9/27
Skylines:
Morning Concert
PEPPERMINT TWIST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WIvZu4dPQQ&mode=related&search=

SCORCESE TO DIRECT GEORGE HARRISON BIOPIC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7015658.stm
Olivia Harrison said: "It would have given George great joy to know that Martin Scorsese has agreed to tell his story."

SHILPA SHETTY ARRESTED OVER THAT GERE KISS
What a nutball nation
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=67853&in_page_id=7

GIANT BABY TERRORIZES SIBERIA!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7015841.stm
And, in a related story. . .
MICHAEL JACKSON IS MARRIED AGAIN, APPARENTLY
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=67826&in_page_id=7

NEW NAUGHTY DISNEY PICS!
When you wish upon a star. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=67750&in_page_id=7

BYE-BYE, BARRY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/27/MN8GSF4K0.DTL

BUSH: ‘CHILDRENS DO LEARN’
We are not making this stuff up. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092601015.html?referrer=emailarticle
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bush_grammar

THE FINEST REVIEW YOU WILL READ OF BURNS WWII DOCUMENTARY
Gary Kamiya’s eloquent piece says it all
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/09/25/ken_burns/

And on to news and comment. . .

MILITARY OPENS FIRE ON MYANMAR PROTESTERS
Ten reported killed, others arrested, beaten
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_re_as/myanmar;_ylt=AtnTRhAARalnCw97W1bGjJOs0NUE
JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHER AMONG THE DEAD
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,508261,00.html
BURMESE BLOOD IS ON CHINA’S HANDS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,508213,00.html

Israelity
U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE ‘GUARDED’ BY ISRAEL
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2007/09/26/8910.shtml

SENATE SNEAK-AUTHORIZES ATTACK ON IRAN
Thanks to Little Joey Lieberman’s sneaky defense bill amendment
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/34

U.S. CONGRESS MEMBERS, CHINA
HOLD SECRET ‘POST-BUSH ERA’ MEETING
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,508210,00.html

Your Corporatocracy at Work!
ER. . .UH. . .WE OWE 5.5 TRILLION BUCKS
U.S. in hock to Saudis, China, Japan. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0927/p01s02-usec.html
Related:
U.S. INVESTORS PUTTING PENSION FUNDS INTO DUBAI
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/26/business/dubai.php
As Dubai and its neighbors have begun to invest aggressively outside the Gulf, American investors, in turn, have started to pour billions of dollars into the region - much of it coming from American pension funds

Enviro Wacko
RACE FOR BIOFUEL DESTROYING RAINFORESTS---GOODALL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/sc_nm/clinton_goodall_forests_dc
BUSH TEAMS WITH WORLD’S BIGGEST POLLUTERS
TO OPPOSE GREENHOUSE GAS CUTS
Can you say “fiendish?”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/27/america/27climate.php
FISH FARMING IS DEPLETING THE OCEAN OF ‘FEEDER FISH’
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1663604,00.html

ELLSBERG: A COUP HAS OCCURRED
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ellsberg.php?articleid=11674
If there's another 9/11 under this regime ... it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth. And I would say after the Iranian retaliation to an American attack on Iran, you will then see an increased attack on Iran – an escalation – which will be also accompanied by a total suppression of dissent in this country, including detention camps.

‘MY DINNER WITH ALMONDJOYAD’
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665579,00.html 
After an hour, he is ready to respond. He does so first with a half-hour ode to the relationship between man and God that might have been dictated by the Persian poet Rumi. "I believe that Almighty God created the universe for mankind. Man is God's most important creation and it is through him that we appreciate the beauties of the universe. God has sent man here on a mission." That mission, he says, is to pursue love, justice, kindness and dignity. In fact, he repeats those works so often that it begins to sound like a mantra: Love. Justice. Kindness. Dignity. He speaks with the quiet zeal of a not-very-flamboyant televangelist. "The pursuit of justice through love and kindness and human dignity can end all conflicts on earth," he says. "Inshallah."

War in error
U.S. SPIES LET BIN-LADEN SLIP AWAY AGAIN
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/NBC_Intel_shows_US_missed_Bin_0927.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/27/bl-tora-bora/
BIN-LADEN CULT’S STRANGE MUSIC VIDEO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu7KL71oF7o
AL-QAEDA HATCHING NEW PLOTS FROM PAKI SANCTUARY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2177745,00.html

WHITE SUPREMACIST PUBLISHES
NAMES OF BLACK LEADERS---FBI MUM
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/White_supremacist_publishes_home_addresses_of_0927.html

Electile Dysfunction
OLBERMANN: GIULIANI’S MORBID EXPLOITATION OF 9/11
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Giuliani_charges_supporters_9.11_to_get_0926.html
EDWARDS’ MYSTERY VIDEOS SHROUDED IN SECRECY
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/26/edwards-mystery-innocuou_n_66070.html

Iraq and Roll
DEMOCRAPS ARE REPUGNICAN-LITE ON IRAQ POLICY
Hey, we built a $500 million “embassy” there. . .somebody’s gotta live in it. . .
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3448
The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013."I think it's hard to project four years from now," said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state.

Mashed Media
BURKLE BUYS INTO CHINESE MEDIA
http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/26/burkle-xinhua-yucaipa-face-cx_af_0926autofacescan02.html
Burkle's Yucaipa Companies agreed to buy a block of shares in the Chinese financial news provider Xinhua Finance Media (nasdaq: XFML - news - people ), or XFMedia. Yucaipa is a Los Angeles, Calif.-based investment company founded by Burkle in 1986. Burkle's friend, President Bill Clinton, serves as an adviser for the company.
BILL CLINTON RIPS RIGHT-WING OVER FAKE PETRAEUS AD OUTRAGE
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/63723/
TRICKY DICK, J. EDGAR DIDN’T LIKE KATE GRAHAM
http://www.slate.com/id/2174787/nav/fix/

Jesus H. Christ!
NUNS ON THE RUN!
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1665973,00.html

Animals in the news!
BIRDS SOLVE PROBLEMS THAT BAFFLE CHIMPS
Maybe they can get us out of Iraq. . .
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/09/16/eggheads/?page=full
THE AMAZING HOMING CROCS OF AUSTRALIA!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7015561.stm

R.I.P. CHILDREN’S SCIENCE BOOK AUTHOR NINA SCHNEIDER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/arts/27schneider.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

And in more important matters. . .

Musique
JONI MITCHELL EXPLODES OUT OF RETIREMENT
http://jonimitchell.com/Library/view.cfm?id=1716
MICKEY HART REUNITES LANDMARK GROUP FOR “GLOBAL DRUM PROJECT’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/09/27/derk.DTL
McCARTNEY TO HEADLINE ‘LIVERPOOL ‘08’
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/news/story/0,,2178170,00.html

SEINFELD RETURNS TO STAND-UP
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1665827,00.html

Light Reading. . .
REMEMBERING DYLAN’S ‘BLONDE ON BLONDE’
http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/content.cfm?ArticleID=254&Entry=Extras
Across the Top 40 airwaves, an insistent drum beat led off a strange, new hit song. Some listeners thought the song too explicit, its subject of wild lunacy too coarse, even cruel; several radio-station directors banned it. Despite the controversy over the lyrics about madness and persecution, or more likely because of it, the record shot to No. 3 on the Billboard pop-singles chart. The singer-songwriter likened the song, which really was a rap, to a sick joke. His name was Jerry Samuels, but he billed himself as Napoleon the XIV, performing “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!”
That spring, an equally controversial single, with an eerily similar opening, had quickly hit No. 2; and by summer, “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” had reappeared as the opening track on the mysterious double album, Blonde on Blonde, by Bob Dylan, who said the song was about “a minority of, you know, cripples and orientals and, uh, you know, and the world in which they live.”
HERE WE GO AGAIN: DID SHAKESPEARE WRITE HIS OWN PLAYS?
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/257038

And in the end. . .
GHANDI SPEAKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EiRgvyVfHY&mode=related&search

9/26
Skylines:
Morning Concert
SHIRLEY MUST HAVE FELT PRETTY DUMB SINGING THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJLi5_dyn0

WHY GEORGIE CAN’T READ
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/6408
Kyrgyzstan [KEYR-geez-stan]
Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a]
Harare [hah-RAR-ray]
Mugabe [moo-GAH-bee]
Sarkozy [sar-KO-zee]
Caracas [kah-RAH-kus]

SEN. WIDESTANCE BACK IN COURT
Claims he blew it with that first plea
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_go_co/craig_senate;_ylt=AkeIfJk0FL5dFgjitFCHYbCs0NUE

DINNER PARTY HOSTESS GIVES BIRTH BETWEEN COURSES
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483899&in_page_id=1770

BONDS 756 BALL GOES TO HALL OF FAME---WITH AN ASTERISK ON IT
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-bonds-756ball&prov=ap&type=lgns

WATCH: RUMSFELD, BUSH, CHENEY’S GREATEST HITS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNws6IG696M&mode=related&search=

And on to news and comment. . .

MYANMAR CRACKDOWN BEGINS---
THREE SHOT, AT LEAST ONE DEAD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2177297,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_re_as/Myanmar
WATCH: CHAOS IN THE STREETS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/sep/26/burma.monks
PROTESTERS DEFY CRACKDOWN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7014570.stm
INTERNET IS HELPING FUEL PROTESTS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7012984.stm
BURMA’S SAFFRON ARMY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7014173.stm
Monks command such respect in Burma because some 80-90% of the country's population is Buddhist, and even those who do not choose to become a "career monk" usually enter the orders for short periods of their lives, giving the monasteries a prominent role in society.

Mashed Media
HERE IS WHAT’S WRONG WITH TV NEWS,
IF NOT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY
Just put a fat guy in shirtsleeves in front of the camera, reading wire copy
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/on_the_scene_with_mary_be.php

Enviro-Wacko
BUSH SECRETLY TRYING TO BLOCK CALIF. EMISSION CONTROL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/24/AR2007092401563.html?referrer=emailarticle
The Bush administration has conducted a concerted, behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to try to generate opposition to California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, according to documents obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
AIR FRESHENERS CAUSE CANCER, GENDER FOUL-UPS
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1664954,00.html

RICE, MALIKI IN BLACKWATER COVER-UP---WAXMAN
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/State_Department_protecting_Maliki_from_revelations_0926.html
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3445 

Iran from the truth
LITTLE JOEY LIEBERMAN TRIES TO SNEAK
IRAN WAR DECLARATION THROUGH SENATE
http://www.rense.com/general78/sneak.htm
COLUMBIA U. PREZ’S COMMENT ON ALMONDJOYAD
http://www.nysun.com/article/63307
According to Amnesty International, 210 people have been executed in Iran so far this year, 21 of them on the morning of September 5th alone. This annual total includes at least two children, further proof, as Human Rights Watch puts it, that Iran leads the world in executing minors.
IRANIANS ANGRY OVER TREATMENT OF ALMONDJOYAD
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/25/africa/tehran.php
TRANSCRIPT: CHARLIE ROSE’S INTERVIEW WITH ALMONDJOYAD
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/26/africa/26rose-amjad.php

LINDORFF:
KYLE, LIEBERMAN'S STEALTH IRAN WAR PLOT
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/34
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Sen. Jon Kyle (R-AZ) want the US to attack Iran, but because they know most Americans know that is a crazy idea at a time that the US is already bogged down in a losing war in Iraq, they want to authorize this disastrous expansion of the conflict secretly.That’s why, instead of introducing a war authorizing bill in the Senate, they have introduced a war-authorizing amendment, attached to the latest Defense Authorization Bill currently working its way through Congress

RAIMUNDO: DRESS REHEARSAL FOR WAR
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11672
Just when you thought the War Party was down, and nearly out, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did them the favor of paying a visit to New York, the town that trademarked rudeness. This gave the usual suspects an opportunity to rehearse, so to speak, for the coming war with Iran.

Israelity
ISRAEL WANTS EXEMPTION FROM ATOMIC RULES
Wants to import atomic material
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_israel%3B_ylt%3DA0WTcUITaPlGfw4BtwWs0NUE 

Iraq and Roll
KILLING AND MAYHEM ROUNDUP!
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25272283.htm
CHOLERA OUTBREAK SPREADING
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WHO_IRAQ_CHOLERA?SITE=WABEL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
28 DEAD IN MOSQUE BLAST
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/301998/1/.html

More Mashed Media
WILL O’REILLY’S REMARKS ABOUT BLACKS BE HIS UNDOING?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/26/sylvias-patrons-oreillys-comments-were-inappropriate/
SB NEWS-PRESS CRACKPOT PUBLISHER TAKES THE STAND
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/wendys_turn.php
TRIB CO. TO EMPLOYEES: PROVE YOUR KIDS ARE YOURS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/prove_your_kids_are_yours.php#more

Spaced Out
SPACECRAFT TO PROBE PROTO-PLANETS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0926/p03s03-usgn.html

Oh, by the way. . .
GREENLAND TO THE WORLD: KEEP OUT!
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1664249,00.html
Though Greenland lives large in the world's imagination, the world hasn't always put much effort into imagining what life is like for Greenland's 56,000 residents. But as the increasingly alarming news of its melting 1.8 million square kilometer (695,000 square mile) ice cap has trickled south and the race for polar resources has officially started, the international community is paying more attention to its largest island.
POLISH WOMEN’S PARTY SPORTS SEVEN NAKED CANDIDATES
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,508030,00.html
BLOOD FEUD OVER DRACULA’S CASTLE
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=67644&in_page_id=2

And in more important matters. . .

ELEVEN NEW PLANT, ANIMAL SPECIES FOUND IN VIETNAM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/26/sciencenews.conservation

Musique
MARIN ALSOP TAKES OVER BALTIMORE SYMPHONY
First woman to lead major symphony orchestra
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0926/p20s01-ussc.html
PAVAROTTI’S WORLDWIDE WAKE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7013815.stm

Film
LESTER: A REAL ‘HELP’ WOULD HAVE BEEN X-RATED
http://nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/070925/8/1t9r.html

Books
STEPMOM’S SOLUTION FOR UNRULY SON? LOBOTOMY!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL

Travel
AMSTERDAM DIMS THE RED LIGHTS
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1664939,00.html
TOP TEN AMSTERDAM COFFEE SHOPS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/sep/26/amsterdam.travelfoodanddrink 

And in the end. . .
‘SIMPSONS’ SCENES AND THEIR REAL-LIFE REFERENCES
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/09/22/simpsons-scenes-and-their-reference-movies/

9/25
Skylines:
Morning Concert
HERE COMES THE MOON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAo6apsrdKw&mode=related&search=
BLUE MOON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIstkuso98
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvh4hBtLYic
FLY ME TO THE MOON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCgf6_M7i4&mode=related&search=

HAPPY MOON FESTIVAL
http://www.chinapage.com/Moon/moon-festival.html
Inflation eating into mooncakes
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/II26Ad01.html
Mooncake Disposal Dilemma
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0925/p18s02-hfes.html
Moon Zappa
http://www.moonzappa.com/

BOLLYWOOD STAR ENDORSES SKIN-LIGHTENING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7010885.stm
And, in a related story. . .
WATCH: RARE WHITE KOALA FOUND
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/sep/24/white.koala

MAN PROPOSES MARRIAGE IN CROSSWORD PUZZLE
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003645960

BRIT FOREIGN SEC’Y TO MEET WITH ANGELINA JOLIE
Can world peace be far off?
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLAt2HzWWDSqXbBXFM84w1-xm0OQ

POLAR EXPLORER SOUNDS ALARM
Norwegian polar explorer Børge Ousland is just back from an expedition that's left him convinced that drastic measures are needed to halt the rate at which polar ice is melting.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2007888.ece

NO ALMONDJOYAD COVERAGE HERE!

PENIS HIT BY LIGHTNING!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=67375&in_page_id=2
And, in a related story. . .
PERFECT BREASTS
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrosexual/article.html?in_article_id=67317&in_page_id=8

And on to news and comment. . .

NAOMI KLEIN DEBATES ALAN GREENSPAN
“Disaster capitalism” author vs. The Disaster Capitalist
http://www.alternet.org/story/63480/
Well, I'm just wondering if it troubles Mr. Greenspan at all that wars over resources in other countries are actually illegal. Mr. Greenspan has praised the rule of law, the importance of the rule of law, in his book. But in his statements about the reasons why this has not been publicly discussed, he has said that it's not politically expedient at this moment. But it's not just that it's not politically expedient, Mr. Greenspan. Are you aware that, according to the Hague Regulations and the Geneva Conventions, it is illegal for one country to invade another over its natural resources?

BUSH CALLS FOR BURMA SANCTIONS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2176876,00.html
PICS OF PROTEST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,2176689,00.html
U.S. EGGS ON BURMA PROTESTS
Bush is on the right side, for once
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7012673.stm
UK PRIME MINISTER CALLS FOR WORLD RESPONSE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2176836,00.html
CHINA TELLS BURMA JUNTA TO STAY COOL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7011746.stm
Profile: Aung Suu Kyi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1950505.stm
For the Burmese people, Aung San Suu Kyi, 62, represents their best and perhaps sole hope that one day there will be an end to the country's military repression.

World Gone Mad(der)
POOR STREET URCHINS HAWK VOGUE MAGAZINE IN INDIA
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/09/vogues_indian_street_children.html
GAY PELOSI AIDE ATTACKED AND BEATEN IN HATE CRIME
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/09/24/house_speakers_intern_attacked_and_beaten/2321

Mashed Media
HOUSTON CHRONICLE DROPS ‘LA CUCARACHA’
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5155668.html
STUDENT EDITOR REFUSES TO QUIT OVER ‘F--- BUSH’ EDITORIAL
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003646163
OLBERMAN: THE NEW ED MURROW?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/63464/
Evening news shows, with ratings going down the toilet, need less "objectivity" and more analysis. Luckily Olbermann, like Murrow, understands that objective journalism doesn't exist.
NOW NYT IS ACCUSED OF ‘SOFT MONEY’ DONATIONS TO GIULIANI---
OVER ‘GEN. BETRAY US’ AD?
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/FEC_complaint_alleges_Rudy_got_soft_0925.html
WHY CHINA SHUT DOWN 18, 401 WEBSITES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0925/p01s06-woap.html

Iraq and Roll
U.S. GUNS ARE ‘PLAGUED WITH PROBLEMS’
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/PBS_Guns_of_US_Soldiers_in_0924.html
The M-16, the choice rifle of the United States Armed Forces, turns 50 years old this month and is still plagued by many of the same problems it had half a century ago, putting American troops in Iraq at a severe disadvantage when it comes to small arms combat, the PBS program Newshour reported tonight.
U.S. SNIPERS ‘BAIT’ IRAQIS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3437

KEZELIS: LAND OF THE SHEEP, HOME OF THE ‘FRAID
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3424
Before Dear Leader broke our army, US DOD plans required at least 1.5 months off for every month in combat. Otherwise, soldiers risk suffering from serious problems. Suicides, murders, insanity, PTSD, massive depression, - these results are not just some egg-head-based guess, they are guaranteed to happen. Unfortunately, our troops are not getting even one month off for one month of combat service. Two days ago, our Senat-whores refused to give our soldiers even that much time off.

UAW STRIKE IS OVER KEEPING MANUFACTURING IN USA
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#63504
They said union members walked out because they want GM to promise that future cars and trucks such as the replacement for the Chevrolet Cobalt small car or the still-on-the-drawing board Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric car will be built at U.S. plants, preserving union jobs.

Mardis Grave
HUNDREDS OF LA. BRIDGES NEED REPAIR, REPLACEMENT
http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7121092&nav=0nqx

Jesus H. Christ!
THE CASTOFF CHILDREN OF MORMON POLYGAMY
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1664868,00.html
For Elaine Tyler, the founder of Hope Organization, which works in St. George to salvage the young lives shattered by the FLDS culture, Shapley is a public glimpse of what she sees as the "dirty little secret" of the booming town of St. George — the use of child labor, dubbed "mission work" by the FLDS, to outbid competing construction companies. Tyler worries that the number of "kids from the creek" is reaching critical mass. The expulsions and runaways continue. "They are living someone else's madness," Jensen said.

Lost Angeles
LITTLE ANTHONY’S CHIQUITA DEMOTED, BIG-TIME
Exiled to covering the hell that is the “inland empire”
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/mirthalas_new_assignment.php

Electile Dysfunction
GIULIANI FUNDRAISER IS $9.11 PER PERSON
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_po/giuliani_house_party

Spaced Out
BACTERIA CHANGE RAPIDLY IN SPACE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7011828.stm
"These bugs can sense where they are by changes in their environment. The minute they sense a different environment, they change their genetic machinery so they can survive," Professor Nickerson said.

Oh, by the way. . .
ANTI-ANOREXIA AD SHOWS NAKED ANOREXIC WOMAN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,507842,00.html
FIRST NEW U.S. NUKE PLANT IN 30 YEARS
Well, as long as they are putting it in Texas, that’s okay. . .
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5in7ang3MOrtQOXZQ23Hebsc-9QXg
MOTHER MURDERED, MISSING LITTLE GIRL IS REUNITED WITH GRANDMOTHER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7011713.stm

And in more important matters. . .

HUGE, MADCAP SENDOFF FOR LATE CARTOONIST PHIL FARLEY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/25/BARNSDAO6.DTL
There was a herd of feral cats, at least one owl, and 50 people gotten up as Farley, the cartoonist's alter ego and the hero of his comic strip. Most of the Farleys present Monday wore the slouch hat Frank imagined was the uniform of a reporter, some had black ravens perched on their shoulders, and almost all wore false mustaches.

DANGERFIELD DEAD, BUT STILL CAN’T GET NO RESPECT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7009327.stm

For Art’s Sake
THE NEW NATIONAL GRAND THEATER OF BEIJING
(Never mind the lead paint, the carbon poison, the fascism---they make pretty buildings!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/sep/25/internationalnews2?picture=330811351
MACHINE-GUN-TOTING BALLERINAS WILL INAUGURATE BEIJING THEATER
What a lovely message of peace and non-violence!
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/news/story/0,,2176448,00.html
THE PAINTINGS OF JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2007/sep/24/art.artnews?picture=330804794

Books
‘ON THE ROAD’---WHAT THE BEATS WERE ABOUT
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/10/01/071001crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all
“Beat” is old carny slang. According to Beat Movement legend (and it is a movement with a deep inventory of legend), Ginsberg and Kerouac picked it up from a character named Herbert Huncke, a gay street hustler and drug addict from Chicago who began hanging around Times Square in 1939 (and who introduced William Burroughs to heroin, an important cultural moment). The term has nothing to do with music; it names the condition of being beaten down, poor, exhausted, at the bottom of the world.

And in the end. . .
INSTANT DYLAN---MAKE YOUR OWN ‘SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES’
http://www.dylanmessaging.com/index.html

9/24
Skylines:
Morning Concert
FISH HEADS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No

BOY EATS 100 TADPOLES TO CURE RASH
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/09/23/boy-forced-to-eat-over-100-tadpoles/

FLASH! A STARBUCKS CAFE CLOSES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7010181.stm

WANT A NICE OLD HOUSE IN SF? GOT $65 MILLION?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/24/MN8TSAIM4.DTL

MEET BUSH SR.’S POOL BOY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/24/onthejob.DTL
"What do you say? 'Thanks for School of the Americas, and Iran-Contra, and NAFTA, and shipping all those jobs overseas, and arming Saddam, and funding the Taliban?' What do you say -- 'You're a jerk?' There's nothing that can be put into a sentence that would capture the lives these people have taken, and the way of life that's been taken."

Freedom of what?
TRAVELING ABROAD? THERE’S A FILE ON YOU NOW
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Massive_surveillance_net_keeps_track_of_0922.html
THEY KNOW WHAT BOOKS YOU’RE READING
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102347_pf.html
The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and statements by government officials.

