Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme Week 148 … I say:: you think Amazing:: Lies Delights:: Pleasures Inspired:: Verse Disgusted:: Face You:: Me Vagina:: Hate that word Palm:: Touch Sweetheart:: Be My Guilt:: Shame More to come:: After the Break
An interesting take on spiral symbols. Spiral imagery is universal – it doesn’t usually symbolize this, but why not? The claim is overstated, but it’s a great little flash movie and a set of very ancient ideas in a neat package. I like the viral experiment aspect, of course. Give Me the Master Key Note: I think “master key” was a bad choice of words…
The Democratic Party is asking that people sign a letter to be sent to the Lamar billboard company. Billboard Company Rejects Your Ads Despite a signed contract, Lamar Advertising has decided to reject the billboards that were to be placed outside of Rep. Jean Schmidt’s office in Portsmouth, Ohio. By rejecting these ads, Lamar has limited millions of Democrats’ right to be heard. You can put pressure on Lamar to support free speech by signing on to the letter from…
You Vill Show Us Your Papers Bitte On the 9th of December 2005, Deborah Davis (whose son is serving in Iraq) will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in a case that will determine whether we live in a free society, or in a country where we must “show papers” whenever the police demand them. Deborah Davis’ case is about one thing: the right to travel. The reason why she was charged has absolutely nothing to do with security. The…
Pies Thrown at Ann Coulter Tofu Pies Missed Colter, Spattered Backdrop – Misdemeanor Assault Ann Coulter Coulter first came to national prominence as a legal correspondent and pundit for MSNBC, which fired her for insulting a Vietnam veteran. The conservative National Review dropped her column after she responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by stating that America should “invade their [terrorists’] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” In an interview with The New York…
Dear Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: I am deeply concerned about the network of secret detention centers around the world and the situation for those who are “disappeared” into these illegal facilities. Torturing people in secret facilities or outsourcing torture and holding people without charge, trial or access to the outside world, is a blatant violation of U.S. obligations under international law. The United States must disclose the location of all places of all its facilities around the world and…