---AND THE USA
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17621.htm
The most frightening fact about the Bush administration is that not a single office is held by a competent or qualified person. Integrity is so rare among Bush appointees that integrity has been silenced. That should concern all Americans. Even Republicans.

NO, THE SECOND AMENDMENT DOES NOT GIVE UNLIMITED GUNS TO UNLIMITED PEOPLE
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/30/a_deadly_misreading.php

MOYERS ON DAVID HALBERSTAM
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/27/remembering_david_halberstam.php

Mashed Media
AWFUL O.C. REGISTER’S ANDERSON IS PUB OF YEAR
Despite fact paper dropped 5 percent circ, 7 percent on Sunday
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003578258
CRIPPLED S.B. NEWS-PRESS DROPS TEN PERCENT
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-news1may01,1,2326306.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business&ctrack=2&cset=true

Animals in the news!
WOLF CLONES ARE REAL
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070430-wolf-clones.html
Beavers make an unwelcome return to Scotland after 250 years
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2496638.ece

Oh, by the way
U.S. REFUSES RUSSIA OFFER TO EXPLORE MOON TOGETHER
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1616249,00.html
IN THE HEART OF INDIA, LITTLE KNOWN CIVIL WAR
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0501/p06s02-wosc.html
JAPAN BRACES FOR OLD-AGE TSUNAMI
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1616221,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

INTERNET WILL SOON BEAM CONTENT INTO YOUR TV SET
And you’ll be able to make cocktails with your shoes
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0501/p01s03-ussc.html

OPERA GOES POP WITH YOUNG,
CLEAVAGE-JIGGLING SOPRANOS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,480228,00.html

R.I.P. SAXOPHONIST TOMMY NEWSOM
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/arts/01newsom.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

THE SINGING SENATOR OF MAURITANIA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6599701.stm

WORLD’S TALLEST PAGODA OPENS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6610999.stm

And in the end. . .
JOHN CAGE PERFORMS, 1960
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/04/john_cage_on_a_.html

4/30 
SKYLINES:

SOME FLOWERS TO START YOUR DAY
http://www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf

HERE IT IS---THE HARRY POTTER TRAILER
The Stepford Hogwarts Head looks a lot like Laura Bush. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/video/videoPlayer.html?inMediaId=1170&in_page_id=1

COPS PLANTED POT ON 92-YEAR-OLD WOMAN THEY KILLED IN BOTCHED DRUG RAID
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/51151/

BOY GEORGE CHAINED UP MALE ESCORT
That naughty, naughty Boy!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=451651&in_page_id=1773

MAN CUTS OFF PENIS IN PIZZA RESTAURANT
Thought it was peperoni
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=46391&in_page_id=34

THE AMAZING MAZE MELTDOWN
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/30/MNGK8PI1CI1.DTL

BLIND PILOT FLIES FROM LONDON TO SYDNEY
Now qualified to run for U.S. president
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/30/MNGK8PI1CI1.DTL

MORFORD: THE KEY CHAIN OF YOUR DOOM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/04/27/notes042707.DTL
See, somewhere inside this nifty car is a carefully calibrated sensor that can detect ... wait for it ... a human heartbeat. When it does, the car will send an urgent signal to your key fob and a red light will flash and a beeper will beep and you will be alerted that, well, there is something inside your car. And it has a beating heart. Translation: Holy s--.

And on to news and comment. . .

Mashed Media
LINDORFF: R.I.P. MAINSTREAM AMERICAN JOURNALISM
http://riprense.com/journalismobit.htm
NEWSPAPER CIRC CONTINUES SLIDE
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003578103
NEWSPAPERS CUT BACK ON SPACE FOR BOOK REVIEWS
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-connelly29apr29,0,3550610.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

ANOTHER ‘GRAN MARCHA’ FOR ‘IMMIGRANTS’ (READ: ILLEGALS) IN L.A. TUESDAY
Frankly, these racist separatists can marcha right outta town, for all The Rip Post cares
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/04/looking_ahead_to_tuesday.php

Good ol’ China
POISON IN PET FOOD IS AN OPEN SECRET IN CHINA
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/30/business/30food.php
For years, producers of animal feed all over China have secretly supplemented their feed with the substance, called melamine, a cheap additive that looks like protein in tests, even though it does not provide any nutritional benefits, according to melamine scrap traders and agricultural workers here.
FORCED ABORTIONS STILL RAMPANT IN CHINA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1615936,00.html
BEIJING CALLS FOR CLOSER TIES TO TAIWAN
The better to tie you with, my dear. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6602299.stm

We’ll meet again. . .
PUTIN: MUTUAL DESTRUCTION ASSURED IN BUSH’S MISSILE PLAN
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/04/27/afx3661979.html
LIBBY, CHENEY LIED ABOUT PAKISTANI NUKES---CIA ANALYST
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/They_sold_out_world_for_F16_0426.html

MORE BUSH CRONIES TO BE NAMED BY D.C. MADAM
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ABC_More_Bush_Admin._Officials_on_0430.html

Wolf-Man
WOLFMAN WANTS $400,000 TO QUIT WORLD BANK---REPORT
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Blog_Wolfowitz_wants_400k_promise_before_0430.html
CARTOON: THE WOLFMAN’S ‘TRUE CONFESSIONS’
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/04/cartoon_true_confessions.html

FIVE LONDON BOMB PLOTTERS JAILED FOR LIFE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2068824,00.html

Israelity
ISRAEL REPORT BLASTS OLMERT FOR LEBANON ASSAULT
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F18389634%2F

Impeachy Keen
MURTHA: IMPEACHMENT IS ‘ONE WAY TO INFLUENCE A PRESIDENT’
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/murtha-impeachment/
HUNDREDS CALL FOR BUSH IMPEACHMENT
http://www.komotv.com/news/local/6239391.html
California Democrats endorse Iraq withdrawal, impeachment
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/breaking/2007/04/democrats_endorse_iraq_withdra.html
WATCH: ‘LET’S IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4kTnP5VJ1k

Iraq and Roll
SEVEN OUT OF EIGHT IRAQ
RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FAILING
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C04%5C30%5Cstory_30-4-2007_pg4_5

Iran from the truth
REFORMISTS TAKE ON ALMONDJOYAD AND HIS MILITIAS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2068425,00.html
Rafsanjani at head of new alliance focusing on corruption and failing economy
Iran bans 'Western' hairstyles for men
They should do that in the west!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6605487.stm?ls

New Tenets
PLAME OUTING WRONG---TENET
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003578045
CHENEY IDOLIZED CHALABI
LIKE SCHOOLGIRL WITH A CRUSH---TENET
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/30/tenet-chalabi/

Electile Dysfunction
STATE HEARS FROM RICHARDSON, EDWARDS
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/30/MNGMNPHUB21.DTL

JON CARROLL: CAR POOL CHEATERS? I BLAME BUSH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/30/DDGITP16GU1.DTL
I despair, I despair. And I blame George W. Bush, because he's such a weasel. You know he'd use the carpool lane when he was driving alone. Because he's a rebel. To be fair: I'm not sure he's a complete weasel. Maybe he doesn't know a lot of the stuff that's going on. Maybe his staff keeps him protected from reality.

RAIMUNDO: BLUEPRINT FOR DICTATORSHIP
Recent legislation sets us up for police state
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10895
Last September, Congress passed the Defense Authorization Act, which empowered the president to declare martial law with very little provocation, namely in the aftermath of a "terrorist attack or incident." Having determined that "the execution of the laws" is hampered by the "incident," the president can unilaterally impose martial law – without the consent of Congress, which need only be informed of the event "as soon as practicable

GEN. ODOM: BUSH HAS GONE AWOL
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17619.htm
To put this in a simple army metaphor, the Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL, that is ‘absent without leave.’ He neither acts nor talks as though he is in charge. Rather, he engages in tit-for-tat games.Some in Congress on both sides of the aisle have responded with their own tits-for-tats. These kinds of games, however, are no longer helpful, much less amusing. They merely reflect the absence of effective leadership in a crisis. And we are in a crisis. Most Americans suspect that something is fundamentally wrong with the President’s management of the conflict in Iraq. And they are right.

CALIFORNIA TO EXPAND PRISONS BY $7.4 BILLION
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0430/p01s02-usju.html

Enviro Wacko
U.S. TO UNVEIL 5-YEAR PLAN FOR OFFSHORE RAPE TODAY
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12677

(Lack of) Health
SUPER POT CAUSES SCHIZOPHRENIA?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6606931.stm

Jesus H. Christ!
HEY, KIDS---IT’S BIBLICAL EROTIC CALENDARS!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,392005,00.html
JESUS APPEARS ON GOOGLE MAP!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=46674&in_page_id=2

Animals in the news!
FISHERMEN’S ‘GLOW STICKS’ MAY WIPE OUT SEA TURTLES
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070427-glow-sticks.html

And in more important matters. . .

SON READS VONNEGUT’S LAST-WRITTEN SPEECH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6605049.stm

RUSSIAN FAREWELL FOR THE GREAT ROSTROPOVICH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6604875.stm

RAINER: IN DEFENSE OF FILM CRITICS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0427/p11s02-almo.html
The rise of the blurbmeisters, who can be relied on to provide snappy quote lines for ad copy, is in direct proportion to the marginalization of serious critics. Even critics who should know better have been getting blurby – it's how they please their bosses, elevate their own profile, and brand their outlet.

Light reading
LET’S BE HAPPY LIKE THE DANES!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article1682382.ece
In the meantime, we can take some comfort from last week’s food scare. Bacon, a product for which Denmark is famous, can apparently cause lung disease and may well be one of the biggest killers in the world. That should wipe the smile off their faces.

For Art’s Sake
GERMAN STUDENTS GO NAKED
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,21199,00.html 

And in the end. . .
HOW TO PROPERLY POUR A BEER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X5-KX50ABY&NR=1

on vacation for a week. . .no news is good news. . .
4/19 
SKYLINES:

ALL-Y0U-CAN-EAT DODGER BASEBALL
http://www.slate.com/id/2164464/pagenum/all/#page_start
In January, my beloved Los Angeles Dodgers announced that they were turning Dodger Stadium's right-field bleachers into an all-you-can-eat pavilion. Tickets would cost $35 in advance and $40 on game days. In return, fans could gorge like George Kennedy in The Naked Gun.
Skylines

GREAT NEWS: 100 SEAL-KILLER BOATS TRAPPED BY ICE!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6570723.stm
Several of the boats are threatened with damage or sinking, and at least one crew had to abandon ship.

STONES PLAY, SO SEDATE THE HORSES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6570299.stm

DONKEY HAS ITS DAY IN COURT
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=45915&in_page_id=2
Buddy was calm, quiet and well-behaved. He looked the jurors in the eyes, and didn't bray loudly or defecate anywhere.

CHEVY TO UNVEIL ELECTRIC CAR
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12611

Morning serenade: Mary Hopkin, “Temma Harbour”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFax87x5YM

And on to news and comment. . .

BUSH, JUSTICE DEPT. TRIED TO CURB
VOTING IN BATTLEGROUND STATES
Hey, but don’t bother impeaching, America
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/politics/bal-te.attorneys19apr19,0,23441.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates, according to former department lawyers and a review of written records.

"Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats. Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust fund ... your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough ... to fulfil your hedonistic needs."
(Seems Cho and Bin-Laden have much in common.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,,2060708,00.html
CHO WAS ON ANTI-DEPRESSANT
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/features_julieshealthclub/2007/04/did_antidepress.html
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/04/4210_what_was_cho_se.html
2005 SCHOOL SHOOTER WAS ON PROZAC
http://www.bloggernews.net/16106
CHO TAKES POSE CUE FROM KOREAN FILM, ‘OLD BOY’
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003573662
STUDENTS FEARED CHO FOR 18 MONTHS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=449275&in_page_id=1811
THE DEAD STUDENTS, PROFILED
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/vatech_victims/article/0,28804,1612143_1611967,00.html

STUDY: 90 PERCENT OPPOSE GUN PERMITS
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/50729/
EUROPE PRESS EDITORIALS SLAM U.S. GUN MADNESS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,477882,00.html
HERBERT: HUMILIATION AND A GUN
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041907P.shtml
There are nearly 200 million firearms in private hands in the U.S., and more than 30,000 people - nearly 10 times the total number of Americans who have died in Iraq - are killed by those guns each year. In 1966 Americans were being killed by guns at the rate of 17,000 a year. An article in The Times examining such "rampages" as the Charles Whitman shootings said:

IDIOT TAIWAN GOV’T OFFICIALS FAKE COLLEGE HOSTAGE CRISIS
Apparently their idea of humor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6571361.stm

The Wolf Man
WOLF-MAN’S DEPUTY TELLS HIM TO QUIT WORLD BANK
But he can still lick his comb and wear socks with holes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2060756,00.html
WHOLE WORLD WANTS WOLF-MAN TO QUIT
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/18/610/
The calls for embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz to step down have gone global, coming from newspapers, officials, activists and even Internet bloggers from across the world.Wolfowitz, who took over as the 10th president of the World Bank in June 2005, has admitted to ordering a 60,000-dollar pay increase for his lover and Bank employee, Shaha Riza, before seconding her to the U.S. State Department as a part of an exorbitant compensation package.

Your corporatocracy at work!
EX-REAGAN ADVISOR: BUSH HAS ‘BANKRUPTED AMERICA’
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/50729/
TIME TO PULL PLUG ON STUDENT LOAN MESS
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/18/sallie_maes_menage_trois.php
The sale of Sallie Mae to a group of investors that includes JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America should confirm to members of Congress that it is time to pull the plug on what has been a huge ripoff of taxpayers and college students.

Impeachy Keen
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT TO BE FILED ON CHENEY
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/04/articles_of_impeachment_to_be.html
LINDORFF: BETRAYING JEFFERSON
http://thiscantbehappening.net
Not only do we have a president and vice president who are almost daily undermining and rending at the fabric of the Constitution. Not only do we have Democratic Party leaders actively barring the party’s elected representatives from standing up to the president by submitting bills of impeachment, as called for in the Constitution. We now have Democratic Party leaders in state legislatures betraying Founder Thomas Jefferson, by sabotaging grassroots efforts to get joint legislative resolutions passed demanding the start of impeachment proceedings in the House.

Iraq and roll
MASSIVE IRAQ REFUGEE PROBLEM
Mission accomplished!
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/19216/2007/03/17-115722-1.htm 
Nearly 4 million people have been forced to flee their homes since the U.S.-led invasion.
CARTOON: DOCTOR STRANGEPERLE
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/04/cartoon_richard_perle_dr_strangelove.html

The Torture Never Stops
EH? AUSTRALIA TO SWAP BOAT PEOPLE FOR GITMO ‘DETAINEES?’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,2060551,00.html
Nauru boat people switch for Guantánamo detainees; Asylum seeker groups condemn plan
as cruel.

(Lack of) Health
BAY AREA DOCS: ABORTION DECISION ENDANGERS WOMEN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/19/MNGL2PB6GJ1.DTL
USE HORMONE REPLACEMENT, RISK BREAST CANCER---STUDY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/19/MNGL2PB6GJ1.DTL

Enviro Wacko
GIANT VACCUM CLEANERS COULD COOL THE EARTH!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0419/p13s01-sten.html
CREMATION CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING---SCIENTIST
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Scientist_says_cremation_should_mee_04182007.html
SCHWARZENEGGER: FAKE ENVIRO HERO
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50700/
Schwarzenegger has become the GOP's Al Gore but the trouble is that his "environmentalism" isn't about curbing our reckless consumption; it's about having more cool choices -- if you can afford them.

Mashed Media
SF CHRON DEFILES ITSELF WITH FRONT-PAGE ADS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003573454
R.I.P. DAILY BREEZE EDITOR TRANFA, 49
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/7090886.html

Animals in the news!
NUT THREATENS TO KILL BABY KNUT THE POLAR BEAR
Humans are such a wonderful lot!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,478171,00.html
THE CAR-CHASING TIMBERWOLF OF WISCONSIN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/18/national/a135729D48.DTL&type=bondage
Race is on to save the leatherback turtle
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2461407.ece
The ancient Pacific leatherback faces extinction. So experts have found a novel way to generate interest in the plight of this mighty creature and its annual odyssey.

Oh, by the way. . .
NO SPITTING AT CHINA OLYMPICS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/world/asia/17manners.html?em&ex=1177128000&en=a539de0b968ac403&ei=5087%0A
RUSSIAN ORPHANAGES FULL, BUT FOREIGN ADOPTIONS THWARTED
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0419/p01s01-woeu.html
BUDAPEST JEWISH QUARTER THREATENED BY DEVELOPERS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,478207,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

ANGELINA JOLIE IS NUTTY AS A FRUITCAKE
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=45770&in_page_id=7
Jolie, who once publicly shared a lingering kissing with her own brother, James Haven, after her Oscar's victory for Girl Interrupted in 2000, also spoke openly about her fetish of using knives during sex, saying it first developed as a teenager. The Tomb Raider stars, who lost her virginity at the age of 14, revealed she used to cut her boyfriend with a knife after sex because it 'wasn't enough'.

WHY ARE AMERICANS AFRAID OF BEING NAKED?
(The Rip Post is afraid of seeing most of them naked, that’s for sure.)
http://www.alternet.org/story/50732/

For Art’s Sake
RARE JANE AUSTEN PORTRAIT TO BE AUCTIONED
Or is it Jane?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6570593.stm
EGYPT-GERMANY MUSEUM WAR OVER NEFERTITI
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070418-nefertiti-egypt.html

R.I.P. KITTY CARLISLE HART
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/theater/19hart.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
She practiced singing every day, exercised every morning (and was the first to tell anyone that she had beautiful legs, which she did) and believed that discipline was the key to life. In her last decades she became a popular lecturer. She often told her audiences, “With a soupçon of courage and a dash of self-discipline, one can make a small talent go a long way.”

The big question: Why are England doing so badly at cricket, and who is to blame?
http://sport.independent.co.uk/cricket/article2461447.ece

And in the end. . .
FLORENTINE POGENS
http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/misc/pogen.html
Lyrics to Zappa’s “Florentine Pogen”
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/index.php/Florentine_Pogen
Zappa Plays Zappa: Florentine Pogen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK7p_X1LBAU&mode=related&search=

4/18
SKYLINES:

CHIMPS ARE MORE EVOLVED THAN HUMANS
Especially president humans
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070417/sc_livescience/chimpsmoreevolvedthanhumans;_ylt=Au1ylx4VuvbqtRsATSTxpTrMWM0F

Lost Angeles
HERE IT IS---THE UGLIEST BUILDING IN L.A.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2007/04/here_it_is_your.php

HONG KONG DINERS FINED FOR LEAVING LEFTOVERS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0418/p01s02-woap.html

MORFORD ON SAVING THE WORLD
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/04/18/notes041807.DTL
Just look around. It feels as though your heart is being eaten by angry capitalist cockroaches. Like your id is being munched by deranged zombie architects. And your eyes, oh God your eyes, they can't help but be burned like charcoal as they take in mile after mile, town after town, dreary suburban dystopia after dreary suburban dystopia of massive gluttonous eco-mauling overdevelopment, more Wal-Marts and SUV dealers and scabby strip malls and so many generic prison compounds that are apparently actually tract-home complexes it makes you want to rip out your soul with a pickax and feed it to the few remaining wild coyotes in Joshua Tree before someone shoots them all to make way for a new Home Depot.

And on to news and comment. . .

COLE: IRAQ HAS TWO VIRGINIA TECHS EVERY DAY
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17545.htm
Virginia Tech will be gone from the headlines and the air waves by next week this time in the US, though the families of the victims will grieve for a lifetime. But next Tuesday I will come out here and report to you that 64 Iraqis have been killed in political violence. And those will mainly be the ones killed by bombs and mortars. They are only 13% of the total; most Iraqis killed violently, perhaps 500 a day throughout the country if you count criminal and tribal violence, are just shot down. Shot down, like the college students and professors at Blacksburg.