FOLLOW THIS: INDIA IS OUTSOURCING TO THE USA!
The snake eats itself!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/24/business/outsource.php
Many are Americans, recently graduated from college. Some had been pursued by coveted employers like Google. Instead, they accepted a novel assignment from Infosys, the Indian technology giant: Fly here to learn programming from scratch, then return to the United States to work in the Indian company's back office.

DRIVER BUSTED FOR SPEEDING—172 MPH
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=67340&in_page_id=34

MAN RIPS HEAD OFF DUCK
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=67335&in_page_id=2

PICS! OWEN WILSON’S ‘THERAPY’
He has a tough life
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=67329&in_page_id=7

INTERVIEW: MR. SMOLIN
http://www.riprense.com/mrsmolin2.htm
Tonight (Monday, 9/24) Mr. Smolin’s song “The Earth Keeps Turning On” will be the closing tune on episode 7 of “Weeds.”
“Weeds” airs at 10pm on Showtime.

And on to news and comment. . .

CHENEY TRIED TO PROVOKE ISRAEL/IRAN WAR
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3432
US Vice President Richard Cheney has considered provoking an exchange of military strikes between Iran and Israel in order to give the United States a pretext to attack Iran, Newsweek magazine reported in its Monday issue.But the weekly said the steady departure of neoconservatives from the administration over the past two years had helped tilt the balance away from war.

BURMA MILITARY THREATENS MONKS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7010839.stm
BURMA PROTEST NOW AT 100,000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2176125,00.html
SUU KYI TEARFULLY GREETS PROTESTERS
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2993289.ece
BURMA RISING
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119058523246636668.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

IRAN CLOSES NORTHERN IRAQ BORDER
OVER U.S. SMUGGLING ACCUSATION
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1664732,00.html
Iran closed major border crossings with northern Iraq on Monday to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian official the military accused of weapons smuggling, a Kurdish official said. At least four border gates have been closed and one remains open, the governor of the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah, Dana Ahmed Majeed, told The Associated Press. The move threatens the economy of Iraq's northern region — one of the country's few success stories.

GERMANY DROPS CASE AGAINST CIA KIDNAPPERS
Er, that is, “practitioners of extraordinary rendition”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,507455,00.html

Electile Dysfunction
MITT THE MORMON HIRES BLACKWATER EXEC AS ADVISOR
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#63390
BILLARY WON’T COMMIT TO LEAVING IRAQ
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/On_Sunday_talk_show_Clinton_refuses_0924.html
BUSH: BILLARY WINS NOMINATION, LOSES ELECTION
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Bush_predicts_Clinton_will_take_Democratic_0924.html
QUESTION: IS CHRIS WALLACE AN ENORMOUS FUNNY MARIONETTE?
I mean, watch the way this guy speaks. . .
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Laughing_gas_Clinton_has_blast_on_0923.html

Your Corporatocracy at work!
BUSH VOWS: I WILL ABANDON MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#63393
George Bush's misplaced priorties were on full display this past week when he again threatened to veto health care coverage for millions of children unless Congress gave in to his demands to protect the insurance industry from competition from SCHIP's public funding.

Mashed Media
INTERVIEW:
SEYMOUR HERSH ON THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM, MORE
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=18218
There is an enormous change taking place in this country in journalism. And it is online. We are eventually -- and I hate to tell this to The New York Times or the Washington Post -- we are going to have online newspapers, and they are going to be spectacular. And they are really going to cut into daily journalism. I've been working for The New Yorker recently since '93. In the beginning, not that long ago, when I had a big story you made a good effort to get the Associated Press and UPI and The New York Times to write little stories about what you are writing about. Couldn't care less now. It doesn't matter, because I'll write a story, and The New Yorker will get hundreds of thousands, if not many more, of hits in the next day. Once it's online, we just get flooded. So, we have a vibrant, new way of communicating in America. We haven't come to terms with it. I don't think much of a lot of the stuff that is out there. But there are a lot of people doing very, very good stuff.
SPINELESS NYT SAYS ‘GEN. BETRAY US’ AD A MISTAKE
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/24/national/a062515D73.DTL&tsp=1

RICH: PARDON SEN. WIDESTANCE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/opinion/23rich.html?em&ex=1190779200&en=06632ab8c3f592df&ei=5087%0A
What Mr. Craig did in that men's room isn't an offense either. He didn't have sex in a public place. He didn't expose himself. His toe tapping, hand signals and "wide stance" were at most a form of flirtation. As George Will has rightly argued, if deviancy can be defined down to "signaling an interest in sex," then deviancy is what "goes on in 10,000 bars every Saturday night in our country." It's free speech even if the toes and fingers do the talking.

Iraq and Roll
HEAD OF FIRM PAID TO TRACK IRAQ SPENDING---UNDER INVESTIGATION
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-09-20-conflict_N.htm
HOW BUSH BECAME THE NEW SADDAM
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070920_100442_7900&source=srch&page=1
Its strategies shattered, a desperate Washington is reaching out to the late dictator's henchmen.
Bush to ask $195 billion MORE to fund Iraq, Afghan wars
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070924/wl_asia_afp/usiraqafghanistanwarbudget_070923235020
ELEVEN CIVILIANS KILLED IN LATEST BLACKWATER EPISODE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,507513,00.html

Jesus H. Christ!
WAS JOHN PAUL EUTHANIZED?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1664189,00.html
HUGE UNDERGROUND CATHOLIC MOVEMENT IN CHINA
Oh, China really needs to be fruitful and multiply. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7009165.stm

The Torture Never Stops
ATTY GEN. NOMINEE SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR TORTURE
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/24/mukasey-signals-support-for-torture/

Enviro Wacko
POPE TO DECLARE CLIMATE ACTION A ‘MORAL CAUSE’
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2987811.ece
BUSH SKIPS TALKS ON GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/world/24warming.html?ex=1348286400&en=c41d1b3a0fbf3848&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
CORN, RAPESEED BIOFUELS PRODUCE MORE GREENHOUSE GAS THAN OIL
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2507851.ece
THE HIGH COST OF FREE PARKING
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0924/p01s10-usgn.html
"We all pay for it, not in our role as drivers, but as residents, taxpayers, and customers," says Shoup, who documents the phenomenon in his book "The High Cost of Free Parking." Big parking lots hike building costs and get passed through to the consumer, sometimes through higher rents in their apartment buildings or bigger costs at their grocery stores. "Every place we drive and park free, we really pay for that parking as something other than as a driver," he says.

Technically speaking
BUY A LAPTOP FOR A CHILD, GET ANOTHER ONE FREE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/business/worldbusiness/24laptop.html?em&ex=1190779200&en=fa7477b5aa696160&ei=5087%0A
One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world’s children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile. The early reviews have been glowing, and mass production is set to start next month.

Lost Angeles
WHY DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT THE DODGERS?
(Or professional sports at all, for that matter? Teams change constantly, everyone is a multi-millionaire)
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers24sep24,1,2035078.column?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=1&cset=true

And in more important matters. . .

JONI MITCHELL PULLS NO PUNCHES ON SUPERB NEW ALBUM
http://music.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,2173357,00.html
The sense of an artist roused by the fear that we're all going to hell in a handcart, only to discover that it may be too late and there's nothing we can do to avert disaster, gives much of Shine its emotional heft.
AND CRITICS TAKE PUERILE POTSHOTS, CALLING HER A “CRANK”
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2007/09/joni-mitchells-.html
HERE IS THE INSIPID FOX NEWS HIT-JOB ON MITCHELL
Because she takes swipes at churches, corporate culture, she is a “cynic”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297798,00.html

Light reading
A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO HEDONISM
http://moreintelligentlife.com/node/21
That is why the real Epicurus—in contrast to the crude sybarite invented by his detractors—denounced the rapidly rotting fruits of dissipation and excess. The constant pursuit of intense pleasures will in fact backfire, according to Epicurus, because it leads to the psychological hell of enslavement to unsatisfiable appetites.

A PARKOURIST IN SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/23/CM7QS6IK3.DTL
At its essence, parkour describes the most direct route from Point A to Point B. There is no reason to arrive at Point B, but a traceur, as a parkourist calls himself, is in a hurry to get there just the same. If a traceur were in his backyard and needed to get to the backyard at the end of the street, he would go up and over all the fences in between. A traceur never goes around.

PINHEAD WAGNER GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER MOVES TO TAKE OVER BAYREUTH
Wishes to complete the desecration of all of Wagner’s work, apparently
http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2175607,00.html

ASK SIR MICK
Got a question for Jagger? Ask it here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7004571.stm
Dear Sir Mick, Did you really eat a Mars Bar out of. . .

For Art’s Sake
GREG GOSSELL
http://www.streetvalue-design.com/

And in the end. . .
DICK VADER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuKUqhS9Zxo

9/21
Skylines:
Morning Concert
JONI MITCHELL---1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBdC8lORHh8

THEM MORAL TEXUMS BAN THAT FILTHY ALICIA SILVERSTONE VEGGIE AD
Don’t she know we’s designed tuh eet meet?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=67081&in_page_id=7

THE 51-YEAR-OLD LADY BODYBUILDER OF SWEDEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/sports/othersports/21builder.html?em&ex=1190520000&en=af7400b11830b3d3&ei=5087%0A

WOMAN SHOPLIFTER SQUIRTS BREAST MILK AT DETECTIVE
Well, it would stop The Rip Post
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=67040&in_page_id=2

WATCH JEANNE MOOS’S CNN REPORT: DARTH CHENEY
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2007/09/20/moos.darth.cheney.cnn

OH, NO! AMSTERDAM BROTHELS TO CLOSE?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1664115,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,507132,00.html 

SCOTS BAN SMOKING AND GUESS WHAT: HEART ATTACKS DROP
Duhhhhh
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,506730,00.html

MORFORD: THE FALL THE GODMONGERS!
Praise Jesus! It’s the collapse of evangelical ‘Christian’ rule in the USA!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/a/2007/09/21/notes092107.DTL
Your reason for rejoicing? Right here: It seems the remaining core of politicized evangelicals, far from realizing its diminished influence and far from realizing the GOP has largely imploded and far from sensing, therefore, that it might perhaps be time to dial down some of its more unpopular, virulent agenda items, this group is actually aiming to step up its dogmatic demands from various GOP candidates this next election. That's right. They want more.

And on to news and comment. . .

NEW BLOW TO THE DOLLAR
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/20/business/dollar.php
The world dumped the dollar on Thursday, pushing the greenback to an all-time low of $1.40 against the euro and to parity with the Canadian dollar for the first time in three decades as currency traders around the world digested the full implications of the U.S. Federal Reserve's new course for interest rates.

Freedom of what?
DEMOCRAPS FAIL TO STOP SENATE
FROM SLAMMING ‘GENERAL BETRAY US’ AD
The mighty Rip Post hails the ad---um. . .isn’t it uh. . .free speech? Oh, we don’t have that here anymore?
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Democrats_vote_to_condemn_MoveOn_0920.html
BUSH CALLS AD ‘DISGUSTING’
And yet. . .nothing is ever quite as disgusting as. . .Bush
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Bush_bashes_Dems_over_MoveOn_ad_0920.html
OLBERMANN: BUSH ACTS LIKE HE WAS INTERRUPTED WHILE WATCHING CARTOONS
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Keith_Olbermann_Special_Comment_on_Bushs_0920.html
Olbermann also played tape of a television ad from the Republican National Committee--originally aired 19 days before the 2006 mid-term elections--which featured a quote from terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri claiming he had acquired "suitcase bombs." The ad concluded with an image of an explosion, followed by the text, "These are the stakes. Vote on November 7.""That one was OK, Mr. Bush?" Olbermann asked. "Terrorizing your own people in hopes of getting them to vote for your own party has never brought as much as a public comment from you."
DID ‘BETRAY US’ QUESTIONER CONSPIRE WITH BUSH?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/21/sammon-bush-moveon/

GEN. PETRAEUS: A FAILURE BY HIS OWN STANDARDS
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/63179/
Fog Facts are facts that are known. They've been published and are easily accessible. They are important enough that they ought to define the political dialogue. Yet somehow they are as unrecognized as if they were top secret. They're lost in the fog. Gen. Petraeus, for example, arrives with an amazing fog. There are facts in the militaristic mist all around him, that if noticed, should have even Republicans scheduling flights out of Baghdad. Let's start with his track record.

GREAT GUNS! MCCAIN APPLAUDS OUR ‘GREAT GUNMAKERS’
Yes, God bless the manufacturers of assault weapons! How else could crazies blow away students and little kids?
http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/245119.html
Maybe one of them made the weapon that just wounded two students at Delaware State U
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Gunman_wounds_two_at_US_university_09212007.html

People’s Repugnic
NOW CHINA-MADE LUNCHBOXES ARE FULL OF LEAD
http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_6956919
MATTEL ROLLS OVER FOR CHINA, PAWS IN THE AIR
Apologizes for “design flaws”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7006599.stm
OLYMPIC TORCH BYPASSES POOR TAIWAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7005984.stm

Northern Exposure
THE FIGHT FOR THE TOP OF THE WORLD
Never mind the melting polar cap---get that oil
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663445,00.html
Russia is at the thick of the new game. In an expedition that lacked nothing in patriotic bluster, a Russian-led team descended to the seabed on Aug. 2 and planted a titanium Russian flag directly on the North Pole. In early September, Russian bombers launched cruise missiles during Arctic exercises. But it isn't only the Russians who are staking their claims.
SOIL SAMPLES ‘PROVE’ ARCTIC IS RUSSIAN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,507062,00.html
SUMMER SEA ICE MELT WAS LARGER THAN ALASKA AND TEXAS
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/21/MNMISACP7.DTL

Electile Dysfunction
BILLARY, RUDY THE CREEP TOP CALIF. POLLS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3418
JUSTICE SOUTER WEPT OVER 2000 ELECTION
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Supreme_Court_author_Justice_Souter_wept_0921.html

Iraq and Roll
GUNMEN KILL AIDES TO AL-SISTANI
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AmlN.18JcAFnj59s3J3Fuj2s0NUE

Israelity
ISRAEL CONSULTED U.S. BEFORE BOMBING SYRIA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,2174293,00.html

Your Corporatocracy at Work!
INTERVIEW: NAOMI KLEIN ON ‘DISASTER CAPITALISM’
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/63178/
Jan Frel: Your book has 70 pages of footnotes and has citations from over 1,000 sources. At the book launch in New York, you referred to this as your "body armor." The thinking seems to be that if you can back up what you're saying, then it has to be accepted. Is this what will give it legitimacy in the mainstream media? Naomi Klein: It's more for the debate about my work. In the attempts to dismiss my work as conspiracies theories, the footnotes help.
Asinine Commentary of the Week:
NAOMI KLEIN, FRIEND OF HEZBOLLAH
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=edf7de8a-cbad-46e0-8c13-8af723195da9

Mashed Media
OLBERMANN: THE NEW ED MURROW?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071008/kitman
MAD MAGAZINE IS STILL GREAT
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=6197&IssueNum=224
In a spread comparing the Iraq war to earlier conflicts, Rush Limbaugh and Adolf Hitler are juxtaposed above a caption that reads “During WWII, the Reich blamed their problems on the Jews. During Iraq, the right blames their problems on the news.”
GOOD NEWS: TV NEWS IS DYING
Well, at least all the happy smiley hollow “news” programs are---and that’s most of ‘em
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/candid_wortds_from_nbc4s.php
IDIOT ‘REPORTERS’ BATTLE OVER JOURNALISM CLICHÉ
The George Plimpton trick was probably invented shortly after newspapers were. . .
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/claiming_credit_for_a_jou.php

Lost Angeles
VENICE RESIDENTS CAN STAY IN APARTMENTS---
PROBLEM IS, THEY WERE ALREADY EVICTED
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lincoln21sep21,1,2031669.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.venicepaper.net/pmt_more.php?id=372_0_1_0_M
$30 A YEAR TAX TO FUND ANTI-GANG PROGRAMS?
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6952094

Animals in the news!
BOOMING BITTERN BOUNCING BACK IN BRITAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/21/conservation.uknews
RAPTOR WAS A ‘TURKEY WITH ATTITUDE’
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=66996&in_page_id=34

Oh, by the way. . .
FUJIMORI TO BE EXTRADITED TO PERU
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7006689.stm
HAVE SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED INTUITION?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,507176,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

WINE FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON’S SELLER---OR IS IT?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_keefe?currentPage=all

YES, IT’S A HOBBIT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/21/2
Now scientists have analysed fossilised wrist bones that were part of the original discovery in 2003 but had not been looked at in detail. They say they prove the Hobbit really was a distinct and previously unknown type of human, and not just an abnormally small member of our own species.

Musique
JONI MITCHELL’S NEW “SHINE”---REVIEW
http://music.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,2173357,00.html
Meditative, graceful and becalmed are surprising adjectives, given the prevailing subject matter. Mitchell has said she was provoked out of retirement by the war on terror and looming ecological catastrophe, and a sense of impending doom is never far away.
STONES ARE TOP EARNERS OF 2007
Now there’s a surreal headline
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7006091.stm

Film
RAINER ON ‘JESSE JAMES’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0921/p11s03-almo.html

BURNS’ ‘THE WAR’---REVIEW
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/21/DD1SSA04H.DTL
"The War" is a remarkable storytelling feat and a visceral television experience, a twinned accomplishment that, combined, does the nearly impossible - it allows the rebirth of an overly familiar story and freshens it in astounding ways.

And in the end. . .
CLOUDS
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=clouds


9/20
Skylines:
Morning Concert
THE PERSUASIONS, 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamL-QU8fZI

TV CAT POLL WAS FIXED!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7005053.stm

CELL PHONES MAY SLOW BRAIN FUNCTION
Assuming there is much to begin with
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137318-c,cellphones/article.html

GOOGLE MOON
http://www.google.com/moon/


Latest photo of Phil Spector

WATCH: FOX’S GODDAMN HYPOCRISY
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/foxs-goddamn-hypocrisy/

BRITNEY’S LOOKING GOOD
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=66914&in_page_id=7

DILDO SAUSAGES FOR DUBAI!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66892&in_page_id=2

And on to news and comment. . .

CANCER CURE AVAILABLE IN TWO YEARS?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/19/ncancer219.xml

RACIST JESSE JACKSON BLASTS OBAMA FOR “ACTING WHITE”
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2979876.ece
JACKSON DENIES QUOTE---PAPER STANDS BY IT
Uses the old “taken out of context” excuse
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003643847
‘JENA 6’ PROTESTS MASSING IN LA.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/20/national/a055445D13.DTL&tsp=1

Mashed Media
RATHER WILL DONATE MOST OF ANY SETTLEMENT WITH CBS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091901445.html

MILITARY RECRUITERS ARE LYING, CONNING, TRICKING
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62945/
According the New York Times, nearly one of five United States Army recruiters was under investigation in 2004 for offenses varying from "threats and coercion to false promises that applicants would not be sent to Iraq." One veteran recruiter told a reporter for the Albany Times Union, "I've been recruiting for years, and I don't know one recruiter who wasn't dishonest about it. I did it myself."

MERCENARY KILLERS OUTNUMBER U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/iraq/2003893181_iraqoutsource20.html

Bush Leagues
BUSH WANTS EVEN MORE EAVESDROPPING POWER
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1663673,00.html
INTERESTING CANDID SHOT OF BUSH
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/09/cartoon_the_beast_within.html

Electile Dysfunction
BILLARY CALLS CHENEY “DARTH VADER”
Next time, she should try insulting him
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0907/Darth_Cheney.html
HAHAHA---RUDY THE CREEP ASSOCIATES HIMSELF WITH CHURCHILL
http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/243560.html
GINGRICH: I’LL RUN FOR PREZ IF YOU GIVE ME $30 MILLION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/20/politics/p074059D81.DTL&tsp=1&type=politics
WHAT BILLARY LEARNED
FROM ’93 HEALTH CARE DEBACLE
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663644,00.html

Israelity
IRAN WILL STRIKE BACK IF ATTACKED BY ISRAEL
http://en.rian.ru/world/20070919/79708810.html
U.S. PUSHING FOR PALESTINIAN STATE?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7003860.stm

Iraq and Roll
FLASH! BUSH SAYS HE’S NOT THE DECIDER ANYMORE!
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/bush-decider-petraeus/
PETRAEUS LET SLIP THE UGLY TRUTH OF THE ‘WAR’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18419.htm
The truth had been blurted out. When staunch Republican Senator John Warner asked him: “Does the [Iraq war] make America safer?” Petraeus replied with admirable honesty: “I don’t know, actually. I have not sat down and sorted in my own mind.”
GATES: “I DON’T KNOW” IF IRAQ INVASION WAS WORTH IT
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Asked_if_Iraq_war_worth_it_0920.html

BIN-LADEN ‘DECLARES WAR’ ON PAKISTAN
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bin_Laden_declares_war_on_Pakistan__09202007.html

Oh, by the way. . .
BURMA MONKS IN THIRD DAY OF ANTI-MILITARY GOV’T. PROTEST
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7004074.stm
HYDROGEN-FILLED BALLOONS BUST, BURN STUDENTS
That’s helium you’re supposed to use, idiots---helium
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6998134.stm

And in more important matters. . .


R.I.P. LAUREL BURCH
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/arts/20burch.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Laurel Burch, who as a 20-year-old single mother found metal in junkyards to hammer into jewelry to support her two children, and went on to win distinction as a fanciful designer and success as a savvy businesswoman, died on Sept. 13 at her home in Novato, Calif. She was 61.
IMAGES OF BURCH’S WONDERFUL WORK
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Laurel+Burch&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
LAURELBURCH.COM
http://www.laurelburch.com/

MEET “i CARLY”---BASTARD OFFSPRING OF TV AND THE INTERNET
by John Rogers
http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_6928191?source=email&nclick_check=1

JAPAN ROYAL FAMILY ALLOWS ACCESS TO SACRED TOMBS
The divine origins of Japan's imperial family come under scrutiny as it allows limited access to two burial sites.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,2173401,00.html
While the move by the agency - the opaque bureaucracy that runs the affairs of the imperial family - is unlikely to shed new light on the origins of what some believe is the world's oldest monarchy, for Japan's increasingly vocal ultra-right, even this modest concession is a step too far.They subscribe to the ancient myth that holds that Japan's emperors are the direct descendants of the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, and that the current monarch is the latest in an unbroken line of 125 emperors stretching back more than 2,600 years to Jimmu in the seventh century BC.

JAPAN UNDERWATER PYRAMID MYSTIFIES SCHOLARS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070919-sunken-city.html

Film
MOVIE EXTRA SPILLS BEANS ABOUT ‘INDIANA JONES’ PLOT
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2173056,00.html

WORLD’S TOP FIVE ‘GREEN’ HOTELS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/sep/19/green.travelwebsites

And in the end. . .
MOVE TO NORWAY
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article579769.ece

9/19
Skylines:
Morning Concert
STEVE VAI’S TRIBUTE TO FZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec82-krTX9M&mode=related&search=
WATERMELON STARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PbzVRoWFvA

TODAY IS TALK LIKE DICK CHENEY DAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/19/npirate119.xml
Top 10 pirate links
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/09/15/dlweb15.xml

WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ METEORS
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN1843987520070918
http://www.rense.com/general78/peruu.htm

WILD SEX CAUSES SUV CRASH
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/18/national/a165532D44.DTL

MAN WILL SEND BANANA BLIMP INTO SPACE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=66657&in_page_id=34

DAN ACKROYD: ALIEN ABDUCTIONS ARE ROUTINE
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2172361,00.html
"Oh, they have technology better than ours, but they didn't paint like Renoir, they don't dance like Mick Jagger, they don't write like Samuel Johnson or William Faulkner. They are envious of us. We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics. They don't have that. They may have gelatinous pools and crystal mountains and they've got the technology to flip from planet to planet or dimension to dimension but, you know, Keith Richards didn't come from there."

