~ ‘i don’t celebrate bullshit thanksgiving”

-ice motherfucking t

~ yes, we talk about green line cafe a lot:

regarding the avant garde:
mp: ‘avant is french for before’
sd: ‘can’t it also mean ‘against’, though?’

regarding the bush administration meme that democrats are ‘rewriting history’: we don’t think the democrats are claiming that they never voted for the war on iraq; we think they are complaining about the fact they voted for the war on iraq based on the incomplete, inaccurate, and fraudulent information that the bush administration provided? we think that is what bothers most people. we doubt that history would have been written the way it has, if senators had been able to understand – before the war – that the bush administration was lying…?

regarding the upcoming supreme court case involving folks in guantanamo bay: we don’t think the distasteful idea is that the base is located in cuba or is named ‘gitmo’; we think that the idea which makes most people uncomfortable is that up to 500 folks have been incarcerated without being charged with a crime for up to 3 years? we think that is what bothers most people. moving them to be tortured by the c.i.a. in a different country likely won’t settle the issue…?

~ possible article for ghostcycle.org #1:

area man cycling across 47th street discovers it takes more than a full punch to the face to cause him to lose control of his bike.

~ ahmed chalabi: an ‘urban myth’ is perpetuated when someone tells you that a spider bit his camp counselor in her sleep, and that six weeks later the sore left by the bite burst open and hundreds of baby spiders crawled out. un-urban myth is not when ‘ahmed chalabi provides false information regarding wmd to the united states‘ or ‘ahmed chalabi commits currency exchange fraud‘ or ‘ahmed chalabi is a counterfeiter‘ or ‘ahmed chalabi gives united states’ secrets to iran‘.

also, ahmed chalabi is still a preppie asshole.

~ anatomy of a field trip:

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~ we already know that president bush believes that the way to deal with forest fires is to cut down the trees which fuel them; now we learn from him that ‘A [flu] pandemic is a lot like a forest fire…it can grow to an inferno that spreads quickly beyond our ability to control it.’ if trees, not fire, are the problem, then people, not flu, are the problem. president bush claims that the only way to prevent avian flu from spreading from human to human would be to eliminate the humans.

‘seriously’, though this latest attempted diversion from the headlines that the vice president’s chief of staff lewis libby has been indicted for committing perjury in an attempt to cover up the administration’s outing of a c.i.a. agent (or just c.i.agent?) in retribution for her spouse’s honest and ultimately correct assessment that the administration’s justification for the war on iraq were fraudulent would bullshit even it it wasn’t being mentioned for said diversion. we weren’t destroyed by sars, by west nile virus, by anthrax, by mad cow disease (unfortunately), by needles in our pepsi or by cyanide in our tylenol; we won’t be destroyed by this year’s doomsday device.