Listen to Neil Young’s new album, Living with War. Visit the blog. Don’t need no ad machine Telling me what I need Don’t need no Madison Avenue War Don’t need no more boxes I can see Covered in flags but I can’t see them on TV Don’t need no more lies Don’t need no more lies Don’t need no more lies Click on the track title for the lyrics in ticker formet at the official website, or here for the…
I somehow made it all the way through the State of the Union address last night. Much as I disagree with the Bush administration, I even found him unusually appealing. I actually had the thought, “Well, maybe most of this administration’s ugliness is Cheney. Maybe Bush means some of what he is saying here.” I thought he really tried to appeal to our hopefulness at a very sour time – that showed some good leadership. But that’s about it. So…
Laura Bush (and again, what drugs do they have her on?) referred to the hurricane Katrina as “Corinna” twice. It wouldn’t bother me so much except that: 1) It occurred to me that it was a Freudian slip. Whoopi Goldberg may be the only black person that Laura can think of, and she is assocated with a killer hurricane? What does that imply? Some sort of “they brought it on themselves” idea? Or should we look at the movie itself,…
The satirists are at work already. The court jesters tell truth to King George. Responding to Hurricane Katrina: President’s Remarks Announcing Extremely Belated Launch of “Operation Bureaucratic Clusterf**k” – whitehouse.org In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush Addresses Trent Lotts Loss – Unconfirmed Sources President Bush To Survey New Orleans Destruction Using Google Earth – The Daily Farce Bush Missing 404 error – Mad Kane Bush Offers New Orleans Back to the French – Soup Yet Hurricane Bin…
A roundup from some of my reads. An Etherealgirl’s Adventures in Cyberland has been following opinion and news on New Orleans and is just as miserable and angry as I am. She points to the Time Photo Essay, and some of the coverage at Daily Kos (see the video from Hannity and Colmes – “Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera were livid about the situation in NOLA as they appeared on H&C. When Hannity tried his usual spin job and said…
My heart goes out to all of the people who have lost so much. It’s not just New Orleans. In addition to Louisiana, the states of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi were all hit by the hurricane. We got nasty storms and tornados even here in Georgia. Hang tight, grab a hand, take what comfort that you can. This is one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in our history. I can’t think of what else might compare with it. Please,…