ELVIS REINCARNATED!
Return to sender. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=66677&in_page_id=34

BEETHOVEN’S HAIR TURNED INTO DIAMONDS
We are not making this stuff up. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66707&in_page_id=2

And on to news and comment. . .

WE’VE BEEN HAD
Guy who was tasered at Kerry event was a jackass who set it all up in advance. . . http://www.starbanner.com/article/20070918/NEWS/70918007/1053/BREAKING_NEWS
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RO5GMO0&show_article=1
KERRY’S LIMP STATEMENT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/18/125041/427
COPS PLACED ON LEAVE
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/18/student.tasered/index.html
HE’S A “FAMOUS WRITER MAN”
http://www.attytood.com/2007/09/meet_the_future_savior_of_jour_1.html
‘LOVES BEING CONFRONTATIONAL’
Aw, just taser the jerk again. . .
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/19/news/campus/savvy.txt
A ‘QUASI-JOURNALIST’
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003642743
Another site had pictures of Meyer licking a woman's face and making a suggestive pose as he stood behind a fake cow. The site listed his activities as "getting wasted" and "being ridiculous."


CHENEY COUNTERS GREENSPAN IN WSJ ARTICLE
Arrr! Alan, ye has to walk the plank!
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Cheney_writes_to_correct_Greenspan_about_0919.html

POPE SNUBS CONDI VISIT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7002988.stm

Your Corporatocracy at Work!
HOW MONSANTO, PAUL BREMER SCREWED INDIA, IRAQI FARMERS
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62273/
Heard about the thousands of farmer suicides in India? Well, Iraqi farmers may be next thanks to the work of U.S. diplomat Paul Bremer and his Monsanto friends.

Israelity
U.S. BACKS ISRAEL FIRST-STRIKE ON IRAN
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Bolton_US_would_support_preemptive_Israeli_0918.html
ISRAEL DECLARES GAZA ‘ENEMY ENTITY’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2172494,00.html
PALESTINIANS LEFT HELPLESS BY ISRAEL---WORLD BANK
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2976690.ece

Iraq and Roll
IRAQ PM ASSAILS BLACKWATER
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070919/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Iraq's prime minister disputed Blackwater USA's version of a weekend shooting that left at least 11 people dead, and he declared he would not tolerate "the killing of our citizens in cold blood."
WHO MONITORS THE MERCENARIES?
(More to the point, why are they used at all?)
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3403
Baghdad: bank robbery capital of the world
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2976691.ece

What is the law?
MUSAKEY IS AN OLD CRONY OF RUDY THE CREEP
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/us/politics/19friends.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1190211625-jQCWcmq44OUKr0TNC72QKA

Electile Dysfunction
WILL THE REAL JOHN EDWARDS STAND UP?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3404
His rivals are working behind the scenes to exploit the "three Hs" — haircut, house and hedge fund. Edwards' $1,250 haircuts, his new 28,000-square-foot estate in North Carolina and his consulting work with a hedge fund that caters to the super rich undercut his everyman image.
MITT THE MORMON AD TOUTS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_el_pr/republicans_ads
Billary’s Prescription for Another Heath Care Reform Failure
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=233626

RAIMUNDO: THE MIRAGE OF ‘VICTORY’
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11638
Whatever you do, don't ask John Kerry a question: you may live to regret it, as did a student at the University of Florida, who was blasted with a Taser gun by the campus "police" – while the Young Democrats sat there applauding. What strikes me as odd, however – aside from the fact that we seem to have slipped into an alternate universe, where the First Amendment was never enacted – is that Kerry just kept droning on, completely ignoring the Kafkaesque scene unfolding in front of him, intent on answering what he described as a "very important question." (Earth to Kerry: knock off the Quaaludes!) . . . Iran may not be a "suicide nation" – but we are. We're currently spending ourselves into penury in order to "liberate" a nation that doesn't want to be "liberated," and whose populace thinks attacks on our soldiers are justified. Having thrown all of our military resources into this futile, unwinnable war, we are risking everything – our prestige, our economy, our allies – by betting on the mirage of "victory."

World gone mad
ASS’T. U.S. ATTY. PLANNED TO HAVE SEX WITH FIVE-YEAR-OLD
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5080
THE CHILD SOLDIERS OF THE CONGO
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0919/p01s05-woaf.html

House of cards
BAY AREA FORECLOSURES QUADRUPLE
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/19/BUH1S8PSN.DTL

Animals in the news!
EUROPE BANS BLUEFIN TUNA FISHING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7002591.stm

(Lack of) Health
THE BEST EXERCISE FOR DIABETES
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1662683,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
GOOD GOD---NOW THE FLEMINGS CAN’T STAND THE WALLOONS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,506430,00.html
THOUSANDS OF WORLD LANGUAGES ARE DYING
Well, people talk too much, anyway. . .
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/19/MNUAS8NVJ.DTL
POL POT DEPUTY CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2172477,00.html
R.I.P. GENE SAVOY, FLAMBOYANT EXPLORER OF RUINS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/us/19savoy.html?ref=obituaries

And in more important matters. . .

NEW PHOTOS SHOW SS RELAXING HAPPILY
---OUTSIDE OF AUSCHWITZ
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/19/arts/19photo.php

THE KGB’S LONG WAR AGAINST RUDOLF NUREYEV
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessionid=5E3O52KRSMUC5QFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/arts/2007/09/17/btkgb117.xml&site=6&page=0
When these efforts failed, the KGB made other plans, one of which was to break his legs. He was tried in his absence and sentenced to seven years in prison as a traitor. Next, the KGB turned to his friends. Pushkin was repeatedly questioned, and suffered a heart attack.The careers of Leonid Romankov and his twin sister Liuba, scientists whose interest in literature and art had stimulated Nureyev, were blighted because of their friendship with him. Tamara Zakrzhevskaya was expelled from university, and forbidden to travel even to Eastern Europe for 30 years, for the crime of knowing him.

KRASSNER: THE POWER OF LAUGHTER
http://www.counterpunch.org/krasner09192007.html
“Whatever wisdom I have to share is in the form of comic relief, but just remember, if you don’t laugh you’re only helping the terrorists.”

Food for thought
MORFORD: CAN ‘THE BACONATER’ BE OUTLAWED?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/19/notes091907.DTL
Wait wait wait (I asked the wall), is this still legal? Do we still actually allow this sort of cultural tripe to be broadcast to the nation? Can fast-food companies still sell revolting chyme like this obesity-causing cancer-ready death-inducing product you shouldn't even feed to your dog, and no one is stopping them? Didn't we pass a law or something? Have the noxious fast-food titans not yet been forced to stop concocting vile products like this, or at least to dial down the garish marketing of their most ultra-toxic products, given how the vast majority of Americans have now learned (haven't they?) at least a tiny modicum about human health?
LUNCH WITH ALICE WATERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/dining/19wate.html?em&ex=1190347200&en=c58565a4608aea4a&ei=5087%0A

Musique
BUCHAREST FESTIVAL RIVALS SALZBURG
http://music.guardian.co.uk/festivals/story/0,,2172305,00.html
The pianists alone make for quite a lineup: the elusive, cultish Martha Argerich, Yevgeny Kissin, Murray Perahia, the Labèque sisters, Nelson Freire, Boris Berezovsky, Polina Leschenko. They form only part of the draw alongside other big names, such as Maxim Vengerov, Valery Gergiev and Christophe Eschenbach, Romanian opera companies and visiting orchestras including the Orchestre de Paris, Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Freiburg Baroque and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Books
THE 86 GREATEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF ALL TIME
http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/detail?articleId=11341&print=true 

And in the end. . .
NUMBER SIXES
http://www.portmeiricon.com/

9/18
Skylines:
Morning Concert
SPIKE JONES’S SYMPHONIC SUITE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlOyTBhwDU&mode=related&search=

NEBRASKA STATE SEN. CHAMBERS SUES GOD
It’s about goddamn time somebody did. . .
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jqCsP7OChy5Q8AFcTeiB58cfy6Uw
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/State_Senator_sues_God_for_plagues_0918.html
Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants."

METEORITE, MYSTERY ILLNESS HITS PERU
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/_Mystery_illness_strikes_after_meteorite_0918.html

ABSOLUTELY NO O.J. COVERAGE HERE

112-YEAR-OLD MAN WANTS TO LIVE INDEFINITELY
Probably won't.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7000487.stm

ABSOLUTELY NO BRITNEY COVERAGE HERE

MAN DIES AFTER THREE-DAY INTERNET GAME BINGE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=66550&in_page_id=34

JACK HANNA, FLAMINGO IN AIRPORT SECURITY FLAP
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66580&in_page_id=2

And on to news and comment. . .

OKAY, FOLKS, WATCH THIS. . .
YOU THINK YOU LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY WITH FREE SPEECH?
Man asks pointed, protracted (but good) questions of Sen. John Kerry. . .He is wrestled to the ground by cops, hauled away, and TASERED---while Sen. Kerry just stands and watches calmly, like the coward that he is, and says he’s sorry the man can’t hear the answers to his questions. . .This is terrifying, folks, and if you think it’s anything less, YOU are part of the problem. Watch the youtube video, as it is the most complete of the three at this link. Hear the man plead to not be tasered, then scream in pain as the authoritarian little Nazis burn him.
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/tudent_Tasered_for_asking_Senator_Kerry_0917.html

THE STRANGE DEATH OF TODD BLUE
http://www.rense.com/general78/strange.htm
At the time of Todd's death, he was under investigation for his possible role in the nuclear weapons that were loaded into a B52 aircraft.

FISK: THE DEATH OF HISTORY
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18408.htm
2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites of ancient Mesopotamia to strip them of their artefacts and wealth. The near total destruction of Iraq's historic past – the very cradle of human civilisation – has emerged as one of the most shameful symbols of our disastrous occupation.

Onward, Christian Soldiers
IRAQ NEWSPAPERS CROW OVER BANNING OF BLACKWATER
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003642239
Newspapers in Iraq trumpeted the government's decision to order Blackwater USA to leave the country after a fatal shooting involving civilians as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki looked to gain political capital from the move against unpopular foreign security contractors.
IRAQ TO REVIEW ALL OTHER “SECURITY FIRMS,” AKA PRIVATE U.S. ARMIES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7000642.stm
BROWN:
“AN ARMED AND DEADLY MERCENARY CHRISTIAN ARMY”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2249
KILLING FOR JESUS: FORCE MINISTRIES
http://forceministries.com/

Iran from the truth
RUSSIA WARNS U.S. AGAINST ATTACKING IRAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2171856,00.html
THE NEW HAWKS OF FRANCE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,506396,00.html
It used to be that France would respond with a predictable "non" to any saber-rattling coming out of the US. Now, though, Paris seems eager to lead the way and has taken clear aim at Iran. The bellicosity is making German commentators nervous.
FRANCE TRIES TO PLAY DOWN IRAN WAR THREATS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,506361,00.html

13 HOUSE MEMBERS SUBPOENAED IN BRIBERY CASE
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Thirteen_House_members_subpoenaed_by_man_0918.html

SWEDISH ARTIST GOES INTO HIDING
AFTER AL-QAEDA DEATH THREAT
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0918/p99s01-duts.html

World gone mad
OREGON TEACHER WANTS TO PACK A PISTOL
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0918/p01s01-uspo.html
Chernobyl to get $505m metal cover to stop radiation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,2171608,00.html

Mashed Media
NYT ENDS PAY POLICY ON WEBSITE
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003642071
JUDGE: MPLS STAR-TRIBUNE PUBLISHER MUST STEP DOWN
http://www.startribune.com/535/story/1430139.html
REPORTER REMEMBERS ‘SATCHMO’ SCOOP IN ‘57
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003641733

Lost Angeles
SILENT MOVIE THEATER “REVIVED”---WITH SOUND
How is it a silent movie theater with silent movies only one night a week? The place is being turned into a “cool place to hang,” and the original owner, John Hampton (whom The Rip Post knew) is turning over in his grave.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/new_life_for_silent_movie.php

(Lack of) Health
BILL WOULD HAVE CALIF. RESTAURANTS COUNT CALORIES, CARBS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0918/p02s01-ussc.html
WILL HIGH-FAT DIET BEAT CANCER?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1662484,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
1.6 MILLION EVACUATED AS TYPHOON HEADS FOR SHANGHAI
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/18/asia/18typhoon.php
HONG KONG, SHEN ZEN TO MERGE?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6989473.stm
GATOR SWALLOWS MAN’S ARM, BUT IT’S REATTACHED
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=66540&in_page_id=34
Cosmic Dust Could Form Inorganic Life, Study Suggests
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070917-alien-life.html

And in more important matters. . .

CRIMINALLY RICH: 13 OF LAST 400 ON FORBES LIST CONVICTED OF CRIMES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/18/business/18forbes-criminally-rich.php

DID ALEX THE PARROT REALLY WANT A CRACKER?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/weekinreview/16john.html

THE SEMINAL ISSUE
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=qbd8jjrqwgt53q8slbb17zr2bh09nsxd
The unofficial distance record for ejaculate is 18 feet, 9 inches, achieved by one Horst Schultz, who also holds the record for greatest height (12 feet, 4 inches).

WAR ON SACHETS!
Those little plastic packets full of condiments are a blight
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/food/2007/09/sachet_war.html

Books
The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism
http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1637
RARE SIGNED POTTER BOOKS TO BE AUCTIONED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6997883.stm

‘MATCH GAME’ WIT DIES
We are printing this because, well, how would you like an obit for being known as the ‘Match Game’ wit?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/arts/television/18somers.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

For Art’s Sake
EMILY CARR
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/EmilyCarr/en/index.php

And in the end. . .
THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/09/cartoon_the_brain_that_wouldnt_die.html
9/17
Skylines:
Morning Concert
SEN. CRAIG'S THEME SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS0zii8yUKo

ABSOLUTELY NO JOHN MCCAIN OR JOE BIDEN COVERAGE HERE!

YOU CAN BOUNCE A QUARTER OFF CONDI’S ASS!
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Secretary_of_State_who_keeps_private_0914.html 
"After she became secretary of state, she came to a party at Blacker's house, kicked off her shoes, and began dancing through the night to rock and and roll," Kessler wrote. "Blacker, who is gay, wanted to show his partner how tight her behind is; he postulated that if he aimed a quarter at her butt, it would bounce off like a rocket. He was right. Rice, who was dancing, didn't realize what he had done until everyone began laughing hysterically. She was flattered -- and proud."

ABSOLUTELY NO EMMY COVERAGE HERE!

EXCEPT THIS---SALLY FIELD’S ANTI-WAR REMARK CENSORED
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Fox_censors_Sally_Field_in_US_0917.html

ONLY IN AMERICA:
SEN. WIDESTANCE’S STALL BECOMES TOURIST ATTRACTION
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Site_of_Craig_bathroom_bust_becomes_0917.html

WATCH: IMPORTANT FILM PREVIEW!
http://www.thebeatles.com/help/

ANGELINA JOLIE RECOUNTS LSD EXPERIENCE
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=66340&in_page_id=7

‘SKUNK’ POT DOUBLES IN STRENGTH
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=66469&in_page_id=34

THE CORRECT WAY TO TASTE CHOCOLATE
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=yRbyqpHFkc4vBpJsmJxvcqVxsGf9nRgk

ABSOLUTELY NO O.J. COVERAGE HERE!

And on to news and comment. . .

B-52 NUKE AIRMAN. . .DIES!
http://worldwide-sawdust.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1405
http://www.rense.com/general78/death.htm

REP. MORAN NOTES ISRAEL LOBBY INFLUENCE---
IS SMEARED AS ANTI-SEMITE BY JEWISH GROUPS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402171_pf.html
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) has again come under fire from local Jewish organizations for remarking in a magazine interview that the "extraordinarily powerful" pro-Israel lobby played a strong role promoting the war in Iraq.

PASSENGER TELLS OF ESCAPING THAI PLANE CRASH
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/17/news/crash.php

TERROR SUSPECT WORKED AT FRANKFURT AIRPORT
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,506190,00.html

THE ‘DOOMSDAY PLANE’ FLEW ON 9/11
“Flying command post” carrying U.S. gov’t. was aloft. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/CNN_investigates_secret_911_doomsday_plane_0913.html

Iran from the truth
2,000 BOMBING TARGETS IN IRAN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/wiran116.xml
IRAN SCORNS FRENCH WARNING OF WAR
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6998602.stm
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_war_warning_overshadows_UN_nuc_09172007.html
IRAN TV SERIES SYMPATHETIC TO PLIGHT OF JEWS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20808260/
It is Iran's version of "Schindler's List," a miniseries that tells the tale of an Iranian diplomat in Paris who helps Jews escape the Holocaust — and viewers across the country are riveted.

Iraq and Roll
EL MONTE GIRL BURNS TO DEATH IN IRAQ
http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_6859194
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003641223
IRAQ DEATH TOLL RIVALS RWANDA, CAMBODIAN KILLING FIELDS
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62728/
A new study estimates that 1.2 million Iraqis have met violent deaths since Bush and Cheney chose to invade.

Your Corporatocracy at Work!
GREENSPAN: IRAQ WAR WAS INDEED ALL ABOUT OIL
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece
BLACKWATER LOSES IRAQ CONTRACT AFTER CIVILIAN SHOOTINGS
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iraq.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

RAY MCGOVERN: GREENSPAN SPILLS THE BEANS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18406.htm

The new Gonzales
Mukasey May Draw Scrutiny For Role in Secret Detentions
http://www.nysun.com/article/62750
Mukasey: "Congress that has the constitutional authority to ... modify the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010505

(Lack of) Health
BILLARY’S HEALTH PLAN WILL COST THE SAME AS IRAQ WAR
One of ‘em’s gotta go. . .
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Clinton_to_unveil_110b_healthcare_plan_0917.html

Israelity
EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OKAY NOW---
MADONNA MEETS WITH ISRAEL P.M.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6998540.stm
Madonna, who was raised a Roman Catholic, has taken the Hebrew name Esther and has been seen with a red thread on her wrist - as sometimes worn by followers of Jewish mysticism to ward off the evil eye.
RABBIS PISSED OFF OVER MADONNA VISIT
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411415061&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
"It is a known fact in Kabbala that impurity and evil are inherently attracted to sanctity," said a director of one of the most respected Kabbala yeshivot in Jerusalem who preferred that he and his institution remain anonymous. "That's why people of Hollywood, a place of iniquity and lasciviousness, are naturally attracted to the holiness of Kabbala."

Mashed Media
JON CARROLL’S TRIBUTE TO LATE COMIC STRIP ARTIST PHIL FRANK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/09/17/DDGLS6EF4.DTL

Lost Angeles
IS DUTTON’S BOOKS REALLY SAVED?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-barry17sep17,1,2850224.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
Some Brentwood residents say Munger, 83, has said in community meetings that he would save Dutton's if residents supported his development project. But they contend that he has yet to show them any formal plans or drawings and that his descriptions of the proposal often change.

Oh, by the way. . .
WHAT RIGHTS WILL TUVALU CITIZENS HAVE WHEN THEIR COUNTRY IS SUBMERGED?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,505819,00.html
POOR TAIWAN MARCHES FOR U.N. MEMBERSHIP
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6996241.stm
HONG KONG REDISCOVERS SUN YAT-SEN
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/17/arts/sun.php
R.I.P. NORA EZELL, ALABAMA QUILTER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/arts/design/17ezell.html?ref=obituaries

And in more important matters. . .

MAN WINDS UP SPEAKING ‘WOMEN’S JAPANESE’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0917/p19s01-hfes.html
Wherever you go, men and women tend to speak differently. But in Japan, those differences are more pronounced than in many places. Among the multilayered rules of grammar and usage governing spoken Japanese, there also exist underlying concepts of "men's Japanese" and "women's Japanese." By the end of my 2-1/2-year stay there, I had unwittingly become conversant in the latter form.

KEN BURNS’ ‘WWII’ WILL HAVE INEVITABLE IRAQ SUBTEXT
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20789381/site/newsweek/
In the current war, Burns says, "we're not permitted to shoot the caskets coming back. In this film, we show huge nets from a trawler, each one filled with 15 or 20 flag-draped coffins. Today you can't show the bad stuff. You can't even find the bad stuff, without behaving like a pornographer on the Internet. We don't even know the cost anymore." When Burns began work on "The War" in 2001, he couldn't have known Iraq would become the film's secret subject, even though the place is never mentioned.

Books
THE DYING SHORT STORY
http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2170636,00.html
In my lifetime, the short story's natural habitat has vanished. The fiction magazines have closed, and the other print media seldom run short fiction. Publishers want novels; short story collections don't sell. In response, there are initiatives to save the short story: shortstory.org, the National Short Story Prize, the Small Wonder Festival. These are all splendid, but as a result the debate becomes polarised. Short story versus novel - mutually exclusive, and in conflict.

Film
ABOUT THESE NEW BEATLES AND DYLAN MOVIES. . .
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1662350,00.html

For Art’s Sake
NEW YORK ARTISTS HEAD FOR GERMANY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,505553,00.html

Musique
BRANSON DUMPS VIRGIN RECORDS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6998606.stm
ROCK’S GREATEST LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIPS
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/09/just_the_two_of_us_rocks_great.html
FROM ‘MYSPACE’ TO MUSIC-PRODUCT
Girl in tanning salon hits it big as “recording artist”
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/17/DDEIS7E2K.DTL

BRIT HOTELS URGED TO SHED ‘FAWLTY’ IMAGE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6998250.stm 

And in the end. . .
YOKO ONO’S MYSPACE PAGE
http://www.myspace.com/officialyokoono 


9/14
Skylines:
Morning Concert
BOUM!
Yeah, it’s a rerun, but it’s too damn good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0KWyWwVp0E

HOW DID WE MISS THIS?
JAPAN SETS RECORD FOR WORLD’S LARGEST ORGY
Pics!
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2006/10/13/world-record-in-japan-largest-orgy/

MEOWLINGUAL: THE CAT TRANSLATION DEVICE
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/09/12/meowlingual-japanese-cat-translation-device/

PET CUSTODY DISPUTE? CALL AN ANIMAL LAWYER
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/09/09/lawyer_for_the_dog/?page=full

CHAMPAGNE AND BREASTS
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article09120701.aspx

HANGING HAMS POSE MOTORWAY MENACE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,505713,00.html

THIS MODERN WORLD
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/09/03/tomo/

DUBAI FINISHES WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING
http://torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2007/09/14/4495504-sun.html

IDIOT FINISHES WORLD'S LONGEST PHONE CALL
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66110&in_page_id=2

BUSH’S SPEECH PARED DOWN TO MOST IMPORTANT BITS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3i7uOuYFEQ&NR=1

And on to news and comment. . .

‘OP-ED SOLDIER’S’ MOM WANTS EXPLANATION OF HIS DEATH
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/13/national/main3258255.shtml?source=RSSattr=Politics_3258255
The mother of an Army sergeant who died in a Baghdad vehicle accident weeks after writing a New York Times op-ed critical of the Pentagon's positive assessment of the Iraq war said Wednesday she wants the Army to explain his death. "I want to know all the details of how he died. I want to know the truth," said Olga Capetillo, whose 28-year-old son, Sgt. Omar Mora, died Monday. "I don't understand how so many people could die in that accident. How could it be so bad?"
LINDORFF: HOW STUPID DOES BUSH THINK WE ARE?---
AND HOW MANY PEOPLE THINK 'OP-ED SOLDIERS' DEATH WAS AN ACCIDENT?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.09.01_arch.html#1189790311208

WAS A COVERT ATTEMPT TO NUKE IRAN
FOILED BY WHISTLEBLOWERS?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18374.htm
On August 30, a B-52 bomber armed with five nuclear-tipped Advanced Cruise missiles travelled from Minot Air Force base, North Dakota, to Barksdale Air Force base, Louisiana, in the United States. Each missile had an adjustable yield between five and 150 kilotons of TNT which is at the lower end of the destructive capacities of U.S. nuclear weapons. For example, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 13 kilotons, while the Bravo Hydrogen bomb test of 1954 had a yield of 15,000 kilotons. The B-52 story was first covered in the Army Times on 5 September after the nuclear armed aircraft was discovered by Airmen.

