(Simul-post)
Four months after Woodstock came the perfect storm — just like a Nor’easter with an extra-tropical hurricane rolled in, everything that could go wrong at the Altamont Speedway on Saturday, December 6, 1969 did. The stage — set overnight by volunteers and pros — was unbarricaded and far to low. The acid was either too [...]
Posted on March 25th, 2007 by Paco Malo
Filed under: General | 2 Comments »
The pictures above were taken at a Peace rally in San Francisco on 3/18/2007. The one below was taken at a Peace rally in Portland on the same day.
Nothing quite says peace like burning the effigy of a soldier, or calling for the murder of the President. Well, almost nothing. There was this [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: politics, war | 2 Comments »
Brooksville, Florida is getting tough on crime.
The city council in Brooksville, Florida voted this week to advance a proposal granting city officials the authority to place liens and foreclose on the homes of motorists accused of failing to pay a single $5 parking ticket. Non-homeowners face having their vehicles seized if accused of not paying [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by pwyll
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I rather liked the anonymously authored Obama video. I thought it nicely captured Senator Clinton’s charisma. Not everyone agreed; some thought it was a Karl Rove trick. Here’s what one commenter at MyDD.com had to say:
The video is smelling to me more and more like a typical Rovian ploy. What is Swift Boat fundmeister Bob [...]
Posted on March 21st, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: politics | 2 Comments »
This is funny. The NFL chose exactly the wrong person with whom to pick a copyright fight.
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by pwyll
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The Bush censorship machine needs a tuneup. The Washington Times reports:
A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he’d done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years.
James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who argues global warming [...]
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: BDS | 1 Comment »
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