I don’t have a ton to say today, I think. But I’ve got links to a couple long essays below, so if you’re looking for a lot of words, my laziness won’t hold you back.
Not so much a busy week as a lazy one this week. The cool weather and snow (we did end up getting some snow, but nothing near the amount the panicked weather-babes were predicting) put a damper on my enthusiasm for darned near anything. But tonight the ABE are playing at the Eagles Club, and with the Front Porch Swingin’ Liquor Pigs opening, it should be a fun evening.
- Bill Whittle is back and has a few (well, rather a lot) choice works about Rosie O’Donnell and others who are Seeing The Unseen (part 2) and weaving conspiracy theories. It follows part 1 which he wrote way back before the elections last year, which talks about the Polaris Sub that you could have bought for $6.98 from the back of a comic if you hadn’t had parents who’d point out that it was just cardboard (among many other things). Go read ’em, especially if you’re in the
Bush is an idiot
,Bush Lied, People Died
orNo blood for oil
camps and are willing to listen to an alternative point of view. If you read nothing else I link to today, please read these essays. [kim] - Well. One less asshole in the world: Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84.
Kurt is up in Heaven now.
* [scripting] - In a bit of good local news, Robbed man fights back then leads police to arrest of a 15-year-old thug who accounts for 60-70 percent of the crimes in his neighborhood. Let’s hope they keep the little shit off the streets. [metro mpls]
- Hmm. Good news? Seattle To Clear Arrest Records, Pay $1 Million To WTO Protesters Wrongfully Arrested In 1999 It’s nice that Seattle was finally made to pay for unconstitutional arrests, I think. The problem is that the people in charge of ordering the arrests are probably skating. [boing boing]
- This video of Hocus Pocus by Focus has slightly out-of-sync audio and video tracks, but unless you’re as picky as I am, it might not bother you too much. And it’s definitely worth watching, just to see the manic intensity of the vocalist. [endwar]