AMERICA’S WEAPONS, AMERICA’S TRAGEDY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,477908,00.html
Gun control? Why? Those who want to kill will always find a way, argue the US gun lobby, citing the example of the Erfurt school massacre. Even after the Blacksburg bloodbath, it is very unlikely that America's citizens will disarm -- quite the contrary.
GUN GROUPS SEIZE SHOOTING TO PROMOTE HANDGUNS
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1611939,00.html
If history is any guide, no one should be surprised at the counter-offensive, which is sure to focus on broadening concealed weapons laws that allow Americans to carry guns beyond their homes or cars. That is precisely what happened in Texas 15 years ago after an unemployed merchant seaman crashed his truck into a Killeen cafeteria, took out his gun and killed 23 in what until Monday was the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

‘ISMAIL AX’ WRITTEN ON CHO’S ARM
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Virginia_Tech_killer_identified__Cho_0417.html
http://www.thenewstribune.com/358/story/41771.html
BETWEEN VA. SHOOTINGS, COPS CHASED FALSE LEAD
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/18/news/virginia.php
KOREA REACTS WITH SHOCK, SHAME
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/18/news/react.php
CHO WAS ADMITTED TO MENTAL HEALTH UNIT IN 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6568781.stm
CHO WROTE VIOLENT, UGLY PLAYS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,477909,00.html
"I remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hated his stepfather. In the play the boy threw a chainsaw around, and hammers at him. But the play ended with the boy violently suffocating the father with a rice krispy treat," Derry said.
FACEBOOK EXPLODES WITH ANTI-ASIAN ANGER
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Naming_of_killer_leads_to_fast_0417.html

NAGASAKI MAYOR ITO DIES OF GUNSHOT
Another man of peace blown away
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/18/news/japan.php
There is a history of Japanese rightists, many with links to organized crime, attacking left-leaning politicians, particularly those who speak out against Yasukuni and the imperial family. In 1990, the previous mayor of Nagasaki, Hitoshi Motoshima, was shot and wounded after saying that the late Emperor Hirohito, who was Japan's emperor during World War II, bore some responsibility for the war. "My honest belief is that crime happened because Mayor Ito probably went too far in his peace activism," said Hirotami Yamada, secretary general of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers, which opposes nuclear weapons.
JAPAN PM CALLS SHOOTING ‘THREAT TO DEMOCRACY’
Uhh. . .yes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6565885.stm

BODY OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER FOUND IN PHILLIPINES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/18/international/i065515D81.DTL
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003572963

SCHEER: HECK OF A JOB, WOLFIE
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/heck_of_a_job_wolfie/
At least they can’t blame Paul Wolfowitz on the Jews anymore. That’s the good news in the scandal; his lover and neocon political soul mate, Shaha Ali Riza, the World Bank official who received a lucrative transfer to the State Department at Wolfowitz’s direction, is an Arab Muslim.

Impeachy-keen
LINDORFF: DOONESBURY, DENNIS, AND DICK
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/
Soon impeachment may reach the news pages, with word that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is planning to introduce a bill of impeachment in the House against Vice President Dick Cheney. (Of course, it wouldn’t be surprising if the mainstream media ignored that action, just as they’ve studiously ignored Kucinich’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.).
NICHOLS: IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST?
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=187164

Your corporatocracy at work
COKE, CHIQUITA, DRUMMOND PAID COLOMBIA PARAMILITARY
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/world/17095969.htm
POUND BREAKS $2
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/17/business/web-0417pound.php

Iraq and Roll
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER 127 DEAD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2060089,00.html
LATEST CHOPPER CRASH VICTIMS NAMED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2059672,00.html
SLIDESHOW: LIFE IN IRAQ THROUGH THE EYES OF A SIX-YEAR-OLD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2059672,00.html

Electile Dysfunction
THE $400 JOHN EDWARDS HAIRCUT---OR---HOW TO SELF-DESTRUCT
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2285
According to the A.P. John Edwards billed his campaign for two $400 haircuts. His vanity will be fodder for late night comics, but his stupidity for billing his campaign for this may cost him the nomination.

Ex-Spectorated
PHIL IS GUILTY---PROSPECTIVE JURORS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6566585.stm

Animals in the news!
8 MILLION SHARKS KILLED ACCIDENTALLY OFF AFRICA EACH YEAR
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070417-shark-fishing.html

Oh, by the way. . .
32 DIE IN CHINA FACTORY AFTER BEING SHOWERED WITH MOLTEN METAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6567649.stm
AMTRAK TRAIN STOPPED, ENGINEER BEATEN
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/18/BAGO2PAMV31.DTL

And in more important matters. . .

REMEMBERING WRITER KATHERINE MANSFIELD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/04/07/bokatherine.xml&site=6&page=0
Katherine Mansfield died in January 1923, only 15 years after she'd first, at the age of 18, decided to become a writer. Katherine Mansfield's spirit was awesome. She died so young. She lived so fast. But what did she achieve in this "short-winded" life (as her great biographer, Claire Tomalin, has described it)?

R.I.P. ‘WIZARD OF ID’ CO-CREATOR PARKER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/arts/design/18parker.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

JON CARROLL GOES HOUSE-SITTING
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/18/DDGITP18P71.DTL

And in the end. . .
DENSYA KAMO SHIRENAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG_Z2bnAq7c

4/17
SKYLINES:
MUST WATCH: THE ZIMMERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY

‘CRAZED HARE’ ATTACKS AUSTRIAN COUPLE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,477537,00.html

BULLET REMOVED FROM VIETNAM SOLDIER’S HEART AFTER 35 YEARS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6560855.stm

SUV’S MORE ECONOMICAL THAN HYBRIDS?
IT’S A MYTH---AND HERE’S WHY
http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto_News/Green_Car_News/Prius_Versus_HUMMER_Exploding_the_Myth.S196.A12220.html

And on to news and comment. . .

9/11/ Seven-11
FRANCE WARNED CIA ABOUT 9/11
Why the Bush administration was not thrown out long ago is a credit to this country’s stupidity---er, patience.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_France_warned_CIA_before_911_0416.html
THE FRENCH KNEW A LOT
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041707J.shtml


VIRGINIA TECH ADMINISTRATION IS CULPABLE FOR SHOOTING
University has “blood on its hands,” says one student---and he’s right
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/17/MNGFCP9UL21.DTL
The first e-mail message to students from the Virginia Tech administration did not go out until more than two hours later, at 9:26 a.m., stating that a shooting had occurred but with no mention of staying indoors or staying off-campus or canceling classes.
WAS THERE A SECOND KILLER AT VIRGINA TECH?
http://yournewreality.blogspot.com/2007/04/pure-massacre-killer-slaughters-32.html
VIRGINIA TECH KILLER WAS KOREAN NATIONAL---AND A LONER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6564653.stm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/17/national/a063204D07.DTL
A federal law enforcement official said Tuesday he had been told by other federal law enforcement officials that the two guns recovered in the shooting had had their serial numbers scraped off.
WORLD LEADERS CALL FOR GUN CONTROL
But people need their automatic weapons in order to go on killing sprees!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,477666,00.html
EUROPE PRESS BLAMES CHARLTON HESTON, NRA
And they are right.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,477686,00.html
THE DEAD KIDS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,,2059104,00.html
INDIA PROF AMONG THE MURDERED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6563813.stm
BUSH’S HORRIBLE, HOLLOW, CLICHED STATEMENTS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2265
LOOK AT THIS HEADLINE:
‘GRIEF GIVES WAY TO HEALING’
HEALING? HEALING? THE SHOOTING JUST HAPPENED!
AND YOU NEVER HEAL FROM THIS SORT OF THING, ANYHOW!
STUPID DAMN MEDIA
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0418/p25s01-usgn.html

MAYOR OF NAGASAKI SHOT, IN CRITICAL CONDITION
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1611207,00.html

Wolf-man
WOLF-MAN’S GIRLFRIEND INFLUENCED
HIS SUPPORT OF IRAQ INVASION
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/17/riza-iraq/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/washington/17wolfowitz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Big Dickhead
FIEND CHENEY NOW STOKES NUKE FEARS
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0704150326apr16,1,6049960.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Electile Dysfunction
SENIOR DEMS DEFECTING FROM HILLARY TO OBAMA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/story/0,,2058773,00.html

What is the law?
GONZALEZ CONTRADICTS HIMSELF
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041707K.shtml

Mashed Media
ROYALTIES TO KILL INTERNET RADIO
NPR appeals decision by U.S. copyright board
http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/royalties-to-kill-indie-internet-radio?articleid=29095117
SAVE INTERNET RADIO CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/pandora_and_oth.html
EVER LISTEN TO PLANET POOTWADDLE?
http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=128649
WHY DID SEATTLE PAPERS DECIDE TO JOINT-PUBLISH?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003669389_joa17.html

Imus be going
LIMBAUGH NEXT?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/After_Imus_Is_Rush_Limbaugh_next_0416.html

Iraq and Roll
HUNDREDS LINE CALIF. MOTORCADE ROUTE OF FALLEN SOLDIER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/17/BAGHEP9UDM1.DTL
SHEEHAN: NO. 3291
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041707N.shtml
I met the aunt of Number 3291 today. I was sitting in seat 11E and a flight attendant gave me a note from a woman in seat 33C: "My nephew was killed in Iraq yesterday. I would like to meet you."
GALLAGHER: BUSH IS BEST BUDDY OSAMA EVER HAD!
http://niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher310.html

Jesus H. Christ!
BUSH’S BLACKWATER: KILLING FOR CHRIST
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2249
Blackwater was co-founded by former Navy Seal Erik Prince, a "billionaire right-wing fundamentalist Christian from a powerful Michigan Republican family. A major Republican campaign contributor, he interned in the White House of President George H.W. Bush and campaigned for Pat Buchanan in 1992. He founded the mercenary firm Blackwater USA in 1997 with Gary Jackson, another former Navy SEAL."
UGLY AMERICAN EVANGELICALS TRY TO CHANGE GERMAN HOME-SCHOOLING LAW
Religious zeal---the most destructive force in the world
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0417/p01s03-woeu.html

Your corporatocracy at work!
WAL-MART WON’T PAY MORE FOR EMPLOYEE HEALTH CARE
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-bz.md.walmart17apr17,0,7435754.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
CALIFORNIA FORECLOSURES AT A TEN-YEAR HIGH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/17/BUGCQP9MBO1.DTL

Enviro Wacko
CHINA GUILTY OF ILLEGAL LOGGING---GREENPEACE
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK340084.htm
Environmental group Greenpeace said on Tuesday China should take responsibility for illegal hardwood logging in Southeast Asia which supplied the raw materials for Chinese exports to the West.
‘GOLD RUSH’ FOR WOOD FLOORING IS DESTROYING ENDANGERED HABITAT
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/lifestyle/article2455033.ece
Just as demand for mahogany is disfiguring the Amazon, demand for the golden wood merbau is doing immense damage to the forests of New Guinea, described as the place on earth that best resembles "the Garden of Eden".

Animals in the news!
SNAKE-RIDDEN FLORIDA ISLAND IS HAVEN FOR BIRDS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070416-cottonmouth.html
SIBERIAN TIGERS BOUNCING BACK
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070419-tiger-picture.html

(Lack of) Health
TOO MUCH BACON IS BAD FOR LUNGS
Not good for pigs, either
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6560121.stm
Eating large quantities of cured meats like bacon could damage lung function and increase the risk of lung disease.

And in more important matters. . .

JON CARROLL: WHAT IS MUSIC FOR?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/17/DDGITP17JC1.DTL
What is it that music is supposed to be for? We use it as background and foreground; we dance to it, we sweat to it, we sit and listen to it, we make it ourselves. We praise God with it and we invoke the devil with it. It's at once the most powerful and the most transient of human creations. I remain puzzled.

NEW TOLKIEN NOVEL IS PUBLISHED---
34 YEARS AFTER AUTHOR’S PASSING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6562757.stm
He said he was "sad" at how some fans have forgotten about who his grandfather actually was. "Everyone talks about the brand , the franchise and the films. People obviously forget there's a man behind it, that he wrote it for his reasons and the books are wonderful," he added.

KCET WILL RUN CLASSIC MOVIES ON SATURDAY NIGHTS
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963207.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

Food for thought
HOW DID EDWARDIANS EAT? CRITIC FINDS OUT
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/healthy_eating/article1640930.ece
Some guinea pigs might have been daunted by the prospect of four whopping meals a day, rivers of grog and hardly any fruit, vegetables or water for an entire week. But not I.

And in the end. . .
THE UNSUGGESTER!
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=yvh6k0nht7b31z35pw86yv3lg90hllqj
4/16
SKYLINES:

UFO OVER ITALY!
Is that Topo Gigio waving from inside? Wonderful the things that can be suspended from fishing rods. . .
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-398836828825804273&q=Amazing+Italian+Air+Force+UFO+Footage

WATCH: WORLD’S LARGEST BREASTS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzuUmpYc7Y

TEACHER ACCUSED OF “GORILLA SEX” ASSAULT
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=44967&in_page_id=34

GERE KISSES INDIA STAR---COUNTRY ERUPTS IN PROTEST
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6560371.stm

MORNING SERENADE: MARY HOPKIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OZ5QLWDeAQ&mode=related&search=

And on to news and comment. . .

HAVE YOU SEEN THE LITTLE PIGGIES CRAWLING IN THE DIRT?
Read “Love is Alive,” an article by greed-barons that exposes the astounding perversion of their mercenary methodology. . .How amoral sociopathic ideology defines capitalism in the USA today. . .
One of the most shocking things the Rip Post has read. . .
http://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/2007/03/love_is_alive.html
Related:
TELEMARKETERS CANNOT BE STOPPED
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/16/BUG3VP8FM71.DTL

BRITISH GOV’T. STOPS USING PHRASE, ‘WAR ON TERROR’
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/attack/bal-terror0416,0,4393354.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines

VIDAL: THE END OF AMERICAN EMPIRE
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hail_and_farewell_the_end_of_the_american_empire/
Needless to say, the Times, instinctively pro-Bush, is too an inept creature of our leviathan master: corporate America. But though the Times now notes a mysterious problem with Bush’s general relations to the outside world, the Times, as usual, cannot grasp what so many of us fans of the American Republic can see clearly: In the name of Manichaean religious cults he is eager to destroy every last trace of the New Deal (privatize Social Security) by destroying both the state and its global imperium.

ECONOMIC BLOODBATH REQUIRED FOR BUSH IMPEACHMENT
http://english.alarabonline.org/display.asp?fname=2007%5C04%5C04-12%5Czopinionz%5C963.htm&dismode=x&ts=12/04/2007%2005:45:24%20%C3%A3
Continuous deceit and criminality in government just don’t seem to warrant a high profile trial in the United States these days, and a handful of righteous congress people will never garner the support of their peers to get the vehicle started; much less to get anywhere with it. There is, however, a sure-fire way to get Americans up in arms.

ARE MOBILE PHONES WIPING OUT BEES?
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2452949.ece
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/133885.php/Mobiles-have-exterminated-millions-of-bees:-Study
http://www.telecomtv.com/news.asp?cd_id=7913&url=news.asp?cd_id=7913
Signals of mobile phones have exterminated millions of bees, as it is believed to upset their navigation leading to their death due to exposure, according to a study.
OR IS THE CULPRIT GM CROPS?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473166,00.html
A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous.

Lost Angeles
YES, THE LUNATICS REALLY WANT TO MAKE PICO AND OLYMPIC ONE-WAY STREETS
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oneway16apr16,0,5561333.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Imus be going
WHITLOCK: IMUS ISN’T THE REAL BAD GUY
http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
HUTCHINSON: IMUS A MONSTER? TRY SNOOP DOGG INSTEAD
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/50532/
Civil rights leaders should protest Snoop Dogg's forthcoming album. Imus demeaned a basketball team but Snoop has demeaned a generation of young blacks.
KINKY FRIEDMAN ON IMUS
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04152007/news/columnists/cowards_kick_away_another_piece_of_americas_soul_columnists_kinky_friedman.htm
NYT EDITORIAL: WHY IMUS AND NOT COULTER?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/NY_Times_oped_Why_ImusCoulter_disparity_0414.html

OAKLAND PASTOR TO LEAD BOYCOTT
OF MEDIA, ADVERTISERS ‘DEMEANING’ BLACKS
Well, he’d better start with rappers and the companies that produce most of their vile “music”
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/16/BAGQAP9A851.DTL

The Wolf-Man
WOLF-MAN SAYS HE WON’T QUIT WORLD BANK
Bank members howling
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041607L.shtml
DOWD: THE WOLF-MAN---MORE CON THAN NEO
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041407C.shtml
Proving he is more con than neo, he confessed that he had not been candid with his staff at the World Bank. While he was acting holier than thou, demanding incorruptibility from poor countries desperate for loans, he was enriching his girlfriend with tax-free ducats.He has yet to admit any real mistakes with the hellish war that claimed five more American soldiers as stunned Baghdad residents dealt with the aftermath of bombings of the Iraqi Parliament, where body parts flew, and of a bridge over the Tigris, where cars sank.

Iraq and Roll
SADR MINISTERS QUIT IRAQI CABINET
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6558405.stm

Enviro Wacko
WAVE GOODBYE TO THE BEAUTIFUL YANGTZE RIVER, KIDS!
http://abcnews.go.com/International/print?id=3044327
42 MILLION CHINESE HAVE FLOURIDE POISONING FROM COAL MINES
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070415014310.2swweisx&cat=null
In severe cases like Zhang's, the mineral also weakens the bones and stiffens the joint ligaments, eventually making movement difficult and painful, much like osteoarthritis does.In many developed countries, fluoride, which is often naturally occurring in water and also coal, is added to toothpaste and drinking water.
MASSIVE CORAL DIE-OFF
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/13/content_5973141.htm

Animals in the news!
WAVE GOODBYE TO ALL THE CUTE KOALAS, KIDS!
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/04/14/2003356616

(Lack of) Health
WANNA KNOW WHAT’S IN YOUR BLOOD? MAYBE YOU DON’T. . .
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/202985
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, long-term exposure to high levels of manganese may affect the central nervous system and can cause, among other things, lethargy, tremors and psychological impairment. In 1989, DDT, the highly toxic insecticide, was fully banned in Canada, though its use had been highly restricted since the late 1970s.

Your corporatocracy at work!
SALLIE MAE---LARGEST STUDENT LOAN OUTFIT---
AGREES TO $25B TAKEOVER
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/16/financial/f071915D50.DTL
KENNEDY: BLOCK LOAN COMPANIES FROM STUDENT DATA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/15/AR2007041500987.html
RALL: FORGIVE STUDENT LOANS
http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/
It's time to end the student loan racket once and for all. Outstanding student loans should be forgiven. Non-repayable grants could cover 100 percent of tuition for those who can't afford it. Can the U.S. afford it? Yes. All we have to do is get out of Iraq

Big Dick
69 PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY KNOWS WHO DICK CHENEY IS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070415/news-knowledge-poll
CHENEY: I WENT SHOPPING WITH MY DAUGHTER
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/cheney-isolated/

And in more important matters. . .

For Art’s Sake
SEE HOW MONET, DEGAS SAW---
WHEN THEY HAD CATARACTS
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/16/DDGAVP7VV91.DTL
Michael Marmor, an art-loving Stanford ophthalmologist, has taken the question one step further. Using historical documentation, medical knowledge and Photoshop computer software, he has created blurred images of famous works by Monet and Edgar Degas -- who suffered from debilitating retinal disease -- that he thinks accurately depict the way the artists saw those pictures.
THE RETURN OF ABSTRACT PAINTING
http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2245&current=True
Abstract painting is back. True, it never really went away, but it had been shunted aside by the vagaries of time and fashion. Abstraction was attacked for being old media, played out, new-idea stunted, and out of sync with contemporary life and thought—as well as for being decorative and solipsistic. While abstraction persisted in Europe and even Asia, it became a sidebar to the New York art scene, which was flooded, paradoxically, with a technologically sophisticated assortment of new-media works, along with an array of updated conventional representational paintings.
THE BEST HOUSE IN BRITAIN
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2058137,00.html

Books
AUNG SAN SUU KYI---THE NOBLE, FORGOTTEN WOMAN OF BURMA
http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,2058207,00.html

GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR DICKENS THEME PARK
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1233058520070412?feedType=RSS

Musique
ZAPPA DOCUMENTARY DVD COMING
http://www.nme.com/news/frank-zappa/27703
A DVD documenting the recording of Frank Zappa's classic albums 'Over-Nite Sensation' and 'Apostrophe' is set to be released next month.
WATCH: FRANK OBJECTS TO LIP-SYNCHING---A HOWL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5FcQMaLYCs&mode=related&search=
R.I.P. DON HO (CAN I SAY “HO?”)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/arts/16ho.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

And in the end. . .
KITTENS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk&mode=related&search=


FRIDAY THE 13TH:

WATCH: SEE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO STAND ON GRAND CANYON SKYWALK
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070328-skywalk-video.html

TYSON GOES BOLLYWOOD!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,2056820,00.html

DISHWASHING LIQUID SAVES THE QUEEN’S SWANS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,477032,00.html

JENNIFER LOPEZ TURNING TO SCIENTOLOGY?
Perfect fit for any self-respecting millionaire narcissist
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/04/13/2007-04-13_stone_fan_heard_slur_in_his_speech.html

MEDUSA ADOPTING ANOTHER NAP---ER, AFRICAN BABY?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007170155,00.html

DAILY SHOW ON BUSH’S ‘WAR CZAR’ PROPOSAL
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Daily_Show_demystifies_Bushs_War_0413.html

And on to news and comment. . .

