I get some really cool e-mails from people who like my site, more so my ideas I put on my site. It's gratifying, however, I know we're just a bunch of people who want to work and write as they would write sans governmental restrictions, as we do, so it kind of makes this digital underground magazine way cool.
So what do we write? We write different than your local hometown paper, which is probably owned by a chain of motherfuckers who think totalitarian mind control is within their reach, causing the rich to get richer and poor get poorer. Since you are now at a computer, after you read Marty's E-Page, go google Rupert Murdoch and read about the number of media outlets that man has a reign on, and see why the media is the way it is.
Go to your editorials of the Sunday paper this weekend (October 8/October 9) and I imagine you are going to see a majority of editorialists wanting the confirmation of Harriet Miers, Bunnypants' choice as the "most qualified legal mind" he has at his disposal.
That's as big a lie as the one that got us into the War in Iraq, and the death toll, should Miers reverse Roe vs. Wade, will be as great, no, greater, than the War in Iraq due to abortions with clothes hangers performed by men who call themselves doctors and don't give a fuck about health or well-being of the pregnant woman. Folks, the reversal of any law isn't going to stop abortion. Women who think they have no hope for their fetuses are the ones who opt for abortion, and they will continue to do so because done in a professinal caring way, the procedure can be quick and painless. Stick a wire up in the canal, get hold of the bloody string, and pulling out the fetus can be a whole other ball game. Women die.
The evangelical fundamentalists who don't care about what happens to the child after it's born, maybe they should be forced to see a back alley abortion where the mother goes bye-bye from this planet. Maybe they should watch films about unwanted children and the oh so happy lives they live.
Now, when you read or see on television that your president just nominated a woman who had a religious experience awhile back similar to his, and that she will vote to reverse Roe vs. Wade even though "to his recollection' have never talked about the issue, you must think about death in the fashion of living human beings dying. Put aside the debate about when "life" begins, and think about how real death is. It seems death is a concept that slips right by Bunnypant's conceptual ability.
He has been the direct cause of thousands of deaths during his presidency. The War in Iraq turned out to be unnecessary. Whether the intelligence was known to be false, which would make Bunnypants a mass murderer, or if he believed in the erroneous intelligence, which makes him a dupe but responsible nonetheless.
The Special Counsel is starting to move on Karl Rove, making him appear for the fourth time, so it doesn't look good for Rove. Should Rove sing and let the nation know that the president knew the Weapons of Mass Destruction was a fairy tale concocted by God only who knows, that would prove the lies came straight from the top of this administration and the house of cards would begin to tumble. Until then, I hope we can hold out on more stupidity for a few years.
On Wednesday's page you showed a picture of Donald Rumsfeld in the end-of-page photo usually reserved for wildlife. Good lord man, this was more disturbing than if you showed a panda baby being eaten by it's own mother and sharing it with a pack of wild jackels!
This was too disturbing to look at first thing in the morning...
Adam
N. Hollywood, CA
PS- keep up the good work, otherwise... :-)
Thanks, Adam!
That picture really creeped me out.
Some days there just aren't any 'good' animal or nature pictures and I have to call an audible.
Two-legged predators are much scarier than 4-legged ones.
Think of it as an early Halloween present. ; )
TED RALL: Who Did You Torture During The War, Daddy? Or, we are all torturers now
Never miss the Saturday paper. Because it's the skimpiest and least-circulated edition of the week, it's the venue of choice for lowballing the stories the government can't completely cover up. September 24's New York Times, for example, contained the bombshell revelation that the U.S. government continues to torture innocent men, women and children in Iraq.
Four words: Pithy reviews (rogerebert.suntimes.com)
They may not offer much in the way of information or critical insight, but the movie reviews at The Four-Word Film Review site sure are concise. (These people should be headline writers!) And some of them are pretty clever (though you may have to wade through some dross). A few good ones:
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei
Purple Gene's review of Sara Evans on FOX"s "Hannity and Colmes" :
I used to really like country music singer Sara Evens. She had some strong hits with "Born to Fly" - "Perfect" and "Suds in the Buckets". Then I saw her perform at the Republican National Convention last year…along with Clint Black….and I had to "write her OFF !!" She has gone over to the other side (she may have always been there)…Clint too ! OK but what I don't understand how can a good Christian girl become such a hypocrite …Here's how !!!!!!!
