This was suggested in Atrios’ comments section and is going around:
president george w bush
1600 pennsylvania ave
washington, dc 20500
Enclose a note saying “I know what you did last summer”.
This was suggested in Atrios’ comments section and is going around:
president george w bush
1600 pennsylvania ave
washington, dc 20500
Enclose a note saying “I know what you did last summer”.
This was suggested in Atrios’ comments section and is going around:
president george w bush
1600 pennsylvania ave
washington, dc 20500
Enclose a note saying “I know what you did last summer”.
This was suggested in Atrios’ comments section and is going around:
president george w bush
1600 pennsylvania ave
washington, dc 20500
Enclose a note saying “I know what you did last summer”.
Colonel Gaddafi has publicly defended Saddam Hussein and berated Arab leaders who he accuses of co-operating with the US.”
Proof that there is a global conspiracy against us and our WoT® from people who hate freedom.
Polio outbreak hits. Local Muslim leaders had called for a boycott of American polio vaccines, claiming that they would make the population infertile and might spread the HIV virus. Polio inoculations just resumed last month after the government secured a batch of vaccine from a Muslim state, Indonesia. Now authorities are pleading for urgent assistance as polio spreads among the children of Kano state. (Medical News Today)
It’s official. The occupation is over. So what can we call the hundred-thousand-plus US force that will remain there indefinitely, asks Kos?
“Bush Administration Calls an End to the ‘War on Terrorism.'” (New York Times op-ed) I am looking forward to three months of Barbara Ehrenreich’s columns during Friedman’s sabbatical.
An Adbusters call to replace to Stars and Stripes for an earnest Independence Day.
Tennis players are better conditioned and far stronger than they were 20 or 30 years ago. But the athletes have changed far less than the racket technology. Compared to today’s composite frames and Kevlar strings, rackets made of wood or the metal T2000 (popularized by Jimmy Connors) look like they should hang in a natural history museum. Modern rackets are significantly bigger and stronger than old models, yet weigh half as much. No wonder a former technical director of the International Tennis Federation has said that ‘we are approaching the limit on reaction time for the return of serve.’
Men’s tennis offers a cautionary tale for other sports. An absence of racket regulations has allowed the game to be transformed by technology. At this point, turning back the clock will be exceedingly difficult. Any fundamental changes to the game would lead to carping about the loss of tradition and resistance from players who’ve crafted a style of play for the game as it was presented to them.” (Slate )
Denver Post columnist Michael Booth observes that politics is becoming pop culture:
The huge box-office take of Fahrenheit 9/11 is the occasion but it is only the latest in a string of recent culture war skirmishes that have made the jump to the entertainment industry, including Clinton’s memoirs, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Passion of the Christ. Booth stretches the thesis abit in enlisting the Reagan funeral campaign event and the Janet Jackson and Howard Stern brouhahas to his cause, however. But is this really the first time mass-marketed pop culture is joining in the ideological struggle? Hardly. The spate of antiwar films of the Vietnam and post-Vietnam era including Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and of course Apocalypse Now; the anti-nuclear The Day After; the 1988 Scorsese/Schrader film of The Last Temptation of Christ that was so much in the Catholic Church’s face — these are just recent examples in one artform that come to mind. As long as the country has been polarized, mass culture has capitalized on sectarian appeal. Many major political upheavals spawn bestselling books; think of All the President’s Men, which was a massive publishing event.
Booth so wants it to be unprecedented that every man on the street has an opinion on the events of the day. Perhaps it appears more dramatic now because we have never been as emphatically split right down the middle as we appeared to have been in the 2000 election; or because the urgency around getting the confounded muggins occupying the White House out in November is so intense. As one commentator notes in the article, what may appear to be pop cultural appeal may be the nascent reawakening of the disenfranchised voter instead.
Happy first birthday to my friends at Value Judgment. 366 days down, 124 to go.