THE NINE LIVES OF AL SHARPTON
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27826
When one considers the multitude of hurtful, malicious, deceitful things Al Sharpton himself has said and done over the years—chiefly for the purpose of justifying his own existence as a proverbial shepherd dutifully shielding black Americans from the white racist wolves that supposedly surround them all times—it is beyond incredible not only that he hosts his own radio program, but that anyone on earth should take seriously anything he has to say.

MALKIN: OKAY, IF YOU FIRE IMUS---THEN BAN RAP
(Good idea!)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Complete%20Double%20Standard%20in%20Imus%20Flap.html
One dumb radio/television shock jock's insult is a drop in the ocean of barbaric filth and anti-female hatred on the radio. Imus gets a two-week suspension. What kind of relief do we get from this deadening, coarsening, dehumanizing barrage from young, black rappers and their music industry enablers who have helped turn America into Tourette's Nation?

FCC TO TARGET LIMBAUGH, SAVAGE, O’REILLY, BECK?
(Too good to be true)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Its%20not%20just%20Imus.html
On March 2, Limbaugh said "since [Sen. Barack] Obama [D-Ill.] has – on his mother's side – forebears of his mother had slaves, could we not say that if Obama wins the Democratic nomination and then wins the presidency, he will own [Rev.] Al Sharpton?"

IMUS’S WIFE: STOP THE HATE MAIL TO THE RUTGERS TEAM
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Imus_Wife_Send_hate_mail_to_0413.html

JON CARROLL:
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE BOUNDARIES ARE
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/13/DDGTLOSCTL1.DTL
This isn't about free speech. I think Imus should have the right to say what he wants. He's been fired from both his jobs; that punishment seems sufficient, even excessive. A universe in which gangsta rap, "Borat" and Sarah Silverman are all tolerated or enjoyed is not a universe that should be getting all that righteous about one more shock jock saying one more shocking thing.

Lost Angeles
LOONEY 100 mph WINDS RIP OUT TREES, SEND THEM SAILING---ALL OVER L.A.
slideshow: http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos3/windy.pdf
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_5656143
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5655751
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/7007877.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1235645220070412
CITY JOINS CITIZENS IN OPPOSING NEW FBI TOWER IN WESTWOOD
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fbi13apr13,1,4516091.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

(Lack of) Health
BUSH WANTS TO DUMP 400,000 FROZEN ‘EMBRYOS’
THAT COULD BE USED TO CURE DISEASE
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/08/embryo_ethics/?page=full
It is important to be clear, first of all, about the embryo from which stem cells are extracted. It is not implanted and growing in a woman's uterus. It is not a fetus. It has no recognizable human features or form. It is, rather, a blastocyst, a cluster of 180 to 200 cells, growing in a petri dish, barely visible to the naked eye. Such blastocysts are either cloned in the lab or created in fertility clinics.
SPERM MADE FROM HUMAN BONE MARROW
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6547675.stm
AUSTRALIA PM: STOP HIV CARRIERS FROM ENTERING COUNTRY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6551245.stm

The Wolf-Man
DON’T PERSECUTE ME BECAUSE OF IRAQ WAR!---THE WOLF-MAN
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/13/wolfowitz-corruption/
WOLF-MAN’S CREDIT CARD RECALLED BY WORLD BANK!
http://www.pugbus.net/artman/publish/04137002_11_wolfticket.shtml
WOLF-MAN: I WAS WRONG
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/i-was-wrong-to-help-lover-wolfowitz-admits/2007/04/13/1175971351383.html
WORLD BANK PLEDGES ACTION ON WOLF-MAN
Hell, he should have been fired just his habit of licking his comb
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20070413&ID=6743125

Mashed Media
WHITE HOUSE MEETS WITH REPORTERS
TO TELL THEM THEIR IRAQ ANGLES
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/13/iraq-media-meeting/
WHY WAS PRODUCER GHOST-WRITING
FOR COURIC IN THE FIRST PLACE?
http://www.slate.com/id/2164070/pagenum/all/
The network paid her to write original essays for Katie Couric to read in video and audio clips made available on its Web site and to CBS-owned radio stations. McNamara deceived CBS by plagiarizing the Journal. But CBS News wronged visitors to its Web site by inviting them to think that the opinions Couric expressed in these commentaries were her own.
NEWSWEEK HIDES GLOBAL WARMING-DENIER’S TIES TO BIG OIL
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50494/
NEW L.A.(me) TIMES OWNER WON’T SELL
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_17/b4031120.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index

Jesus H. Christ!
MEDIA FINALLY DISCOVERS ROBERTSON ACOLYTES IN BUSH ADMINISTRATION
http://www.alternet.org/rights/50408/
KRUGMAN: BUSH FLAGRANTLY PROMOTES ‘CHRISTIAN’ AGENDA
(Duhhhh)
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Krugman_Many_Bushies_were_appointed_to_0413.html

What is the law?
POOF! FOUR YEARS OF ROVE E-MAIL ‘MISSING’
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/13/MNGVGP81161.DTL

Iraq and roll
IRAQ REFUGEES: “ESCAPE FROM HELL”
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50494/
Hussein, who left three months back, described Baghdad as a "city of ghosts" where black banners of death announcements can be seen hanging on most streets. The city, he said, lives on an hour of electricity a day, and there are no jobs to be had.
GREEN ZONE BOMBING WITNESS RECOUNTS THE SCENE
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/13/MNGVFP852M1.DTL
The bomber blew himself up no more than a few yards away. First, a brilliant flash of orange light like a starburst, then a giant popping sound. A gust of debris, flesh and blood threw me from my chair as if I were made of cardboard.

Animals in the news!
GIANT MICE DEVOURING SEABIRD CHICKS IN SOUTH PACIFIC
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070413-mice-birds.html
TOP U.S. SUSHI COMPANY LINKED TO WHALE MURDER
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37307

Oh, by the way. . .
DINOSAUR---TASTES LIKE CHICKEN!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070412-dino-tissues.html
AIRLINER DODGES INDIA MISSILE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6551857.stm
ONE MAN’S MISSION TO REUNITE FATHERS AND KIDS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0413/p01s01-ussc.html

And in more important matters. . .

Vonnegut
SO HE GOES, AND NOT QUIETLY
By Bob Thompson
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202428.html
Kurt Vonnegut could make you laugh and shrug and shake your fist in anger -- all at the same time.To read Vonnegut in the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially if you were of a certain age (young) and political disposition (appalled by Vietnam), was to discover that someone born in 1922 could share your outrage and bemusement at the insanity of the universe you were supposed to inherit.
VONNEGUT’S DAYS AT THE CORNELL SUN
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003571335
The college paper's online obituary today kicked off with: "Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (’44), former Sun assistant managing editor and associate editor, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84."

Musique
JERRY LAWSON, UNSUNG HERO OF A CAPPELLA
http://www.soulofrocknroll.com/?p=74
LOST ‘BORIS GODUNOV’ IS FOUND AND STAGED
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/arts/music/11boris.html?_r=3&ref=arts&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Film
DINO DE LAURENTIS TO REMAKE HIS OWN ‘BARBARELLA’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6552963.stm
RAINER ON ‘DISTURBIA’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0413/p14s01-almo.html
RAINER ON ‘STRANGER’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0413/p11s03-almo.html

HISTORIC SCHOONER SAILS AGAIN
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/13/BAGH9P7VQN1.DTL

And in the end. . .
CATS THAT LOOK LIKE HITLER
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl

4/12

"Easily the American writer who best understood and most dearly grieved over the shortcomings of humanity. His perceptual brilliance and preternatural sense of the ironic made his prose a constant revelation – from screamingly hilarious to as depressing as any words ever written. He was the conscience of all humans and like any conscience he was dismissed and resented when the instructions were uncomfortable or unpleasant. One day, after cataclysmic events have laid the world low (even lower than today), he will be grudgingly, ruefully acknowledged as the one person we all should have been paying attention to. That he should be awarded the Nobel and every other prize that honors writers and thinkers is so apparent as to be trivial. He made man simple. But this expressed truth, like most truths, was for most too uncomfortable to bear."---Kirk Rense

REQUIEM
When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

“It is done.”

People did not like it here.

---Kurt Vonnegut

VONNEGUT, 1922--2007
Elaine Woo obit
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-vonnegut12apr12,0,500494.story?coll=la-home-headlines
NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?hp

VONNEGUT'S LAST ARTICLES---FOR IN THESE TIMES
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2347/
Dear Mr. Vonnegut,
What on earth happened to American journalists so that they let fanatics toy with them?
—Andrés Hoyos, Bogota, Colombia

Dear Andrés,
They became rich and famous.
Kurt

VONNEGUT: I LOVE YOU, MADAME LIBRARIAN
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/i_love_you_madame_librarian/
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

WATCH: VONNEGUT’S LAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_kj-i8Qcpw

LISTEN: VONNEGUT LAST YEAR ON NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9533587

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

PLAYING CHESS WITH VONNEGUT
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1147/81/
Our world is a shallower, drearier place, without him. But anyone who has enjoyed any of his work, or been lucky enough to bask in his twinkle, can still rejoice, because we will always have him, in all his idiosyncratic twisted-chess perversity. The world is less without him, but it will always be more because of him.

LITERATURE AS ENCOURAGEMENT
http://www.indexonline.org/en/news/articles/2007/2/international-kurt-vonnegut-1922-2007-litera.shtml
"I doubt that literature has ever triumphed over repression. I think of Hitler in his bunker, with a pistol at his temple and with the Red Army only a few blocks away, and I have to admit that the overthrow of a tyrant is not a literary enterprise.

"All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being."

OFF TO TRALFAMADORE
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1147/81/

TWAIN FOR THE NUCLEAR AGE
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/04/12/025921.php

"You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals."

WATCH: VONNEGUT ON KILGORE TROUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8e4SjzcoAI

WATCH: VONNEGUT ON PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRlwtgaxO20

VONNEGUT ON HIS DAYS AS A CHICAGO POLICE REPORTER
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003570904

"So let's give another big tax break to the rich. That'll give bin Laden a scare he'll never forget."

VONNEGUT OF SCHENECTADY
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=580208&category=&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=4/12/2007

VONNEGUT ON "SHOCK AND AWE"
http://www.boingboing.net/2003/05/14/vonnegut_on_shock_an.html

EXCERPTS FROM 1974 E&P VONNEGUT INTERVIEW
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003570990

VONNEGUT QUOTES
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/kurt_vonnegut/

"I say in speeches that a plausible mission for artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles''' - Kurt Vonnegut.

And on to far less sad and important news and comment. . .

LEAHY: BUSH AIDES LYING ABOUT E-MAIL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_go_co/fired_prosecutors;_ylt=AmkTBNPcxJohtB5l32E0pD7MWM0F
"You can't erase e-mails, not today. They've gone through too many servers," said Leahy, D-Vt. "Those e-mails are there, they just don't want to produce them. We'll subpoena them if necessary."

Your Corporatocracy at work!
BANK ONLY ALLOWS THE RICH INSIDE
“Not everyone is equal,” says spokesman
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,,2055071,00.html
WOLF-MAN STILL DODGING QUESTIONS ON GIRLFRIEND’S BIG SALARY
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/World_Bank_chief_deflects_grilling__04112007.html

Iraq and Roll
BOMBS BLASTS IRAQI PARLIAMENT CAFÉTERIA
Inside the “safe” “green zone”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2235
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Blast_rips_through_Iraq_parliament__04122007.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/12/international/i055517D25.DTL
U.S. SPENDS $16K PER MILITARY RECRUIT
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0412/p02s01-usmi.html
NEOCON JACKASS BLAMES IRAQIS
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=825
In other words, the Iraqis have only themselves to blame for more than a decade of crippling and deadly sanctions in the wake of Bush Senior’s invasion, an illegal and immoral adventure that targeted water and sewage plants, civilian infrastructure, hospitals and homes. Even before Bush the Junior’s invasion, at least 500 children a day in Iraq died from disease, mostly cancer from depleted uranium.

BLUMENTHAL: UPENDING THE MAYBERRY MACHIAVELLIS
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/12/bush_destruction/
While Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld installed neoconservative ideologues throughout the national security apparatus, sidelining the senior military, diplomatic corps and intelligence community, and creating parallel operations to avoid assessment by professionals, Rove was handed the rest of the executive branch to arrogate for political purposes.

HAL BROWN: BUSH’S THEME SONG: “OVER THERE”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2213

U.S. CITIZEN CHARGED WITH PLOTTING TERROR ATTACKS
http://www.courttv.com/news/2007/0412/plot_ap.html

Little Joe gotta go
JOEY LIEBERMAN: BUSH CRITICS ENGAGE IN “HARRASSMENT”
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/12/lieberman-harassment/

Mashed Media
OBAMA---FIRE IMUS
For a debate on Imus, see “Shafts. . .by The Lamplighter” on page one of The Rip Post
http://www.buzzflash.com/?track=12511
AP PHOTOG STILL HELD BY U.S. IN IRAQ---AFTER A YEAR
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003570584
TAMPA TRIBUNE DUMPS MOVIE CRITIC, WILL USE WIRE COPY
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/04/12/Hillsborough/Tribune_trims_newsroo.shtml
WHY WOULD A FEDERAL AGENCY TRASH ITS OWN LIBRARIES?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070410/COLUMNS/104100048
It takes a special talent to make the topic of library management controversial, but the Environmental Protection Agency seems to have a real knack for self-inflicted wounds. EPA gave itself a black eye and enraged librarians throughout the country last year, when, without public notice or congressional consultation, it began the process of dismantling its network of 26 technical libraries.

Electile Dysfunction
MCCAIN NOW QUOTING JOHN LENNON
Yeah, we know, it’s an old expression, but it’s a funny headline, anyhow
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/12/mccain-digging-pony/
LYRICS TO LENNON’S “DIG A PONY”
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/the-beatles/dig-a-pony.html

Lost Angeles
L.A. LEADS NATION IN MINORITIES NEAR TOXIC WASTE
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-toxic12apr12,0,4408158.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Enviro Wacko
INVASIVE PLANTS, BUGS PREFER SUMMER PLANE FLIGHTS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070411-bugs-vacation.html

Animals in the news!
CROC BITES OF ZOOKEEPER’S ARM---AND IT’S REATTACHED
Great pics!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=44968&in_page_id=2

Oh, by the way. . .
CHINA BUILDS WORLD’S FIRST ‘WOMAN TOWN’
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=44831&in_page_id=2
ISRAEL NEARLY SHOT DOWN U.S. AIRLINER LAST FALL
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0%2C9294%2C2-10-1462_2097210%2C00.html
ATTACK OF THE KILLER LESBIANS!
Man beaten and knifed by seven “gay” ladies
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04122007/news/regionalnews/attack_of_the_killer_lesbians_regionalnews_laura_italiano.htm

And in more important matters. . .

MEET KATIE COURIC’S 33-YEAR-OLD BOY TOY
Isn’t Katie about 70 by now?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04122007/news/regionalnews/katie_cougar_regionalnews_mark_bulliet_________and_jennifer_fermino.htm

KOZINN ON APPLE SHAKE-UP
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/arts/music/12beat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
APPLE, EMI SETTLE ROYALTY DISPUTE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/12/technology/web0412-beatles.php

JON CARROLL ON ‘THE WELL’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/12/DDGTLOSCEK1.DTL

And in the end. . .
THE AMAZING WORDSWORTH-RAPPING SQUIRREL!
http://www.golakes.co.uk/wordsworthrap/

4/11
Skylines:
NEIL ASPINALL QUITS APPLE CORPS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6544985.stm

STUDY REVEALS HOW DRUNKEN BATS SOBER UP!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18046336/

JAPAN ‘MILEAGE MANIACS’ HACK PRIUS TO GET 116 MPG
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/how_japanese_mi.php

MORFORD VISITS COSTCO:
“YOUR SHINY HAPPY DISCOUNT DEATH”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/04/11/notes041107.DTL
Yes, you can now buy a coffin at Costco. Six, actually, different styles and qualities and color schemes to match your lifestyle and your sofa and your love of mauve and fake lion's-head handles and it is, all at once, funny and disturbing and creepy and yet, somehow, entirely appropriate. You want shameless target marketing? You want life and death and commerce and capitalism and convenience all rolled into a little ball of gloomy consumer joy? Here is your nirvana.

FANS OF THE DOORS WANT PARDON FOR JIM MORRISON
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6543951.stm

CHAMPION WOMAN SPEEDSKATER TAKES IT OFF!
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/other/article.html?in_article_id=44850&in_page_id=52

And on to news and comment. . .

LINDORFF DOES IT AGAIN---
SUMS UP THE TRUTH OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.04.01_arch.html
There is no way that the world’s 6.5 billion people--and especially the 2 billion of them who live in wealthier societies--can continue to consume energy at even close to the level that we have been consuming it. There is no way we in the developed world can continue to live the way we have been living, in oversized houses, heated in winter and cooled in summer. There is no way in the northern hemisphere we can continue to have teakwood or mahogany-floored living rooms and eat strawberries in December.

Your corporatocracy at work
WORLD BANK PREZ WOLFOWITZ GAVE HUGE RAISE TO GALPAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2054126,00.html
A staff email from Mr Wolfowitz appears to have stoked further anger at the $61,000 (£30,000) pay rise and promotion given to his partner, Shaha Riza, two years ago. Ms Riza, who has been romantically linked to Mr Wolfowitz since 2001, was assigned to the state department shortly after he joined the bank in 2005 because of rules on conflict of interest. She remained on the World Bank payroll.
CHIQUITA TERROR CASE PUTS BIG FIRMS ON NOTICE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0411/p01s03-woam.html
In Colombia, however, the Chiquita name has recently come to symbolize the confirmation of a long-suspected relationship between multinational firms and illegal armies fighting in the nation's four-decade-old war. Chiquita Brands International admitted in US court last month that it paid $1.7 million to Colombia's brutal right-wing militias over the course of eight years. The company said it did so to protect its employees and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. The case is sparking outrage in the capital, Bogotá, where officials want to see company executives on trial.
SALARIES OF THE RICH, POWERFUL, FAMOUS
Co-founder of Youtube.com made $341 million
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003569910
SEE THE ANTI-U.S. BUDGET BUS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/11/BAGKMP6G351.DTL

HUH? MADMAN BUSH WANTS TO CREATE ‘WAR CZAR?’
Wants one person to tell Pentagon, State Department what to do
(Gee, isn’t that just a little uh, unconstitutional?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041001776.html

The other Bush
FLA. LEGISLATURE FORCES UNIVERSITY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO JEBBIE
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/11/bush-education/

Impeachy Keen
PLEDGE TO IMPEACH!
http://www.pledgetoimpeach.org/

WHO MURDERED CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
OF THE ‘50’S AND ‘60’S?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2054195,00.html
Scores of civil-rights activists were murdered in the American south in the 1950s and 60s. Their killers mostly went unpunished. But now cases are being reopened, as a new generation resolves to see justice done at last.

Mission Accomplished!
PUTIN THREATENS NEW COLD WAR OVER MISSILE DEFENSE
Maybe Bush needs to “look into his soul” again
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2054142,00.html

Iran from the truth
PELOSI MAY BE OFF TO TEHRAN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/11/MNGPNP68IO1.DTL

Iraq and Roll
FISK: DIVIDE AND RULE---U.S. PLAN FOR BAGHDAD
Hahahahahaha---The Gated Communities of Baghdad!
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2439530.ece
Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad - despite President George Bush's "surge" in troops - US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast areas of the city, enclosing whole neighbourhoods with barricades and allowing only Iraqis with newly issued ID cards to enter. The campaign of "gated communities" - whose genesis was in the Vietnam War - will involve up to 30 of the city's 89 official districts and will be the most ambitious counter-insurgency programme yet mounted by the US in Iraq.
INJURED TROOPS SHIPPED BACK INTO BATTLE
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/04/09/injured_soldiers/?source=email
Salon has uncovered further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.
14 KILLED IN BIG DAY-LONG GUN BATTLE IN DOWNTOWN BAGHDAD
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-iraq.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

BOMBS ROCK ALGERIAN PM’S OFFICE, KILL AT LEAST 17
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2054517,00.html

Electile Dysfunction
OBAMA CHALLENGES MCCAIN ON BAGHDAD STROLL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6547496,00.html
ACTOR/SENATOR HAS NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4705338.html

Mashed Media
COURIC PRODUCER FIRED FOR PLAGIARISM---
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003569789
---BUT NETWORK LEAVES PLAGIARIZED POST---CREDITED TO COURIC---ON-LINE
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Couric_leaves_up_blog_post_of_0411.html
OBAMA SLOW TO REACT TO IMUS MESS
(The truth is that black radio host could have said the same stuff with impunity)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/11/obamas_silence_on_imus_alarms_some_blacks/
STEWART BLASTS MEDIA FOR IMUS-FEST
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Stewart_blasts_media_for_nonstop_Imus_0411.html
Stewart barks, "Turning to our top story tonight: A guy on the radio said something shitty!" He shows Imus making the "nappy-headed hos" comment, then shows a montage of various news figures repeating the phrase, ending with one on Fox News saying "nappy-headed whores." "I believe that last gentleman didn't have his facts correct," quips Stewart.
KIDS FIND WAY AROUND INTERNET PORN FILTERS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0411/p13s02-lihc.html
MUSLIM BLOGGERS, JOURNALISTS SPEAK OUT FOR WOMEN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,476644,00.html

Lost Angeles
ANOTHER LANDMARK BITES THE DUST
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/04/westside_landmark_sold.php

Oh, by the way. . .
MAN PUTS KIDS IN CLOTHES DRYER
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/kids-punished-with-hot-dry-ride/2007/04/11/1175971132990.html
LADY ASTRONAUT HAD DRUGS, BONDAGE PICS
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1608984,00.html
INDIA WOMEN CIVIL SERVANTS MUST REVEAL DETAILS OF MENSTRUAL CYCLE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6545115.stm

And in more important matters. . .

