~ if you are at all concerned at the possibility of new restrictions on civil liberties in the united states brought by the ‘uniting and strengthening america act’, then peep the new action alert online at aclu.org. especially frightening is ‘section 213’, which would allow the badge to inspect a house or apartment in secret. luckily, senator feingold is intending to amend this, as reported in yahoo news [w].

~ when paul mccartney releases a single to benefit world trade center relief efforts, he seems like a decent guy; when Michael Jackson does it, he seems like a child molester.

~ we still have not reached a conclusion concerning the finale of peter parker #35…

~ there is still time for american west coasters to make it to the green party marches in protest of the violent repression of anti-globalization demonstrations. links to california actions can be found on the san diego greens website [w]. architects may attend these rallies and still fawn over the uninvested work of ‘global’ heroes rk, hdm, and rnt.

~ we hope that you are enjoying president’s day; ‘surfing the interwebnet’ and abusing the dying napster [w] in honor of the fallen presidents of the past, and, perhaps, the immediate future. while you are out there, please visit aclu.org [w] and drop a line to your congressperson and let him or her know that you would rather they not try to restrict access to the safe and private option of abortion offered by ‘mifepristone’, and known popularly as ‘ru-486’. afterwards, to fully make president’s day into a choice day – since we didn’t have a choice about the current president – you can visit one of the sites mentioned in this week’s ‘project‘ to demonstrate your support to both them and to president bush. the second president bush.

~ due to some recent rearrangement of our pages, a visitor may occasionally arrive at an ‘404 error’ page’. if has been the case, and you think that the error has been on our end – a broken link at the angry red planet as opposed to a typo on your keyboard(!) – please do not be shy; you are welcome to inform us. if you do, we will happily send some free samples, dripping with our gratitude!

~ so clinton’s last hours are spent nobly pardoning his drug-peddling brother roger, while ignoring political prisoner leonard peltier [w]… what a jackass.

~ inauguration quote: ‘blonde, shoot this piece of shit, will ya?’ -joe cabot, ‘reservoir dogs’

~ even more depressing and enraging than the possibility of church+state john ashcroft becoming u.s. attorney general, are the statistics on the ‘death row roll call’ at the nation. when, of the 688 to-date executions in the u.s. occurring since the 1976 reinstatement, 240 have been in one state – texas – something is royally (?) fucked up. make the ‘roll call’ site a weekly visit, and click the names to drop a message to the respective state governors demanding that the executions are stayed – or abolished, as in first world nations.

~ quasi thesis quote: ‘only subordinate fucks shave before thesis presentation.’

~ ‘…but a president…well, i mean, why not shoot a president?’ -english bob, ‘unforgiven’

~ feeling my best was never good enough:
here is something nice to do without leaving the comfort of your computer: click here send a fax to president bill clinton, demanding clemency for u.s. political prisoner leonard peltier [w]

~ as long as you are in the mood for faxing president clinton, click here to demand a moratorium on federal executions. you may oppose the racist system that dispenses them or you may detest their archaic barbarism – take your pick!

~ thesis quote: ‘what’s all this meat doing all over the floor?’

~ are you looking for the popular nader + election rants? go here.

~ are you looking for the popular val kilmer movie? go here. (then go rent ‘real genius’ instead)

~ ‘don’t mourn….organize!’…as previously stated, as far as the angry red planet is concerned, the best man lost the election. initially, our breath was held while waiting for the election to be resolved. as it continues, though, we are beginning to enjoy seeing the system crumble – to see it’s shortcomings laid bare. at this point, no possible outcome will be very desirable; neither of these jackasses oppose the death penalty, neither of them are interested in caring for public schools, neither is going to bring the nation universal healthcare, neither is going to redistribute the nation’s wealth amongst the citizens, neither is going to spearhead a workers’ revolutionary party, and neither is going to pipe a dedicated t3 into the back of the angry red planet.

~ non-nader updates:
   talk with an expatriate in the parking lot reveals this: ‘you always take up the opposition…so they know how to anticipate you and rule you. you should concentrate on personal growth instead of being angry.’

   noodle shipments to the angry red planet cafeteria have been found riddled with beetles. this was discovered only after the consumption of the noodles was complete.
   have begun wrapping up the latest los angeles scene report…stay tuned!’
   managed to work on the angry red stool, after skipping shop class for two weeks…

~ so, the election is clearly a debacle. the childish bickering between the parties on how the tally and certification should continue (as though it the place of political machines to define constitutional policy!) has drawn attention away from the original fervor of pointing fingers at nader supporters as the cause for gore’s poor showing. certainly, after gore’s legal machinations fail to give him the election and george w. bush’s dad’s c.i.a. buddies finish rigging the ballots, the system will have to turn the blame upon someone with whom it can contend; the ralph nation will be a quick target. until then:
   is it ralph nader’s fault that, even with the votes that nader supposedly took from him, gore could not carry his own state?
   is it ralph nader’s fault that, even with nader’s votes supplementing him, gore could not convince half of the nation that he was the superior choice to bush? he should have torn bush a new one, but instead he botched his campaign and threw the 2-way debates out of the public memory.

   is it ralph nader’s fault that gore wished to court the ‘moderates’ and the republicans, taking for granted that the true left would support him in the face of no other choice? upon assuming my devotion was such that he could refuse to address my concerns, gore lost my vote. i’m not going to vote for gore because i’m afraid of bush; i’m not going to vote for gore, because i don’t want gore.
   the idea that there currently is a two-party system is a given; why people think that this will be changed by us not voting for third parties (except when they are not afraid to) is mind-boggling. why do those ‘liberals’ who claim to desire a three or multi-party system think that a new party will come about if, when things look rough, they falter and run back to the big two?
   in a less than insignificant way, the ‘nader factor’ has helped to bring about the current situation, where the nation’s focus is upon a system that is broken and corrupt. with just the two major party dipshits running, one of them would have slipped quietly into office; now, we are confronted with a system that uses 40-year old, failing technology to determine our ‘leaders’. we are confronted with the persistence of jim crow operations in the south, we are confronted with the inefficiencies and incompetence of the election officials, we are confronted with the absurdities of the electoral college, and we are confronted with the corruption of the bush(es) administration(s). these issues need redress, immediately. if it is true that not voting nader would let florida go to gore, then not voting nader would have kept these situations under the surface. luckily, two million turned out for nader, and the situations arose in front of the nation and in front of the world. i can not say that i am sorry for that.
   those who claim that they would have supported nader if the ‘stakes had not been so high’ or if they had/had not been in a particular ‘swing state’ deserve nothing but pity and sympathy. they choose to justify their shortcomings by claiming that their being rational and conscientious is incompatible with being moral and conscionable. there is name-calling against those of use who voted nader, as though ‘idealistic’ is somehow an insult. the situation is looking grim these days; the ‘politics of hope’ may not be feasible, but intend to reach for what i want, always, even against hope. it is a far more restful position than settling at every impasse and living a life of endless compromise. for if you start with compromise, it will never end.

   these are just a few reasons why the angry red planet chose to support ralph nader; of course the 2,000,000 other folks who did so had their own reasons, and i am sure that they don’t regret a bit of it.

~ so, let’s say there was to be a ‘revote’ in some minuscule corner of florida; let’s say that the vote would essentially determine the next president of the united states; let’s say that the angry red planet was based in this district, and could take part in this ‘revote’. if this were the case, you could be certain that 100% of the angry red planet would not hesitate to vote a full nader [w] ticket.