kidney stone photos!

"Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail."

-- scott mcconnell / american conservative magazine

changes in military law

Alex, maybe you are working for the wrong arm of the government...

Bird traffic controller

The Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem is no ordinary twitcher. An expert in bird migration patterns across the Middle East, he has turned his passion into a small industry responsible for saving the Israeli air force more than half a billion dollars in hardware - and, no doubt, the lives of several pilots. Fred Pearce hears how he has even turned migrating birds into unlikely emissaries for peace.

Addendum to a post on my page (see indented text):
Atrios thinks William Gibson is a "techno-conservatarian," or their patron saint, and that it's somehow weirdly out of character that he'd contribute to Media Matters for America. Guess he hasn't read much Gibson--maybe he's confusing him with Jerry Pournelle?

UPDATE: Gibson replied:

The puzzling thing about this for me being: Do I have a hundred thousand politically conservative fans, and if so, *can't they read*? Most likely Atrios is referring to that sub-species of tragic mouthbreather so mesmerized by my effortless proliferation of imaginary Starck-slick gizmos that he never even notices the characterization, let alone the socio-political implications. I have always found those guys, like the ones who ask if I've read Ayn Rand, to be a distinct minority.

glass hoo ha

A fuel mix of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, known as E85, is available in at least 22 states of the United States, mainly Minnesota and Midwestern states, but it is still hard to find at the pump in most other parts of the country. By contrast, in Brazil, a country nearly the size of the continental United States, ethanol is available at almost every service station.

skinnys skin last nite loved the hen of the woods mushrooms (sauted in butter oil onion chicken stock and beef/veal demi-glaze), the response was "yum" in his native garbled tongue as he went back and forth from mommy to daddy for bites.........he loves middle eastern food (lots of "yum yum's" , and a sirlion burger / 99 conterno barolo combo got the highly coverted "yum yum yum" response (for the wine), hearby know as the 3 yum award..........lets hope he stays on this path, (skinny)

the office bbc tonight

list of songs whose title appears more than 20 times in the lyrics

serious about snacks

NYC to Fort Lauderdale Update:

We now have 50+ folks flying to Ft. Lauderdale to work for ACT at election time.

Flights are $129 R/T and hotel rooms are $99.

Anyone who's interested in joining, email us at

nyc2fla2004@excite.com

Broward County, baby!!!!

William Gibson started blogging again. He's mad about Bush and the war.

anybody try google desktop? pretty cool search tool for your harddrive. welcome, google overlords!

im sending this out to all my digmedtre friends. respek

Here's the clip of Bush "freaking on Charlie Gibson," as trios puts it. It's Windows Media Player, unfortunately. It's pretty unbelievable--the Dems should run it over and over. Oh, well, it looks like the site is overrun. trios is the kiss of death.

Billmon returned from the dead and posted something in the wee hours about how the Dems should make more of Bush's anger issues. Now he's pulled the post. I know he's well liked around here, but he's such a sulking primadonna. "How dare you love me?"

not nearly as funny as rodney but just as dead.

if anyone's interested in going to florida for the election (to bring elderly kerry voters to the polls in Ft. lauderdale), i'm organizing a trip. email me. we're having an event monday night, the details of which are below:

NYC to FLA Mon Oct 11, 6:30PM 274 W. 12th St, #5 (w4th)

nbutterworth - at - mac.com

just in case you havent seen the George W Bush drunk at an August 29th 1992 Lubbock wedding video

I'm sorry, I have to post this:
XXX
(it is dedicated to Kirk Varnedoe - not that I have seen a copy:-)

give the man some respect.

on the outside chance anyone missed : NYT How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence By DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD and JEFF GERTH

2nd annual black label bike kill

6 lb 1040 page cookbook