INTERVIEW:
JOE BAGEANT---THE BEST WRITER YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2007/04/joe_talks_about.html
I've been writing for nearly 40 years. I've been a news reporter, a magazine writer and editor, and written a thousand puff pieces for celebrities of every imaginable sort. And now, at this late age, I found myself back in my home town writing about the poor and working poor folks I grew up with. Most of what I write is about class issues in America -- mainly because being born in lower class poverty leaves a person with a sense of insecurity and class awareness that remains for a life time, regardless of one's later success.

JON CARROLL: THE SPARE SOCK DRAWER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/11/DDGTLOSC6E1.DTL
Some socks in my spare-sock drawer have been there for five years. They have already accepted the fact that Daddy is not coming home. It's just I who am clinging to my foolish hopes.

Books
YES, ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ WAS WRITTEN BY SHELLEY---BECAUSE IT’S SO BAD
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2053061,00.html
NEW BIO OF EDITH WHARTON
She wrote in bed with a Pekinese at her side
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/04/16/070416crbo_books_updike?printable=true

And in the end. . .
WOODY GUTHRIE ON FILM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTWqCUjVoQ

4/10
Skylines:
FEMALE VIAGRA?
Oh, just what the world needs. . .
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/10/MNGMEP5G4Q1.DTL

‘MY LITTLE KRAUT’---THE LOVE LETTERS OF HEMINGWAY AND DIETRICH
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,,2053586,00.html

‘FISH MAN’ SWIMS LENGTH OF AMAZON
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1892237.htm
 

Florence Henderson arrives at the Phil Spector Trial

PIANO DELIVERYMEN OUT-DO LAUREL AND HARDY
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=44719&in_page_id=34

And on to news and comment. . .

MINORITY WHIP LAUNCHES SMEAR AGAINST PELOSI
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/10/cantor-attacks-pelosi/
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the chief deputy minority whip in the House, has launched a partisan smear campaign against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for visiting Syria. He writes in the National Review: The Speaker and many of her Democratic allies have become so drunk with grandiose visions of deposing Bush that they break bread with terrorists and enemies of the United States.

Jackoff
IT FIGURES---JACKOFF WILL GET REDUCED SENTENCE FOR SQUEALING
While dumb suburban kids do twenty years for a few hits of LSD
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18029493/

Impeachy-Keen
JENSON: IMPEACHMENT---WHY STOP WITH BUSH?
How about throwing some Democraps into the mix?
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/10/impeachment_why_stop_at_bush.php
But I suggest we not stop with Bush and his cronies. If we want to truly change the direction of this country, we should widen the discussion. Who else might deserve to be impeached? Let’s start with the elected leadership of the Democratic Party, which aided and abetted the high crimes of Bush by jumping on the “war on terror” bandwagon and authorizing those illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Jesus H. Christ!
RADICAL ‘CHRISTIAN’ RIGHT PREACHES LIBERAL EVIL
http://www.alternet.org/story/50366/
Members of the radical Christian End Times movement are being taught to believe that America is ruled by evil, clandestine organizations disguised as liberal groups. As a result, the fearful are hoping for the end.
‘CHRISTIAN’ LAW SCHOOL BACKED BY BUSH
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Goodling_casts_shadow_over_Regent_law_0409.html

Iraq and Roll
FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 16
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/10/international/i031503D86.DTL
3,280 G.I.’S NOW DEAD---
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/08/ap3592666.html
---TEN MORE LAST WEEKEND
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907L.shtml
15,000 U.S. TROOPS FACE EXTENDED TOUR
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/6952307.html
FEINGOLD BILL WOULD END U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/To_counter_Bush_veto_Feingold_introduces_0410.html
In a countermove designed to counter President Bush's expected veto of an emergency supplemental spending bill containing a timetable for US troop withdrawal, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) is introducing legislation which would "effectively end military involvement in Iraq."

Your Corporatocracy at work!
OCCIDENTAL CEO POCKETS $400 MILLION
http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/09/news/newsmakers/occidental.reut/
OIL SHOWDOWN LOOMS WITH VENEZUELA’S CHAVEZ
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/10/news/venez.php
With President Hugo Chávez setting a May 1 deadline for an ambitious plan to wrest control of several major oil projects from American and European companies, a showdown is looming here over access to some of the most coveted energy resources outside the Middle East.

Electile Dysfunction
OBAMA ON JOINT HILLARY TICKET
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/09/obama-on-joint-hillary-ticket-which-order-are-we-talking-about/
WATCH: DAILY SHOW ON MCCAIN’S VISIT TO BAGHDAD
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/10/the-daily-show-blasts-mccains-baghdad-visit/
CARTOON: NOT OF THIS EARTH!
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/04/cartoon_not_of_this_earth.html

Mashed Media
IMUS SUSPENDED
http://time-blog.com/tuned_in/2007/04/breaking_imus_in_the_morning_a.html
AL-JAZEERA BANNED IN AFGHANISTAN
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=44718&in_page_id=34

World gone mad
THE INDIA STATE WHERE WOMEN AND GIRLS DISAPPEAR DAILY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6430811.stm

ExSpectoration
SPECTOR VICTIM ‘WAS UNHAPPY’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6540429.stm

Lost Angeles
BLACK LIKE HIM IN L.A.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/04/black_like_him_in_la.php

Oh, by the way. . .
INDIA WATCHES ISLANDS WASH AWAY
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/10/asia/india.php

R.I.P. CALVIN LOCKHART, BLAXPLOITATION STAR
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/movies/10lockhart.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

And in more important matters. . .

CHUCK E. WEISS STILL IN LOVE---WITH THE MUSIC
By John Rogers
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/09/entertainment/e164736D21.DTL

THE NEW BOY-CONDUCTOR OF THE L.A. PHIL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Dudamel
“I LOVE THE HOT DOGS HERE,” SAYS NEW CONDUCTOR
Perhaps he will conduct with one
http://www.kansascity.com/414/story/65082.html
HYPE MACHINE WORKING OVERTIME FOR DUDAMEL
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/reviews/critics/mmx-ovn_0407gusapr06,1,5006270.story?coll=mmx-ng_heds
Some questions remain, of course, and we won't know the answers until we hear what he can do with Mozart and Brahms. But his thrilling performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 at the end of the program took care of others, banishing doubts as to the speed of his ascent.

Film
BOBBY LEE---‘ASIAN MAN’
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/10/international/i031503D86.DTL

BRIT ACTORS INVADE U.S. TELEVISION
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/arts/brits.php

Light reading
MEET ‘THE MOZART OF MATH’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800745.html
Some have called Euler the "Mozart of Mathematics," not only because of his genius but because of his prodigious output.Before his death at 76, he had written more than 800 papers and books on pure and applied mathematics. In 1775, he composed about one paper a week, ranging in length from 10 to 50 pages. (Twenty papers is considered a good lifetime output for modern mathematicians.) His collected works fill 25,000 pages in 79 volumes, including five of correspondence to the leading thinkers of his day.

And in the end. . .
LITTLE RED ROOSTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr82vj5dDrU&mode=related&search=

4/9
Musique
SALONEN LEAVES TO COMPOSE---A VERY IFFY PROPOSITION
(The Rip Post has heard his work, and it is decidedly undistinguished and uninteresting)
http://thetartan.org/2007/4/9/pillbox/symphony
But that’s the problem with “Foreign Bodies”: Its main virtue is its lavish orchestration. Sure, in carefully listening to Salonen’s recording of the piece, I detected some musical arguments and motives, but they just weren’t that interesting. After listening to the piece several times, its charm wore off. Perhaps I was blinded by the piece’s accessibility, which deceived me into thinking it was superficial.
L.A. PHIL PLAYERS HAVE HIGH PRAISE FOR SALONEN SUCCESSOR
(Gee, do ya spose his latino background had anything to do with his appointment?)
http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6286.html
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/classical/la-et-phil9apr09,0,3054940.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040801156.html
MANGAN:
ROBERTSON WOULD HAVE BEEN “NATURAL CHOICE”
http://blogs.ocregister.com/mangan/archives/2007/04/salonen_to_step_down_from_la_p_1.html
Still, David Roberston would have been a natural choice. The Santa Monica native, former music director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and currently at the St. Louis Symphony, is a good fit here, as his past appearances have shown. And he's considerably more experienced than Dudamel.

GIANT DRAGON SPOTTED IN CHINA
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=44242&in_page_id=34

THE AMAZING PYRAMIDS OF. . .AMSTERDAM?
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2053059,00.html

ONE OF WORLD’S GREATEST VIOLINISTS BUSKS---MAKES $32
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
Things never got much better. In the three-quarters of an hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people stopped what they were doing to hang around and take in the performance, at least for a minute. Twenty-seven gave money, most of them on the run -- for a total of $32 and change. That leaves the 1,070 people who hurried by, oblivious, many only three feet away, few even turning to look.

REMEMBERING BOB CLARK’S WONDERFUL SON, ARIEL
Both were killed by drunken "immigrant"
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/04/ariel_clark_remembered.php

And on to today’s news and comment. . .

PROF WHO CRITICIZED BUSH
SHOWS UP ON TERRORIST ‘NO-FLY’ LIST
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Professor_who_criticized_Bush_added_to_0409.html

Jesus H. Christ!
BUSH STILL PACKING ADMINISTRATION
WITH PAT ROBERTSON GRADS
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_puts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school/?page=2

Iraq and Roll
AL-SADR CALLS FOR RESISTANCE AGAINST U.S.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,476236,00.html
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NAJAF SHIITES TRAMPLE U.S. FLAGS
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Iraqi_Shiites_Unite_in_protest_against_0409.html
TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST IN BAGHDAD: “GET OUT, OCCUPIER!”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4698536.html
U.S. SOLDIER WHO SHOT ITALIAN JOURNALIST AND AGENT ‘HAD TO FIRE’
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003568797
SAN ANTONIO WAR REPORTER CHALLENGES MCCAIN’S VIEW OF IRAQ
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003568799

Iran from the truth
ANGER OVER HOSTAGES MEDIA DEALS
Servicewoman sells story for 100,000 pounds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2053003,00.html
IRAN ENTERS ‘INDUSTRIAL AGE’ OF NUKES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6538957.stm
LINDORFF: TORTURE BLOWBACK AND SELECTIVE OUTRAGE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.04.01_arch.html#1176044108975
These abusive treatments are all awful, and no one would want to have to endure them, but let's be honest here: they pale in comparison to what American captives have been put through in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Guantanamo, and at various secret "black sites" around the world from Poland to Ethiopia.

PELOSI DEFENDS SYRIA TRIP, CHENEY GRUMBLES
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1608036,00.html
Cheney, in an interview on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, said of Pelosi's comment: "It was a non-statement, nonsensical statement and didn't make any sense at all that she would suggest that those talks could go forward as long as the Syrians conducted themselves as a prime state sponsor of terror."

What is the law?
ROVE’S PRIVATE E-MAIL SYSTEM PROMPTS DEM PROBE
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-laptops9apr09,0,4563806.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Democrats say evidence suggests the RNC e-mail system was used for political and government policy matters in violation of federal record preservation and disclosure rules.

Bordering on madness
THOUSANDS PROTEST BUSH IMMIGRATION POLICY IN DOWNTOWN L.A.
(Too bad that “immigrant” who killed Bob Clark and his son wasn’t deported. . .)
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/04/07/thousands-protest-us-immigration-reform-plans-in-los-angeles/
IMMIGRANT GROUP CALLS FOR ONE-DAY WORK STOPPAGE
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_099104535.html

Mashed Media
THOMPSON:
CREEP-JOCK IMUS NEEDS TO BE TOSSED OFF THE AIR
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2199
"We were kidding around, but that doesn't change it. That doesn't make it any less repugnant," Imus said Monday on his radio program, which is also simulcast on MSNBC. "I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice."

Animals in the news!
MANATEES MAY LOSE ‘ENDANGERED’ STATUS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800500_pf.html
SF HAND-REARED SIAMANG CLINGS TO HUMAN FOSTER PARENTS
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/09/BAGNLP56H71.DTL
JON CARROLL ON HIS CATS’ TENTH BIRTHDAYS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/09/DDGTLOSBN51.DTL

Lost Angeles
OBSCENE PLAYA VISTA DEVELOPMENT RESTS ON THE BONES OF NATIVES
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5300&IssueNum=200

Oh, by the way. . .
SF’S BLACK AMERICANS ARE LEAVING TOWN
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/09/MNGPBP56A51.DTL
BEDBUGS ARE BITING IN ALL 50 STATES
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/08/MNGIDP4V7K1.DTL
SIX STATES REFUSE BUSH’S ‘ABSTINENCE ONLY’ SEX-ED
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/09/states_refraining_from_abstinence_only_sex_education/
HOUSING BOOM? TRY FORECLOSURE BOOM
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0409/p01s04-usec.html
ORWELL’S HOUSE NOW WATCHED BY HIDDEN CAMERA
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-details/George+Orwell,+Big+Brother+is+watching+your+house/article.do
GIANT CRYSTAL CAVE MYSTERY SOLVED
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070406-giant-crystals.html
HOW ENGLISH DOMINATES THE WORLD
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/asia/englede.php
102-YEAR-OLD LADY GOLFER SCORES HOLE-IN-ONE
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=57059

And in more important matters. . .

Stranger than truth!
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS INTERVIEWS JAMES BROWN
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/classical/cl-et-files7apr07,0,3371161.story?coll=cl-classical

‘B.C.’ CREATOR HART DIES AT HIS STORYBOARD
http://news.aol.com/entertainment/articles/_a/cartoonist-johnny-hart-creator-of-bc/20070408182909990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

R.I.P BULLSHIT ARTIST---ER, CONCEPTUAL ARTIST---SOL LEWITT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/design/09lewitt.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

Books
BUCKLEY’S ‘BOOMSDAY’ PITS ‘BOOMERS’ AGAINST ‘GEN WHATEVER’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0403/p13s01-bogn.html
This question looms above Christopher Buckley's Boomsday like an anvil yo-yo, dropping mercilessly (and regularly) over the reader's head. In the fictional "Boomsday," (which follows a critically acclaimed film version of Buckley's "Thank You for Smoking,") the author orchestrates an elaborate war between the ends of the voting-age spectrum: the baby boomers and the U30s (under 30s), aka Generation Whatever.
John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men to Get 70th Anniversary Revival
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107103.html

Musique
Donna Jean still Grateful to be playing music
http://www.norwalkadvocate.com/features/scn-sa-donna2mar22,0,2020159.story?track=rss
Jimi Hendrix Estate Sues Over Vodka
http://www.koin.com/Global/story.asp?S=6191489&nav=menu494_7

And in the end. . .
SURVIVOR MALL
http://www.survivormall.com./

4/6
FLEEING THIEVES THROW DILDOS AT COPS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=43978&in_page_id=2

WATCH: BOARDING A JAPAN SUBWAY
http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=44152&in_page_id=6

WATCH: CHINA MURDER SUSPECT HOSED OFF 8TH FLOOR ON TO AIRBAG
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21504327-5001021,00.html

FLA. HOUSES SEX OFFENDERS UNDER BRIDGE
Talk about trolls
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/05/bridge.sex.offenders/index.html

WHAT IS SF MAYOR DOING TO THAT REPORTER’S MICROPHONE?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=15090

And on to even more unreal news and comment. . .

FIENDISH BABY SEAL SLAUGHTER BEGINS
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/332/
860 MURDERED SO FAR
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=69993
HELP SAVE THE SEALS
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals_web?qp_source=gaba4w&gclid=CK%5fkyquirosCFRBGGAodx2vdVA
http://www.hsus.org/protect_seals.html
LISTEN: COUNTRY JOE SINGS 'BLOOD ON THE ICE'
http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ConcertDetail.aspx?id=20050307%7C1423

DRUNK, ILLEGAL ALIEN MEXICAN
WITH NO LICENSE WIPED OUT BOB CLARK, SON
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crash6apr06,0,6699610.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Now here’s a little headline. . .
FORECAST GRIM FOR LIFE ON EARTH
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2051770,00.html
POOR WILL BE HIT HARDEST, OF COURSE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6532323.stm

Speaker out of the House
CHENEY ACCUSES PELOSI OF ‘BAD BEHAVIOR’
What did she do, forget to say “please” and “thank you?”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/1165/171/
PELOSI QUIPS ABOUT LACK OF WOMEN IN SAUDI GOV’T
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/05/international/i105533D62.DTL
NOW REPUG CREEP ISSA MEETS WITH ASSAD
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070406-9999-1n6issa.html
CONASON: WHY NEOCONS ARE APOPLECTIC
ABOUT PELOSI’S MID-EAST TRIP
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,476030,00.html
In the New York Post she was accused of "making a date with a terrorist." On the NewsMax site she was portrayed as "appeasing dictators in the Middle East." In the Washington Post she was ridiculed for attempting to mount a "shadow presidency." And on CNN, she was mocked for planting a "big wet kiss" on Assad as a "publicity stunt." Yet those furious complaints were all false and, more important, beside the point. The problem is not what Pelosi did or said, but how she exposed the exhaustion of neoconservative policy.

What is the law?
INDEPENDENT AGENCY PROBING FIRING OF U.S. ATTORNEY
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/1156/171/

Iraq and Roll
PENTAGON REPORT: NO CONTACT BETWEEN SADDAM, AL-QAEDA---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040502263.html?hpid=topnews
---BUT GOOD OL’ DICK CHENEY INSISTS OTHERWISE
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/06/poor-dick-just-can%e2%80%99t-help-himself/
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER BOMB, ANOTHER 27 KILLED
Mission accomplished!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6532271.stm
NATIONAL GUARD HEADS BACK TO IRAQ
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/1161/171/

The Other War
DUTCH SOLDIERS URGE RESTRAINT IN AFGHANISTAN
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/06/asia/web-0406afghan.php

The Torture Never Stops
THE GITMO SHUFFLE: PLEAD GUILTY, GO HOME
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/327/
Last Friday night, after a jury of senior military officers sentenced Hicks to seven years in prison, we all learned the details of that agreement: Hicks will serve a mere nine months - a sentence more in keeping with a misdemeanor than with a grave terrorist offense. This stunning turn of events highlights a cruelly ironic feature of detention at Guantanamo. In an ordinary justice system, the accused must be acquitted to be released. In Guantanamo, the accused must plead guilty to be released - because even if he is acquitted, he remains an “enemy combatant” subject to indefinite detention. Only by striking a deal does a detainee stand a chance of getting out.

Electile Dysfunction
KILLING ANIMALS IS APPARENTLY A MEASURE OF A VIABLE CANDIDATE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070406/ap_on_el_pr/romney_hunting;_ylt=ApSpqRfqebgZOmCy9WLJcRPMWM0F
RENSE ON ANOTHER CANDIDATE AS HUNTER
http://www.riprense.com/kerrygoose.htm
OBAMA’S BIG MONEY NOT A PLUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0406/p01s02-uspo.html

Enviro Wacko
ENVIRONMENTALISTS WANT LEAD OUT OF HUNTERS’ AMMO
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1606660,00.html
ACIDIC OCEANS THREATEN SEA LIFE
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12531

Animals in the news!
DOG BISCUITS ADDED TO PET FOOD RECALL
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5604110
POOR 100-YEAR-OLD FISH CAUGHT IN ALASKA
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12530

Mashed Media
GEFFEN ‘OPTIMISTIC’ ABOUT GETTING THE TIMES
(He plans to lure superstar writer pals, instead of going local---more bad news for the LAT)
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/04/geffen_optimistic_about_g.php
CHANDLERS BOW OUT OF TRIBUNE BOARD
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003568116
O'REILLY-GERALDO IMMIGRATION SMACKDOWN!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/OReilly_uses_tradgedy_to_attack_immigrants_0405.html

Oh, by the way
TWINS SHARING HEARTS, LIVER SEPARATED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6529259.stm
CHILD SHRINK TO FACE MOLESTATION CHARGES
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/06/MNGJOP45RF1.DTL
FIRST PREZ OF MIRCONESIA DIES
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/world/asia/06nakayama.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
PORN-SWAPPING JAPAN SAILORS LEAK MISSILE SECRETS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,476032,00.html
MORE YOUTUBE VIDEOS MOCKING KING OF THAILAND
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6532137.stm


And in more important matters. . .