Spaced Out
JAPAN’S LUNAR MISSION NOW IN EARTH ORBIT
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Japan_says_lunar_orbiter_launch_a_s_09132007.html
WATCH: LIFTOFF
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2007/sep/14/japan.lunar.rocket
RUSSIA PREPARES FOR MARS MISSION
Will put six people in small space for 520 days---and watch
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,505617,00.html
Eighteen cameras will record every move, every discussion and every argument of the earthbound spacecraft's occupants. Psychologists hope to pick candidates that will ensure the group works together as well as possible. A university degree in medicine, biology or engineering is a requirement.
GOOGLE OFFERS PRIZE FOR LUNAR LANDING
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/13/business/prize.php

Mission Accomplished
BUSH SPEECH BROKEN DOWN, LIE-BY-LIE
Prezboy’s “facts” don’t hold up
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3375
YEAH, YEAH, SOME TROOP REDUCTION
Bush throws U.S. a bone with a long-planned “cut” to about 150,000---in a year. It’s all a con.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070914/D8RKTU0G1.html
‘REDUCTION’ WAS PLANNED LONG AGO
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/09/13/bush_speech/
No matter what the president or Gen. David Petraeus, the military point man of the surge, may now say about next spring's drawdown, it is not predicated on success. Bringing troops home is not a choice, but a fait accompli. It has been preordained since the beginning of the surge. In fact, the surge was always destined to end next spring because after that there will be no more troops with which to continue it, according to statements from Adm. Michael Mullen, the man Bush recently appointed as chairman of the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, not to mention statements from Gen. Petraeus himself.
IRAQ VET: BUSH WILL TAKE CREDIT ‘FOR THE SUN RISING’
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Olbermann_Iraq_vet_reality_checks_Bush_0913.html
HOLLAND: BUSH WON’T LET GO
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62554/
Bush's Oval Office address on Iraq culminates a week of brazen propaganda from the White House and Pentagon, with no sign that the president has learned anything from his failure.
EDWARDS REBUTS BUSH BLUNTLY
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#62587
If you didn't listen to Bush's lame plan to keep the war going for a decade, here's the full text. Perhaps someone can name the 36 countries fighting along side us in Iraq. The response from Democrats was... muted and underplayed. We owe John Edwards for buying a couple minutes on MSNBC to give an Outside-the-Beltway response where he said, among other things.
PRESS REACTS TO BUSH SPEECH
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003640595
In his speech last night, President Bush made a case for progress in Iraq by citing facts and statistics that at times contradicted recent government reports or his own words.

MORFORD: IRAQ, DEEP IN YOUR BONES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/a/2007/09/14/notes091407.DTL
Are we really this violently paranoid bully, this rogue pre-emptive screw-em-all ideological war machine defined by the dystopian Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld vision of permanent, ongoing global conflict?

JON CARROLL: BUSH’S UNDOUBTED EVIL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/09/14/DDK5S4ON1.DTL
The war in Iraq has become a moral question as much as the situation in Darfur has. There's no question that the Bush administration caused the tragedy and that members of the administration have much to answer for. This is no longer a minority opinion; we who have been against the war from the beginning welcome gladly the late converts to our cause.

Iraq and Roll
BAGHDAD WALL DIVIDES SHIITES, SUNNIS
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307R.shtml

Iran from the truth
IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659039,00.html
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is notorious in the West as the trouble-making arm of the Islamic Republic, accused of supporting Hizballah and other militant groups, destabilizing the Iraqi government, and nurturing a covert nuclear weapons program. Inside Iran itself, however, the image of the Guards is more that of an economic powerhouse, with more influence and assets than even the Tehran bazaar, the institution whose cash has traditionally helped drive the country's politics.

BHUTTO WILL RETURN TO PAKISTAN OCT. 18
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6994976.stm

Electile Dysfunction
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2.0
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1661290,00.html
Can his wired supporters take a break from shout-outs, sending virtual drinks and writing on virtual walls to shut down their computers and go out and vote?
SPOILED VOTERS AND FLATULENT COWS
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Democrats_duck_and_weave_in_online__09132007.html
WATCH: MAHER INTERVIEWS DODD WITH ‘RIGHT-WING CLOSED CAPTIONING’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/14/mashup-video-maher-inter_n_64404.html

People’s Repugnic
BEIJING TO RELEASE NYT RESEARCHER FROM PRISON
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/14/news/china.php
RECORD CACHE OF SNOW LEOPARD PARTS, PELTS SEIZED
No wonder the poor cat is endangered
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070910-snow-leopards.html

Mashed Media
UPHEAVAL AT THE L.A. WEEKLY
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/clearing_out_at_the_weekl.php
BRIT BANKS MUST STOP USING SEMI-NAKED WOMEN IN BANK ADS
“Would you like to make a deposit?”
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66128&in_page_id=2

Enviro Wacko
INDONESIA: FIVE QUAKES IN THREE DAYS
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/14/indonesia.quake/index.html
Peanut butter to 'save starving millions'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ABCAMCXMETUJPQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/09/14/wpeanuts114.xml

World gone mad
MILLION-DOLLAR LAMBORGHINIS SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/13/business/auto.php

EVIDENCE: MCCANN GIRL DIED FROM SLEEPING PILLS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=66061&in_page_id=34

And in more important matters. . .

R.I.P. SF CHRON CARTOONIST PHIL FRANK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/14/MN5GQV2IQ.DTL

PROFILE: GERRY FIALKA---ONE OF L.A.’S ORIGINALS
http://www.argonautnewspaper.com/articles/2007/09/13/columns/betsy_goldman/bg.txt

TEENS REACT TO KEN BURNS’ “THE WAR”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0914/p11s03-altv.html

Film
RAINER REPORTS FROM THE TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0914/p13s01-almo.html
JOHN HURT CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,2168919,00.html

Life is tough
RESTAURANT CRITIC COMPLAINS OF PLATE SHAPES!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=26&entry_id=19952

And in the end. . .
SALVADOR DALI ON ‘WHAT’S MY LINE?’
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A

9/13
Skylines:
Morning Concert
SAVE THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17rXeIGnr2Y

TOP TEN MOST UNDERREPORTED STORIES OF THE YEAR
CORRECTED LINK: http://www.metroactive.com/bohemian/09.05.07/projectcensored-0736.html
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4452&catid=&volume_id=254&issue_id=314&volume_num=41&issue_num=50

BERKELEY OAK TREE SITTERS CAN STAY---JUDGE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/13/BAPSS5049.DTL
Country Joe sings “The Hokey Oakey”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI97m7pKZIo

CAN THE WORLD GO ON? “50 CENT” THREATENS RETIREMENT
Tragic! Multi-millionaire rapper says he didn’t have fun making his recent album. . .
http://music.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1355325.php/50_Cent_to_retire

Lost Angeles
L.A. TO BAN FAST-FOOD IN SOUTH-CENTRAL?
Why not the whole damn place?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0913/p01s04-ussc.html
The city council is set to vote on a measure next week that would put a two-year moratorium on new outlets in South L.A. amid concern about high obesity rates there.

ADULTERY JUST GOT EASIER IN FRANCE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,505486,00.html

WILSON OPTS FOR KEEPER, ‘ROAD TRIP’
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=65774&in_page_id=7

And on to news and comment. . .

PETRAEUS’S BOSS CALLED HIM
“ASS-KISSING LITTLE CHICKENSHIT”
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235
Petraeus: The Paris Hilton of Generals
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62302/

Freedom of what?
TEACHER WAS FIRED FOR SAYING “I HONK FOR PEACE”
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/osceola/orl-honkerfired1307sep13,0,5116664.story
"This has been devastating to me," Mayer, 57, said of her case, which has cost her $70,000 in legal fees. "What's important is that when I decided to stand up for my rights and take this school system to court, the court said teachers have no right of free speech."

STEEL BAND THROWN OFF FLIGHT---MISTAKEN FOR TERRORISTS
Their blind drummer was “acting suspiciously”
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=65966&in_page_id=34

WHY IS NEIL BUSH GETTING FEDERAL FUNDS?
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Watchdog_asks_Why_Bushs_kid_brother_0912.html
An independent watchdog agency has asked the Department of Education to investigate why President Bush's younger brother, Neil, has received money earmarked for the president's signature education initiative to sell a curriculum program that has not been subjected to the rigorous evaluation it deserves.

Iraq and Roll
‘KEY SUNNI U.S. ALLY’ OF BUSH KILLED BY BOMB
The “surge” is working, all right
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6993211.stm
70 percent of Iraqis: the “surge” has failed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6983841.stm
U.S.: the surge is working
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6986461.stm

9/11, 7-Eleven
AMERICAN MUSLIMS INTEGRATING WELL SINCE 9/11
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,505573,00.html

FATHERS OF DEAD ‘OP-ED SOLDIERS’ HAIL SONS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003638829
Richard Gray, father of Yance Gray, offered similar views on his son's part in the column. "I thought it was well-written and there wasn't anything in it I disagreed with, with that situation over there," he said via phone from his Montana home. "He said once that they need to divide the country up into three different countries to make things work."

SHEEHAN: RED AND BLUE PIGS OF WAR
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18367.htm
How do I know that Congress is playing politics with human hearts? All one has to do is observe the lack of action on the part of the red and blue pigs to come to this sad but inevitable conclusion. Apparently, MAJORITY Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV) has spent more time over his summer recess trying to convince red pigs to go against George’s war plan than he spent trying to coalesce his blue caucus into something that would not resemble the red pigs so closely that the blur becomes purple. He and Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) have already decided that they do not have enough votes to end the occupation just as they decided that impeachment was “off the table” even before they were elected! So they will happily hand over to George more of your tax money and China’s money to continue the killing fields in Iraq. Why are they so miserly with democracy, but generous with our treasury and with our dear human treasure?

Your Corporatocracy at work!
NATION’S DAMS NEXT ‘DEFICIENT’ STRUCTURES?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0913/p02s01-usgn.html
LATINOS HIT HARD BY FORECLOSURE BOOM
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=43d97d632c6966cdf3f09f9ffab093ad&from=rss

Jackoff
WAXMAN STILL ON THE ABRAMOFF SCANDAL
One of dozens that should have been enough to bring down the administration
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/White_House_expected_to_supply_new_0913.html

Mashed Media
PRINCE WANTS TO ‘RECLAIM THE INTERNET’ FROM PIRACY
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2168265,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=4
OH, NO! LAT MASTHEAD IS NOW ‘ALL WHITE MEN PUSHING 50!’
OH, NO! MUST BE RACISM! OH, NO! OH, NO!
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/california_editor_at_lat.php#more
KATIE COURIC: THE RIGHT-WING’S NEW SWEETHEART
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/13/katie-couric-is-the-right-wings-new-sweetheart/
RUSS REPORTER JUMPED FROM WINDOW, NOT PUSHED---PROSECUTORS
hahahahahaha
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003639582

Enviro Wacko
DOES THE PLANET HAVE TOO MANY PEOPLE?
Does Larry King ask stupid questions?
http://www.alternet.org/environment/62157/

Spaced Out
ASTRONOMERS WANT TO SHINE LIGHT ON DARK MATTER
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0913/p13s02-stss.html

Oh, by the way. . .
NEW JAPAN PM CANDIDATE LIKES COMICS---
MANGA STOCK BOOMS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6991720.stm
Shares in retailers selling the "manga" cartoon strips surged on belief that manga-fan Taro Aso is the leading candidate to replace Mr Abe. Mr Aso, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is a big promoter of manga cartoons abroad.
OUTGOING JAPAN PM HOSPITALIZED
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1661442,00.html
PLANS UNVEILED FOR ‘VERTICAL’ THEME PARK
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=66024&in_page_id=34
THAI GIRLS CAUGHT UP IN BOXING RAGE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/13/africa/thai.php
In a country where femininity is highly prized and girls are often told by their parents to be discreet, obedient and gracious, female boxing is now a surprise hit.

And in more important matters. . .

R.I.P. WILLIE TEE---WILD MAGNOLIAS PRODUCER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/arts/music/13turbinton.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

TOWER RECORDS FOUNDER OPENS NEW STORE!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14341821&sc=emaf

IN HOLLYWOOD, FREAKS ALWAYS GET THE GIRL
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/62440/
Pairing a bumbling, oddly employed male lead with a hot can-do woman is the current rage in Hollywood. The Ben Stillers and Adam Sandlers gradually brought it to the big screen, but this summer Judd Apatow seems to have elevated the trope to a new level of success. First there was the June release of Knocked Up, a film that matched a successful TV interviewer to a man whose primary working relationship was with his bong. Then, teen couples in the August hit SuperBad were too young to mismatch careers, but unless porn consumption counts as extracurricular credit, their college tracks were assuredly divergent. September will bring us The Brothers Solomon, about a pair of socially awkward siblings' efforts to spread their seed, as well as Good Luck Chuck and Run, Fatboy, Run, which, as their titles hint, only further the trend.

Auto Motive
‘GREEN’ AUTO RACING?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,505318,00.html
50 WORST CARS IN HISTORY
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003639823

And in the end. . .
DESIGN YOUR OWN DISEASE
http://www.newstarget.com/disease-mongering-engine.asp
9/12
Skylines:
Morning Concert
FASTEST UKE IN THE WEST
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T32_HIVi8p4&mode=related&search

SF BLOCKS STARBUCKS!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/BAJ3S3KBQ.DTL

3-DAY WAIT TO BUY ‘SHROOMS IN AMSTERDAM
Hey, just plan ahead!
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Amsterdam_mayor_proposes_three_day__09112007.html

TODAY IS SEX DAY IN RUSSIA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2167482,00.html

MUST WATCH: DENNIS POTTER SPEAKS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/sep/11/dennis.potter

WORSHIPPING DR. WHO
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=65823&in_page_id=34

MADONNA’S PURPLE PENETRATOR
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=65708&in_page_id=7

THE NEW PUSSY OF DOWNING STREET
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/gallery/2007/sep/12/1?picture=330725727

And on to news and comment. . .

2 OF SEVEN SOLDIERS WHO WROTE
ANTI-IRAQ WAR PIECE IN NYT ARE KILLED
Third was shot in head while article was being written
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/12/82nd-soldiers/

GROUP WARNS: ‘GLOBAL EXTINCTION CRISIS’
But you keep buying your SUV’s, Amerryguns---it’s yer Gawd-given right!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/12/internationalnews.greenpolitics
A quarter of all mammals, a third of all amphibians and one in eight birds on the 2007 IUCN Red List are in jeopardy.

We’ll meet again. . .
RUSSIA UNVEILS ‘FATHER OF ALL BOMBS’
Four times bigger than U.S. ‘mother of all bombs’
We say it’s time to disband this family
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2167175,00.html

PUTIN DISSOLVES RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT (AGAIN)
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070912/D8RJSNVG0.html

Iran from the truth
FOX: U.S. PLANS TO BOMB IRAN
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Fox_US_makes_Iran_bombing_plan_0912.html

Iraq and Roll
AT LEAST TEN MORE YEARS IN IRAQ
(Try 100)
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3360
THE AMAZING CONDI: SHE MAKES TRUTH DISAPPEAR!
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1661049,00.html

Sexual Congress
REPUG SENATOR’S HOOKER TO APPEAR IN HUSTLER
Sen. Vitter acknowledges “very serious sin”---hahahahahahaha
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070912/D8RJK83O0.html

Lost Angeles
MAYOR’S AIDE TAKES OVER TROUBLED LOCKE HIGH SCHOOL
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lausd12sep12,0,3102030.story?coll=la-home-center
GANG WAR NEAR BIRMINGHAM HIGH
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6866805

THOMPSON: A RARE MOMENT OF TRUTH ON CAPITOL HILL
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3361
Sen. John Warner, the moderate Virginia Republican who now questions Bush’s handling of the war, asked Gen. Petraeus if America is a safer place as a result of the war that has cost more American lives than the 9/11 terrorist attacks. After first trying to weasel out of answering the question, Petraeus said he really hadn’t given America’s safety any thought. Incredibly, he admitted the safety of this nation was not the issue in Iraq.

SOLOMON: HERE’S THE SMELL OF BLOOD STILL
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/12/3780/
When Martin Luther King Jr. publicly referred to “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government,” he had no way of knowing that his description would ring so true 40 years later. As the autumn of 2007 begins, the reality of Uncle Sam as an unhinged mega-killer haunts a large minority of Americans. Many who can remember the horrific era of the Vietnam War are nearly incredulous that we could now be living in a time of similarly deranged official policy.

RAIMUNDO: SURGE IS BUYING TIME---FOR WHAT?
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11599
Our camarilla of would-be conquistadors could care less about the security and safety of the American people: all that matters to them is their vision of "benevolent global hegemony" – and, of course, the security of Israel. That's why the Lobby is moving full-bore into propaganda mode and we're hearing the drumbeat of yet another council of war rising and drowning out the peoples' plea for peace. Democracy? Forget it. The two wings of the War Party, known as the Democrats and the Republicans, have a monopoly on the political process here in the cradle of liberty, and, what's more, they know it. No need to pay attention to the polls when both parties are committed to war.

Mardis Grave
FEMA REFUSES TO REIMBURSE MISSISSIPPI FOR $12 IN KATRINA WORK
Heckuva job
http://www.wdam.com/Global/story.asp?S=7059594&nav=menu123_2_43

People’s Repugnic
CHINA’S WORLD-WIDE REP STINKS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0912/p01s06-woap.html
Only 42 percent of Americans had a favorable attitude to China in May 2007, Pew found, down sharply from 52 percent at the same time last year. 49 percent of the British public was favorable, against 65 percent in 2006, while favorable French and German majorities in 2006 had shrunk to minorities this year. Indeed, mistrust of China is one of the few international issues on which Europeans and Americans concur, according to a German Marshall Fund poll released last week: 54 percent of Americans and 48 percent of Europeans said they saw China as more of a threat to their jobs and economic security than an opportunity for new markets and investment.
AT FRANKFURT AUTO SHOW,
WEEDING OUT CHINESE KNOCKOFFS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/11/business/auto.php 

(Lack of) Health
HUGE EBOLA OUTBREAK IN THE CONGO
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Major_Ebola_outbreak_in_DRCongo_con_09122007.html

Enviro Wacko
THE TEN MOST POLLUTED PLACES ON EARTH
China has the top two!
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1661031_1661028,00.html
MUST SEE: LIBYA BUILDING WORLD’S LARGEST ‘GREEN’ RESORT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/sep/12/architecture.culturaltrips

Oh, by the way. . .
EX-PHILIPPINE PREZ GUILTY OF PLUNDER---SENTENCED TO LIFE
This country is hopeless
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/12/asia/AS-GEN-Philippines-Estrada.php

And in more important matters. . .

A REHEARSAL WITH LUCIANO
Spring-loaded chair, chocolate, yacking---and singing
http://csobassblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/king-kong-v-godzilla.html

THE LESSER-KNOWN NOVELS OF JULES VERNE
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,,2167450,00.html
Of Verne's novels there are two that achieve a unique blend of pseudo-technical precision and almost surreal metaphorical sweep. Since they've never been filmed they are practically unknown. But they deserve to be remembered. One is the strangely named The Begum's Five Hundred Million (1879), in which a Frenchman, Dr François Sarrasin, and a German, Professor Schultz, inherit a massive fortune from the titular Begum (Hindustani for queen). Each uses his portion of the money to build ideal communities in the wilderness of the American northwest: Sarrasin builds the idyllic, pastoral 'France-ville' and Schultz constructs Stahlstadt ('Steeltown'); a place of rigid mechanisation and ruthless adherence to social and technological order.

SLIDE SHOW: THE MANY FACES OF HAMLET
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2007/sep/11/hamlets?picture=330719251

BEATLES’ ‘HELP!’ EXPANDED TO TWO-DISC DVD SET
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003634544
Preview
http://emicat.edgeboss.net/wmedia/emicat/beatles/help_trailer_us.wvx

LED ZEPPELIN REUNITES FOR AHMET ERTEGUN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6990704.stm

DIANA ROSS, STEVE MARTIN, SCORCESE GET KENNEDY CENTER AWARDS
(Can’t we do better than this?)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6991380.stm

AIDS-STRICKEN STYX BASSIST ADMITS HE’S GAY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/DDEDS196T.DTL

And in the end. . .
PATTIBOYD.COM
http://www.pattieboyd.co.uk/

9/11
Skylines:
Morning Concert
MEHOOBA MEHOOBA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIc5ALdd4NY

THE RAPE OF “QUOTATION” MARKS!
Read and “pay attention,” children!
http://www.nysun.com/article/61711

R.I.P. JAZZ GREAT JOE ZAWINUL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6989301.stm

R.I.P. ALEX THE GARRULOUS PARROT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/science/10cnd-parrot.html?em&ex=1189656000&en=8689637dcb5fdcad&ei=5087%0A

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
NEW PATCH WILL BOOST FEMALE SEX DRIVE
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/62163/

MUST SEE: HARRY POTTER’S AMAZING FORKED TONGUE
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=65649&in_page_id=7

TOE-LICKING BANDIT CAPTURED
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65586&in_page_id=2

And on to Sept. 11 news and comment. . .

ER, UM. . .FLORIDA-SIZED CHUNK
OF ARCTIC MELTS---IN SIX DAYS!
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=3582433&page=1

Iraq and Roll
THE ERASING OF IRAQ
http://books.guardian.co.uk/shockdoctrine/story/0,,2166586,00.html
It's a tried-and-tested torture technique: strike fear into your victims, deprive them of cherished essentials and then eradicate their memories. In 2003, the US applied this on an enormous scale for its invasion of Iraq. And then, after Saddam's regime crumbled, Washington set out to rebuild the traumatised country through a disastrous programme of privatisation and unfettered capitalism.
IRAQI REPORTER: BAGHDAD 100 TIMES WORSE THAN LAST YEAR
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Iraqi_Reporter_Situation_100_times_worse_0910.html

9/11, 7-Eleven
RENSE: A Better 9/11 List
http://www.riprense.com/Better911list.htm
CARROLL: FOREVER THE VICTIMS
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/10/3736/
It is clear that the Bush administration took a compliant America to war in Iraq for no rational purpose, but out of a welter of emotions, not least of which was an unfocused impulse toward revenge. Having now learned from the disasters that followed in Bush’s war, we citizens might be able to face directly the truth of what we have been doing, but when we sink again into the torpor of 9/11 woundedness, such reckoning comes hard.
POWELL: TERRORISTS ARE NOT THE GREATEST THREAT TO THE USA
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/colin-powell-te.html#more?imw=Y
CARTER: I WORSHIP THE PRINCE OF PEACE---
NOT PRE-EMPTIVE WAR
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Jimmy_Carter_steps_into_the_Hollywo_09112007.html

Your Corporatocracy at work!
OIL COS. WASTE $40 BILLION A YEAR IN GAS
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/sep2007/gb20070910_265272.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories

Electile Dysfunction
HILLARY’S NEW CAMPAIGN SONG: ‘WHO ARE YOU?’
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3351

Freedom of what?
DEM CONGRESSMAN CALLS PROTESTORS ‘A—HOLES’
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/War_criminal_cries_get_protesters_quickly_0910.html

Sexual Congress
WATCH: DAILY SHOW ON SEN. WIDESTANCE
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/11/the-daily-show-returns-to-tackle-sen-craig-scandal/

Israelity
WHY DID ISRAEL PLANES ENTER SYRIA?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1660477,00.html
69 ISRAELI SOLDIERS INJURED BY ROCKET
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6988463.stm

(Lack of) Health
NURSES GAINING POLITICAL CLOUT
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nurses11sep11,1,1949976.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=2&cset=true
VITAMIN D LOWERS RISK OF. . .DEATH
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1660642,00.html

Animals in the news!
GLOBAL WARMING KEEPING GRAY WHALE NUMBERS DOWN?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070910-gray-whales.html
KNUT THE POLAR BEAR IS LIMPING TO GET ATTENTION!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,505148,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
INDONESIA BANS BEGGING, STREET MUSICIANS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6989211.stm
MISSING GIRL’S DNA FOUND IN PARENTS CAR IS NOT FROM BLOOD
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=65591&in_page_id=34

And in more important matters. . .

