If you missed the first Kerry-Edwards Bikini Car Wash, you are in luck. Kerry-Edwards Bikini Car Wash 2 is right around the corner…
SUNDAY!!! At Junkman’s Daughter / Aurora Coffee in Little 5, high noon. See you gotta come there to get a coffee anyway and if you can afford $2 for java you can […]

NY Times on the chemistry of the political mind. Theory that we align ourselves more according to social instinct than intellect, or rather, we socialize the intellect.
Seeing political identity as a reflection of common brain architecture helps explain another longstanding riddle: why do people vote against their immediate interests? Why do blue-collar Republicans and limousine […]

Hilariously dead on article about the sport that is Hating Cheney. Basically they argue that the he’s way too much a pathetic, stress-ridden, mopey misanthropic ass-kisser to be the omnipotent Darth Vader everyone thinks he is.
Far from being the Richelieu of latter-day America, Cheney is the ultimate organization man, an insecure yes man […]

Interview with John Perry Barlow. All around bohemian oddball, EFF protector of cyberspace, and former Grateful Dead lyricist.
I’ve gone back and forth with politics. I’ve been a Republican county chairman. I was one of Dick Cheney’s campaign managers when he first ran for Congress. But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process […]

Canadians write cross-country concept novel:
The instructions were simple: Write about a man (Bruce) and a woman (Olivia), who are a poet and a fiction-writer, travelling through your community on a cross-country Canadian road trip. The idea is that each writer provides a regional voice to the plot. Aside from those rules, there were no restrictions. […]

Here’s something to reinvigorate your inner sloth:
Greatness and late rising are natural bedfellows. Late rising is for the independent of mind, the individual who refuses to become a slave to work, money, ambition. In his youth, the great poet of loafing, Walt Whitman, would arrive at the offices of the newspaper where he worked at […]

Robert Greenwald has impressed me much more than Michael Moore. His more sober, non-theatrical documentaries are more of what the world needs: fact without the desperate propaganda. What he may expose about the Bush administration pressuring the intel community to “connect the dots” (insert Cheney shoulder nudge here), or Fox News mandated disregard for unbiased […]

Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004
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Henri’s portrait of Camus, illustrating that philosophers look cooler when they are smoking.

American description: A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without […]

If you missed the Kerry-Edwards Bikini Car Wash, fear not liberal do-gooder, for there will be another one, and it will be bigger and grander, and may include a pressure washing of a large blimp, or the Jefferson Starship, breaking all previously held car wash records. The next one will be held on August the […]