Springtime on Mars..

did karl rove kill ford?

just askin'!

The Culture Wars In America

Fanastic diary over at DailyKos. It covers a lot of ground, and provides a robust picture of the American Divide from the 40s and post-WWII to today and the problems we face.

In particular, I am interested in what Pissed Off Liberal has to say about the Military Industrial Complex:

It is now our job, and a considerable challenge it will be, to reverse this tragic mistake of history [failing to heed the warning from Eisenhower to prevent the M-I-D]. We can no longer allow greed to drive humanity – for it has driven it into a ditch. We must end the arms trade and turn the resources, genius, and capitol of the military-industrial complex to peaceful purposes. Don’t scoff. People have done the seemingly impossible before, and we will do it again. This is both a moral and a practical imperative. As things are, the center cannot hold.

All of the energy, treasure, and sweat that has been devoted to the mass production of the lethal implements of war need to be redirected to solving our very real problems such as:

* Global warming
* Alternative energy
* Food distribution
* Disease prevention
* Fresh water distribution
* Crumbling infrastructure
* And so on

Don't Scoff, he says. I'll try not to. Hope springs eternal, right?

William Eggleston Early Works

I have assisted my mother in collecting and putting online a number of early William Eggleston photographs. A little link, hoping to get this into the Google consciousness.

My sister's friends are weird

Awww.. but they are sweet and wonderful souls who have a compulsive need to create little gems like this:

Moron Fuckhead

Corrupt Republican Tries To Solicit Hackers To Alter His College Records

Posting on a public website with his real name and email address, openly soliciting criminality. Nice. Hope you get busted quick, jerkoff.

Find your own pose!

Maybe he just wants the money...

I just cannot believe that McCain didn't learn a few things, all that time as POW being tortured and all.

He wants power. And he's willing to dupe the whackos that fund/installed Bush insofar as to get this power. This is why he voted as he did with the MCA and this is why he sucks their ass to get the $$ and this is why he turned the other cheek after being swiftboated by Rove in '00.. He knows dems already hate him because he's a repug, so what does he have to lose then with this? He's ingratiating himself with Bush's "base".

But surely deep inside is the man who endured the horrors of being a POW. It just strikes me as a difficult notion to accept that one could just "forget" that experience, what it is like to be on the extreme-end of injustice and suffering. Isn't this the kind of thing that forges inside a man a fuller, compassionate, and humble human being?

McCain will use Bush against himself and once in the presidency, will stop playing pretend and do what needs to be done to get our military back on track.

I'd really like to believe this, anyway...

It is pretty hard to keep the faith (that I once had, long ago) in McCain while observing things like this, though...

Can a POW war-hero "sell-out"? I guess this is the question..

200,000 years for all traces of Man to disappear from Earth

A little perspective:

IF MAN were to vanish from the face of the Earth today, his footprint on the planet would linger for the mere blink of an eye in geological terms.

Within hours, nature would begin to eradicate its impact. In 50,000 years all that would remain would be archaeological traces. Only radioactive materials and a few man-made chemical contaminants would last longer -- an invisible legacy.

Homo sapiens has managed just 150,000 years on Earth, and his earliest -- debatable -- ancestor only six million. By contrast, the dinosaurs populated the planet for 165 million years.

Meanwhile:

Scientists Reveal Bears Have Stopped Hibernating

Many of the 130 bears in Spain's northern cordillera - which have a slightly different genetic identity from bear populations elsewhere in the world - have remained active throughout recent winters, naturalists from Spain's Brown Bear Foundation said yesterday

A bad case of the Humans..

If I were born in 2893...

If You Were Born in 2893...

Your Name Would Be: Raan Kad And You Would Be: A Prophet

If You Were Born in 2893

first post!

Okay, thus has begun my latest (fifth?) attempt at writing a meaningful blog.

And, in fitting with a ground-breaking blog firstpost, I think it necessary to give recognition and celebration to my most beloved lady; exceptional, beautiful, and absolutely amazing.

Much love to you, baby...