R.I.P. ANITA RODDICK, ‘QUEEN OF GREEN’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,505041,00.html

PUCCINI OPERA PERFORMED ON DOCKED TANKER
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0907/p13s02-almp.html
The Vertical Player Repertory, a small opera company in Brooklyn, is taking the notion of Italian realism to a new level in a new production of "Il Tabarro" ("The Cloak") set on the Mary A. Whalen, a retired 1938 oil tanker docked in Brooklyn's Red Hook Marine Terminal.

MOST GREAT BOOKS WERE ONCE REJECTED
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?ref=review
The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank, would be rejected by 15 others before Doubleday published it in 1952. More than 30 million copies are currently in print, making it one of the best-selling books in history.

For Art’s Sake
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LEE MILLER
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/photography/story/0,,2166477,00.html
Lee Miller was the world's most fashionable face, and muse to some of the 20th century's mightiest artists. But was she also a great photographer in her own right?

Film
JUDE LAW TO PLAY HAMLET
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Entertainment/International_Buzz/Jude_Law_set_to_play_Hamlet/articleshow/2358574.cms
‘THE GRADUATE’ IS 40
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/11/DD6HS2PDL.DTL

And in the end. . .
THE CARS WE DROVE
http://objflicks.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

9/10
Skylines:
Morning Concert
POLITICAL SCIENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCim7mmLWRA

ROBBER ATTACKS BLIND MAN---
Who happens to be former world judo champion
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,504854,00.html

WHY WOMEN READ MORE THAN MEN
"When women stop reading, the novel will be dead."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14175229

HERE COMES THE (GAY TV) JUDGE
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/10/DD3QRVUAF.DTL

TWO HETERO MEN SUE UNIVERSITY FOR SAYING THEY ARE GAY
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65468&in_page_id=2

LUCIANO IS BACK IN THE CHARTS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6986277.stm

CHILDREN MAKE COFFIN FOR DYING TEACHER
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=37254&in_page_id=2

A NEW LOW IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/10/europe/air.php

And on to news and comment. . .

LINDORFF: NUKES ON THE B-52 WERE NO ACCIDENT
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.09.01_arch.html#1189427298968
Nobody should fall for a story that those six (yeah, it was first reported as five, but now the original military whistleblowers have told Army Times it was six) nuclear-tipped cruise missiles that were flown in launch position on a B-52 from Minot, ND to Barksdale, LA, were put on there inadvertently.
I had some experience with the way nuclear weapons get handled, as compared to conventional weapons, and I can assure you that there is no way anyone would just “accidentally” pick up the wrong weapons.
LINDORFF: WAS NUKE-ARMED B-52 HEADED FOR IRAN?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.09.01_arch.html#1189274699602 
The weapons should also not have been flown at all on a B-52, as there have been standing orders for 40 years against such flights over US soil, following several accidents in which bombs or nuclear-armed rockets were lost because “broken arrow” incidents including inadvertent bomb drops or crashes. A second order, issued in 1991 at the end of the Cold War by George Bush’s father, barred the loading of nuclear weapons on any bomber. . . So an order to send nuclear-armed cruise missiles to the Persian Gulf region, if that’s what this flight was, would not likely have come through the normal chain of command from the Secretary of Defense through the Strategic Air Command. It would have come through the back channel set up since even before 9-11 by Vice President Dick Cheney, who is known to be pushing for an attack on Iran, and who would like nothing better than to use nuclear weapons to disable Iran’s nuclear processing facilities.

Commander disciplined for nuclear ‘mistake’
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/09/airforce_nuclear_warhead_070905/

THOMPSON: WAR ON TERROR IS OVER---WE LOSE
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3346
Osama and his buddies wanted to destroy the American way of life. They succeeded.Six years after the attacks, America is a paranoid, corrupt, rotting shell of itself: A country divided by political extremes, economically devastated by a war based on lies.

Editorial
PRELUDE TO WAR? THE WORLD IS WORRIED
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/09/3716/
The Times of London, which reported on the Pentagon’s plans, has a source who claims that the U.S. is looking to launch air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran.

9/11, 7/11
DISASTER CAPITALISM
http://books.guardian.co.uk/shockdoctrine/story/0,,2165953,00.html
In the days after 9/11, America's firefighters, nurses and teachers were hailed as the country's heroes. But President Bush's embracing of the public sector didn't last long. As the dust settled on the twin towers, the White House launched an entirely new economy, based on security - with the belief that only private firms could meet the challenge. In this exclusive extract from her new book, Naomi Klein reports on those who see a profitable prospect in a grim future.
MACHO BOY GERALDO RIDICULES 9/11 PROTESTERS
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/911_truthseekers_arrested_for_protesting_Foxs_0909.html
MATCH MADE IN FUNDAMENTALIST HEAVEN
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/09/cartoon_made_in_heaven.html

Iraq and Roll
70 PERCENT OF IRAQIS:
‘SURGE’ HAS WORSENED THEIR LIVES
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/10/poll-iraq-sept07/
‘THE U.S. WILL LOSE THIS WAR REGARDLESS OF WHAT IT DOES’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,504865,00.html
GENERAL: U.S. IN IRAQ INDEFINITELY
You’ve been scammed, America. . .
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Gen._Jones_US_Occupation_of_Iraq_0909.html
U.S. BUILDING YET ANOTHER MILITARY BASE IN IRAQ
You’ve been scammed, America. . .
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Pentagon_plans_base_along_Iran_border_0910.html
MOST CITIZENS DON’T BELIEVE PETRAEUS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090801777.html
THE MYTH OF AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18346.htm
Five years ago, the American public was asked to support the invasion of Iraq based on the false claim that Saddam Hussein was somehow linked to al-Qaeda. Today, the erroneous belief that al-Qaeda's franchise in Iraq is a driving force behind the chaos in that country may be setting us up for a similar mistake.

RAIMUNDO: THE MYSTERY OF AL-QAEDA
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11584
The all-pervasive atmosphere of fear that spread, like a poisonous fog, from one end of the civilized world to the other in the wake of the 9/11 attacks is reasserting itself, and this new jolt of terror couldn't have come at a better time for our rulers – as they ratchet up the war propaganda and get ready to strike at Iran, Syria, and anyone else who dares defy them.

The Bush Legacy
THE OTHER SURGE: BRAIN-DAMAGED SOLDIERS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003637285
Thousands of troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science.
MARINE AMPUTEE BEATEN DOWN BY THE SYSTEM
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/veterans_health_care_system_fa.html
"When you have to deal with the VA (Veterans Affairs) or TRICARE (the federal health insurance program), you feel beaten down," Schick said. "You are a number, and you feel like a number. It's a total, total beat-down."

The Other War
RUMMY: AFGHANISTAN A ‘SUCCESS’
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3345

Semitism
HUH? NEO-NAZI GANGS IN ISRAEL?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,504803,00.html
RABBI STABBED IN GERMANY BY ARAB
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,504828,00.html
The stabbing of a rabbi in Frankfurt by a young man speaking Arabic has prompted Germany's Jewish community to renew its warnings about no-go areas for minorities in Germany, and to warn that Germany's young Muslims are becoming radicalized by hate preachers.

Sexual Congress
NOW CRAIG BLAMES THE MEDIA
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/10/national/w031656D11.DTL&tsp=1

Electile Dysfunction
FUGITIVE HSU ‘FREAKED OUT’ ON TRAIN
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/10/national/w031656D11.DTL&tsp=1

Mashed Media
GERMAN TV HOST SACKED FOR PRAISING HITLER’S FAMILY POLICY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,504790,00.html
L.A. WEEKLY LEAVES HOLLYWOOD---
FOR AWFUL CULVER CITY LOCATION
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/la_weekly_goes_westside.php

Animals in the news!
WHY THE DINGO SURVIVED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6984080.stm

Oh, by the way. . .
THE ONE WHO LIVED
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,2165969,00.html
Aged 19, Paul Unwin survived - but only just - a car crash that killed six others. Three decades on, he recalls how he slowly came to terms with his lucky escape.
CENTURY-OLD SHIPWRECK FOUND IN LAKE SUPERIOR
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cyprus_shipwreck;_ylt=AmiF_V0a0kzoQQgVEForJ4as0NUE
INDIA FARMERS OPPOSE GIANT BUDDHA
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0910/p06s02-wosc.html
The Great Escape tunnels greater than thought
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KFHHFOR3BR5NXQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/09/10/nescape110.xml

And in more important matters. . .

RUSSIA LOVES U.S. SITCOMS---
ALL HOPE FOR HUMANITY IS NOW OFFICIALLY LOST
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/10/europe/russia.php

MODERN LIFE IS ‘DESTROYING CHILDREN’S PLAY’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KFHHFOR3BR5NXQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/09/10/nplay110.xml

Musique
HIGH C: THE NOTE THAT MAKES YOU WEEP
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/weekinreview/09wakin.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
FANTASIA FOR PIANO:
THE INCREDIBLE JOYCE HATTO STORY
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_singer?currentPage=all

YOU CAN’T TAKE THAT BEJEWELED SKULL WITH YOU
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602623.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national

Auto Motive
HARLEY WANTS MORE WOMEN ON BIKES
Oh, bad idea. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0910/p20s01-lign.html

Film
COPPOLA BACK WITH FIRST FILM IN TEN YEARS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/10/arts/09scot.php

And in the end. . .
LOVELY, DEMURE, DELICATE. . .BRITNEY SPEARS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5933830611300201800&q=BRITNEY&total=61133&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3


9/7
Skylines:
Morning Concert
SUGAREE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNjDNEpFB5Y 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K61ZJiyt7lM&mode=related&search=
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/grateful+dead/sugaree_20062469.html

YESSIREE---THOSE STRIPPER POLES ARE ‘EMPOWERING!’
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20070901_Stripper_poles__New_feminism_.html

STUDENTS IMPROVE, PRINCIPAL GETS MOHAWK
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/07/BA94S0KIO.DTL

People’s Repugnic
WOMAN FOUND TO BE FULL OF NEEDLES
Grandparent tried to kill her as baby---because she was not a boy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6983435.stm

KOBE, JACKSON BLAST LAKER MANAGEMENT
Pompous Plaschke column blasts Jackson
http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/lakers/la-sp-plaschke7sep07,0,1838847.column?coll=la-home-center

SCIENCE SYMBOLS ARE THE LATEST TATTOO RAGE
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65112&in_page_id=2

CHILD BORN WITH AU COURANT HAIRCUT
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=65113&in_page_id=34

HAHAHA---'MUSICAL' STAR IS NAKED ON THE INTERNET
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=65184&in_page_id=7
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/07/entertainment/e074227D16.DTL

And on to news and comment. . .

BUSH THANKS ‘AUSTRIAN’ HOSTS FOR ‘OPEC’ SUMMIT
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/In_Bushs_world_hes_been_in_0907.html

"Which one o' you is Hu Jintao?"

REP. ROHRABACHER: CHINA PREZ TRYING TO KILL BUSH
hahahahahahahahahahahaha---this country is so delightfully full of idiots. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/07/rohrbacher-claims-chinas-president-is-trying-to-kill-bush/

NUKEY-WUKEYS FOR IRAN?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18325.htm

Freedom of what?
MOUNTED POLICE BREAK UP D.C. ANTI-WAR PROTEST
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Police_break_up_anti_war_meeting_in_09062007.html

Electile Dysfunction
WHO IS NORMAN HSU, AND WHY DID HE RAISE DEM DOLLARS?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/who-is-hsu-capt.html
 The latest puzzle: Despite funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into Democratic coffers, Norman Hsu is not a member of the Democratic party. In fact, records appear to reflect he isn't even registered to vote.Hsu's name does not appear on voter rolls in either California, where Hsu lived in the 1980s and early 1990s, or in New York, where he lived more recently, according to documents and state officials. Strange details abound in Hsu's biography. Before his trial, Hsu was the victim of a kidnapping reportedly tied to a Chinese gang in the San Francisco bay area. After dodging his 1992 hearing, Hsu is believed to have returned to his native Hong Kong for several years.
RUDY THE CREEP DULY TRASHED BY NEW FILM
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/07/robert-greenwalds-new-video-series-on-911-and-the-real-rudy-giuliani/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_el_pr/giuliani_videos
The videos attack Giuliani by saying he failed to prepare New York City for a major disaster, he ignored sick ground zero workers after the terrorist attack and he profited financially from his association with the tragedy after leaving office in 2001.

Iraq and Roll
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SEVEN DEAD SOLDIERS
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Israelity
U.S. JEWS DISTANCING SELVES FROM ISRAEL---STUDY
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/us_nm/israel_support_dc

SOLOMON EXPOSES GASBAG THOMAS FRIEDMAN
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/61853/
Nowadays you'll read the NYT's Thomas Friedman decrying the "madness that is Iraq," but the real Friedman is the man who called invading Iraq "one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad."

THOMPSON: NOTHING’S GOING TO CHANGE, IRAQ-WISE
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3327
As America waits for the long-anticipated but even longer predetermined report from Gen. David Patraeus on the situation in Iraq it becomes more and more obvious that little, if anything, will change in the war that just today cost seven more American soldiers their lives.

KRUGMAN: TIME TO TAKE A STAND
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/09/paul-krugman-time-to-take-stand.html
The public hates this war and wants to see it ended. Voters are exasperated with the Democrats, not because they think Congressional leaders are too liberal, but because they don’t see Congress doing anything to stop the war.

MORFORD: JUST HOW GAY IS THE GOP?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/07/notes090707.DTL
Really, just how many closeted, self-hating, violently repressed "I-am-not-gay" totally gay hypocrites are there in the Republican Party? Or for that matter, in your average born-again Christian megachurch? Or in the U.S. military? Or in (your morally righteous group's name here)? Ten percent of them? Fifty? A hundred and four?

Mashed Media
GET READY FOR THE NEW UNCLE BIN SHOW!
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659817,00.html
DISGRACED REPORTER JUDITH MILLER LANDS AT ANTI-TERROR OUTFIT
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/09/judith_miller_finally_lands_in_1.html
HERE’S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE
INCREDIBLY SELF-IMPORTANT LAT MEMOS
Editor’s resignation reads like something by the Queen of England
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/in_her_own_words_1.php#more
‘PAGE SIX’ COINS NEW TERM FOR GAY: “TOE-TAPPERS”
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2007/09/07/new-york-post-coins-new-slur-for-gays
MPLS STAR TRIB CUTS SUBURB SECTIONS, ADS FRONT PAGE ADS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003636698

PORTUGESE COPS NOW THINK
MOTHER INVOLVED IN DAUGHTER’S KILLING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6983604.stm

Oh, by the way. . .
‘GROPER’ DELAYS 80,000 JAPAN COMMUTERS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6979600.stm
CHOCOLATE SAUCE BLOCKS AUDOBAHN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,504479,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

Luciano
‘A GREAT ITALIAN IS DEAD’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2399780.ece
THOUSANDS MOURN PAVAROTTI (AND COUNTLESS MILLIONS)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6983808.stm
PAVAROTTI DEAD? HOW IS THIS?
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/local/rodricks/blog/2007/09/la_sua_voce_era_forte_appasion.html
TOMMASINI: THAT VOICE---WARM, URGENT, ITALIAN, SINGULAR
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/arts/07luci.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
By natural endowment Mr. Pavarotti was essentially a lyric tenor, ideally suited to lighter roles in Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi requiring lyrical grace and agile passage work. Yet his voice, like everything about him, was uncommonly large. With that big throbbing sound, he was tempted into weightier repertory requiring dramatic power and heft, like Calaf in Puccini’s “Turandot.” Some opera purists maintain that Mr. Pavarotti erred by straying from the lyric terrain. Don’t tell that to anyone lucky enough to have heard him sing “Nessun dorma” in his prime, not just as a signature aria for televised stadium concerts, but in the context of a full production of “Turandot.” Wow!
A 1972 INTERVIEW WITH PAVAROTTI
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0907/p25s01-almp.html

For Art’s Sake
THE ROMAN FORUM---RESTORED
http://www.cvrlab.org/projects/real_time/roman_forum/roman_forum.html#BUILDINGS
CHINESE LANTERN MAKER’S JOURNEY FROM DRAGONS TO (UGH) DISNEY
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/07/arts/lantern.php

Film
RAINER LIKES ‘3:10 TO YUMA’---
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0907/p25s01-almp.html
AND DISLIKES ‘THE HUNTING PARTY’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0907/p25s01-almp.html
‘FIERCE PEOPLE’ HITS THE SCREEN---THREE YEARS AFTER COMPLETION
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/06/arts/06fier.php

Auto Motive
THE 50 WORST CARS OF ALL TIME
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657686,00.html
SHIN TAKEI ON THE CYCLES OF THE MOTORCYCLE
http://www.westsidechronicle.com/clients/westsidechronicle/PAGE3A.pdf

And in the end. . .
CATS
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=cats&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

9/6
Skylines:
Morning Concert
E LUCEVAN LE STELLE. . .THE GREAT LUCIANO
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2133022072166075185&q=PAVAROTTI&total=2009&start=50&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5

WATCH: LUCIANO LOOKS BACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mSDCDh8xvU&mode=related&search=

NYT OBIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbi3nExZ1Sm
LAT OBIT
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-lucianopavarottiobit,0,691360.story?coll=zap-tv-headlines
LISTEN: THE NPR OBIT
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12884258&sc=emaf
WATCH: GUARDIAN OBIT
http://music.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/sep/06/pavarotti.death
‘HE WAS CALM ABOUT DEATH’
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=557972

THE TWO TENORS PAY TRIBUTE
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0674202720070906?src=090607_0711_TOPSTORY_pavarotti_dies
DOMINGO HAILS LUCIANO’S ‘GOD-GIVEN GLORY’
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=87135
MEHTA PAYS TRIBUTE
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3446690,00.html
A GREAT LOSS---TO CHINA
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/06/content_6677115.htm
DOWLING: AN AUDIENCE WITH PAVAROTTI
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6981202.stm
A few minutes later, after asking a fairly innocuous question, the great man leaned forward and put his hand on my arm. "Could I ask you to be a little quieter - my daughter is trying to sleep in the other room."

UNA FURTIVA LAGRIMA
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2133022072166075185&q=PAVAROTTI&total=2009&start=50&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5
CHE GELIDA MANINA, LA SCALA ‘79
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2R_KS9J9mU&mode=related&search=
concert version, ’81, with subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHkTqNx5eDw
CELESTE AIDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_eWsuMekSw&mode=related&search=
NESSUN DORMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfC9LfR3PI

And on to news and comment. . .

FAKE OSAMA COMES WITHIN 30 FEET OF BUSH HOTEL
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Security_Breach_Fake_Osama_within_30_0906.html

U.S. DEPORTS PARENTS OF DEAD SOLDIERS
http://www.alternet.org/rights/61729/

FREED TUNISIAN MEN WOULD ‘RATHER RETURN TO GITMO’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,504237,00.html

Jesus H. Christ!
D.JAMES KENNEDY DIES
Former Arthur Murray dance instructor perverted Christ’s teachings into a fiendish, ignorant political diatribe---
and had huge influence on the government
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/us/06kennedy.html?ref=us
THE CRUSADERS: KENNEDY AND THE DOMINIONISTS
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7235393/the_crusaders/
"Most people hear them talk about a 'Christian nation' and think, 'Well, that sounds like a good, moral thing,' says the Rev. Mel White, who ghostwrote Jerry Falwell's autobiography before breaking with the evangelical movement. "What they don't know -- what even most conservative Christians who voted for Bush don't know -- is that 'Christian nation' means something else entirely to these Dominionist leaders. This movement is no more about following the example of Christ than Bush's Clean Water Act is about clean water."

Electile Dysfunction
MUST WATCH: TEKKIE TESTIFIES---ELECTIONS ARE EASILY RIGGED
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/145.html

Israelity
WALT-MEARSHEIMER REPORT IS NOW A BOOK
Thoroughly reasoned work still draws insane accusations of anti-Semitism
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/books/06grim.html?ex=1189742400&en=9246864739f2f26c&ei=5070&emc=eta1
“The Israel Lobby,” an extended, more fully argued version of the London Review article, has done nothing to calm the waters. The authors have been barred from making appearances by at least one university and several cultural centers to discuss their subject, and continue to reap a whirlwind of criticism and abuse. If they were looking for a fight, they have found it.
MUST LISTEN: TERRY GROSS INTERVIEWS STEPHEN WALT
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14154082
RAIMUNDO: MORE MONEY FOR ISRAEL?
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11554
As Mearsheimer and Walt have pointed out, neither the practical nor the moral case for this extraordinary amount of material support is justified: our Israel-centered foreign policy has been a burden to us in our dealings with the other nations of the Middle East, and it is increasingly clear that U.S. and Israeli interests have diverged since the end of the Cold War. Contrary to the Lobby's assertion that 9/11 made their fight our fight, the exact opposite is the case. Anti-Americanism in the Muslim world is a deadly danger to our national security and a great boon to Osama bin Laden and his many imitators around the globe. This arming of the Israeli Sparta is a strategic and diplomatic liability that grows with each passing year.
SYRIA CLAIMS ISRAEL BOMBING
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/ts_nm/syria_israel_dc;_ylt=Aqu3ifww6Wrm.nVVKG0LIjms0NUE
ISRAEL TO GRANT DARFUR CITIZENS CITIZENSHIP
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0906/p05s02-wome.html

Weapons of mass delusion
BUSH IGNORED CIA EVIDENCE CLEARING SADDAM OF WMD
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Salon_Former_CIA_officers_report_Bush_0906.html
Months before the Iraq invasion, President Bush apparently ignored a 2002 Oval Office briefing in which CIA director George Tenet provided the president with intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, according to former Clinton advisor and Salon columnist Sidney Blumenthal.
THE FULL BLUMENTHAL REPORT
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/?source=whitelist

We’ll meet again, don’t know where. . .
BRIT JETS INTERCEPT RUSSIAN BOMBERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2163747,00.html
BRITAIN IN ‘PROXY WAR WITH IRAN’
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=64986&in_page_id=34

Crazy like Fox
FOX ACCUSES RON PAUL OF TAKING ORDERS FROM AL-QAEDA
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Fox_host_accuses_Paul_of_taking_0906.html

More Electile Dysfunction
ANOTHER UNION ENDORSES EDWARDS
This guy is looking more and more like a dark horse
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3311
REPUGS “DEBATE” WHILE ACTOR-SENATOR DECLARES
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3309

Sexual Congress
HAHAHAHA---SEN. CRAIG’S SUPPORTERS CALL FOR BOYCOTT OF AIRPORT!
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Craig_Land_Rights.html

We are not making this stuff up
LAURA BUSH DOES SOMETHING RIGHT!
Turns Myanmar and imprisonment of Aung Suu Kyi into a cause
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20070906/wl_time/laurabushsburmesecrusade
THE SILENT GENOCIDE OF MYANMAR
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,504286,00.html
It's a conflict that has been going on for decades. The military junta of Myanmar continues to wage war on the country's ethnic minorities. The refugee crisis continues to worsen as horrific violence spreads through the jungle.

