Roy Zimmerman – Funny Songs About Ignorance, War and Greed … 12 Free Songs of Christmas – Day 1 Roy Zimmerman is being compared to Tom Lehrer – but he seems like a neo-Arlo to me. The first download, available today, is Jerry Falwell’s God. (Check out Chickenhawk too) Thanks Roy! Needed that.
Yummy! 50 Best Restaurants in the World 2005 1. The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire, Britain 2. El Bulli, Montjoi, Spain 3. French Laundry, California 4. Tetsuya’s, Sydney, Australia 5. Gordon Ramsay, London, Britain 6. Pierre Gagnaire, Paris, France 7. Per Se, New York, New York 8. Tom Aikens, London, Britain 9. Jean Georges, New York, New York 10. St John, London, Britain 11. Michel Bras, Laguiole, France 12. Louis XV, Monaco 13. Chez Panisse, California 14. Charlie Trotter, Chicago, Illinois…
With this generator, you get credit for the disease generated from your name. Doctor Unheimlich has diagnosed me withVirusHeadosis Cause: a significant alignment of the stars Symptoms: chapped lips, frequent hydrophobia, mild seizures Cure: take a day off work Enter your name, for your own diagnosis: Note: Not the Heimlich Maneuver, but Unheimlich (uncanny). A bit of a pun on both. The Uncanny reminds me of Freud and Beckett. I have been thinking about the uncanny again just recently –…
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Bush’s Bloody Strategy for Victory (Mathew Rothschild) 1) Pick up the tempo and quantity of the air bombing of civilians 2) Increase use of the “Salvadore Option” (kidnapping and death squads) Even former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has decried these human rights abuses. “People are doing the same as Saddam’s time and worse,†he told the London Observer. “We are hearing about secret police, secret bunkers where people are being interrogated. A lot of Iraqis are being tortured or killed…
Meet John Rendon, Bush’s general in the propaganda war (James Bamford, Rolling Stone) For months, hawks inside and outside the administration had been pressing for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq. Now, thanks to Miller’s story, they could point to “proof” of Saddam’s “nuclear threat.” The story, reinforced by Moran’s on-camera interview with al-Haideri on the giant Australian Broadcasting Corp., was soon being trumpeted by the White House and repeated by newspapers and television networks around the world. It was the…