ROSTROPOVICH FETED AT 80
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aYTthcTxmYVM&refer=muse
No soloist in modern times has inspired more new works; no cellist in history did more to expand the instrument's repertoire. Slava has given about 240 premieres, including concertos by the three Russian masters, the Frenchman Henri Dutilleux, the Estonian Arvo Paert and the Poles Lutoslawski, Panufnik and Penderecki.

INVISIBILITY CLOAK ACTUALLY POSSIBLE?
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/A_real_invisibility_cloak_is_in_our_04062007.html 

Light reading
EINSTEIN AND GOD
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html
THE RISE AND FALL OF NAVIES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/05/opinion/edkennedy.php
Then go back in time and consider one of the oddest disjunctures in world history. In the very first decades of the 15th century, the great Chinese admiral Cheng Ho led a series of amazing maritime expeditions to the outer world, through the Straits of Malacca, into the Indian Ocean, across even to the eastern shores of Africa. Nothing at that time compared with China's surface navy. Yet, within another decade, the overseas ventures had been scrapped by high officials in Beijing, anxious not to divert resources away from meeting the Manchu landward threat in the north and about how a seaward-bound open-market society might undermine their authority.
DO EARLIEST HUMANS HAVE APE FACES?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070405-human-skull.html

Film
RAINER ON ‘GRINDHOUSE’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0406/p14s01-almo.html
RAINER ON ‘THE HOAX’ AND ‘COLOR ME KUBRICK’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0406/p11s01-almo.html

And in the end. . .
GREAT PERFORMANCES ON ART FEIN’S POKER PARTY
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sofeinvideo&search=Search

4/5
Sad news, indeed
‘CHRISTMAS STORY’ DIRECTOR BOB CLARK, SON, KILLED IN ACCIDENT
The Rip Post interviewed Clark years ago and found him unpretentious, immensely likeable.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crash5apr05,0,6240856.story

KEEF BANNED FROM PROMOTING ‘PIRATES’ AFTER SNORTING JOKE
Disney keeps its nose clean
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-richards5apr05,1,2133187.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-entnews&ctrack=1&cset=true
Related story:
STUDENT PUNISHED FOR ‘PIRATE RELIGION’
Boy is devotee of “Flying Spaghetti Monster”
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=43272&in_page_id=2

MAN IN NON-LIFE-THREATENING PENIS INJURY
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=43397&in_page_id=2

HEY, KIDS! WIN A TRIP TO SEE CONDI!
http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.2615763/k.67CA/Annual_Meeting_Contest/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp?msource=nys300

IDIOTIC COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK
L.A. Times tarnishes itself further with reactionary Cato Institute piece knocking universal health care
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-tanner5apr05,0,2227144.story?coll=la-opinion-center

And on to news and comment. . .

OKAY, HERE’S WHAT’S WRONG WITH EVERYTHING
Thanks to Circuit City for providing a perfect illustration of capitalism amok
http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon04042007.html
In January, Circuit City employee Bobby Young received a certificate of excellence for his twenty years of loyal service at the company's Roanoke, Virginia store. On March 28th, he received a pink slip. That same day, 3,400 workers at Circuit City stores across the country were greeted with the news that they had been fired before management quickly escorted them out of the building. Company spokesman Bob Cimino bluntly announced that the mass firings targeted the most experienced and highest paid in-store workers as part of a "wage management initiative" to replace them with low-wage new hires. "It had nothing to do with their skills or whether they were a good worker or not," Cimino said.

Iran from the truth
MORE REPORTS OF IMPENDING IRAN ATTACK
http://www.indiaenews.com/middle-east/20070404/45848.htm
ALMONDJOYAD’S ACT OF MERCY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,475827,00.html

King Anniversary
THE MARTIN LUTHER KING YOU DON’T SEE ON TV
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/04/304/
You haven’t heard the “Beyond Vietnam” speech on network news retrospectives, but national media heard it loud and clear back in 1967 – and loudly denounced it. Time magazine called it “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi.” The Washington Post patronized that “King has diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.” In his last months, King was organizing the most militant project of his life: the Poor People’s Campaign. He crisscrossed the country to assemble “a multiracial army of the poor” that would descend on Washington – engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol, if need be – until Congress enacted a poor people’s bill of rights. Reader’s Digest warned of an “insurrection.”
KING SPEECH, APRIL 4, 1967: BEYOND VIETNAM
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011805F.shtml
“We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world - a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.”

TIME FOR CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE TIES
BETWEEN BUSH FAMILY, BIN-LADEN CLAN
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/50156/
BCCI was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a dirty offshore bank that then-President Ronald Reagan's Central Intelligence Agency used to run guns to Hussein, finance Osama bin Laden, move money in the illegal Iran-Contra operation and carry out other "agency" black ops. The Bushes also benefited privately; one of the bank's largest Saudi investors helped bail out George W. Bush's troubled oil investments. The BCCI operation gave Osama bin Laden an education in offshore black finance, which he would put to use when he organized the jihad against the United States. He would move money through the Al-Taqwa Bank, operating in offshore Nassau and Switzerland with two Osama siblings as shareholders. At the same time, BCCI helped Saddam Hussein, funneling millions of dollars to the Atlanta branch of the Italian government-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), Baghdad's U.S. banker, so that from 1985 to 1989 it could make $4 billion in secret loans to Iraq to help it buy arms.

ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION SPECIAL
Tired of Billary, Obama, Rudy the Creep, and Crazy John?
Well, herrrrrrrrre’s. . .
"Average Joe" Schriner: "Common man…
Common sense… Uncommon solutions…"
http://www.voteforjoe.com/
Ron Paul: The Revolutionary Candidate
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods63.html
http://www.ronpaul.org/
Chris Dodd: Dodd's resume resonates with Democratic activists
http://www.chrisdodd.com/node/1071
http://www.chrisdodd.com/home
Mike Gravel: ‘I Have My Suspicions’ That No Matter Who Is Elected ‘They’re Not Going To Get Out Of Iraq’
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/30/gravel-interview/
http://www.gravel2008.us/
Dennis Kucinich: Candidate pushes for new direction for the nation
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2007/03/31/local_news/01news.txt
http://kucinich.us/
(Thanks to the Bernie Bugle for today’s Electile Dysfunction.)

Meanwhile, back at the polls. . .
BILLARY SLIPS, LITTLE JOHNNY EDWARDS CLIMBS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/03/new.hampshire.poll/index.html
The CNN/WMUR presidential primary poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire, found that Clinton was the choice of 27 percent of likely Democratic voters in the Granite State, down from 35 percent in the same poll in February. Meanwhile, Edwards, who was the choice of just 16 percent in February, saw his support jump to 21 percent, vaulting him past Sen. Barack Obama into second place.
ACTOR/SENATOR ELBOWS RUDY THE CREEP
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/04/usnews/whispers/main2649631.shtml
The possible entry of Fred Thompson into the Republican presidential race seems to have changed the standings. The USA Today/Gallup poll taken March 23-25 shows Rudy Giuliani with 31 percent of the vote, down from 44 percent March 2-4, and Thompson, a new name on the list, at 12 percent. Similar results come from the Rasmussen poll announced today. Giuliani still leads, with 26 percent, but that's down from 35 percent in the poll released March 27. Thompson, again a new entry, is at 14 percent.
NEW YORK SUN WANTS CHENEY TO RUN FOR PREZ!
http://www.nysun.com/article/51783
related story:
HUNDREDS PROTEST FIEND CHENEY AT BYU
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/05/byu-cheney-protest-video/

Freedom of what?
LISTEN: SECRET FBI UNIT DETAINED, INTERROGATED WAR PROTESTORS
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/141252

What is the law?
HAHAHA---GONZALES AIDE LIKENS DEMS TO JOE MCCARTHY
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Goodlings_lawyers_fire_back_at_House_0404.html

Iraq and Roll
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOWNED HELICOPTER---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5018&sectionid=3510101
---AND ANOTHER FOUR SOLDIERS DEAD
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=44318&in_page_id=34

‘AMERICAN TALIBAN’S’ FAMILY PLEADS FOR REDUCED SENTENCE
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FUS%2Fprint%3Fid%3D3008889

KEZELIS: SUPPORT THE TROOPS, MR. PREZ? DO TELL!
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/985/174/
This is not a war on terra. This is a civil war we helped stoke and arm. According to a BBC report, 30-65% of the weapons we gave to the IraqNami army has been sold, stolen, given, or lent to religious based elements intent on getting back at an another Iraqi sect that offended them earlier. Oh, and the US soldiers in the middle are worth a triple score, plus a bonus.

Enviro Wacko
ANTI-TOYOTA PROTESTORS ARRESTED AT N.Y. AUTO SHOW
Unfurled banner declaring, “Toyota: The Truck That’s Changing The Climate”
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070405/AUTO01/704050302
GREENPEACE ATTACKS APPLE
FOR SENDING TOXIC COMPUTERS TO CHINA
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2418417.ece
LOSS OF CORAL MAY CAUSE FOOD SUPPLY CRISIS
Everything is interconnected, folks
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003567498

Jesus H. Christ!
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OFFENDED BY APRIL FOOL STUDENT NEWSPAPER
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003567498
JOAN OF ARC REMAINS ARE ACTUALLY EGYPTIAN MUMMY
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070404-joan-arc.html

Animals in the news!
JUST WHAT IS IN PET FOOD, ANYHOW?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0405/p03s01-ussc.html
KINKAJOU ATTACKS BUS PASSENGERS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=44123&in_page_id=2

Oh, by the way. . .
SPORTSWRITER’S SON MAKES PRO BASEBALL
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003567483
BANGLADESH ‘ARMY OF HOUSEWIVES’ BATTLES TUBERCULOSIS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/05/news/bangla.php

R.I.P. PARALYZED EX-FOOTBALL STAR STINGLEY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/05/sports/s051656D93.DTL

And in more important matters. . .

JON CARROLL ON STORYTELLING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/05/DDGEBOSCAB1.DTL

Books
ENGLAND, 1650: FILTH, STINK, AND NOISE
http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/hart_03_07.html

Musique
THE FAT LADY SLIMS
Deborah Voight loses 16 dress sizes
http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2050116,00.html

Light Reading
THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR
IS THE CULTURE OF FEAR ITSELF
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3053/

And in the end. . .
TOWELIE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towelie

4/4
WATCH: YOU WON’T HEAR A BETTER SPEECH THAN THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SzWtkMVBRI&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0qENSrDO4
(thanks to Jack Oakes for sending)

L.A.(me) TIMES STAFF, FRIGHTENED, DISMAYED BY NEW OWNER
Xanax use way up as overpaid, arrogant staffers worry about their million-dollar La Canada Homes
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/03/new-owner-sparks-dismay-at-the-los-angeles-times/

BRAVE STUDENTS PELT KARL ROVE AT PROTEST
http://www.nbc4.com/news/11516096/detail.html

SWEDEN WILL NOT ALLOW COUPLE TO NAME DAUGHER ‘METALLICA’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6525475.stm

MORFORD: THE SOUND OF STARBUCKS
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/04/04/notes040407.DTL
Yes, that's right, "the sound of Starbucks." Try to say it without cringing, without smirking and saying obvious ultra-snarky things like "Is that like 'The Taste of Wal-Mart'? 'The Scent of Circuit City'? 'A Lick of Levitz'?" These are the jokes. They seem to come rather easily. Hey, it's Starbucks. The joke is, of course, on you. See, just last year, Starbucks the lifestyle brand launched some sort of quasi-music label of their own. Starbucks is now putting out their own corporate-stamped CDs (in conjunction with their recent purchase of Hear Music) by their own "discovered" artists to go alongside the innocuous, watery major-label fare they already offer, all the Tracy Chapmans and Joss Stones and Lite Jazz Of the '90s CDs they already hawk like audio Zoloft to the Toyota Camry/soccer mom set.

KEEF WAS JOKING---DIDN’T REALLY SNORT HIS DADDY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/04/entertainment/e071114D84.DTL&type=entertainment

And on to news and comment. . .

BLOOD TYPES CAN NOW BE CONVERTED!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070403-blood-types.html

OBAMA RAISES ALMOST AS MUCH DOUGH AS BILLARY
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-070404obama-money,1,1955904.story?coll=chi-newsbreaking-hed
CARTOON: BILLARY’S WORST NIGHTMARE
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/04/cartoon_hillarys_worst_nightmare.html

LINDORFF: I QUIT
158 Democrats gone, and counting---will you turn in your badge, too?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.04.01_arch.html#1175624297328

CHENEY’S HANDWRITTEN NOTE IMPLICATES BUSH IN PLAME AFFAIR
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013107Z.shtml

U.S. USING SECRET PRISONS IN ETHIOPIA
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wokeny045157902apr04,0,1444219.story?coll=ny-worldnews-print

BIG BROTHER IS VIDEOTAPING YOU
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-details/George+Orwell%2C+Big+Brother+is+watching+your+house/article.do
According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.

PELOSI HOB-NOBS WITH ASSAD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2049798,00.html
RIGHT-WING SMEARS PELOSI AS ‘SUBSERVIENT’ FOR WEARING SCARF---
WHEN LAURA BUSH DID THE SAME THING
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/04/pelosi-laura-bush-scarf/

Iran from the truth
BRIT SAILORS GO FREE (OF COURSE)
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Iran_to_grant_amnesty_to_15_0404.html
ABC NEWS: THE SECRET WAR WITH IRAN
http://abcnews.go.com/International/BrianRoss/story?id=3005193&page=1

Iraq and Roll
IS U.S. ARMY AT BREAKING POINT?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0404/p01s01-usmi.html
When some 4,500 soldiers heard over the weekend that they'd be deploying to Iraq earlier than expected, many saw it as yet another inconvenience that military personnel must endure. But to some in Washington, the announcement is a glaring sign that the Army really is straining and that its well of rested, trained, and equipped soldiers is running dry.
SUNNI RECRUITMENT DRIVE FAILING
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0404/p01s01-woiq.html
WATCH: FEINGOLD TALKS SENSE ABOUT IRAQ
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/04/countdown-senator-feingold-talks-sense-about-iraq/

9/11, 7-Eleven. . .
O’DONNELL’S CONSPIRACY THEORY DRAWS FIRE, IRE
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/50116/
Last week, Rosie O'Donnell crossed a bright red line in the world of broadcast media: The outspoken actress and comedienne suggested that 9/11 was an "inside job." She implied -- never stating it outright -- that the World Trade Center was destroyed by the Bush administration in order to start a permanent war and also to cover up for the Enron scandal (the story goes that the IRS had records of all sorts of corporate malfeasance locked up in World Trade Center Tower 7, which was brought down in order to stymie investigations).
RENSE ON 9/11 CONSPIRACY
http://www.riprense.com/conspiracyofcynicism.htm

TRISTAM: THE TALENTED MR. DOWD
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/03/287/
Dowd is man enough to admit being astounded that Bush didn’t fire Donald Rumsfeld immediately after the Abu Ghraib scandal became public. What’s explicable only to the extent that it reveals the depth of the cowardice and turpitude of the Bush team is that not a single other member of the administration past or present has been man enough to come out as Dowd has and say what’s been obvious to everyone else for well over two thousand days.

RFK JR.: WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA?
http://www.ashleycountyledger.com/articles/2007/04/03/news/h16f084v.txt
"You hear about a liberal media. That is a big lie. There's no way to match conservative powers such as Robert Novak and Bill O'Reilly. There's a strong right-wing media in America and that's where most Americans are getting their news."

Electile dysfunction
EWWWW! NEWT IN TOP THREE CANDIDATES IN CALIF.---POLL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/04/MNG1SP1Q651.DTL
HAHAHAHAHA---ROMNEY’S ‘SECRET PLAN’ TO END IRAQ WAR
Tricky Mitt!
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/04/romney-timeline/

Mashed Media
JAILED FREELANCE JOURNALIST FINALLY RELEASED
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/04/04/ap/us/d8o9fr0o0.txt
CONDI-O’REILLY SMACKDOWN!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/OReilly_Rice_spar_over_Iraqi_killers_0403.html
RIGHT-WING LIES ABOUT REPORTER INTERRUPTING MCCAIN
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Blogs_accuse_CNN_reporter_of_disrupting_0404.html
MERC EDITOR’S COLUMN ON SON IN IRAQ DRAWS PRAISE, ABUSE
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003566680

Enviro Wacko
JON CARROLL: GLOBAL WARMING AS A LEFT-WING PLOT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/04/DDGEBOSC301.DTL
One of the stranger things to happen in recent political discourse -- and this is a crowded field -- is the morphing of global warming into a left-wing plot, a conspiracy by godless scientists to ... well, it's not clear what benefit the scientists get from spreading lies about global warming. Maybe they just want research money to study this nonexistent warming thing.

Animals in the news!
UH-OH---HONEYBEES ARE DYING OFF
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0404/p13s01-sten.html
I AM THE WALRUS TRACKER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6525473.stm
ELEPHANT SLAUGHTER ON AFRICAN ‘HIGHWAY OF DEATH’
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070403-africa-elephants.html

Ex-Spectorate
CRAZY PHIL HELD GUN TO ASSISTANT’S HEAD---PROSECUTION
The guy should do time just for having wrecked The Beatles’ “Let it Be” album. . .
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-spector4apr04,1,1111887.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

Oh, by the way. . .
BILLIONAIRE HEIRESS DIDN’T TAKE IT WITH HER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6524861.stm
CHINA, TAIWAN, VIE FOR INFLUENCE IN SOUTH PACIFIC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6525747.stm
RUSTING WWII TIMEBOMBS IN THE BALTIC
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,475520,00.html
RELATIVES OF INTERNED JAPANESE-AMERICANS SIDE WITH MUSLIMS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/nyregion/03detain.html?ex=1176264000&en=882236c18598044f&ei=5070&emc=eta1

And in more important matters. . .

EARTH'S BIGGEST EXTINCTION---250 MILLION YEARS BEFORE DINOSAURS
http://www.firstscience.com/home/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18172&Itemid=75&pop=1

R.I.P. BALLERINA BELINDA WRIGHT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/arts/dance/04wright.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

Film
“PROVOKED”----‘I WANTED HIM TO STOP HURTING ME’
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2049738,00.html
After suffering years of abuse, Kiranjit Ahluwalia killed her violent husband - and ended up in jail. When she was finally freed on appeal, her case changed the face of British justice. A film based on her story is released.
RAI ATTENDS “PROVOKED” PREMIERE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6524933.stm

Books
GOD WITHOUT RELIGION
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/571

CAT STEVENS DENIES ‘NO VEIL’ REPORTS
http://www.nbc4.com/entertainment/11509531/detail.html

And in the end. . .
BEST COLLEGE PRANK VIDEOS
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=t52cg5dxff6nzqk6z21kt4dcmwp91n1v

4/3
ONO DEDICATES ‘WISH TREE’ IN WASHINGTON D.C.
Oh, that’ll help
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_YOKO_ONO?SITE=NYITH&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT 

MUST WATCH: THE SWEET LOVE OF JESUS
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Cryptovitas
MEET JESUS OBAMA
http://wbztv.com/politics/politicsnational_story_092200923.html

HIDE THE KIDS! IT'S. . .
THE OFFSPRING OF EDDIE MURPHY AND ‘SCARY SPICE’
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20033446,00.html

JAMES BROWN RAPE CASE DISMISSED
That will be quite a relief to JB
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6520959.stm

EVIL DEVELOPERS FINALLY RAZE CHINA HOUSE
Give the homeowners the Nobel Peace Prize for their protest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6520317.stm
Related:
U.S. DEVELOPER TO BUILD LUXURY HOTELS IN CONGO NAT’L PARK
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12507

And on to news and comment. . .