Mashed Media
JUST FOR FUN---MARK MORFORD’S HATE MAIL
Hold your nose. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/09/05/notes090507.DTL

Technically speaking
MORE NEW CRAP FROM APPLE
Who keeps up with this stuff? Don’t answer that.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/06/9
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/06/BUMKRVRAJ.DTL

Oh, by the way. . .
BUSH MEETS WITH CHIEF CHINESE GANGSTER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6981007.stm
TURN ON A CELL PHONE IN A HOSPITAL---
AND YOU MIGHT KILL SOMEBODY
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1659417,00.html
GLOBAL WARMING COULD MEAN MORE HEART PROBLEMS
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/05/europe/EU-MED-Global-Warming-Hearts.php
REED BOAT FAILS TO CROSS ATLANTIC---FROM WEST TO EAST
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,504202,00.html

Animals in the news!
HERMAPHRODITE PONY MAKES FRIENDS WITH DONKEY
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65053&in_page_id=2
BRITNEY SPEARS SUCKS!
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=65058&in_page_id=7

And in more important matters. . .

MIYOSHI UMEKI, FIRST ASIAN ACTRESS TO WIN OSCAR, DIES
Starred in “Sayonara” in 1957
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/arts/06umeki.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

THE HUNDRED BEST TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME?
What? No "Mr. Ed?"
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1651341,00.html

WHY DO ALL THE BIG ACTRESSES
TAKE THEIR CLOTHES OFF?
Hypocrisy? Exhibitionism? Nah. . .
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2163280,00.html
But photographs of genuinely acclaimed actors in their underwear affront me every time, whether it's Angelina Jolie draped in a silk sheet for US Esquire, or her great rival, Jennifer Aniston, baring her breasts for US GQ. There seemed something sad to me about the controversial GQ cover of Kate Winslet a few years ago, not because of her legs being digitally lengthened, but because I couldn't understand why the youngest woman to receive five Oscar nominations had to be togged up in a basque. And as for the Vanity Fair cover of Teri Hatcher, in which the story of her childhood sexual abuse was illustrated with a just-out-of-bed shot of her in nothing but a white top and white knickers, well ... words fail me.

BOOM TIME FOR BABELSBERG---
BERLIN STUDIO BACK WITH VENGEANCE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,504072,00.html

Books
HITCHENS’ ‘GOD IS NOT GREAT’
http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25349-2649121,00.html
Hitchens also offers an extremely funny brief history of Mormonism: how it was invented from scratch by Joseph Smith, a nineteenth-century charlatan who wrote his book in sixteenth-century English, claiming to have translated the text from plates of gold – which conveniently ascended into heaven before anyone else could see them. Even the amanuenses to whom the illiterate Smith dictated had to sit behind a curtain lest they should catch a glimpse and be struck dead. Do you know anyone so gullible? Yet today, Mormonism is powerful enough to field a presidential candidate, its clean-cut young missionaries patrol the world in pairs, and the Book of Mormon nestles in every Marriott hotel room.

And in the end. . .
LUCIANO SWALLOWS A MOSQUITO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5hlz2TwAY
AVE MARIA
Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPvAQxZsgpQ

9/4
Skylines:
Morning Concert
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8oQyjLMTMg&mode=related&search=

Morning cartoon
LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfGvptL_TY

SUMMER OF LOVE 40TH
Remains of great 60’s bands serenade 20,000
by Joel Selvin
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/03/MNPVRU8JS.DTL
CW NEVIUS: BACK IN GOLDEN GATE PARK
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/02/BA99RT7T9.DTL
WISTFUL OVER LOST DREAMS
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0227235420070903
NICE VIBE, HUGE CROWD
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6787433
Original Summer of Love reached behind the Iron Curtain
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp090208.shtml 
THE GREAT COUNTRY JOE LOOKS BACK
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18803490/
Peter Max at 70
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/01/AR2007090100563.html 
WATCH: SUMMER OF LOVE, 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4uCuDD94bQ
WATCH: SUMMER OF LOVE, 2007
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3908634184932930399&q=SUMMER+OF+LOVE+40TH&total=337&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

PIG BALLS IN THE STREET? IN SF, CALL 311
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/04/onthejob.DTL

And on to news and comment. . .

MARINE TELLS BUSH: WE’RE TIRED
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1658588,00.html

Sexual congress
BLOGGER TO EXPOSE OTHER GAY REPUGNICANS
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Washington_outing_blogger_says_a_few_0904.html
SEN. CRAIG HIRES ‘CRISIS MANAGEMENT TEAM’---
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Senator_Craig_hires_high_powered_crisis_0904.html
---AND HERE IT IS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXj3wWe-NU
JON CARROLL: COMPASSION FOR CRAIG?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/09/04/DD9SRT9EH.DTL
It's hard, but maybe we can manage a little compassion. He grew up believing that homosexuality was a sin; even more, he grew up believing that it was a choice. When he felt these urges in himself, it must have felt as though Satan was whispering in his ear. And he gave in to Satan, again and again, and each time he was sure it was an aberration, an occasion of sin, something divorced entirely from his true nature. It is not a surprise that an inordinate number of fundamentalist preachers have been outed as gay. They probably chose that profession in order to cast out their own demons. When the demons would not stay cast, they adopted a double life, one side always denying the other.

Rootin’ Tootin’ Putin
RUSSIA BOMBERS FIRE MISSILES OVER THE ARCTIC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/03/warctic103.xml

People’s Repugnic
CHINA DENIES HACKING PENTAGON
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6977533.stm 
CHINA DRIVES AUSTRALIA HOUSING PRICES THROUGH THE ROOF
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/04/news/resource.php

EIGHT TERROR SUSPECTS BUSTED IN COPENHAGEN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,503783,00.html

U.N. CHIEF WEAPONS INSPECTOR:
“WE ARE MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARDS AN ABYSS”
(And so remember this. . .life is no abyss. . .somewhere there’s a bluebird of happiness. . .”)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,503841,00.html

Bush Leagues
BUSH: ‘THIS IS A JOB WHERE YOU CAN HAVE A LOT OF SELF-PITY’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2161205,00.html
BUSH ARRIVES IN FORTRESS SYDNEY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6977350.stm
ROVE TO BUSH: DON’T PICK CHENEY
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3297
LAURA: ROVE WAS A ‘NECESSARY EVIL’
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/draper-laura-bush-rove/
ROVE’S NEXT MOVE
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/karl-roves-next-move/

Israelity
ISRAEL URGED IRAN STRIKE IN 2002
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH30Ak04.html
ISRAEL PARENTS WANT SCHOOLKIDS PROTECTED---FROM ROCKETS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm

Electile Dysfunction
GORE: I DIDN’T COMMUNICATE IN 2000 ELECTION
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Gore_breaks_silence_on_media_coverage_0904.html
SOUTER NEARLY QUIT AFTER BUSH/GORE 2000
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/

Mashed Media
WHO SAID PRINT IS DEAD?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003633907

Animals in the news!
HUMANKIND EXCHANGES ORANGUTANS FOR PALM OIL
There is nothing kind about man. . .
http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2924404.ece
Once it was a mighty orange army, 300,000-strong. Now the tree-dwelling mammal is down to its last 25,000 as its habitat is destroyed in favour of palm oil plantations.

Religion
VOICES OF REASON---SAY HALLELUJAH!
http://www.atheists.org/
ANCIENT BUDDHIST, HINDU IDEAS CO-OPTED FOR WORKPLACE
Well, at least it’s better than nutballs taking breaks for “Bible study”
http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/depts/trajectory/jobsite-relaxtion/

(Lack of) Health
WOMAN VIEWS OWN HEART---ON DISPLAY IN A JAR
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6977399.stm
MORE AND MORE MANIC-DEPRESSIVE KIDS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/04/MN1SRUFBK.DTL
BATMAN TO BECOME REALITY?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/04/stem.cell.research/print 

House of cards
THE NEW HOUSING BOOM: FORECLOSURE INVESTMENT
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1658019,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
PARIS-LONDON CHOO-CHOO BREAKS RECORD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,2162230,00.html
HUH? CHILDREN OF AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS ATTEND ALL-BLACK SCHOOL IN IRELAND?
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/03/europe/EU-GEN-Ireland-Black-Students.php

And in more important matters. . .

FORGET RELIGIOUS FANATICS---
SPIDERS ARE THE REAL THREAT
by Charlie Brooker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2161325,00.html
As I sat there, blearily performing the necessaries, a spider the size of a small dog unexpectedly crawled out from behind the toilet and scampered across my bare right foot. Spiders are so resolutely horrible, they don't even have to exist to be scary. A few weeks into a bumper spider season, I find I'm often as frightened of spiders that aren't there as ones that are: terrified to pick up a shoe in case there's a spider in it, for example.

Have you noticed?
NOBODY USES THEIR BACK YARDS ANYMORE
http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/features/americans_backyard-lawn/index1.html

For Art’s Sake
DON VAN VLIET’S OTHER WORLD
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7713&Itemid=614

Musique
TOSCANINI, BERNSTEIN, BOULEZ, AND. . .GILBERT?
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.html?id=10934

And in the end. . .
LAUGHING MANIACS
http://cgi.ebay.com/LAUGHING-MANIACS-1-Space-Queen-Jamerino-1980-Fine-Cond_W0QQitemZ110155239371QQihZ001QQcategoryZ3979QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

8/31
Skylines:
Morning Concert
DHANI HARRISON AND LIAM LYNCH: WE’RE ALL STARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdoMDjQrHdg&mode=related&search

JESUS CELL PHONE FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGIST!
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i23955
A close study of the calls Jesus made seems to agree with a growing theory that JC had a thing for horse racing. It is said that he never lost a race and it did not matter which horses he picked.

Animals in the news!
MILLIONS OF SPIDERS IN MASSIVE TEXAS WEBS!
Aieeeeeeeee!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/31/america/31spider.php

WATCH: YOUTUBE GAY PUPPET SHOW FOR LARRY CRAIG
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Puppet_video_of_Craig_denial_hits_0831.html

WORLD MOUSTACHE AND BEARD CHAMPIONSHIPS!
http://www.handlebarclub.co.uk/wbmc.shtml
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2007/08/31/top_taches.html
 
HAPPY 90TH, DOLLY PARTON!
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i23954

JUDGE RHEINHOLD ATTEMPTS COMEBACK
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i24049

GIANT PURPLE PENIS DISCOVERED IN BRITAIN
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=64166&in_page_id=34

And on to news and comment. . .

We are not making this stuff up
NOW BUSH IS REGULATING BREAST-FEEDING
Stops ads in order to protect the infant formula industry. . .this is evil, folks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083002198_pf.html

FORMER REAGAN AIDE PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS:
BUSH IS MASS-MURDERER
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Former_Reagan_aide_Brownshirt_Bush_among_0831.html
HERE IS ROBERTS’ COMMENTARY:
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=11533
The media is silent, Congress is absent, and Americans are distracted as George W. Bush openly prepares aggression against Iran. US Navy aircraft carrier strike forces are deployed off Iran. US Air Force jets and missile systems are deployed in bases in countries bordering or near to Iran. US B-2 stealth bombers have been refitted to carry 30,000 pound "bunker buster" bombs. The US government is financing terrorist and separatist groups within Iran. US Special Forces teams are conducting terrorist operations inside Iran. US war doctrine has been altered to permit first strike nuclear attack on Iran and other non-nuclear countries.

Sexual Congress
NETWORKS CALL FOR CRAIG TO QUIT
Let the eeeaaagle soar. . .
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/CNN_Craig_likely_to_resign_0831.html
WHY BATHROOM SEX IS HOT
---GAY ORGY VETERAN EXPLAINS
Must be that wonderful ambience!
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/08/31/bathroom_sex/?source=whitelist

Iraq and Roll
DEPALMA FILM FOLLOWS RAPE,
MURDER OF 14-YEAR-OLD IRAQI GIRL
Mission accomplished, Mr. Prez
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Raw_look_at_Iraq_war_dominates_Veni_08312007.html
"The pictures are what will stop the war," De Palma told a news conference after the showing of the movie, "Redacted".
SHI’ITE MILITIA STAY OFF BAGHDAD STREETS---OBEY AL-SADR
http://voanews.com/english/2007-08-30-voa64.cfm
MISSING 19-YEAR-OLD IRAQI VET COMMITTED SUICIDE
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003633798

Homeland Insecurity
LINDORFF:
JPL SCIENTISTS BRISTLING OVER FBI SECURITY DEMANDS
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070910/Lindorff
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center are up in arms over a new requirement by NASA that they submit to detailed FBI scrutiny of their backgrounds in order to obtain clearance to go to work. They are claiming that the agency may be trying to control or silence them about issues like global warming.
NEW BRAIN SCANS DETECT LIES
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3542921&page=1

Enviro Wacko
WORLD FACING ‘ARSENIC TIME BOMB’
140 million people now being poisoned by arsenic in drinking water
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/30/3511/
FIRST IT WAS WATER---NOW MILK IS THE ‘NEW OIL’
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/31/business/wbmilk.php
It turns out that, along with zippy cars and flat-panel TVs, milk is the mark of new money, a significant source of protein that factors into much of any affluent person's diet. Milk goes into infant formulas, chocolates, ice cream and cheese. Most baked goods contain butter, and coffee chains like Starbucks sell more milk than coffee.

Electile Dysfunction
PASSION DRIVES SUPPORTERS OF RON PAUL
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3282
Bush "did nothing but increase the size of government. The Republican Party needs to move back to its core principles," Knapp said. Many Paul supporters share Knapp's disdain for what he called a "neo-conservative clique" and hope Paul can spark a Goldwater-style insurgency.
PAUL GRABS ALIENATED VOTERS
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118852395739814099-9hV_ZN2XI_llqSTJrGfxurkisa4_20070929.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
Computer engineer Jonathan Morey says, "I have never voted for a Republican, ever." Nathan Hansen, a lawyer, says, "I've been a Republican all my life." Yet a political meeting in St. Paul, Minn., brought the 31-year-old friends together for the first time -- in support of presidential candidate Ron Paul.
RON PAUL 2008 HQ
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
PAUL’S STANDS ON ISSUES
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/
ASIAN-AMERICANS ANGRY OVER GOP FOCUS ON HILLARY DONOR HSU
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5578.html
The Los Angeles Times reported this week that Hsu is a fugitive from fraud charges in California, and a Wall Street Journal article suggested he was funneling his contributions through another family, the Paws, which could be a violation of campaign finance law.
TOMMY FRANKS NEXT REPUG V.P. CANDIDATE?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/31/gen-tommy-franks-as-the-next-vice-president/

CAROLINE KENNEDY ON VOLUNTEERISM
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1657256_1657317_1657423,00.html
More than 61 million Americans volunteer in some way — caring for family members, helping friends in a pinch, assisting at schools, churches and hospitals, usually close to home. For a smaller number, service is a way of life — a full-time job, a calling. At a time when thousands of young Americans are volunteering in the military, the rest of us are asking with greater urgency what we can and should be doing, not just to help our neighbors but also to serve our country and solve some of the challenges we face here at home.

Mashed Media
‘SLIMED IN THE GREEN ZONE’
Follow this: Dem Congressmen going to Iraq have their bios altered to make them look bad to Iraqi officials, U.S. military
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/31/codel-bios-iraq/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083001848.html?hpid=topnews
MORE ON MOYERS VS. ROVE---LETTER DEFEND MOYERS
http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2007/08/the_ombudsmans_mailbag_15.html
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES DOCTOR WIKIPEDIA (OF COURSE)
http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/big_pharma_doctors_wikipedia?tx=3
TONY SNOW QUITS
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/White_House_press_secretary_to_quit_0831.html
MEET THE WORLD’S OLDEST BLOGGER---107
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=64246&in_page_id=34

People’s Repugnic
‘VIRGIN CHICKEN’ IS OFF THE BEIJING MENU
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6972280.stm
HONG KONG COPS BUST TWO FOR SMUGGLING 7,000 TURTLES
Undoubtedly were going to become soup
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/31/asia/AS-GEN-Hong-Kong-Turtle-Smugglers.php

Oh, by the way. . .
COLLEGES TRY TO CURB BINGE-DRINKING
---BY REINSTATING FRIDAY IN THE CALENDAR
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/08/31/friday_goes_back_onto_the_calendar/
MUSLIMS VS. BUDDHISTS IN SOUTHERN THAILAND
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,503226,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

Around the world
THE ‘CREATIVE CLASS’ OF AMSTERDAM
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,502421,00.html
Amsterdam is home to a growing number of creative and knowledge workers, members of the so-called "creative class." And the city is doing much to foster its most important economic asset: the creative power of multiculturalism.
COPENHAGEN---HAPPIEST CITY IN THE WORLD?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,502512,00.html
THE FRENCH HAVE A WORD FOR IT. . .
English puts English on English with foreign phrases
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2355779.ece
TOKYO DESSERTS GO LEAN AND LIGHT
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/30/arts/trsweet.php

Musique
CHER---A MUSICAL GENIUS?
by Joe Queenan
http://music.guardian.co.uk/vinylword/story/0,,2159977,00.html
Cher's career ranks with tiny Macedonia's fourth-century BC conquest of the Persian Empire and Arthur Ashe's 1975 Wimbledon triumph over Jimmy Connors as the most shockingly unexpected events in all of human history. Like these unforeseeable developments, whose capacity to astonish us has not diminished with the passage of time, Cher's career cannot be explained by conventional methods.
IN AVANT-GARDE, THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CELLO
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0831/p15s02-almp.html
Elsewhere, cello soloists are tweaking the instrument's serious image. The Canadian cellist Jorane has released five albums in which she simultaneously sings and plays the cello in songs by artists such as Donna Summer and Daniel Lanois. On Friedlander's new album, "Block Ice & Propane," he evokes American roots music by using lots of banjo-style plucking along with traditional bowing. The cello's popularity outside of the classics is partly driven by necessity: The lean standard repertoire for the instrument consists of four or five major Romantic concertos.
DOZEN BEATLES MURALS FOR LIVERPOOL
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2159739,00.html

Film
LIGHTS. . .CAMERA. . .OBSESSION
Fan conventions aren't just for sci-fi buffs anymore. Films such as 'The Big Lebowski' and 'Napoleon Dynamite'
are inspiring off-line communities, too.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0831/p11s01-almo.html
REVIEWS: ‘ATONEMENT,’ ‘LUST, CAUTION’
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/30/arts/fmreview31.php 

And in the end. . .
THE AMERICAN MOUSTACHE INSTITUTE
http://www.americanmustacheinstitute.org/


8/30
Skylines:
Morning Concert
MAHLER---SYMPHONY NO. 3, 1st movement, finale
(L.A. Phil conductor-designate Dudamel)
Let it play as you read the glorious news of the day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUFi0nhv3w

SCHOOL BANS ‘TAG’
“It causes conflict,” says genius ass’t. principal
http://www.gazette.com/articles/_26621___article.html/_.html

Sexual Congress
MUST WATCH:
OLBERMANN REENACTS CRAIG’S BATHROOM ENCOUNTER
(Better wait till the Mahler finishes first.)
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/61182/

TRAPPED MINERS ATE COAL, DRANK URINE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6968589.stm

The Darker Side of Owen Wilson
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1657561,00.html

WHY DOES PITT HAVE MUMMY TATTOOED ON ARM?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=63910&in_page_id=7

MAN SAVES DOG FROM SF STREETCAR---PAYS WITH LIFE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/30/BARBRRMGP.DTL

And on to news and comment. . .

INSIDE THE TSC---TERRORIST SCREENING CENTER---OR---
WHY ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ON THE WATCH LIST?
We are not making this stuff up!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14040581
Share within the community, that is. Average Americans have a dearth of information about the watchlist. For example, the TSC won't say how big it actually is. Most informed unofficial estimates put the total at several hundred thousand people.

IMAGES FROM THE DARK SIDE OF WAR
Is there a bright side?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,502785,00.html
A moving photo exhibition in New York shows what the media doesn't -- shocking photos of seriously wounded Iraq veterans. The images and the soldiers' quotes which accompany them say more about the war than you might want to know.

Sexual Congress
SENS. TO CRAIG: BYE-BYE
Or should that read, “bi-bi?”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3265
SECRETS OF THE STALL!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902435_pf.html
IDAHO PAPER CALLS FOR CRAIG TO QUIT
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Idaho_Statesman_Craig_must_resign_0830.html
CRAIG BUST SITE WAS POPULAR SEX SPOT
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Craigs_bathroom_popular_spot_for_sexseekers_0830.html
ATTN., SEN. CRAIG: THE TEN WORST PLACES TO HAVE SEX IN SAN FRANCISCO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/08/30/violetblue.DTL

Your Corporatocracy at work!
BUSH WANTS ANOTHER $50 BILLION TO WASTE ON IRAQ
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801984.html
You Will Not Believe How Low the War Profiteers Have Gone
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/60950/
ARMY TO PROBE $3 BILLION IN CONTRACTS FOR IRAQ
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902187_pf.html

RAIMUNDO: WAR WITH IRAN HAS ALREADY STARTED
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11521
We've been running reports from insiders saying that the Cheney faction is pushing for an attack, that Bush is quite amenable but is biding his time, and that an assault on Tehran is imminent. Now the president has come out openly with his warlike intentions.

Iraq and Roll
IRAQ MEETS 3 OF 18 SO-CALLED BENCHMARKS
Where are these benches?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003633132
WHITE HOUSE WILL ‘WATER DOWN’ IRAQ NEWS
What else is new?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/30/white-house-water-down/

Enviro Wacko
EATING MEAT WORSE FOR PLANET THAN DRIVING
“Eating cows with such persistence/ doesn’t offer much resistance/ to this cockamamie business.”---George Harrison.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/29/business/climate.php
Astonishing nuclear power plant cooling tower collapse
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2351.shtml

Electile Dysfunction
EDWARDS: GIVE UP THE SUV’S
This man knows he has no chance of being elected
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2158322,00.html
EDWARDS BETS THE FARM
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1657558-1,00.html
MRS. EDWARDS ON HILLARY HATRED
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/30/hillary-hatred-is-hard-f_n_62461.html
EUROPE LIKES HILLARY FOR PREZ
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Europeans_back_Hillary_Clinton_for__08292007.html

TEXAS WILL EXECUTE MAN WHO DID NOT KILL
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2906344.ece

Mashed Media/Lost Angeles
TRIBUNE CO. TO SELL HISTORIC KTLA-TV BUILDING
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-ktla30aug30,1,6228528.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
DON’T STOP THE PRESSES---SELL THE BUILDING INSTEAD!
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118834747064411692-lMyQjAxMDE3ODI4OTMyNDk3Wj.html
With profits and revenue falling, newspaper companies are increasingly looking to real estate to shore up their finances. Though newspapers are still largely profitable, they are seen by many on Wall Street as a dying medium. In some cases, the Inquirer and the Boston Herald among them, financial pressures are forcing newspapers to sell their property as a quick way to come up with cash. In others, especially papers acquired by private-equity firms, the new owners are simply trying to squeeze as much money out of the operation as possible, says newspaper analyst John Morton, president of Morton Research Inc.

Spaced Out
IS THERE LIFE ON COMETS?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0830/p14s01-stss.html
MAN TAKES SPACE PICS WITH CHEAP BALLOON
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=64013&in_page_id=34

Greece Fire
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ANGRY GREEKS TAKE TO THE STREETS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,502933,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
INTERVIEW: THE MAN WHO WILL CASH IN ON BONDS
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1657294,00.html
HEY, KIDS---IT’S THE ‘SKINNY BITCH’ DIET!
by John Rogers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082200621.html?referrer=emailarticle

And in more important matters. . .

Mardis Grave
NEW ORLEANS’ NEW ‘MUSICIANS’ VILLAGE’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6944073.stm
The village is the brainchild of musicians Harry Connick Jnr and Branford Marsalis. They went to charity Habitat for Humanity with the idea in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina.