She appears on "Hannity and Colmes", kisses Sean's supercilious ASS and practically bounces out of her "born again" BOOBS….I mean preaching family values is fine but now Sara has become "Hannity's Whore # 2" (Ann Coulter is still # 1). She is wearing the most revealing top imaginable and literally pushing her "holier than thou" hooters at the people watching
And just to put the asinine icing on the conservative cake….Sean Hannity has to plug her new Album by telling an absolutely typical republican LIE……He claimed that her CD "Real Fine Place" was released and went to # 1 on the country albums chart in the first week !
Another republican LIE…..check billboard's hot 100 country albums….#1 - Gretchin Wilson - # 2 - Wynonna - # 3 - Trisha Yearwood ! Hell …..Sara Evan's New Album isn't even in the top 20….. Will it ever end ????
Purple Gene gives Sara Evans minus 10 little dangling Christian Crosses out of 10 for shameless commercial crassness….bad bad born again!!!!!
About 5 months ago an older cat was dumped in our yard. She's a big fluffy girl, with slightly crossed eyes, a sweet disposition and seemingly going through a second kitten-hood.
She likes to lay behind me as I type, a bit of my sweatshirt in her mouth, and act like she's nursing, paws kneading away.
After a few minutes, she drifts off to sleep, purring.
Got a bit of mail over Ralph's review of Gunga Din last Friday - hope to get to it eventually.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Guatemala', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Adam Carolla, Larry Brown, and Ricky Martin.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig is Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH (but still unwatchable) 'Joey', followed by a FRESH'Will & Grace', then a FRESH'Apprentice: The Donald', followed by a FRESH'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kirsten Dunst, John Leguizamo, and Santana.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jason Schwartzman, Darrell Hammond, and My Morning Jacket.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Patricia Arquette and David Banner.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Alias', followed by a FRESH'Night Stalker', then 'Primetime'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 10/3/05) are Jessica Alba, Neil Strauss, and Brad Paisley.
The WB offers a FRESH'Smallville', followed by a FRESH'Everwood'.
Faux has LIVE'MLB Baseball Play Offs', followed on the left coast by RERUNs of 'Simpsons' and 'Malcolm'.
UPN has a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a FRESH'Love, Inc', then a FRESH'Eve', followed by a FRESH'Cuts'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', another 'Cold Case Files', and a FRESH'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Black Rain', followed by the movie 'The French Connection', then the movie 'French Connection II'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Dinsdale;
[2:40pm] 'Worst Week of My Life' - Episode 1;
[3:20pm] 'Worst Week of My Life' - Episode 2;
[4pm] 'Jonathan Creek' - Jonathan Creek;
[5pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 11;
[6pm] 'BBC World News' - BBC World News;
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Shirley, Solihull;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 34;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Burrington-Wheatley;
[9pm] 'Bodies' - Episode 3;
[10:15pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Ep. 2 Sex and Violence;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Dinsdale;
[11:40pm] 'The Smoking Room' - Episode 1;
[12:20am] 'The Smoking Room' - Episode 2;
[1am] 'Bodies' - Episode 3;
[2:15am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Ep. 2 Sex and Violence;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', another 'West Wing', and a FRESH'Celebrity Poker Showdown'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Corey Holcomb), 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Showbiz Show With David Spade'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart is George Clooney.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] Ready To Wear (1994);
[8:15AM] The Quiet Room (1996);
[10AM] IFC October Short Film Collection II (2005);
[12PM] Secret Ballot (2001);
[2PM] The Quiet Room (1996);
[3:45PM] At The IFC Center (2005);
[4:15PM] The Broken Hearts Club (2000);
[6PM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[6:15PM] Unhook The Stars (1996);
[8:15PM] Breaking The Waves (1996);
[11PM] Return of The Secaucus 7 (1981);
[1AM] Dream of the Dead: The Making of George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005);
[1:30AM] Charming Billy (1999);
[3AM] Return of The Secaucus 7 (1981);
[5AM] IFC October Short Film Showcase (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Revelation', followed by the movie 'Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath Of The Dragon God'.
Sundance -
[6AM] Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man;
[7AM] The Al Franken Show: (09/19/05);
[8AM] Writers on the Borders;
[9:30AM] Cheech & Chong: Get Out of My Room;
[10:30AM] Mott Music;
[11AM] The Al Franken Show: (09/19/05);
[12PM] Cry Funny Happy;
[1:35PM] Where The Buffalo Roam;
[3:15PM] Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man;
[4:15PM] The Last Detail;
[6PM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Planet of the Men & Women;
[6:30PM] Mott Music;
[7PM] The Madness of King George;
[9PM] A Fond Kiss;
[10:45PM] Bamboleho;
[11PM] TransGeneration: Episode 4;
[11:30PM] The Al Franken Show: (09/22/05);
[12:30AM] The Eye;
[2:15AM] Bamboleho;
[2:30AM] The Al Franken Show: (09/22/05);
[3:30AM] A Certain Kind of Death;
[4:45AM] Where The Buffalo Roam. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, right, gets a hug of support from Leslie Hill, after delivering a letter to California Gov. Arnold $chwarznegger's Sacramento office demanding that he withdraw the National Guard from Iraq on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005. Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq a year ago, camped outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, for 28 days in August to protesting U.S. policy in Iraq. Hill, from Sacramento, has a daughter in the Navy and said she supports Sheehans efforts.
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli
Angelina Jolie has accepted an award for her humanitarian work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency.
At a dinner attended by 700 diplomats and VIP guests Tuesday, Jolie received the Global Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Association of the U.S.A.
The actress said her humanitarian work has been "the greatest thing in my life" aside from her two children.
Britain's Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, meets Yusuf Islam, the former singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, during a visit to the Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre near Notting Hill in west London, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005. Prince Charles was given an update on the situation in the earthquake-stricken region of Kashmir by representatives from Islamic Relief and met families who have lost loved ones in the disaster.
Photo by Arthur Edwards
At age 90, the man who developed the solid-body electric guitar has finally released his first rock album, "Les Paul & Friends: American Made, World Played" - which is remarkable considering that he is a longtime inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He appears with Frampton, Beck, Clapton, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora and other guitar legends on the new CD.
This is Paul's first new recording since the mid-1970s, when he released two albums with the legendary country guitarist Chet Atkins, including "Chester & Lester," which won a Grammy for best country instrumental album.
Born Lester William Polsfuss on June 9, 1915, to a German immigrant family in Waukesha, Wis., Paul has done more than perhaps any other individual to create the tools and techniques that shaped the past 60 years of pop music - from Alvin and the Chipmunks' sped-up tapes to ZZ Top's southern rock powered by Gibson's Les Paul-model guitars.
"The Simple Life" is over - at least on Fox. The network said Wednesday it has canceled the Paris Hilton- Nicole Richie reality series after the show's two stars no longer proved compatible.
The feuding ex-friends will not return for a fourth season, even though the network had picked up the options on their contracts.
Fox said its midseason schedule didn't have a time slot for the show.
Jon Stewart's wife, Tracey, is pregnant with the couple's second child, Tony Fox, a spokesman for Comedy Central, confirmed Wednesday. The baby, known to be a girl, is due in February.
"I don't know that much about women," Stewart, host of the "Daily Show," said of his concerns during a recent appearance on CBS' "The Late Show With David Letterman."
"A girl, she's going to want me to have tea with her and her panda. Like, what am I going to do with that?" the 42-year-old comedian joked.
Cartoonist Jules Pfeiffer arrives at the Quill Awards, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005, in New York. The Quills a new national book award honors excellence in book publishing in 19 categories and includes consumers in the voting process.
Photo by Stephen Chernin
Actor Woody Harrelson, who plays a father of 10 in the new movie "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," says he's going to be a real-life dad for a third time.
"The wife is preggers ... and we've narrowed it down to me," he told David Letterman in an interview for Tuesday's "Late Show," according to a transcript.
It will be the third child for Harrelson and his wife, Laura Louie. The couple have two daughters, Deni and Zoe.
Steven Cojocaru received a second kidney transplant - this one donated by his mother - after the first one in January had to be removed due to infection.
Cojocaru, a correspondent for the syndicated TV shows "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," had the transplant Tuesday and was resting comfortably, according to a joint statement released by the television shows.
Cojocaru suffers from polycystic kidney disease, a hereditary disorder that causes the growth of cysts on the kidney. He received a kidney from a friend in January, but it was removed in June after it became infected with a virus that can afflict transplant recipients and lead to eventual loss of the organ.
Clear Channel Communications Inc., the world's largest radio operator, on Tuesday said it had fired two programmers following an internal probe into "pay-for-play" practices that had been the target of an investigation by New York prosecutors.
In a statement, San Antonio, Texas-based Clear Channel said it had that it had found evidence of wrongdoing involving two of its staff and that they had been dismissed. It would not disclose their names.
Clear Channel said it also found evidence of inappropriate conduct in other instances and said that staff in those cases had been the subject of disciplinary action.
A thirsty tufted titmouse takes advantage of a dripping garden hose for an afternoon drink, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005, in Tallahassee, Fla.