Iran from the truth
BOTCHED U.S. RAID LED TO HOSTAGE CRISIS
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2414760.ece
A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.
A BOGUS HOSTAGE CRISIS
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp04022007.html
"British Gunboats in an Area Out of Iraqi Control"
IRAN OUTLINES SIMPLE TERMS FOR HOSTAGE RELEASE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0%2C%2C2048797%2C00.html
U.S. VIOLATES IRAN AIR SPACE
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/070401/1/47k8w.html
BLAIR GRABS TESTICLES, SHAKES THEM AT IRAN
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Blair_warns_of_tougher_decisions_if_04032007.html
U.S. STRATEGY ON IRAN MAY HAVE BACKFIRED
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-backfire3apr03,0,3611776.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Pressuring Tehran on its nuclear program seems to have only made the nation more belligerent.
FISK: THE WAR OF HUMILIATION
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17460.htm
Our Marines are hostages. Two more were shown on Iranian TV. Petrol bombs burst behind the walls of the British embassy in Tehran. But it's definitely not the war on terror. It's the war of humiliation. The humiliation of Britain, the humiliation of Tony Blair, of the British military, of George Bush and the whole Iraqi shooting match. And the master of humiliation - even if Tony Blair doesn't realise it - is Iran, a nation which feels itself forever humiliated by the West. Oh how pleased the Iranians must have been to hear Messers Blair and Bush shout for the "immediate" release of the luckless 15 - this Blair-Bush insistence has assuredly locked them up for weeks - because it is a demand that can be so easily ignored. And will be.

Iraq and roll
CRAZY JOHN’S CLAIM ABOUT IRAQ SECURITY ASTOUNDS IRAQI MERCHANTS
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/03/national/w074133D94.DTL
SCHOOLGIRLS SLAUGHTERED
Mission accomplished, Mr. Bush!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207S.shtml
BUSH DEPLOYS UNRESTED SOLDIERS
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/03/with-congress-on-break-bush-deploys-unrested-soldiers/

Bush Leagues
BUSH SNARLS AT PELOSI OVER TRIP TO SYRIA
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/03/national/w074133D94.DTL
WHITE HOUSE BLAMES DEFECTOR DOWD’S CRITICISM ON ‘PERSONAL PROBLEMS’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/04/03/white-house-blames-matthe_n_44863.html
BUSH FAMILY FRIEND: GEORGE W.
IS DAN QUAYLE IN COWBOY BOOTS
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/GOP_insider_Bush_Dan_Quayle_in_0402.html

JUDGE FREES MARINE WITH AVERSION TO KILLING
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/03/DDGEBOSBR01.DTL

Electile Dysfunction
CREEPY RUDY TO MEDIA: LAY OFF MY WIFE!
Oh! He said ‘lay!’ Heh heh. . .
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_092170628.html
GORE TOPS POLL IN SF
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/03/MNGHCP0JJL1.DTL
OBAMA’S COMMUNITY ROOTS
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg
In 1985, freshly graduated from Columbia University and working for a New York business consultant, Barack Obama decided to become a community organizer. Though he liked the idea, he didn't understand what the job involved, and his inquiries turned up few opportunities.

Mashed Media
FIRED SANTA BARBARA STAFFERS LAUNCH NEWS SITE
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003566276

Jesus H. Christ!
KARAOKE FOR THE LORD---OR---RECIPE FOR MEGACHURCH SUCCESS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,474999,00.html
The megachurches mushrooming in the United States are mammoth feel-good temples providing entertainment for one and all. The ministers used to deliver weekly jeremiads excoriating homosexuality, feminism and abortion, but many -- particularly younger evangelists -- are now using the pulpit to preach about Africa and the environment.

Enviro Wacko
UH-OH. . .ANOTHER BIG HURRICANE SEASON COMING
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1606239,00.html
SEAL HUNT DELAYED DUE TO ICE BREAK-UP
Sort of like being saved from murder by nuclear war. . .
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070402-seals-hunt.html

Animals in the news!
PARASITE MAKES RATS LIKE CATS---ESPECIALLY THEIR URINE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070403-cats-rats.html

Oh, by the way. . .
TOUR GUIDE STABS TWENTY IN CHINA
Now that’s hospitality!
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1606224,00.html
CHINA IS BUILDING NUKE-POWERED LUNAR ROVER
http://www.rense.com/general76/lorov.htm
INDIA IS BECOMING A SECOND HQ FOR HIGH-END CORPORATIONS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/03/business/rupee.php
CALIFORNIANS PAST 65 WORKING FOR FUN AND MONEY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/03/MNGHCP0JJL1.DTL
FORMER TAIPEI MAYOR/PREZ ASPIRANT ON TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION
Quits Kuomintang party, will defend himself
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6520433.stm
LAST NAVY VET OF WWI DIES AT 105
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/us/03brown.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
R.I.P. K.I. GREISEN, EXPERT IN COSMIC RAYS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/us/03greisen.html?ref=obituaries

And in more important matters. . .

MEET THE BASKETBALL GRANNIES!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0403/p20s01-lihc.html

Musique
CHINA CRANKING OUT THE CLASSICAL VIRTUOSOS
Let’s hope they are not all wind-up monkeys like Lang Lang
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/arts/music/03class1.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
With the same energy, drive and sheer population weight that has made it an economic power, China has become a considerable force in Western classical music. Conservatories are bulging. Provincial cities demand orchestras and concert halls. Pianos and violins made in China fill shipping containers leaving its ports.

Books
NIETSZCHE AND MARK TWAIN USED TYPEWRITERS
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/04/09/070409crbo_books_acocella?currentPage=all
POTTER PUBLISHER DYING FOR NEW HARRY BOOK
Profits down 74 percent
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2048992,00.html

DNA SHOWS: ETRUSCANS MIGRATED TO ITALY FROM NEAR-EAST
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/03etruscan.html? ei=5040&en=38ce0b8c11922406&ex=1176264000&partner=MOREOVERFEATURES&pagewanted=print
Geneticists have added an edge to a 2,500-year-old debate over the origin of the Etruscans, a people whose brilliant and mysterious civilization dominated northwestern Italy for centuries until the rise of the Roman republic in 510 B.C. Several new findings support a view held by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus — but unpopular among archaeologists — that the Etruscans originally migrated to Italy from the Near East.

Film
NEW ‘MR. BEAN’ TOPS UK BOX OFFICE
Can’t imagine why people want to laugh these days, can you?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6522545.stm

WAS AMELIA EARHART A DOOMED CASTAWAY?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/01/earhart.mystery.ap/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular
Also listening aboard the Itasca was James W. Carey. The 23-year-old University of Hawaii student had been hired by The Associated Press to cover Earhart's Howland stopover. He also had been keeping a diary.The diary was unknown to Earhart scholars until last September, when a typewritten copy was bought on eBay by a member of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or TIGHAR.

For Art’s Sake
ITALIAN SCI-FI COVERS
http://www.mondourania.com/index.htm

A little morning concert. . .
CARLOS SANTANA, JERRY GARCIA, STEVE JORDAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhX9DJIZ1NU

And in the end. . .
MOVIE MORLOCKS
http://www.moviemorlocks.com/blog

4/2
TERRY JONES: CALL THAT HUMILIATION?
No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2047110,00.html
I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of civilised behaviour? For God's sake, what's wrong with putting a bag over her head? That's what we do with the Muslims we capture: we put bags over their heads, so it's hard to breathe. Then it's perfectly acceptable to take photographs of them and circulate them to the press because the captives can't be recognised and humiliated in the way these unfortunate British service people are.

BELLO THE CLOWN’S MINI-BIKE IS RETURNED
http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070401/APA/704013063&template=storydetails

Lennon once put a cigarette out in a Hugh Hefner Matisse
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2007140959,00.html
Lennon wasn’t the only Beatle to wear glasses. . .
http://stylescenes.latimes.com/fashion/2007/03/hey_wasnt_john_.html

‘HEBREW HERCULES’ DIES AT 101
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/sports/othersports/02coleman.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

MOTORMOUTH MAGAZINE---SUBSCRIBE NOW
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/04/cartoon_motor_mouth_magazine.html

And on to the news and comment. . .

The Other War
U.S. ABOUT TO LOSE AFGHANISTAN TO TALIBAN
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/04/02/losing_the_war_in_afghanistan/

FORMER TOP BUSH ADVISOR: “KERRY WAS RIGHT”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/washington/01adviser.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
Mr. Dowd does not seem prepared to put his views to work in 2008. The only candidate who appeals to him, he said, is Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, because of what Mr. Dowd called his message of unity. But, he said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if I wasn’t walking around in Africa or South America doing something that was like mission work.”He added, “I do feel a calling of trying to re-establish a level of gentleness in the world.”

SUPREME COURT OVERRULES BUSH ON CAR CARBON EMISSIONS
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8O8I4IO0.htm

MEET THE CITIZENS OF NOWHERE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/01/asia/stateless.php
Many of these stateless people are among the world's poorest; all are the most disenfranchised. Without citizenship, they often have no right to schooling, health care or property ownership. Nor may they vote, or travel outside their countries - even, in some cases, the towns - where they live.

BRIT SCIENTISTS GROW HEART TISSUE FROM STEM CELLS
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/stem-cells-take-growth-of-heart-tissue-a-step-closer/2007/04/02/1175366160708.html

LIBRARIES HAVE BECOME HOMELESS SHELTERS
http://www.alternet.org/story/50023/

WATCH: CRONKITE BROADCAST SHOWED KARL ROVE WAS A C.R.E.E.P. IN ‘72
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/49886/

Iran from the truth
NIMITZ HEADS TO THE PERSIAN GULF
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31806&hd=&size=1&l=e
ISRAEL PM DENIES PLOTTING WITH U.S. AGAINST IRAN
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Israel_PM_denies_plotting_with_US_a_04012007.html

Iraq and Roll
INTERVIEW: EMBEDDED IRAQI---‘I WANT TO SHARE STORIES WITH THE AMERICAN PUBLIC’
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/02/1345213

Animals in the news!
KUWAIT KILLS 1.5 MILLION BIRDS TO AVERT BIRD FLU
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=141262&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56
GIANT BUNNIES FOR STARVING N. KOREANS
ARE BEING EATEN BY TOP OFFICIALS INSTEAD
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,475218,00.html
GIANT SQUID INVADE EASTERN PACIFIC
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070330-giant-squid.html

Electile Dysfunction
JUDI GIULIANI WORKED FOR PUPPY-KILLING OUTFIT
She and Rudy are a perfect match
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04022007/news/regionalnews/judis_job_with__pup_killer_firm_regionalnews_dan_mangan.htm
EX-GIULIANI PARTNER MAY BE CHARGED WITH FELONIES
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207O.shtml
MCCAIN A WALKING ARMED FORTRESS IN BAGHDAD
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/02/aspell-paris-hilton/
Aspell said that, with a similar level of protection, “even Paris Hilton could ride a bicycle in a bikini through Anbar province.”
SOLOMON: MCCAIN WALKS IN MCNAMARA’S FOOTSTEPS
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/02/264/
The media spectacle that John McCain made of himself in Baghdad on Sunday was yet another reprise of a ghastly ritual. Senator McCain expressed “very cautious optimism” and told reporters that the latest version of the U.S. war effort in Iraq is “making progress.” Three years ago, in early April 2004, when an insurrection exploded in numerous Iraqi cities, U.S. occupation spokesman Dan Senor informed journalists: “We have isolated pockets where we are encountering problems.” Nine days later, President Bush declared: “It’s not a popular uprising. Most of Iraq is relatively stable.”
BILLARY PUTS THE SQUEEZE ON---
TO THE TUNE OF A RECORD $26 MILLION---
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1605719,00.html
---BUT MORE PEOPLE DONATED TO OBAMA THAN BILLARY
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/04/02/behind-the-numbers-8353_n_44779.html

Light Reading
WHAT’S WOLFOWITZ UP TO AT THE WORLD BANK?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy?printable=true
Wolfowitz has an abiding interest in the Islamic world. His father, Jacob, an eminent mathematician who taught at Columbia and Cornell, was a fervent Zionist, and Wolfowitz’s elder sister, Laura, lives in Israel. Wolfowitz’s critics sometimes portray him as an unquestioning defender of the Israeli government, and yet he has publicly expressed sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians, and some Arab reformers regard him as a friend. Since separating from his wife of more than thirty years, Clare Selgin Wolfowitz, in 2001, he has dated a secular Muslim woman in her fifties, Shaha Ali Riza. A British national from a Libyan family who grew up in Saudi Arabia, Riza is a longtime advocate of democracy in Arab countries.

Lost Angeles
HOW DRY I AM---NO RAIN, NO WINTER IN L.A. THIS YEAR
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Los_Angeles_suffers_longest_dry_spe_04012007.html
SF ADDS NEW CITY RAIL LINE---
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/02/BAG04OVSE91.DTL
---WHILE DUMBASS L.A. WILL RAZE HOMES,
CHURCHES TO WIDEN THE 405
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-carpool5mar05,1,5140954.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE FLOODED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE BILLS
At least something's flooded around here. . .
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/02/MNGQ4OVRVO1.DTL

Jesus H. Christ!
INTERVIEW: JUDAS GOSPEL SHEDS NEW LIGHT
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/04/02/findrelig.DTL
The Gospel of Judas may be, as it's been described by some biblical scholars, the most significant archeological find in decades, but it's certainly not easy reading. Luckily, we now have a guide to the often convoluted text, "Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity" (Viking, March 2007) by Elaine Pagels, a religion professor at Princeton University and author of the "Gnostic Gospels" (2004), and translator Karen King.

Oh, by the way
ASIAN-AMERICANS GOING UNDER THE KNIFE TO LOOK WESTERN
http://www.alternet.org/story/49894/
LAST SURVIVING MEMBER OF HITLER BUNKER DIES
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1495045.ece

And in more important matters. . .

MEET THE FRANK MAN OF 93RD AND CENTRAL PARK WEST
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0402/p20s01-lifo.html
"He's the mayor," says a UPS delivery man eating a hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut. "Well, he should be the mayor." "I want to marry him," says a woman who just bought a can of Pepsi and a packet of Skittles. "Just don't tell my boyfriend." "A true gentleman," says an elderly man finishing a hot sausage with relish and mustard.

TRACING FAMILY TREES WITH A VENGEANCE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/02/news/dna.php
They swab the cheeks of strangers and pluck hairs from corpses. They travel hundreds of miles to entice their suspects with an old photograph, or sometimes a free drink. Cooperation is preferred, but not necessarily required to achieve their ends. If the amateur genealogists of the DNA era bear a certain resemblance to members of a crime-scene investigation team, they make no apologies. Prompted by the advent of inexpensive genetic testing, they are tracing their family trees with a vengeance heretofore unknown.

Film
POLLOCK TO DO FILM ABOUT 2000 ELECTION THEFT
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_11606.html
WALLACE AND GROMIT OUTFIT SIGNS THREE-PIC DEAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6518257.stm

JON CARROLL'S PASTORAL OUTING
That’s “outing” in the sweet old picnicky sense
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/02/DDGEBOSBJP1.DTL

SCREAMING MAN BURSTS INTO MCCARTNEY ESTATE
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/showbiz/showbiz1.shtml

And in the end. . .
DO YOU REALIZE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYRjaQn5PMg

3/30
IT’S THE JUSTIN KAN SHOW---24/7
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/30/MNG8OOUQI81.DTL

US MAG IS SICK OF POSH SPICE’S NIPPLES
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/30/BAG4NOUP7Q1.DTL

CHOCOLATE JESUS UPSETS ‘CHRISTIANS’ IN NYC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6509127.stm
And here are the lyrics to Tom Waits’ song of the same name
http://www.officialtomwaits.com/music/m_mv_lyr.htm#Chocolate_Jesus

TRAVOLTA, WHO OWNS FIVE JETS, URGES FIGHT ON GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23390848-details/Air+miles+Travolta+urges+fans+to+'do+their+bit'+for+the+environment/article.do
Clocking up at least 30,000 flying miles in the past 12 months means he has produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions – nearly 100 times the average Briton's tally.

BORDER FENCE BUILT BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/america/NA-GEN-US-Illegal-Immigration-Hiring.php

And on to news and comment. . .

Iran from the truth
RUSS OFFICIAL SAYS U.S. WILL HIT IRAN IN APRIL
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Russian_official_says_US_will_be_0330.html
ISRAEL’S ‘ARROW’ MISSILE CAN SHOOT DOWN ANY IRAN MISSILE---CLAIM
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/30/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Arrow.php
BRITS ON TIGHTROPE WITH SAILORS IN IRAN
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0330/p01s04-woeu.html
EASTER SURPRISE---ATTACK ON IRAN, NEW 9/11, OR WORSE
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17440.htm
RAIMUNDO: WAR WITH IRAN AUGERS GLOBAL CONFLICT
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10745
The coming war with Iran will not end until the entire region is aflame – with the fire spreading to three continents, and beyond. Is this the price the world is willing to pay to put an end to the "existential threat" to Israel? Or will our rulers pause, before plunging into an abyss, to ask: what about the existential threat to the rest of the world?

What is the law?
SAMSON SUGGESTED FIRING FITZGERALD
(Not a loyal “Bushie.”)
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Sampson_I_suggested_firing_Patrick_Fitzgerald_0329.html
WAXMAN WANTS DOCUMENTS FROM M.C. ROVE---
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Waxman_requests_documents_from_Rove_regarding_0329.html
---ESPECIALLY POWER-POINT SHOW HE GAVE TARGETING ATTY’S
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032901962.html

LINDORFF:
IF THEY DON'T IMPEACH BUSH, I'M QUITTING THE DEMOCRAPS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.03.01_arch.html#1175273765734

Queen Condi
DEMS WANT TO DEPOSE CONDI ON ‘YELLOWCAKE’ SCANDAL
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Democratic_Committee_requests_deposition_from_Secretary_0330.html
SAUDIS LEAVE CONDI STRANDED
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1605010,00.html
CONDI’S MIDDLE EAST FANTASIZING
http://jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion2.htm

Enviro Wacko
ARCTIC MELTING LINKED TO HUMAN CAUSES
(Like John Travolta)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070330-warming-arctic.html
INTERNET TO SAVE THE AMAZON RAINFOREST?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6509973.stm
A move to provide free internet access to native Indian tribes to help protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging has been announced in Brazil.
CRAZY CLIMATE IN AUSTRALIA, TOO
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070330.wausiclimate0330/BNStory/International/home
51 WAYS TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/environment/article/0,28804,1602354_1603074,00.html

Iraq and Roll
ANOTHER WEEK, HUNDREDS DIE
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL029480.htm
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Iraq/211425

CHINA IS WAITING FOR DALAI LAMA TO DIE
Then expects to have its way with Tibet
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,474732,00.html
Exiled in India, he is Tibet's most successful international spokesperson. The Dalai Lama receives pilgrims from all over the world -- but the future of Tibet remains bleak. And Beijing is calculating that international interest in Tibet will dwindle once he dies.

JAPAN MOUNTS MISSILE SELF-DEFENSE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6509211.stm

Electile Dysfunction
GIULIANI KNEW THAT NYC POLICE COMMISSIONER HAD TIES TO ORGANIZED CRIME
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/us/politics/30rudy.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
MORMON LOONEY ROMNEY MENTIONS NEWT, JEB AS VEEP MATERIAL
http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=191778
BILLARY WILL BREAK DEMOCRAP FUNDRAISING RECORDS
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Clinton_poised_to_break_Democrats_fundraising_0330.html

MORFORD: THE COUNTRY NEEDS A NATIONAL DETOX
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
We certainly wouldn't be the first. Hell, rehab is the thing to do. Rehab is the new black. All the celebrities are doing it, from Britney to Lindsay to Courtney, from Nicole Richie to Charlie Sheen to Robert Downey Jr. (veritably, the rehab poster child), all ducking in and out of rehab like it was a freakin' Haagen Daaz outlet in the Sahara, like it was Paris Hilton's crotch and they were an active STD. What, too graphic? Hey, it's rehab. No one said it would be pretty.

Mashed Media
INTERVIEW: SPORTS EDITOR EXPLAINS HOW TO BEAT WRITER’S BLOCK
http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.feature&featureId=2168

(Lack of) Health
SEDATIVES TIED TO PNEUMONIA, STROKES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/30/nhealth230.xml

Money Machine
U.S. WILL TAX CHINA PAPER PRODUCTS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/30/business/trade.php

Oh, by the way. . .
HISTORIAN DOCUMENTS JAPAN’S ROLE IN SEX SLAVERY
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/30/asia/japan.php
NO BIG SURF THIS YEAR AT HALF-MOON BAY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/30/BAG4NOUP7Q1.DTL

And in more important matters. . .

SEE ASTOUNDING JUPITER AURORAS---
NORTHERN LIGHTS ON STEROIDS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070330-jupiter-picture.html

HEY, THIS FRUIT STINKS---NO MORE
Scientist takes the stink out of the amazing durian
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/30/news/durian.php

SF’S KEROUAC ALLEY GETS A FACELIFT
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/30/BAG4NOUONC1.DTL

For art’s sake
CARAVAGGIOS IN THE ATTIC
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2045208,00.html

Film
RAINER ON NOIR GEM
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0330/p14s02-almo.html

And in the end. . .
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH, AND. . .JONES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VErFVMhcMk8

3/29
MYSTERIOUS HEXAGON SPOTTED ON SATURN
http://news.com.com/2300-11397_3-6171238-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

PAPER OR PAPER? SF SHOPPERS LIKE IT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/29/BAGOGOTSAS1.DTL

MORFORD:
RED-STATERS ARE BREEDING LIKE DRUNKEN FERRETS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/03/28/notes032807.DTL

CARTOON: FIORE---BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU FISH FOR
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/

And on to news and comment. . .

WATCH: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS YOUR CHIEF PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR
It defies comprehension how these awful 'leaders' comport themselves with such vulgarity, banality
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Video_MC_Karl_Rove_proves_white_0329.html

What is the law?
AIDE ADMITS: ATTY’S FIRED FOR NOT BEING ‘LOYAL BUSHIES’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/28/national/w170346D17.DTL
LEAHY: JUSTICE DOES NOT SERVE
AT THE PLEASURE OF THE PRESIDENT
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Leahy_Justice_does_not_serve_at_0329.html
After Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) challenged an e-mail in which Sampson referred to certain attorneys as "loyal bushies," Sampson tried to say it wasn't simply a political term.
JON CARROLL ON GONZALEZ, ‘LOYAL BUSHIES’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/29/DDGRJN7LGN1.DTL
Here's my first question: If those eight U.S. attorneys were fired at the behest of Karl Rove for real or imagined disloyalty to the president (and that does seem to be the case), then what were the 85 other prosecutors doing right? Why are they still in place?

Iraq and Roll
SENATE APPROVES 2008 IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Senate_approves_Iraq_bill_calling_f_03292007.html
BERKELEY GRANNY HEADS TO IRAQ---OR TRIES TO
Wants to embed with troops and blog
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/03/29/violetblue.DTL
IRAQ ADMITS: COPS BEHIND SUNNI MASSACRE
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iraq_admits_police_behind_sectarian_03292007.html
TRIPLE BOMBINGS KILL 40
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6507927.stm
CAR BOMBS---THE WEAPON NO ONE CAN STOP
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/49871/
The car bomb has proven globally to be an almost invincible weapon of the ill-armed and underfunded, as well as the one weapon of mass destruction that the Bush administration has totally ignored.
A SYRIAN SHRINK PUTS HIS JOB ON THE LINE TO TREAT IRAQI REFUGEE KIDS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0329/p01s04-woiq.html

Iran from the truth
POLL: MOST GERMANS THINK USA IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN IRAN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,474636,00.html

Mashed Media
HOW CATHY SEIPP ENEMY TOOK REVENGE ON-LINE
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261916,00.html
MORE CRAZY BLOGGING: DEATH THREATS AGAINST TECH WRITER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/29/MNGT3OTVAO1.DTL
INTRODUCING. . .CYBER SEXUAL ASSAULT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/03/29/violetblue.DTL
OH, GOOD---USA TODAY MAKES WILD BILL’S SEX LIFE BIG NEWS AGAIN
Just what the country needs
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/29/clinton-media-sex-life/

Electile Dysfunction
GOD HELP US---GIULIANI, MCCAIN AHEAD IN PREZ POLLS OVER ALL DEMOCRAPS
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1604469,00.html
GOOFY STEVE FORBES BACKS GOONY GIULIANI
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_billionaire_Forbes_backs_Giulian_03282007.html
ACTOR/SENATOR, SENATOR/ACTOR THOMPSON TO RUN FOR ACTOR/PRESIDENT?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802195.html?reload=true

Enviro Wacko
CRAZY CZECH PREZ LIKENS
ENVIRONMENTALISM TO COMMUNISM!
Yeah, who needs a bunch of fuggin’ trees, anyhow?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/29/159/
FIDEL STILL AT IT---LASHES OUT AT U.S. BIOFUEL POLICIES (CORRECTLY)
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/29/168/

Technically speaking
USA RANKS SEVENTH IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6502725.stm

Animals in the news!
OH, JOY! BURGER KING WILL NO LONGER BUY CAGED ANIMALS
"Eating cows with such persistence doesn't offer much resistance to this cockamamie business."---George Harrison
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/business/28burger.html?em&ex=1175313600&en=82b4853e2b40a872&ei=5087%0A

Money Machine
ETHICAL INVESTMENTS: A WAY TO AVOID STOCK MARKET STORMS?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0326/p13s01-wmgn.html
ISLAMIC BANKING: IS IT REALLY KOSHER?
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/march-april-magazine-contents/islamic-banking-is-it-really-kosher

(Lack of) Health
GREEN TEA MAY KEEP HIV AT BAY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6502399.stm

Oh, by the way
THE PARALLEL MUSLIM WORLD OF GERMANY---
FUNDAMENTALISTS WELCOME
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,474629,00.html
SIKHS ARE ABANDONING THE TURBAN, STARTING TO SHAVE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/29/news/turban.php
SWISS MAN JAILED FOR TEN YEARS FOR INSULTING THAI KING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6505237.stm
IAN FLEMING’S GUN AUCTIONED OFF
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6505711.stm

And in more important matters. . .

R.I.P. AMELIA HAYGOOD, FOUNDER OF DELOS CLASSICAL LABEL
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/obituaries/29haygood.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

"STAR WARS" STAMPS COMING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6506041.stm

‘IMAGINE’ IS TOP SONG OF OVER-50 CROWD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6502081.stm

MORE DETAILS ON WILBURYS RELEASE
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003560481

WHAT? SIR BONO, BUT NO SIR RINGO? YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_BONO?SITE=CAVEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

A little light reading. . .
REMEMBERING RILKE
http://www.slate.com/id/2162552/
Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstandings that can gather around a new name.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Gesammelte Werke
RILKE’S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT HUNTER
http://www.hunterarchive.com/files/Poetry/SonnetsToOrpheus.html

And in the end. . .
WATCH: SUNRISE IN TELEBUSHY LAND!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6acPwjOCQ_o

3/28
We’re not making this stuff up
WATCH: GIULIANI IN DRAG KISSING DONALD TRUMP
Yeah, these are our great, inspiring leaders. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8

TALLEST MAN TAKES A SHORT WIFE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6502203.stm

WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO FIVE ALIENS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2607665482169103245&sourceid=zeitgeist

CATFIGHT! IN THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWSROOM
http://nydailynews.com/gossip/r_m/2007/03/28/2007-03-28_violent_clash_of_styles_disrupts_the_tim.html

BRAVO! SF BANS PLASTIC BAGS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/28/MNGDROT5QN1.DTL

BRAVO II! CHINA WOMAN STARES DOWN HOMEWRECKERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/world/asia/27china.html?ex=1175745600&en=20a798e692c14565&ei=5070&emc=eta1

NEW HARRY POTTER COVER:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6503683.stm

And on to news and comment. . .

JAMES MADISON: ‘IMPEACH BUSH!’
Yes, that James Madison
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/113/
IMPEACHMENT TALK GROWING
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Oped_Impeachment_threat_real_0327.html

What is the law?
WATCH: GONZALEZ CONTRADICTS HIMSELF
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/28/gonzales-directly-contradicts-himself/
"I was not involved in the deliberations over whether or not the US attorneys should resign…"
"I know why I asked these United States attorneys to leave and it was not for improper reasons…"
GONZALES BOLTS FROM PRESS CONFERENCE
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Gonzales_bolts_from_briefing_in_Chicago_0328.html
WHITE HOUSE LINK IN CUNNINGHAM SCANDAL?
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=179787

Electile Dysfunction
KUCINICH: THIS ISN’T ‘AMERICAN IDOL’---
WE’RE CHOOSING A PRESIDENT
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1335231
WATCH: CRAZY JOHN CONTRADICTS HIMSELF
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/28/roberts-cnn-mccain-iraq/

The Torture Never Stops
TORTURE SUIT AGAINST RUMSFELD DISMISSED
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17430.htm
The nine men suffered abuse including being: hung upside-down and slapped until they lost consciousness, stabbed with knives, subjected to electric shocks, deprived of sleep by loud noises and bright lights, grabbed by aggressive dogs, subjected to sexual humiliation. None was ever charged with a crime.

Big Dick
BYU PARENTS, STUDENTS PROTEST CHENEY APPEARANCE
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/116/

Lost Angeles
GANG MAYHEM GRIPS L.A.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0%2C%2C2036580%2C00.html

Your corporatocracy at work!
MONSANTO GETS RICH WITH FRANKENCORN---
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/26/triple_stacked_hybrids/index.html
---WHILE RANCHERS GO BUST OVER HIGH CORN PRICES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0328/p01s04-usec.html
In ethanol-happy Iowa, where presidential candidates are falling all over themselves to support the corn-based fuel additive and farmers are reveling in corn prices double those of a year ago, Joe Kerns sometimes hands out bumper stickers that read: "Ethanol: A complete waste of otherwise perfectly good corn."
WAL-MART WRITES OFF NYC
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/business/28retail.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Iraq and Roll
45 IRAQIS MASSACRED IN REVENGE FOR BOMBING
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1087564
SENATE BACKS TROOP WITHDRAWAL---
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/366/159/
---WHILE CRAZY JOHN CLAIMS IRAQ PROGRESS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/376/159/

Iran from the truth
BRIT WOMAN SOLDIER TO BE FREED
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=nation_world&id=5158212

Mashed Media
WILL GOOGLE REPLACE LIBRARIES?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,473529,00.html
THOMPSON: DISGUSTED BY TONY SNOW FLAMERS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/369/162/
I got sick to my stomach twice Tuesday. The first wave of nausea hit when I heard Presidential press secretary Tony Snow's cancer had returned. The second came when I read some of the comments on our web site and others from those who rejoiced in his illness.
WHY EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT TWITTER
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1603637,00.html
If you ever fancied yourself a blogger but didn't have the time or energy to post thoughtful or silly missives at regular intervals, a new service called Twitter could set your inner blogger free. While some people call it microblogging or moblogging, I like to think of Twitter simply as blogging for regular people.

BAILLY: ANYONE HOME? COUNTRY OUT OF WHACK
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003638631_snohobailly28.html
The poor treatment of military veterans is not new, so why does it continue? If we are going to wage war, then the care of those who fight should be fully part of the appropriations package. We continue to underpay our military personnel, ruin their lives whether they are wounded or not, and then leave them to rot after they serve.

World Gone Mad
TEXAS TEEN TALKS ABOUT ‘CHOKING GAME’
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/us/28risk.html?ex=1175745600&en=64dc3fe05f17bcf2&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Mardis Grave
NEW ORLEANS HOMELESSNESS DOUBLES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0328/p03s03-ussc.html

Jesus H. Christ!
THE ‘CHRISTIAN’ RIGHT’S TROJAN HORSE AGAINST REASON
http://www.alternet.org/rights/49811/
From California to Florida, a string of Creation "Science" museums are springing up across the country as part of the Christian Right's attempt to rewrite the past and make it conform to the Bible.

Israelity
RADICAL ISLAM FILM BACKED BY PRO-ISRAEL GROUPS
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/112/
While such enthusiasm from right-wing talk show personalities comes as no surprise, mainstream cable news programs also appeared to accept, without question, the premise of the film, which explicitly compares the threat posed by radical Islam to that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Enviro Wacko
GORE WILL GET EMMY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6502667.stm
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOADS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6499713.stm
ER, GASP, WHAT TO DO ABOUT ‘HOG WASTE LAGOONS’
Stop eating hogs would be a good start
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12472

Animals in the news!
MEET THE IMPOSSIBLY GORGEOUS OWLET OF PERU
http://find.msn.com/search.aspx?q=Owlet+xenoglaux&c=0328+Owlet&form=MSNHM3
BIOLOGISTS TRY TO RELOCATE FALCON PAIR TO BAY BRIDGE IN SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/28/MNGDROT5QT1.DTL

Oh by the way. . .
RADICAL WOMEN STUDENTS RAID PAKISTAN BROTHEL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6502305.stm
1 IN 5 TEXANS VICTIMIZED BY STALKER
9 out of ten Americans victimized by Texan
http://reporter-news.com/abil/nw_state/article/0,1874,ABIL_7974_5441600,00.html
CHINA TO WEED OUT ‘DEAD SOULS’ FROM WORKPLACE
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/China_to_sack_dead_souls_and_other__03282007.html
GIANT METEORITE ONCE HIT CALIFORNIA
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070327-california-crater.html

And in more important matters. . .

‘THE SECRET’ IS NO MYSTERY
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0328/p13s01-lire.html
"They're marketing it the way 'The Celestine Prophecy' was marketed a decade ago – all of a sudden, someone's found this great 'secret,' " says Douglas Cowan, assistant professor of religion at Canada's University of Waterloo. "It's just the next coming of the same old New Age cavalry."
In case you missed it, Rense on “The Secret”
http://www.riprense.com/Pssst.htm

College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now
http://www.powells.com/review/2007_03_27

HEATHER MILLS DOES BACKFLIP
No wonder McCartney married her
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1087430

A CHAT WITH BUSY, 79-YEAR-OLD PUSSY GALORE
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2044366,00.html
Blackman is that rare thing, a thinking, Lib Dem-supporting former Bond girl. "Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I," she says imperiously, "have never been a bimbo."

WALLACE AND GROMIT LEADING EFFORT TO INSPIRE YOUNG INVENTORS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6494903.stm

For Art’s Sake
THE RADICAL YOUNG ARTISTS OF CHINA
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2044421,00.html

And in the end. . .
CALABI YAU MANIFOLD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabi-Yau_manifold

3/27
TOADZILLA CAPTURED IN AUSTRALIA
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2043969,00.html

SURPRISE---L.A.(me) TIMES AXES ‘GUEST EDITOR’ IDEA
MAGIC JOHNSON WAS GOING TO BE A GUEST EDITOR!
That this was even proposed is the real scandal---not the alleged conflict of interest
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/surprise_lat_axes_guest_e.php

THE COLLEGE POETRY OF BARACK OBAMA
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/obamas_college_poetry.php

HEY, KIDS! IT’S THE WACKY MOBILE EXECUTION CHAMBERS OF CHINA!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-14-death-van_x.htm

WIFE BURNS ROCK STAR’S CLOTHES---LET’S HOPE IT’S A TREND
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6498581.stm

And on to news and comment. . .

GONZALES IN TEXAS PEDOPHILE SCANDAL COVER-UP?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/260307pedophilescandal.htm

TIME TO DEPORT GONZALES?
http://niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher307.html
The attorney general of the United States is the poster child for lawlessness. This child of Mexican immigrants is a serial felon. He has approved of torture and secret prisons, asserted that the president has the authority to do anything in the name of national security, rejected the Geneva Conventions and international law, created rogue military tribunals, denied habeas corpus and legal counsel for detainees not charged with specific crimes, and authorized illegal wiretaps and eavesdropping on millions of Americans.

WAR CRIMES SUIT AGAINST RUMSFELD, GONZALEZ
EMBARRASSES GERMAN OFFICIALS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,473987,00.html
The reason the authorities would be quite happy if the lengthy document would simply go away is because it is a lawsuit against 14 powerful men and one woman. Donald Rumsfeld, the former United States Secretary of Defense, is one of them. Others include Alberto Gonzales, the current Attorney General of the United States

TONY SNOW HAS LIVER CANCER
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Tony_Snow_learns_growth_cancerous_has_0327.html

What is the law?
HOUSE STRIPS PREZ OF POWER TO APPOINT U.S. ATTORNEYS
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/House_strips_Bush_of_US_Attorneys_0327.html
GONZALEZ AIDE REFUSES TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/365/159/
WATCH: GONZALEZ SAYS ‘MAY FIND OUT’
THAT ATTORNEYS WERE FIRED FOR POLITICAL REASONS
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/26/gonzales-nbc/
WAXMAN TO RNC: DO NOT DESTROY ANY E-MAIL
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Waxman_to_Republican_groups_Save_those_0326.html

Iraq and Roll
COST OF WAR: $5,550 PER. . .SECOND!
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/356/159/
MCCAIN: PERFECTLY SAFE TO WALK AROUND BAGHDAD---
WELL, PARTS OF IT
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Audio_John_McCain_interviewed_by_Bill_0326.html
NO JOKE---CHENEY FUNDS AL-QAEDA, AND NO ONE CARES
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/49275/
Seymour Hersh's recent report that Iran-Contra veterans working out of Dick Cheney's office are using stolen funds from Iraq to arm al Qaeda-tied groups and foment a larger Sunni-Shia war is a very big deal.

Iran from the truth
U.S. SPONSORING KURDISH GUERRILLA ATTACKS INSIDE IRAN?
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/1356250
YAWN: BLAIR WARNS IRAN OVER SAILORS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2043913,00.html

GITMO AUSSIE PLEADS GUILTY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/27/MNG9LOSGGJ1.DTL

War in error
WANT TO BUY A CAR? YOUR NAME WILL BE CHECKED AGAINST A TERRORISM LIST
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032707L.shtml
Private businesses such as rental and mortgage companies and car dealers are checking the names of customers against a list of suspected terrorists and drug traffickers made publicly available by the Treasury Department, sometimes denying services to people whose names are similar to those on the list.
SENATE TO INVESTIGATE ‘PATRIOT’ ACT
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261521,00.html
WAS FEINGOLD RIGHT ABOUT ‘PATRIOT’ ACT?
http://www.journaltimes.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=11775

DIONNE: RISING TIDE OF ANTI-WAR FEELING?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/AR2007032601578.html
Last week’s narrow House vote imposing an August 2008 deadline for the withdrawal of American troops was hugely significant, even if the bill stands no chance of passing in the Senate this week in its current form. The vote was a test of the resolve of the new House Democratic leadership and its ability to pull together an ideologically diverse membership behind a plan pointing the United States out of Iraq.

KRUGMAN: EMERGING REPUGNICAN MINORITY
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032607E.shtml
Many Republicans still imagine that what their party needs is a return to the conservative legacy of Ronald Reagan. It will probably take quite a while in the political wilderness before they take on board the message of Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback in California - which is that what they really need is a return to the moderate legacy of Dwight Eisenhower.

LINDORFF:
WHY DICK AND NANCY WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT THROUGH IMPEACHMENT
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.03.01_arch.html#1174837489830


SCIENTOLOGISTS PREYING UPON WEAK STUDENTS IN GERMANY
Offering after school tutoring, and, oh, a little indoctrination
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,422970,00.html

BRIT WOMAN GOES TO JAPAN TO TEACH ENGLISH, IS MURDERED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,2043882,00.html

FORECLOSURES FORETELL U.S. HOUSING CRASH?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0327/p01s02-usec.html

Mashed Media
THE ONION LAUNCHES ON-LINE VIDEO CHANNEL
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003563082

Jesus H. Christ!
FRENCH SCIENTISTS REBUT U.S., MUSLIM CREATIONISM MADNESS
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/26/103/

Animals in the news!
POOR PANDA DIES IN ZOO---OF CONSTIPATION
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,474144,00.html
DOLPHIN NUMBERS LOW DESPITE ‘SAVE’ TUNA FISHING
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070326-dolphins.html

Oh, by the way. . .
BRITISH MAN IS FIRST TO RUN AROUND THE WORLD
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Aide_to_embattled_US_attorney_gener_03272007.html
‘SEMI-IDENTICAL TWINS’ DISCOVERED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6498215.stm
PASSENGERS KEPT ON FLU-RIDDEN FLIGHT AFTER LANDING
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17802195/

R.I.P. ALBERT BAEZ, FATHER OF JOAN, AND MIMI FARINA
Co-inventor of X-ray reflection microscope
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/obituaries/27baez.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

And in more important matters. . .

THE HOSTILE NEW-AGE TAKEOVER OF YOGA!
http://www.slate.com/id/2162283/pagenum/all
One "manifestation" of this takeover is the shameless enlistment of yoga and elevated Eastern yogic philosophy for shamelessly material Western goals. Rather than an alternative, it's become an enabler. "Power yoga"! Yoga for success! Yoga for regime change! (Kidding.)

Books
JON CARROLL:
ON AMERICANS WRITING BRITISH MYSTERY NOVELS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/27/DDGRJN7HTH1.DTL

For Art’s Sake
THE PICASSO UNDER THE PICASSO
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/27/DDGLNOQTCC1.DTL

Film
‘MR. BEAN’ BACK IN NEW MOVIE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6494695.stm
EDITH PIAF BIOPIC---LONG ON IMAGE, LEAN ON SCRIPT
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2043043,00.html

Musique
THE WOW FACTOR
Lang Lang and Yundi Li at Carnegie Hall
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2007/04/02/070402crmu_music_ross?printable=true

And in the end. . .
BEATLES GAMES
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/games/beatles/

3/26
IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY (ALMOST)---
SGT. PEPPER COVER WAS SHOT
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/03/25/wheres_brando/

IS THIS A HOAX? BATTLE FOR JERRY GARCIA’S DNA? HUH?
WIDOW WANTS TO MANUFACTURE JERRY G. SPERM? EH?
http://riprense.com/garciaDNA.htm

ANNA NICOLE IS STILL DEAD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6496527.stm

IS THAT A CROCODILE UNDER YOUR DRESS, OR ARE YOU JUST GLAD TO SEE ME?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6495491.stm

ANN COULTER IN CAB WITH TRANSVESTITE!
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i16569

Jesus H. Christ!
WATCH: THE STORY OF MORMONISM
http://www.devilducky.com/media/59507

SCIENTISTS CREATE SHEEP THAT IS 15 PERCENT HUMAN
Next time you see “Human Lamb” on a Chinese menu, it might not be a typo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444436

And on to the “real” news and comment. . .