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GLENN GOULD
Nearly 25 years after the death of perhaps the greatest piano virtuoso of the 20th century,
the Star reveals a dramatically fresh portrait of the Canadian icon. . .
http://www.thestar.com/article/249787
Now, for the first time, we know that the intensely private Gould carried on an affair for five years, beginning in 1967, with a married German-American painter named Cornelia Foss. She left her husband Lukas, himself a prominent pianist and conductor, and moved her two children to Toronto at the height of the affair. A year before her move, Gould had asked her to marry him.

R.I.P. PAUL MacCREADY, ‘FATHER OF HUMAN-POWERED FLIGHT’
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/08/paul_maccready_passes_awa.php

Auto Motive
RETURN OF THE DELOREAN
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2159150,00.html

THE LOST BOYS
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/comment/story/0,,2158800,00.html
Jon Savage threads together the extraordinary lives of Brian Epstein, Joe Orton and Joe Meek - three men persecuted for their homosexuality who died in 1967 - the year the stigma was supposed to be lifted.

For Art’s Sake
ROBERT CHAVEZ PHOTOGRAPHY
http://www.robertchavez.com/ 

And in the end. . .
GOOD OLD TOMMY LASORDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-mqXodn5mQ

8/29
Skylines:
Morning Concert
SONG FOR SEN. LARRY CRAIG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpfX_2G9i6w

MAN BUILDS FENCE WITHOUT PERMIT,
GOES TO JAIL FOR SIX MONTHS
Now there’s a judge who needs to retire
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/9406861.html

BUSH PORTRAIT COLLAGE MADE FROM PORN IMAGES!
An affront to good pornography!
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/08/yeos_portrait_of_bush_has_no_m.html

HELMSLEY LEFT HER DOG $12 MILLION
Nothing for two grandkids, chauffer gets a hundred grand
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_re_us/helmsley_s_pooch

BO DIDDLEY HAS HEART ATTACK
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2158311,00.html

WATCH: DAVE’S TOP TEN REASONS GONZALES QUIT
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Letterman_Top_Ten_Reasons_Alberto_Gonzales_0828.html

RAPE VICTIM ‘BEFRIENDS’ ATTACKER, SETS UP HIS ARREST
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/29/BA87RQV63.DTL

MISS TEEN S. CAROLINA DEFENDS HERSELF!
http://www.tvshark.com/read/?art=arc769
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/28/america/NA-GEN-US-Beauty-Queen-Geography.php

“I ATE MY ROOMMATE”
What, no fava beans?
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=63829&in_page_id=34

And on to news and comment. . .

Iran from the truth
U.S. MULLING MASSIVE ATTACK ON IRAN
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Study_US_preparing_massive_military_attack_0828.html
The United States has the capacity for and may be prepared to launch without warning a massive assault on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities, as well as government buildings and infrastructure, using long-range bombers and missiles, according to a new analysis.
STOP THE WAR---WITH IRAN
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/26237
America and the world are entering an extremely dangerous and volatile period and it will be up to senior U.S. military officials and members of Congress to stop the rush to a new war with Iran. The evidence is alarming and disturbing and today’s speech by President Bush before the Veteran’s of Foreign War should not be dismissed as mere political posturing.
U.S. ADMITS ARRESTS OF IRANIANS IN IRAQ A MISTAKE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6967850.stm
IRAN: READY TO FILL ANY POWER VACUUM IN IRAQ
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_iraq%3B_ylt%3DAuunQjjV.0bkqqfUfxlDAWus0NUE
Woolsey Claims Iran Could Have Nuclear Bomb In ‘A Few Months’
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/15/woolsey-iran-nukes/

LINDORFF: THE CRIMINAL MADNESS OF ATTACKING IRAN
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.08.01_arch.html#1188401002794
Secondly, we should be asking why Iran would be trying to build a nuclear bomb in the first place, and what kind of threat it would pose if they did build one, or even several. Certainly an Iranian bomb would pose no threat to the U.S., any more than a North Korean bomb poses a threat to the U.S. With tens of thousands of bombs, including huge city-vaporizing H-bombs, in the US arsenal, no country except for Russia has the ability to seriously threaten America. The same goes for U.S. allies, whether in Europe or the Middle East. If Iran were to threaten Kuwait or Israel with nuclear attack it would simply be committing suicide because of US retaliation. Clearly, the motive for Iran obtaining the bomb is then defensive. Iran is confronted by Israel, which does have a considerable number of nuclear bombs.

Iraq and Roll
ACTIVE DUTY TROOPS BECOME OUTSPOKEN WAR CRITICS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0829/p01s04-usmi.html
THE WAY OUT OF IRAQ:
HOW TO SAFELY REDEPLOY IN A YEAR
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/29/way-out-of-iraq/

Sexual Congress
SEN. CRAIG: “I’M NOT GAY”
He ain’t happy, either. . .
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Senator_Craig__I_am_not_0828.html
G.O.P. SEEKS ETHICS PROBE (SO TO SPEAK)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/144657.html
HOW DID NEWS OUTLETS MISS CRAIG’S ARREST FOR THREE MONTHS?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003632075
IDAHO PAPER HITS BACK AFTER CRAIG ATTACK
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003632658
The GOP's Bathroom Problem
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=227318

CERABINO:
ADVICE FOR THOSE WHO TELL STALL TALES
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/local_news/epaper/2007/08/29/w1b_binocol_0829.html
Lesson No. 3: Limit your "wide stance" tendencies while using a stall in a public restroom. You should make every effort to keep your shoes on your side of the invisible line that separates your stall from the adjoining stall, especially when it's being occupied by another man.

Mardis Grave
BUSH DARES TO SHOW HIS FACE IN NEW ORLEANS
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/29/national/a001845D25.DTL&tsp=1
BLACK NEW ORLEANS CONTRACTORS BEING SHUT OUT?
http://www.wdsu.com/news/13994790/detail.html
NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY COMES BACK
---BUT VERY DIFFERENT
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0829/p01s06-ussc.html
The population of Orleans Parish has dropped 39 percent since before the storm, but has increased by nearly 100,000 people since last fall. Thousands of old businesses are gone, but thousands of new ones are popping up. The population changes reflect a generational shift, with many older residents and shopkeepers using the storm as a reason to retire elsewhere.
N’AWLINS CHEFS DISCUSS CITY’S REVIVAL
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0829/p18s02-hfgn.html
HOW MUCH OF A REVIVAL IS THERE?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1657130,00.html
Some things will be changed forever. One-third of the city's pre-Katrina population of 450,000 is still living somewhere else, many never to return; according to a new Brookings Institute report, the unemployment rate in Orleans Parish is 5.1%, up from 4.5% at the one-year anniversary mark. Corporations that were hard to attract and retain before the storm may prove even more reluctant to locate in a city so vulnerable to nature's wrath.

TALIBAN RELEASE 8 OF 19 S. KOREAN HOSTAGES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/29/news/hostages.php

Mashed Media
KATIE COURIC TO REPORT FROM IRAQ, SYRIA
Why is this a headline?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801760.html

Enviro Wacko
BRAVO! PROTESTERS HALT HAWAII SUPERFERRY
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Aug/28/br/br9782015436.html
‘DEAD-END’ AUSTRIAN TOWN BLOSSOMS WITH GREEN ENERGY
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/28/business/carbon.php

Animals in the news!
THE AMAZING WORLD OF ANIMAL PROSTHESES
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655711,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
SCIENTISTS CALL FOR ‘EARTH BACKUP’ ON THE MOON
Want to put whole historical archive up there
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,502736,00.html
GREEKS FED UP WITH GOV’T. IN WAKE OF FIRES
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,502720,00.html
U.S. DEPORTED THAT MEXICAN MOM---
BUT JAPAN ALLOWS THAI WOMAN TO STAY
And she smuggled drugs, to boot!
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/416428
SUMO WRESTLER ON BRINK OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6968394.stm
Japanese underclass 'lives in internet cafes'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2T2HHUZN3PE1NQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/08/28/wnet128.xml

And in more important matters. . .

BIZARRE COURTNEY LOVE ACCUSATION
IN OWEN WILSON SUICIDE TRY
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=63860&in_page_id=7

Auto Motive
SHIN TAKEI COVERS THE AMAZING MONTEREY CAR SHOW
http://www.westsidechronicle.com/clients/westsidechronicle/PAGE3A.pdf

R.I.P. ‘BOND’ AUTHOR GARDNER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/arts/29gardner.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

Musique
KEEF DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM SWEDISH CRITICS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6968887.stm
CHRIS CLARK, THE UNSUNG SOUL SINGER OF THE SIXTIES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/29/DDI7RQCVD.DTL
Chris Clark was a tall, blond 20-year-old Air Force brat out of Marin County when she signed with Motown Records as the label's first white artist in 1966."I didn't see it as a problem," says Clark, 61, sitting in her Santa Rosa home, cluttered with artwork, computer equipment and cat furniture. "I was the 6-foot blonde who got off the plane with the Temptations in the '60s."
RINGO: NEW ALBUM, NEW RESPECT
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3526408&page=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_en_ot/music_q_a_ringo_starr_2
DUMB DOCTORS PROBABLY KILLED BEETHOVEN
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_en_mu/who_killed_beethoven%3B_ylt%3DAnqanuZ0MYs8CFgM3AmIDFys0NUE
BOSTON SYMPHONY NEEDS $400 MILLION
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/29/bso_looks_to_raise_up_to_400m/

For Art’s Sake
INTERVIEW: REMI KOOLHAAS
Designs China building to look like Chinese character
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2156966,00.html
THE TEA TOWELS THAT BECAME VAN GOGH ORIGINALS
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2157890,00.html

JAM SESSION TURNS INTO GIG
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2158061,00.html
Nick and Judith Gifford knew little about cooking when they moved to France. But then they discovered a talent for jam-making. Now they supply the world's top chefs.

PICS: ASTOUNDING NEW MACAU CASINO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6966521.stm

And in the end. . .
BUDDY RICH VS. ANIMAL
http://youtube.com/watch?v=erE8WTngaAY

8/28
Skylines:
Morning Concert
COPS OF THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV1KUyPGaLM

MUST SEE: MISS SOUTH CAROLINA ANSWERS A QUESTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

WORLD’S LARGEST DIAMOND UNEARTHED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0,,2157446,00.html

OWEN WILSON WANTS THE LAST THING HE WILL EVER GET: PRIVACY
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070828/ts_afp/entertainmentusfilm
CAREER SUDDENLY IN CHAOS
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/28/arts/NA-A-E-CEL-US-Owen-Wilson.php

WHITE MAN WINS REVERSE DISCRIMINATION CASE!
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/146892.html
“You’re a white boy, and I don’t like white boys,” Pasternak quoted Baines as telling him. “Handle it.” “He said that to me more than once, and he said many other things like that over the years I worked for him,” Pasternak told The Buffalo News. “He called me cracker, polack, Paster-rat and stupid white boy. . . . I was sick to my stomach.”

HAHAHAHA! ARMED GUARD FOUND ASLEEP AT NUKE PLANT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/08/27/national/a143203D05.DTL&type=printable

THE OLD BROTHER SEX SWITCH!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=63206&in_page_id=2

SNAKE ON A PLANE!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=63633&in_page_id=2

Sir Paul dating Renee Zellweger
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/08/27/2007-08-27_add_zellweger_to_mccartneys_let_it_be_me-1.html

OBAMA EATS MICROPHONE!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,502276,00.html

And on to news and comment. . .

ARMY RECRUITS BRIBED TO JOIN
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3255
Nearly all new US Army recruits are receiving a special 20,000-dollar bonus, an official said Monday, amid debate over whether the Pentagon is eroding standards to shore up its stretched ranks.

U.S. HAS PREPARED TO ATTACK IRAN
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/26199

TEACHER TURNOVER LEAVES VOID IN U.S. SCHOOLS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/27/america/teachers.php
Here in Guilford County, North Carolina, turnover had become so severe in some high-poverty schools that principals were hiring new teachers for nearly every class, every term. To staff its neediest schools before classes started Tuesday, recruiters had been advertising nationwide, organizing teacher fairs and offering one of the nation's most generous recruitment bonuses, $10,000 to instructors who sign up to teach Algebra I.

Sexual Congress
GOP---FOR SEN. CRAIG, THAT’S GAY OLD PERVERT
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/27/craig.arrest/index.html
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2007/08/senator_larry_craig_got_busy_i.html
IDAHO PAPERS LAGGED ON ‘IS CRAIG GAY?’ PROBES
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12817
IDAHO STATESMAN FINALLY PRINTS ITS CRAIG FINDINGS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003631879
CRAIG’S POLITICAL FUTURE
---ER, WHAT POLITICAL FUTURE?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3253
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is a conservative Republican who has voted against gay marriage and opposes hate crimes legislation that would extend special protections to gay and lesbian crime victims. (He might need those laws soon.)

Your Corporatocracy at Work!
THE INVASION OF THE U.S.---TREASURY
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18261.htm
Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam ¬Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient. George W. Bush's war in the Mesopotamian desert was an experiment of sorts, a crude first take at his vision of a fully privatized American government. In Iraq the lines between essential government services and for-profit enterprises have been blurred to the point of absurdity -- to the point where wounded soldiers have to pay retail prices for fresh underwear, where modern-day chattel are imported from the Third World at slave wages to peel the potatoes we once assigned to grunts in KP, where private companies are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up.

Heckuva Job
GONZALES’S GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT FAREWELL
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/28/gonzales-grammatically-incorrect-farewell/
PREZBOY: GONZO'S 'GOOD NAME DRAGGED THROUGH MUD'
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/28/gonzales/
OLBERMANN:
FRITOS EXEC TO BECOME HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF?
We’re not making this stuff up, folks. . .
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/#60930
DID CHERTOFF LIE TO CONGRESS ABOUT GITMO TORTURE?
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/28/chertoff/index_np.html
ARI FLEISCHER BLAMES DEMOCRAPS FOR GONZALES’S LIES
Yessirree, those commies did mind-control on Gonzo!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/08/28/fleischer-blames-dems-for-gonzales-mistakes/

Iraq and Roll
CANCER IN IRAQ VETS DUE TO TOXIC EXPOSURE?
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/198240.php
NAT'L. GUARDSMEN CHEER CALL FOR IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18258.htm

People’s Repugnic
CHINA’S MASSIVE NEW MALLS: HIGH PRICES AND FEW SHOPPERS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0828/p01s01-woap.html

(Lack of) Health
ANIMAL CONTENT IN COKE?
http://www.rense.com/general50/class.htm
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SWEETENER
LINKED TO CHILDHOOD DIABETES
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/08/corn_syrup.html
MOM’S HIGH BLOOD SUGAR LEADS TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1656786,00.html
TEEN WITH CONTAGIOUS T.B. JAILED, FORCED TO TAKE ANTIBIOTICS (Good!)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/27/teen_with_tb_jailed_receiving_care/

KRUGMAN: PUBLIC HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN IS A FIENDISH SOCIALIST PLOT!
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/60817/

Animals in the news!
SF SPAY/NEUTER LAW REDUCING PIT BULL POPULATION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/28/MNK5RMK79.DTL
House sparrow, cuckoo and starling now threatened species
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=WNMEOAETWXHHDQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/earth/2007/08/27/easpar127.xml

Oh, by the way. . .
SCIENTISTS PLEAD FOR RIGHT TO MAKE ANIMAL-HUMAN EMBRYOS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/26/theobserversuknewspages.genetics 

And in more important matters. . .

ABOUT THAT BIG HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE. . .
It could put a big hole in the Big Bang theory
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1656529,00.html
What they can't explain is a discovery announced a few days ago by Lawrence Rudnick, an astronomer at the University of Minnesota. He and a couple of colleagues have found what they think is another void in space — but at about a billion light-years across (that's 6 billion trillion miles, give or take), it's many times bigger than any void ever seen. It's so big, in fact, that if it's really there, it could cause real problems for all current models of the universe; the 14 or so billion years since the Big Bang isn't long enough for gravity to have cleared out a space this huge.

IN DEFENSE OF THE MOUSTACHE
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_white/2007/08/stubble_trouble.html

FORGET CAMELOT---MERLIN LIVED IN GLASGOW
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=63552&in_page_id=34

For Art’s Sake
A LONE DREAMER IN THE ABORIGINAL ART BOOM
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/28/asia/artist.php
For an icon who helped put Australian Aboriginal painting on the global art map, Tjakamarra is supremely uninterested in glamour, except possibly for the wraparound dark glasses that shelter the results of a recent cataract operation.

Film
DELIGHTFUL ‘BEAN’ FAILS WITH DUMB U.S. AUDIENCE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/28/arts/bean.php
CATE BLANCHETT DISCUSSES 'TRICKY' DYLAN BIOPIC
http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=2704

Books
PATTI BOYD’S MEMOIR REVIEWED
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/27/arts/bookwed.php

And in the end. . .
BLACK JESUS
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=black+jesus&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.laughingjesus.50megs.com/blackjesus/blackjesus.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHpXQ8XBUYA

8/27
Skylines:
Morning Concert
GEORGE, BOB, TAJ, OTHERS
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jSLuQvWONS8&mode=related&search

OWEN WILSON IN O.D.?
http://www.tmz.com/2007/08/26/owen-wilson-hospitalized/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20462411/

4,000 ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS IN KENNEBUNKPORT
Largest in Bush retreat town’s history
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/26/3425/

CRAZY ITALIANS SLAUGHTER 60,000 BLACK CATS A YEAR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/26/wcat126.xml

8-YEAR-OLD RUNS 3,400 KILOMETERS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6965410.stm

AIDS VICTIMS BEING BURIED ALIVE IN NEW GUINEA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6965412.stm

CEREBRAL PALSY DID NOT STOP GIRL FROM BECOMING ACROBAT
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2156922,00.html

CALIF. LUNAR ECLIPSE TOMORROW
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/27/BAOFRP53L.DTL
A lovely total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout the Bay Area and all of California before dawn Tuesday morning as the Earth's shadow darkens the bright full moon, and wherever skies are clear, it will be a time to look upward wide-eyed.

PIX: ‘LOVE PARADE’ IN GERMANY
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,24271,00.html

And on to news and comment. . .

FISK: EVEN I QUESTION ‘THE TRUTH’ ABOUT 9/11
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18252.htm
Let me repeat. I am not a conspiracy theorist. Spare me the ravers. Spare me the plots. But like everyone else, I would like to know the full story of 9/11, not least because it was the trigger for the whole lunatic, meretricious "war on terror" which has led us to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan and in much of the Middle East. Bush's happily departed adviser Karl Rove once said that "we're an empire now – we create our own reality". True? At least tell us. It would stop people kicking over chairs.

What is the law?
CHERTOFF TO REPLACE GONZALEZ?
Alberto did a heckuva job. . .
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/9392336.html
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/08/26/rumor-gonzalez-out-chertoff-in-as-ag/
LINDORFF: GONZO’S GONE---
NOW LET’S GO AFTER CHENEY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/
So let’s hail the departure of Gonzo, let’s demand a thorough vetting of the demonstrably incompetent and unprincipled Chertoff, and most importantly, let’s move forward with the campaign to impeach Cheney.
REMEMBERING CHERTOFF’S SHINING RECORD
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/27/chertoff-incompetence/

Israelity
LINDORFF:
$30 BILLION IN WEAPONS TO ISRAEL IS FUEL ON THE FIRE
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2007/081807Lindorff.shtml
Israel is a land of only 6 million people (the same area and population as the state of Maryland). That works out to about $5000 in arms aid per man, woman and child, and of course, since nearly a third of the people in Israel are Palestinian, and won't see a penny's (or bullet's) worth of that aid, it's really closer to $7500 per person. And remember, this is no basket case nation; this is one of the most technologically developed and wealthiest countries on earth we're talking about here.
MAD RABBI: ISRAEL SOLDIERS DIE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT OBSERVE JEWISH LAW
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6965607.stm
KIBBUTZ SHEDS SOCIALISM, GAINS POPULARITY
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/middleeast/27kibbutz.html?em&ex=1188360000&en=d0a6a73beaacec99&ei=5087%0A

The Other Occupation
AFGHAN OPIUM AT ‘FRIGHTENING’ LEVELS---U.N.
That $600 million a year the U.S. spends to stop it is really working!
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL20749120070827
IT HAS INCREASED YEARLY SINCE THE U.S. INVASION
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070827.wopium0827/BNStory/International/home

BIN-LADEN ALMOST CAUGHT IN 2004?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3244

RAIMUNDO:
ANTI-WAR BACKLASH BUILDING---IN THE MILITARY
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11507

Mashed Media
EBERT AND DISNEY ARE ALL THUMBS---
OVER ‘THUMBS UP/DOWN’ RIGHTS
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12814
Contrary to Disney’s press release, I did not demand the removal of the THUMBS. They made a first offer on Friday which I considered offensively low. I responded with a counter-offer. They did not reply to this, and on Monday ordered the THUMBS removed from the show.
CREEP CHRIS WALLACE TAKES CHEAP SHOT AT MOYERS
“You never called Rove” will play well with the Limbaugh cretins
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Chris_Wallace_attacks_Bill_Moyers_and_0826.html
RUSSIANS ARREST 10 IN MURDER OF JOURNALIST POLITKOVSKAYA
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003631379

(Lack of) Health
HUMAN STEM CELLS FIX RAT HEARTS,
HOLD PROMISE FOR HUMANS
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2007-08-26T185130Z_01_N25381614_RTRUKOC_0_US-HEART-STEMCELLS.xml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070827/hl_hsn/embryonicstemcellsrepairhumanheart

Animals in the news!
WIND TURBINES IMPERIL BRITAIN’S BATS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2156843,00.html

People’s Repugnic
GERMAN CARMAKERS THREATEN CHINA OVER COPYCAT CARS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,502309,00.html
U.S. WAS THE CHINA OF THE 19TH CENTURY
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/26/a_nation_of_outlaws/?page=full
As with China and Harry Potter, America was a hotbed of literary piracy; like China's poisonous pet-food makers, American factories turned out adulterated foods and willfully mislabeled products. Indeed, to see China today is to glimpse, in a distant mirror, the 19th-century American economy in all its corner-cutting, fraudulent glory.

Oh, by the way. . .
GREECE FIRE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,502177,00.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0827/p01s03-woeu.html
As at least 170 wildfires spread, many say that a lack of environmental protection is to blame.
GERMAN IS NOW REFORMED---AND THE GERMANS DON’T LIKE IT
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0827/p09s01-coop.html
As of this month, the German language is officially "reformed." After more than a decade of bitter debate, new grammar rules for the world's 100 million native German speakers are now set in stone. That may sound like big news, but chances are you haven't heard ein wort about it. Even in Germany the event has been met with something akin to a news blackout, but then again, the vast majority of Germans detest the reforms.

And in more important matters. . .

World gone mad
JON CARROLL: REALITY TV WITH KIDS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/08/27/DDBMROA23.DTL
The way to punish CBS is not to buy any of the products advertised on "Kid Nation." The show hasn't started yet, so maybe some advertisers would like to consider pulling their ads. More news as it happens.

Musique
THE WAGNER CLAN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2007/08/25/bocar125.xml

SKULLS DEEPEN THE MYSTERY OF THE ROUNDHEADS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/25/1
A long-standing mystery over the way men's skulls changed from long to round in medieval Europe has been deepened by discoveries at a Yorkshire village. Huge volumes of data collected at Wharram Percy cast doubt on all current theories about the unexplained blip between the 11th and 13th centuries which has been recorded by archaeologists across the continent.