Photo by Phil Coale
Tucked deep inside a massive bill designed to track sex offenders and prevent children from being victimized by sex crimes is language that could put many Hollywood movies in the same category as hard-core, X-rated films.
The provision added to the Children's Safety Act of 2005 would require any film, TV show or digital image that contains a sex scene to come under the same government filing requirements that adult films must meet.
Currently, any filmed sexual activity requires an affidavit that lists the names and ages of the actors who engage in the act. The film is required to have a video label that claims compliance with the law and lists where the custodian of the records can be found. The record-keeping requirement is known as Section 2257, for its citation in federal law. Violators could spend five years in jail.
Industry officials contend that the way the provision is written, a sex scene could trigger the provision even if the actors were clothed. While the language is designed to capture "lascivious exhibition of the genitals," other legal decisions have said that "lascivious exhibition" could occur when the genitals are covered.
A year after a unanimous Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted in new regulations for ads on children's TV programs, major broadcast and kids' networks are fighting the decision and are hoping to at least delay rules set to take effect Jan. 1, 2006.
In their joint filing to the FCC on Sept. 26, Disney, Viacom and NBC said the rules could force "far-reaching, burdensome and expensive changes" to Web sites belonging to broadcasters and to cable operators, which also fall under the rules. "The companies might be required to eliminate any reference, anywhere on their Web sites, to a product or service related to on-air characters, such as SpongeBob SquarePants or Mickey Mouse," the companies said.
Sultry actress Marlene Dietrich, one of the 20th century's most iconic figures, hated sex and had a schizophrenic personality, according to her daughter Maria Riva.
In an interview with German magazine Bunte to be published Thursday, Riva said Dietrich's aversion to sex did not deter countless men from pursuing her.
Riva, who has written a memoir entitled "My Mother Marlene," said that Dietrich's hatred of sex and sometimes distant personality often made her feel sorry for the men who fell in love with her glamorous mother.
Dr. Joyce Brothers arrives at the Quill Awards, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005, in New York. The Quills a new national book award honors excellence in book publishing in 19 categories and includes consumers in the voting process.
Photo by Stephen Chernin
Opening the door to a new revenue stream for television content, the Walt Disney Co. said on Wednesday it will begin offering next-day digital downloads of its biggest ABC prime time hits for $1.99 per episode.
Commercial free episodes of two of U.S. television's highest rated shows -- ABC's "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" -- will be available for download from Apple's iTunes online music store a day after their network broadcast. Last season's episodes will be available for download immediately.
In addition to "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," iTunes will also offer downloads of ABC's new drama "Night Stalker" and Disney Channel's two most popular cable TV shows, "That's So Raven" and "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody."
The City Council voted Tuesday to transform a historic Hollywood nightclub - where an unknown Marilyn Monroe held her first wedding reception - into a fire station.
City engineers originally recommended demolition of Florentine Gardens on Hollywood Boulevard to make room for the new station, but activists protested.
The plan was redrawn to keep the building's historic facade and gut the inside to make way for the firefighters.
A demonstrator dressed like 'Uncle Sam' walks holding a marionette of President Alvaro Uribe during a protest march in Bogota October 12, 2005. Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Colombia protesting against the re-election of Uribe and the Andean free trade with the U.S. A Colombian court should allow Uribe to run for re-election next year because the bill enabling him to do so reflects the will of Congress despite irregularities in its passage, a top constitutional expert said.
Photo by Jose Miguel Gomez
Ronald Isley, lead singer of legendary R&B band the Isley Brothers, went on trial on Wednesday on tax evasion charges that could result in a prison sentence of up to 26 years if convicted.
Isley, 64, who emerged from bankruptcy in the early 1990s, is accused of demanding fees in cash for his tour dates, making it difficult to determine how much of his upfront tour fees were used for expenses and how much was profit.
Prosecutors say he used the funds to buy a yacht and two mansions in Missouri. Isley has pleaded not guilty to five counts of tax evasion and one count of failing to file a tax return. No figure has been given for the amount of alleged tax evasion.
British-born Peter Mayhew will be among 441 people from 77 countries who will become naturalized Americans in a ceremony in Arlington, Texas.
Mayhew, 60, played the fur-covered warrior Chewbacca in the original "Star Wars" trilogy of the 1970s and 1980s, and the latest movie, "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith."
"I got married to a Texan lady. That more or less decided it," said Mayhew, who has been married to his wife, Angelique, for six years.
A Chinstrap Penguin, foreground, swims past a Gentoo Penguin perched on a rock in the Penguin exhibit of the Central Park Zoo, Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005 in New York.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
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