LEGAL U.S. IMMIGRATION UP 79 PERCENT IN THE LAST YEAR
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0326/p01s03-ussc.html

ROVE PLAYED POLITICS WITH GSA---WASHPOST
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003562748

LISTEN: NYPD SPIED ON U.S. PROTESTERS---
ALL OVER THE WORLD---BEFORE 2004 ELECTION.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/1329201
MORE:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/26/18383309.php

TONY SNOWJOB TO UNDERGO CANCER SURGERY
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1602837,00.html

JEB BUSH SNUBBED BY U. OF FLORIDA
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1602831,00.html

CHENEY: DEMOCRAPS ARE UNDERMINING THE TROOPS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/343/2/

SHEEHAN: DEM CONGRESS BETRAYS AMERICAN VOTERS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17406.htm
The Democratic leadership has proposed $100 billion of supplemental funding for an increased troop presence in Iraq. The leadership opted for the "slow bleed" policy over a month ago. This extends the occupation for at least another 18 months, and allows permanent placement of troops thereafter for “training” or “combating terrorism”. It also will permit the Bush Administration to initiate a war with Iran without Congressional oversight. The surge of 20,000 troops recently increased to 30,000 and will likely increase to 100,000 by year-end. Will the hapless Democrats then claim, “If only I knew then what I know now” as they have for the past year?

Impeachy-keen!
THOMPSON: BUSH MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/351/162/
Bush is an out-of-control madman, a crazed zealot driven by a lust for power and an insane belief that he is serving the "will of God" as he leads a once-great nation into the abyss. He is more dangerous to the security of this nation than any Islam-spouting terrorist or Middle-Eastern dictator.
HAGEL HINTS AT IMPEACHMENT
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/350/159/
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Hagel_There_are_ways_to_deal_0325.html
DON’T FIRE GONZALES, IMPEACH HIM---EDITORIAL
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Oped_Dont_just_oust_Gonzales_impeach_0324.html


NOW JAPAN PM APOLOGIZES FOR WWII SEX SLAVES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6495115.stm

CHINA PM HEADS TO RUSSIA URGENTLY SEEKING FUEL
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSPEK438520070323

FREDDIE MAC LOSES $480 MILLION IN LAST QUARTER
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=apdhqErgZZrE
Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. mortgage finance company, reported a $480 million net loss in the fourth quarter as fees from providing guarantees for bonds fell and it lost money on derivatives.

Mashed Media
L.A.(me) TIMES DEBACLE INSPIRES NATIONAL REACTIONS
Paper’s magnificent meltdown couldn’t be going much better
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003562782
NYT COVERAGE OF LAT SCANDAL
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/business/media/26carr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Reporting on the contretemps at The Los Angeles Times last week brings to mind a scene in which you come upon a sinking vessel and see people scrambling everywhere. And then you realize they are not looking for buckets, but guns.
For more on the scandal, go to http://www.laobserved.com
CRAZY LAT REDESIGN (AGAIN)---PAPER LOOKS LIKE IT’S ON PROZAC, NOW
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/bringing_a_little_calm_1.php
SEIPP NYT OBIT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/us/26seipp.html
THE ONION PRODUCES SPECIAL IRAQ ISSUE
You get more of world reality here than from most media
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003562056

Electile Dysfunction
NYC MAYOR BLOOMBERG EYEING WHITE HOUSE
That's what this country needs---a billionaire prez
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501334_pf.html

Iraq and Roll
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER FIVE DEAD SOLDIERS
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032607K.shtml

Iran from the truth
RAIMUNDO: COMING WAR WITH IRAN
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10724
BRIT SAILORS BEING INTERROGATED
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_says_British_sailors_interroga_03262007.html
IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER: ‘WE WARNED THE UNITED STATES’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,473862,00.html

(Lack of) Health
DARK CHOCOLATE IMPROVES BLOOD VESSEL HEALTH
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/16972878.htm

Animals in the news!
THE HEROIC DOGS OF THE IDITAROD
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0326/p20s01-alsp.html
PETS DO BETTER WITHOUT PET FOOD
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2973682&page=1
COLOSSAL SQUID MAY BE MICROWAVED
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070323-giant-squid.html

Oh, by the way. . .
KORAN VERSE ON WIFE-BEATING GETS NEW TRANSLATION
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/25/news/koran.php

And in more important matters. . .

PAULIE DATING SHAPELY GUINNESS HEIRESS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=444082&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490

Books
UNFINISHED TOLKIEN DUE IN APRIL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6494985.stm
THE UNLIKELY LIFE AND TIMES OF DOC POMUS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/23/features/idbriefs24B.php

For Art’s Sake
ODILON REDON
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/03/art_odilon_redon.html

Travel
INDIA MADE EASY
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/travel/25India.html?em&ex=1175054400&en=39d1a28c273992a1&ei=5087%0A

And in the end. . .
ANTI-GAY QUOTE OF THE DAY!
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1153


3/23
HOUDINI’S BODY TO BE EXHUMED---
TO SEE IF HE WAS MURDERED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2041311,00.html

SCIENTISTS MATHEMATICALLY PROVE THERE ARE NO VAMPIRES
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/03/22/conclusive-proof-vampire_e_44070.html

WONDERFUL CHINESE WOMAN BLOCKS DEMOLITION OF HER HOME
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6483997.stm

WALDEN POND---5TH AVENUE STYLE
A model for the world
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/garden/22impact.html?em&ex=1174795200&en=37dc12676509aa61&ei=5087%0A
Welcome to Walden Pond, Fifth Avenue style. Isabella’s parents, Colin Beavan, 43, a writer of historical nonfiction, and Michelle Conlin, 39, a senior writer at Business Week, are four months into a yearlong lifestyle experiment they call No Impact. Its rules are evolving, as Mr. Beavan will tell you, but to date include eating only food (organically) grown within a 250-mile radius of Manhattan; (mostly) no shopping for anything except said food; producing no trash (except compost, see above); using no paper; and, most intriguingly, using no carbon-fueled transportation.

And on to news and comment. . .

TONY SNOWJOB:
CONGRESS HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL OVERSIGHT OVER THE PREZ!
What manner of megalomaniacal cretins are running this country?
http://alternet.org/blogs/peek/49663/

MERKEL: EU NEEDS ITS OWN ARMY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,473503,00.html

WANT TO UNDERSTAND IRAQ? WATCH THIS
NBC Reporter Richard Engel explains
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17722026/

Iraq and roll
U.S. STRUGGLES TO STOP TURKISH INVASION OF NORTHERN IRAQ
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_struggling_to_prevent_disastrous_Turkish_0322.html
IRAQ DEPUTY PM INJURED IN BOMBING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6483975.stm
IRAQI AUTHOR LAMENTS THE WAR HE WANTED
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/23/news/profile.php
BUSH: WITHDRAWING MAY SPARK 9/11 REPEAT
Is there no end to this pinhead’s transparent fear-mongering?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/20/wirq20.xml

Your corporatocracy at work!
CHIQUITA ADMITS TO PAYING COLOMBIAN GROUP ON U.S. TERROR LIST
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/23/18381938.php
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0322/p99s01-duts.html

15 BRIT SAILORS HELD BY IRAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2041366,00.html

The Torture Never Stops
CHENEY, GONZALES BLOCKED GITMO CLOSURE
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Gates_argued_for_Gitmo_closure_in_0323.html

Homeland Insecurity
LOS ALAMOS WORKERS ASK FOR CONGRESSIONAL PROBE
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36429&dcn=todaysnews

Mashed Media
THE GREAT L.A.me TIMES MELTDOWN CONTINUES
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003561817
MELTDOWN CHRONOLOGY
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/showdown_at_lat_corral.php
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/what_grazer_would_have_sa.php
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/martinezs_parting_shots.php
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/email_from_andres_martine.php
NETWORKS TO MAKE OWN YOUTUBE---FOR SELF PROMO, OF COURSE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6480949.stm

Electile Dysfunction
GIULIANI DEFENDS GONZALES!
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1602259,00.html
GIULIANI’S WIFE IS AS NUTTY AS HE IS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/email_from_andres_martine.php
GIULIANI CHANGES GUN CONTROL POSITION IN PANDERING TO EXTREME RIGHT
Hedges on supporting assault weapons ban!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/us/politics/23rudy.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=print
DRAFT AL GORE---SIGN PETITION
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/algore2008/


THE GREAT CINDY SHEEHAN:
BLAME BREMER AND BLACKWATER
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17389.htm
Some people accuse me of being “angry.” I just want to say, I am not “angry,” I am filled with a white-hot rage that my first born is dead. My courageous, sweet, honorable, honest, funny, irreplaceable Casey is dead so companies like Blackwater, Halliburton, KBR, Exxon, Raytheon, etc can rape the American taxpayers. But can it be rape when the partner is willing? I am outraged that Congress expediently buys into Bush’s evil rhetoric that voting to cut off the funding will not be supporting the troops! THE TROOPS AREN’T GETTING THE MONEY! Blackwater security agents make more in two days in Iraq than our troops do in a month. Blackwater security agents are better equipped and armored than our troops. Our troops are dying guarding pipelines and Halliburton convoys.

RAIMUNDO: THE PELOSI-CRATS
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10711
Listen to the language of the "antiwar" Pelosi-crats: they never say we ought to withdraw from Iraq – instead, they insist, we should "redeploy." Which means we'll bide our time, and wait for the opportunity to pounce once again on whatever practically defenseless Middle Eastern nation is targeted next.
Related:
ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS TOLD TO TAKE DOWN SIGNS AT PELOSI’S PACIFIC HEIGHTS HOME
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/23/BAGFAOQHJ71.DTL

MOYERS: THEY’VE HIJACKED JESUS
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0322-24.htm
They hijacked Jesus. The very Jesus who stood in Nazareth and proclaimed, "The Lord has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor" - this Jesus, hijacked by a philosophy of greed. The very Jesus who fed 5000 hungry people - and not just those in the skyboxes; the very Jesus who offered kindness to the prostitute and hospitality to the outcast; who raised the status of women and treated even the hated tax collector as a citizen of the Kingdom. The indignant Jesus who drove the money changers from the temple - this Jesus was hijacked and turned from a friend of the dispossessed into a guardian of privilege, the ally of oil barons, banking tycoons, media moguls and weapons builders.


Animals in the news!
JAPAN WHALE BOAT RETURNS---WITH 508 MURDERED WHALES
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12446
A Japanese whaling ship that triggered a high-seas showdown with environmental groups and suffered a deadly fire was due back in port Friday with a catch of 508 whales, despite having to cut its annual hunt short after the accident.

World gone mad
KREMLIN DEMOLISHES HISTORIC BUILDINGS---FOR LUXURY HOTEL
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,473381,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
POLYGAMY FOLLOWS AFRICANS TO NEW YORK
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/nyregion/23polygamy.html?em&ex=1174795200&en=88c9d4d9793d8098&ei=5087%0A
U.S., CHINA TO SET UP HOTLINE?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1602242,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

R.I.P. DWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN, EXPERT ON BIRD TALK
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/obituaries/23chamberlain.html?ref=obituaries

KNUT THE BEAR MAKES ZOO DEBUT
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,473551,00.html

JON CARROLL ON NAMING THINGS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/23/DDGRJN7N1S1.DTL

Musique
STONES TO HEADLINE ISLE OF WIGHT CONCERT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6481471.stm
GRACE SLICK SUES KANTNER OVER ‘STARSHIP’ NAME
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/23/BAGBIOQBCI1.DTL 

For Art’s Sake
DILAPIDATED MIES LANDMARK IN DISPUTE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/22/features/mies.php
THE TERRIFIC POLITICAL ART OF DAVID DEES
http://www.deesillustration.com/Pics1.htm
SILLY ROTHKO STRIPES TO FETCH $46 MILLION
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2040954,00.html

And in the end. . .
‘300’ WITH PUSSIES
http://www.aolvideoblog.com/2007/03/22/this-is-not-sparta/

3/22
MAN DIES AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY HIS DINNER
http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Man_dies_after_being_pricked_by_cra_03212007.html

McCARTNEY SIGNS WITH STARBUCKS
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/314paulstarbucks.html
GIMME A GRANDE TWO-SHOT HALF DECAF NONFAT
FOAMING WHITE CHOCOLATE MACCA, PLEASE. . .
By Bill King
Editor, Beatlefan
http://billking.livejournal.com/

TRAVELING WILBURYS FINALLY TO BE REISSUED ON CD
http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/blog.php?p=11760&cat=10
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/03/21/traveling-wilburys-reissues-breed-mixed-emotions/

Affluenza
MEGA-YACHTS: FLOATING ISLANDS OF EXCESS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,473295,00.html
With his new boat, the Wally Island, Bassani has set sail for new territories. The 99-meter-long floating island with a 1,000 square meter deck is big enough for a garden, swimming pool, and a tennis court or helicopter landing pad. The five-story superstructure, reminiscent of an air traffic control tower, can be divided into 12 suites for 24 guests, not including the movie theater, spa, library and gym. Whether the floating luxury villa will ever be built is unclear, though interest is reportedly high.

And on to news and comment. . .

MARCH BADNESS: STUDENTS LOSING OUT
TO NUTBALL TUITION, DEBT
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/22/march_badness.php
While UCLA is leading the pack as a number two seed in the NCAA tournament, it is not faring nearly as well when it comes to tuition increases. Tuition at UCLA has increased from $3,683 in 2000-2001 to $6,522 this school year, close to doubling in just six years. That’s well above the sizeable 41 percent average increase in tuition at public colleges nationwide since 2001. How do those numbers affect the odds that hardworking students will earn college degrees and succeed in the competitive global economy? The answer is not heartening. According to the Department of Education, each year more than 400,000 qualified students do not go on to college because they cannot afford it.

STUDENTS FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY IS BACK
http://www.alternet.org/story/49557/

What is the law?
SHADES OF NIXON! NOW THERE’S AN 18-DAY E-MAIL GAP
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/18day_in_Justice_Department_emails_0321.html
CARTOON: ROSEMARY GONZALES DEMOSTRATES HOW 18-DAY GAP OCCURRED
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/03/cartoon_rose_mary_gonzales.html
THREE FIRED U.S. ATTY’S WERE IN TOP TEN FOR PROSECUTIONS
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070322/1a_bottomstrip22x_dom.art.htm

Freedom of what?
DEM BARRED FROM HOUSE AFTER KATRINA COMMENT!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Democrat_silenced_on_House_floor_for_0321.html
After questioning a Republican Congressmember's "decency" for seeking to restrict housing reconstruction funds for Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims, a Democratic Representative was banned Wednesday from the U.S. House. By a vote of the House's membership, his speaking privileges were quickly restored, and the Member apologized.

U.N. CHIEF SHAKEN BY BAGHDAD BLAST
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6479821.stm

ITALY SWAPS 9 JAILED TALIBAN FOR HOSTAGE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/22/europe/web-0322italy.php
 
9-YEAR-OLD IRANIAN REFUGEE SPRUNG
FROM TEXAS IMMIGRATION JAIL---BY CANADIAN SAMARITAN
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=31c27a7a-0fdb-4887-b767-6aeba29262fa&k=31437

SEXUAL ASSAULTS IN MILITARY UP 24 PERCENT
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=36964

Four-twenty
WAR ON DRUGS DRAGS ON---FOR WHAT?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/49597/
Since 1972, U.S. taxpayers have spent well over $20 billion enforcing criminal marijuana laws and 16.5 million people have been arrested. . . According to federal statistics, about 94 million Americans -- that's 40 percent of the U.S. population age 12 or older -- self-identify as having used cannabis at some point in their lives.
MEDICAL POT USERS STILL AT HIGH RISK FOR BUST
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/washington/22attorneys.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
END OF ‘HIPPIE ERA’ OF POT-GROWING
All raised by Mexican nationals, now
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/22/MNGDROPHME1.DTL

Electile Dysfunction
CREATOR OF ‘1984’ BILLARY VIDEO HAS TIES TO BARACK
Immediately quits Obama-related consulting firm
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003561345
OH, NO---GINGRICH RAISING BUCKS TO RUN FOR PREZ?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3233.html

Plame-out
HOUSE APPROVES SUBPOENAS FOR PIGBOY ROVE, FOUR MORE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/washington/22attorneys.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
CHENEY AND LIBBY: LYING ABOUT LYING
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032207M.shtml
Here is the real news from the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial: Evidence released during the case indicates that not only did Libby lie to the grand jury (the crime for which he was convicted) but that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) - specifically Vice President Dick Cheney, Libby and Cathie Martin, Cheney's press secretary - tried to cover-up the Bush administration's original lies to Congress and the American people about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction with more lies.

JORGE MARISCAL: GONZALES SHOULD BE FIRED
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/320/159/
To what extent can we celebrate the success of individuals from our community if the success of these individuals is inextricably tied to people in power whose policies have a demonstrably negative impact on the community as a whole?

BUCHANAN: PELOSI’S CAPITULATION
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10701
Pelosi gets booed by the Israeli lobby, then runs back to the Hill and gives Bush a blank check for war on Iran, because that is what the lobby demands. A real candidate for Profiles in Courage.

DELAY’S NEW CAREER: COMEDIAN
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070322_delays_new_career_comedian/
DeLay is at his comedic best when describing the Clinton imbroglio as a crisis forced upon him. “Though I certainly understood a man’s sexual temptations, I was disgusted by the sordid details. ... I just hoped the whole thing would go away.”

Mashed Media
FIVE BIG PAPERS REPORT SLIDING REVENUE
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003560698
SNOWJOB MIXES IT UP WITH CBS’S HARRY SMITH---
Plays the old “partisan” card
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Video_Snow_blames_CBS_host_for_0322.html
---AND FLIP-FLOPS ON EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/21/tony-snow-executive-privilege/
GOOD OLD TEEVEE NEWSMANNEQUINS!
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/dissed_by_his_own_network.php

Enviro Wacko
FORMER MEXICAN WRESTLER ‘SANTO’ FIGHTS FOR BAJA
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12432

World gone mad
FORMER L.A. SEX SLAVE FIGHTS TO STAY IN U.S.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0322/p13s01-usju.html
TWO STRANGERS, ONE ILLEGAL, SHARE SAME IDENTITY
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/22/news/theft.php
SCHOOL DISCIPLINES STUDENTS FOR USING ‘GAY’ DEROGATORILY
http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/articles/onenewsnow-com-2007-03-school_disciplines_students_fo-php

Animals in the news!
VENEZUELANS EATING GIANT RODENTS
Capybara. It’s what’s fer dinner. . .
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/21/news/rodent.php

Oh, by the way. . .
OLD WORLD MANNERS IN BANGKOK HOTEL
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?%20id=11snj03kjnt6xky8fmz1zphh9csr0m51
PIG DNA REVEALS PATH OF EARLY HUMAN MIGRATION
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070320-pigs-migration.html
WOODY HARRELSON’S FATHER DIES IN PRISON
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/21/arts/NA-A-E-CEL-US-Woody-Harrelson-Fathers-Death.php

And in more important matters. . .

R.I.P. THE GREAT CALVERT DEFORREST---LARRY ‘BUD’ MEHLMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/arts/television/22defo.html?ref=obituaries

JON CARROLL ON MARCH MADNESS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/22/DDGRJN7LCT1.DTL

Musique
RACHMANINOV’S HEIR IS LONG-HAIRED TUCSON COLLEGE KID
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/accent/171809.php
Wanamaker, in concert with his sister and three cousins, plans to set up a publishing venture that will regain control of the Rachmaninoff scores and manuscripts now published and managed by six different interests in the United States and abroad. The heirs also plan to restore the copyrights of works whose rights will expire in the next few years.
PROFILE OF THE LAD
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/aznightbuzz/173376.php

Film
RUSSELL CROWE TO DIRECT SURF MOVIE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6479019.stm
MAN WATCHES ALL 38 BERGMAN MOVIES, LIVES
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2039382,00.html

And in the end. . .
DEBUSSY: ARABESQUE # 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncV47leWBio&mode=related&search=




        . . .SPECIAL THANKS TO HOOKALAKAH MISHABOB FOR CONTRIBUTIONS. . .

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