For Art’s Sake
PHYLLIS CHAVEZ
http://www.artshow.com/chavez/index.html

Film
BRIT FILMS SPUR ENORMOUS TOURISM
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2156888,00.html 

And in the end. . .
SHE SAYS IT
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal

8/24
Skylines:
Morning Concert
Pum-Pum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MekdoB21ncM

ASTRONOMERS FIND GAPING HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070823164846.htm

IRAN CLOSING ‘WESTERN’ BARBER SHOPS IN MORALS CRACKDOWN
Good idea! They should do that in the USA!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2155716,00.html

3rd N. CAROLINA RESIDENT ARRESTED FOR IMPEACHMENT SIGN
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w31.html

IDIOT GUARDSMEN POST HOWTOKILLPEOPLE.COM SITE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/24/BAFPROBBL.DTL

IT’S THE POPE CHOPPER
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=63060&in_page_id=2

HORSE PLAYS SOCCER
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=63157&in_page_id=34

WOULD YOU LIKE A LITTLE HEPATITIS WITH YOUR JAMBA JUICE?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/24/MNNPROABV.DTL

MORFORD: AMERICA, THE SEXY FASCIST STATE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/08/24/notes082407.DTL
It all seems very ugly and sinister and Big Brother-ish, as ominous and frightening and wrong as Dick Cheney strolling through a Vermont kindergarten, right up until you stop and think: Wait, human beings are running all this?

And on to news and comment. . .

Electile Dysfunction
HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
WITH THOSE FUN-LOVING REPUG CANDIDATES!
http://www.alternet.org/story/60573/
No GOP presidential race is complete without criminal activity: The latest on McCain's bathroom blow job hypocrite, Romney's cop-imitating director of operations, Giuliani's coke hound, possibly Fred Thompson himself, and much more.
CREEP TED NUGENT JOKES OF KILLING OBAMA
“He’s a piece of shit,” rock star tells audience
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2155406,00.html

‘SURGE’ PRODUCES SURGE IN IRAQI REFUGEES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/24/africa/24displaced.php
The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase began in February, according to data from two humanitarian groups, accelerating the partition of the country into sectarian enclaves.

PADILLA SUES U.S. OVER CONFINEMENT
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0824/p03s03-usju.html
Padilla was subjected to sleep deprivation, stress positions, prolonged isolation, and sensory deprivation, among other interrogation techniques, the suit says. "These procedures were calculated to and actually did disrupt profoundly his senses and personality," the complaint says. It was done to "destroy Mr. Padilla's ordinary emotional and cognitive functioning and break his will, in order to extract information from him and punish him."

WATCH: FOX BEATS THE DRUM FOR WAR WITH IRAN
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18244.htm
SIGN LETTER TO OTHER NETWORKS: DON’T FOLLOW FOX’S LEAD
http://foxattacks.com/iran

‘LUNG SUCKER’ KILLER WEAPON BEING USED BY BRITS---
WITHOUT GOV’T. KNOWLEDGE
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/British_Army_deploys_new_weapon_based_0823.html
A new 'super-weapon' being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out of lungs and rupturing internal organs.

Your Corporatocracy at work!
WHEAT PRICES AT RECORD HIGH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6962211.stm

People’s Repugnic
WIFE OF JAILED ACTIVIST BARRED FROM LEAVING CHINA---
TO ACCEPT HUSBAND’S AWARD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6961846.stm

Mashed Media
THREE BUSTED FOR ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADING MUSIC
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/24/BUNDRO9BH.DTL
SEATTLE P.I. REFUSES TO RUN FBI TERROR WARNING INFO
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Seattle_security_alert_highlights_p_08242007.html
AUSTRALIA WIKIPEDIA SMACKDOWN!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6961575.stm

Iraq and Roll
U.S. ‘FRIENDLY FIRE’ UNFRIENDLY TO THREE DEAD BRIT SOLDIERS
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Three_Britons_die_in_US_friendly_fi_08242007.html
HAWK WARNER: BRING ‘EM HOME
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Top_GOP_senator_calls_for_timetable_0823.html
THREE DEAD IN IRAQ ‘POLICE STATION’ ATTACK
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655861,00.html

Animals in the news!
ANOTHER CONDOR DEAD OF LEAD POISONING
Poor things eat bullet fragments in carrion---Man strikes again!
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6703981
Rare Japanese Dugong Threatened by U.S. Military Base
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070823-dugongs.html

Religion
MOTHER TERESA HAD A HARD TIME BELIEVING IN GOD
And who could blame her, tending to such horror all her life. . .
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/23/eveningnews/main3199062.shtml
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Mother_Teresa_doubted_existance_of_God_0824.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html
SCIENTISTS INDUCE ‘OUT OF BODY’ SENSATION
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/science/23cnd-body.html?em&ex=1188100800&en=6689fa61fc1f9187&ei=5087%0A

Spaced Out
MARTIAN SOIL MAY CONTAIN LIFE

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=martian-soil-may-contain&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters

Oh, by the way. . .
CANADA COPS PLANTED PROVACATEURS AMONG PROTESTERS
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/23/3368/
REPUG CONSULTANT FOUND DEAD IN DOUBLE MURDER-SUICIDE
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/213964.html
QUAKE 15 TIMES STRONGER THAN ’94 NORTHRIDGE COMING
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6708004?source=most_viewed
U.S. surfer promotes Israeli-Palestinian peace
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6866323,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

R.I.P. COACH BUTCH VAN BREDA KOLFF
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/sports/basketball/24vanbredakolff.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
In the final minutes of the seventh and deciding game of the National Basketball Association’s 1969 championship playoffs, Chamberlain benched himself during the fourth quarter with what van Breda Kolff considered a minor knee injury. When Chamberlain asked to return to the game, van Breda Kolff refused, and the Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics by 2 points.

DODGERS’ WES PARKER IS ALL-TIME GOLDEN GLOVE
http://www.laobserved.com/sports/2007/08/wes_parker_is_golden.php

Musique
THE GREAT CHARLIE PARKER: UPTOWN AND DOWN
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/arts/music/24park.html?em&ex=1188100800&en=08a7e4cd535fab0a&ei=5087%0A
In “Bird Alone,” one of the terse and symbolically charged songs Abbey Lincoln chose to revisit on her recent album “Abbey Sings Abbey” (Verve), there are no specific references to Charlie Parker. But any jazz fan would recognize this alto saxophonist and bebop progenitor, whose sobriquet was Bird (or Yardbird), in Ms. Lincoln’s lyrics. The airborne creature of the title is untouchable and inscrutable, “Sending mournful soulful sounds/Soaring over troubled grounds.” After gliding high and swinging low, it vanishes, leaving only a song.
Pete Seeger Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3774

Film
‘PARADISO’ DIRECTOR TORNATORE ATTACKED, ROBBED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6960770.stm
NEW ANG LEE FILM GETS ADULT RATING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6962280.stm
RAINER ON ‘NANNY DIARIES’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0824/p11s01-almo.html
RAINER ON ‘CHAMP’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0824/p14s02-almo.html

For Art’s Sake
BRIT LIBRARY FINDS MISSING CONSTABLE SKETCH
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2155406,00.html 

And in the end. . .
TULIPS!
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=tulips

8/23
Skylines:
Morning Concert
THE LARKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42bqz8_mYps

LEFT-WING DOC FILMMAKERS TAKE ON. . .MICHAEL MOORE?
This is why the left will never successfully retain power---it eats its own young
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2154451,00.html

FRENCH PREZ GETS LOVE HANDLE ERASED
What’s with all the world leaders taking their shirts off?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,501603,00.html
PUTIN AIMING FOR THE COVER OF ‘THE ADVOCATE?’
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/22/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Putins-Image.php

BILL MURRAY ARRESTED FOR DRUNK GOLFCART DRIVING IN SWEDEN
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=62868&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=

BOY BUSTED FOR HURLING SAUSAGE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=62903&in_page_id=34

‘WIZARD OF OZ’ TO BE ‘SEXED UP’
Woe is us. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?in_article_id=63066&in_page_id=27

And on to news and comment. . .

IRAQI WOMAN BLOGGER WRITES:
I DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY ANYMORE!
“How come every single Iraqi I know, shia, sunni, martian, felt much freer under the "dictatorship"
 than under your fucking democracy? How come?”
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=35566&s2=22

CHICKENHAWK BUSH HAS GALL TO LECTURE ABOUT VIETNAM---
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/08/22/chickenhawk-bush-has-the-gall-to-lecture-americans-on-vietnam/
As is well known, Bush’s elite status entitled him to a cushy berth in a “champagne unit” of the Texas Air National Guard. Associates from that era remember young Bush as being preoccupied with doing drugs, driving drunk and chasing women.
---AND VIETNAM DOESN’T LIKE IT WORTH A DAMN
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/23/asia/AS-GEN-Vietnam-Bush-Iraq.php
U.S. President George W. Bush's latest effort to rally support for his Iraq policy has touched a nerve in Vietnam, where a previous American military intervention led to the deaths of millions of people.
BUSH’S VIETNAM ANALOGY---ANALYZED AND REFUTED
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/22/news/history.php
The Khmer Rouge would never have come to power in the absence of the war in Vietnam - this dark force arose out of the circumstances of the war, was in a deep sense created by the war. The same thing has happened in the Middle East today. Foreign occupation of Iraq has created far more terrorists than it has deterred.
EX-NIXON AIDE GERGEN
BLASTS BUSH OVER VIETNAM COMMENTS
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ExNixon_advisor_rejects_Bushs_Vietnam_comparison_0822.html
"By invoking Vietnam, he raised the automatic question, 'Well, if you've learned so much from history, Mr. President, how did you ever get us involved in another quagmire?'

RIGHT-WING PLOTTING OVERTHROW OF MALIKI
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/23/bush-allies-allawi/
BUSH---NO PULLOUT FROM IRAQ WHILE I’M PREZBOY
Ah ain’t no wimpy quitter---ptui!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2154354,00.html
MAD PRESIDENT: ‘FREE IRAQ’ WITHIN REACH
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/23/america/23policy.php
PENTAGON FAILS TO PROTECT TROOPS IN IRAQ
Misses deadline on mine-proof vehicles
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3224

WATCH: THE WAR HAS BEEN RUN ON SLOGANS
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/60529/

SOLOMON: THE WARFARE STATE
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3325/
Born 50 years before George W. Bush became president, I have always lived in a warfare state. Each man in the Oval Office has presided over an arsenal of weapons designed to destroy human life en masse. In recent decades, our self-proclaimed protectors have been able — and willing — to destroy all of humanity.We’ve accommodated ourselves to this insanity. And I do mean “we” — including those of us who fret aloud that the impact of our peace-loving wisdom is circumscribed because our voices don’t carry much farther than the choir. We may carry around an inflated sense of our own resistance to a system that is poised to incinerate and irradiate the planet.

RAIMUNDO: SUPPORT OUR TROOPS---
THEY WANT US OUT OF IRAQ
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11484
There are increasing reports of border incidents, and we are very close, I believe, to a major confrontation between U.S. and Iranian forces. By taking up the Allawi lobby, the Democrats are helping to set the stage for a disaster that will dwarf our present predicament in Iraq by several degrees of magnitude – war with Iran.

HAHAHAHA---WHITE HOUSE INFORMATION OFFICE---
EXEMPT FROM FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_office_that_handles_freedom_0823.html

BUSH’S ANSWER TO MINING DISASTER?
INCREASE ‘MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL’
This guy is pure cancer to this country and the world
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/us/23coal.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Tillman’s Wife: Country Needs “Authentic Leadership”
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/22/ap4046141.html

We’re Not Making This Stuff Up
U.S. TO USE SATELLITES TO SPY ON ITSELF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070815/pl_afp/usintelligence

Electile Dysfunction
RUDY THE CREEP’S TOUGH TALK HIDES WEAK RECORD
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1655262,00.html

Mashed Media
AN IRAQI JOURNALIST ON THE METRO DESK OF THE WASHPOST
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0823/p20s01-ussc.html
LET’S RENAME THE L.A. TIMES
http://www.laobserved.com/intell/2007/08/lets_rename_the_times.php
MORE WOMEN USING THE ‘NET THAN MEN
Shop ‘n’ gossip, anyone?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2154392,00.html
‘MONSTER’ VIRUS HITS COMPUTERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/23/guardianweeklytechnologysection.security

People’s Repugnic
THE GREAT LEAP BACKWARD
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070901faessay86503/elizabeth-c-economy/the-great-leap-backward.html
China's environmental problems are mounting. Water pollution and water scarcity are burdening the economy, rising levels of air pollution are endangering the health of millions of Chinese, and much of the country's land is rapidly turning into desert. China has become a world leader in air and water pollution and land degradation and a top contributor to some of the world's most vexing global environmental problems, such as the illegal timber trade, marine pollution, and climate change. As China's pollution woes increase, so, too, do the risks to its economy, public health, social stability, and international reputation.
CHINA: LAND OF SCANDAL AND SUICIDE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,501575,00.html
Zhang Shuhong, a 52-year-old businessman, had apparently committed suicide, just days after Mattel blamed his company, Lee Der Industrial, in Foshan, in southern China, for the recall of one million toys coated in toxic lead paint.

Light reading
JAPAN IS BACK, AND JAPAN IS DIFFERENT
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/july-august-magazine-contents/make-way-for-japan
But we ignore Japan at our peril. While China gets all the attention, Japan, still firmly ensconced in second place among the world’s economic powers, is quietly enjoying its longest period of sustained growth since World War II. Japan’s global brands have never been stronger: Toyota surpassed General Motors in car and truck sales for the first quarter of 2007, knocking it out of the world’s top spot for the first time in 76 years; patent royalties deriving from Japanese inventiveness hit $4.2 billion in 2006. Sony and Canon, Honda and Panasonic, Fujitsu and Hitachi: throughout the world, Japanese brands are respected and profitable. By contrast, despite the best efforts of personal-computer giant Lenovo and white-goods producer Haier, China has yet to build a single brand that most Americans could name. Japan is back.

Enviro Wacko
BIO-HOPE, BIO-HYPE
A user’s guide to biofuels
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200709/bio.asp
MASSIVE NEW INFECTIOUS DISEASE COMING---WHO
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/World_faces_threats_of_new_infectio_08232007.html
"We clearly have gone through a huge shift -- our relationship to the animal kingdom, our travel, our social, sexual and other behaviour have changed the nature of our relationship with the microbial world," said Mike Ryan, head of WHO's epidemic and pandemic alert. The result of that is the emergence of new pathogens and the spread of new pathogens around the world," despite a heightened capacity to identify them, he told journalists.
WANTON, RAMPANT TRAVEL IS THE GREAT DISEASE HOST
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/23/europe/health.php
With an estimated 2.1 billion airline passengers roaming the planet last year alone, infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the UN health agency said Thursday.
PLAGUE OF RATS HITS BRITAIN
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=63137&in_page_id=34

Hugo Fugyoursef
CHAVEZ TO SUBSIDIZE LONDON FUEL
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E64A4E28-BFA8-458D-BE0B-961D36D75920.htm

Spaced Out
GOOGLE EARTH NOT ENOUGH? HERE’S GOOGLE SKY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/23/spaceexploration

Oh, by the way. . .
COKE TO MARKET AND USE STEVIA SWEETENER
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?id=77035
THE WAR FOR ARMENIA
U.S., Russia vie for influence
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,501146,00.html
BICYCLE ASSASSINATION OF BRIT KID PLAYING SOCCER
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=62900&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=

And in more important matters. . .

CAN CELEBS EFFECT SOCIAL JUSTICE, CHANGE?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0823/p01s02-woaf.html

R.I.P. MEZZO ROSE BAMPTON
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/arts/music/23bampton.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

Animals in the news!
DOLPHINS ENJOY A LITTLE SALMON
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=62898&in_page_id=34

And in the end. . .
SHADOW PUPPETS
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SLuXmE-Iw-E

8/22
Skylines:
Morning Concert
FLICKORNA I SMALAND
(Different from yesterday’s version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am5WQSlrmLA

THE LATE JAMES BROWN IS A DADDY AGAIN
Papa’s got a brand new brood
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=62759&in_page_id=34

Penises in the news!
FLAMING PENIS VENGEANCE!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=62774&in_page_id=2
WIFE REJECTS PENIS TRANSPLANT
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrosexual/article.html?in_article_id=19833&in_page_id=8
CHENEY OPTS FOR MONARCHY
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=225618

MATTEL SUES PORN SITE FOR ‘BARBIE ABUSE’
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_hi_te/porno_barbie_4

STONES DEFY SMOKING BAN, LIGHT UP ON STAGE
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=62809&in_page_id=7

WORST OP-ED EVER WRITTEN?
NYT runs piece by prof who has discovered all these weird coffee places called “Starbucks”---really
http://www.slate.com/id/2172217/pagenum/all
Although at this point you begin to wonder if his op-ed wasn't meant to be a feature in the Onion ("Area professor befuddled by coffee place"), Fish is apparently serious about the profound difficulty this new cultural phenomenon presents.

MORFORD MARRIES JENNA BUSH!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/08/22/notes082207.DTL
I got her trained just right. She brings me a steady supply of cold Bud Lights while I chill on the La-Z-Boy watching the Nationals game on the plasma. Here's a funny: After any home run, I'll down whatever's left of my beer and suck in a big mouthful of air and then belch her name really, really slowly and blow it right in her face. "Oh my God that is so gross!" she squeals, and then totally cracks up and makes that funny snorting noise and goes to get us both another beer. Man, I love being married.

And on to news and comment. . .

U.S. FARMERS TURNING TO PRISON LABOR
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0822/p14s02-wmgn.html
As states increasingly crack down on hiring undocumented workers, western farmers are looking at inmates to harvest their fields. Colorado started sending female inmates to harvest onions, corn, and melons this summer. Iowa is considering a similar program. In Arizona, inmates have been working for private agriculture businesses for almost 20 years. But with legislation signed this summer that would fine employers for knowingly hiring undocumented workers, more farmers are turning to the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) for help.

SHEEHAN IN AMMAN: “INSHALLAH”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18226.htm
Everyone that we have met stabs me in the heart again. We listen to their stories and we apologize on behalf of our country and they all, without fail, look at us with weary smiles filled with resignation of their fate and say: "inshallah" or "If God wills it." I wish I had that simple faith, but I can't believe that any God, except George's God of hatred, destruction, greed, and murder would "will" what is going on here in the Middle East.

People’s Repugnic
THE NEW CHINESE TAKE-OUT---POISON
http://www.rense.com/general77/pois.htm
China has captured much of the world's pharmaceutical market, producing 70 percent of the world's penicillin, 50 percent of its aspirin, and most of its vitamins. There are already signs that Chinese-produced vitamins suffer from the same type of quality assurance problems affecting Chinese food and goods exports. Recently, the European Union discovered Enterobacter sakazakii, a lethal bacterium that causes meningitis in infants, in imported batches of vitamin A. In America, traces of arsenic, lead, and iron have shown up in discount products containing vitamin C.
CHINESE CHICKEN JERKY KILLING U.S. PETS?
http://www.itchmo.com/fda-investigating-bestro-chicken-jerky-strips-in-dogs-deaths-2350
NEW ‘HAPPY NEWS’ DOMINATES CHINA NEWSPAPERS
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1329572007

Mashed Media
JOE BAGAENT:
The Great American Media Mind Warp:
A Feast of Bullshit and Spectacle
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2007/08/the-great-ameri.html
Put simply, Katie Couric and the dumbshits grinding out your local paper actually believe they are in the news business. In today's system, everybody is a patsy for the new corporate global order of things -- the well-coiffed talking head, the brain dead audience, even the terrorists themselves.
TV NEWS SINKS EVEN LOWER INTO GIMMICKRY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/22/MNGQRMP0F.DTL
HARD-HITTING REPORTER FIRED FROM CINCY ENQUIRER
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003628557
YOUTUBE ADDS ADS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,501328,00.html
 
Iraq and Roll
RETIRED U.S. GENERAL: IRAQ IS OUT OF CONTROL
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3211
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER CHOPPER DOWN, ANOTHER 14 SOLDIERS DEAD
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
MALIKI LASHES OUT AT U.S. CRITICS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6958388.stm
CRAZY GEORGE: HISTORY WILL VINDICATE ME
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/3209
PREZBOY USES VIETNAM TO DEFEND STAYING IN IRAQ? HUH?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/08/22/bush-to-connect-iraq-vietnam/

Iran from the truth
EX-CIA AGENT: U.S. WILL ‘HIT’ IRAN WITHIN SIX MONTHS
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_CIA_agent_US_to_attack_0821.html
Prelude to an Attack on Iran
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1654188,00.html

War in Error
CIA BLEW CHANCE TO STOP 9/11---REPORT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,,2153780,00.html
As many as 60 people within the CIA read a cable referring to two of the 19 hijackers involved in the attacks on America on September 11 2001 before the event, yet the information was not shared with the parts of the organisation able to do anything about it, according to the agency's own internal investigation.
CIA LAUNCHES ‘FACEBOOK FOR SPIES’
Didn’t know they had trouble meeting other spies. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6957828.stm

Electile Dysfunction
BERNSTEIN ON BILLARY: FROM ’68 TO ‘08
Watergate reporter interviewed about Clinton’s career
http://www.alternet.org/story/57850/
Wiener: She went to New Hampshire in 1968 to work in the Eugene McCarthy primary challenge to LBJ. Bernstein: She also went to the Republican convention that year--to work for Nelson Rockefeller. But by that time she was really a closet Democrat, and was hoping to see McCarthy elected.
NYT BOTCHES OBAMA STATEMENT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003628778

House of Cards
ATTACK OF THE VAMPIRE LENDERS
http://www.alternet.org/story/60183/
How "reputable" financial firms are using an arsenal of tricks to extract high payments from homeowners, drain their equity and steal their homes.

Animals in the news!
EMERGENCY FORCE WILL TRY TO STOP GORILLA EXECUTIONS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070821-gorilla-protection.html
SPANISH TV WILL STOP CARRYING BULLFIGHTS
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655075,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
RUSSIA TO BUILD SUPER JETLINER
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,501346,00.html
NICE GUY GIVES RIDE, SHOT TO DEATH BY RIDER
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/22/BA1IRML3F.DTL

And in more important matters. . .

Technically
NOW DVD’S ARE ARCHAIC
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/21/business/dvd.php

Musique
RARE INTERVIEW WITH CONDUCTOR CLAUDIO ABBADO
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/08/dont_give_up_the_day_job.html
He is seen as the finest conductor in the world - yet he doesn't tell orchestras how to play. Claudio Abbado grants Tom Service a rare interview aboard a private jet.
R.I.P. JAZZ AND SOUL SINGER JON LUCIEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/arts/music/22lucien.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
A VISIT TO FRANCE’S SEA-SHANTY FESTIVAL
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0816/p20s01-litr.html
At the Sea Shanty Festival earlier this month, just one of the cultural celebrations that bloom every summer weekend across Brittany, that pride was on full display. For three days, piers were crowded with men dressed as pirates, women in homely linen caps, and musicians singing sailor songs. Couples danced on docks; great circles of people stamped jigs.

Books
REVENGE OF THE BLOODTHIRSTY LESBIANS!
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2267719.ece
Britain’s bestselling crime writer found himself condemned as “offensive” by a leading female rival yesterday after suggesting that women authors, and gay ones in particular, are more bloodthirsty than men. The acclaimed writer of the Inspector Rebus novels said in an interview last year: “The people writing the most graphic novels today are women. They are mostly lesbians as well, which I find interesting.”
HERCULE POIROT IS HIT AS COMIC BOOK HERO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6949913.stm
SLIDE SHOW OF AGATHA CHRISTIE COMICS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6957345.stm
MORE BRITS DREAM OF BECOMING AUTHOR THAN ANY OTHER JOB
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/08/dont_give_up_the_day_job.html

Religion
PEACE THROUGH BINARY NUMBER WORSHIP?
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/sep/jarons-world-peace-through-god
Nine years ago, a Brazilian student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where I used to lecture, came to me with what I initially took to be a tall tale. She described an obscure new cult that prayed in binary numbers (strings of ones and zeros), the fundamental elements of computer programs. The cult’s founder apparently believed that the universe was a giant computer.

And in the end. . .
KEROUAC READS FROM ‘ON THE ROAD’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBILjdzkpzU