Month: December 2000 (Page 1 of 2)

Stumbled upon an amazing piece of writing from an apparently defunct webmag, Razor, which says many things eloquently and well about the state of our consumerist culture. Just what you need to take your mind off that Visa bill. Enjoy.

Bonus link: Adbusters

Synonyms of the day:
Abstruse and recondite.

(although Gurunet has stupidly changed its name to Atomica, it’s still the best online dictionary, thesaurus, search engine, weather and a bunch of other stuff instant access net program there is. Useful for the above.)

So outgoing Sen. John Ashcroft, who lost his last election to a dead man, is Dubya’s choice for Attorney General. He’s given the commencement address at Bob Jones University, hailed Confederate generals in Southern Partisan magazine, and opposes any federal funding for drug treatment. We’re in for a wild ride.

I guess there in fact are uses for the military-industrial complex that I can support after all.

BONUS: Homer Simpson lists the reindeer
“Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Nixon….Comet, Cupid, Donna Dixon.”

How to operate Alan Greenspan

Sad but true quote of the day
After running frightening video of Dubya struggling to get even one sentence uttered, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show said with amazement, “I don’t think I can take four more years of this.” Even the comedians are stunned.

Surrounded by congressional leaders yesterday, the purported President-elect said of his policies, including an agressive tax cut that even Republicans think is too radical,
“If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier…(pause) just so long as I’m the dictator.”

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I think the winner for Most Egregious Whoring of the Christmas Season Advertisement has to go to Circuit City, which shows a man stuffing the back of a mini-van with Circuit City boxes. The smartly-dressed Circuit City employee helping him with this bounty peers into the van and says with wonderment, “Someone’s going to have a very Happy Holidays!”

Every year I identify more with Charlie Brown and his frustration and anger with the fields of aluminum Christmas trees we all have to wade through during this season.

Freaky pop culture trivia of the day:
Dr. William Moulton Marston, who created Wonder Woman and her lasso of truth, also invented the polygraph.

-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife is helping to investigate the background of Bush cabinet appointees.
-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who certified the election for Bush (repeatedly), was GWB’s campaign co-chair in Florida.
-John Ellis, the head of election coverage for Fox News, the first network to call the election for Bush, is Bush’s cousin. Ellis also admitted to discussing confidential exit polling with GW on election night.
-the governor of the disputed state in the closest election in history is the candidate’s brother, Jeb.

You decide.