the floating band

Rockin The Seas is touted as the “floating festival of a lifetime.” The Tubes, Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker will perform live music on a cruise ship sailing from L.A. to Ensenada, Mexico and back this February 16-17.

Why do I seemingly always find out about events too late to attend them? It’s too late for me to obtain a U.S. passport–which is now mandatory. Pathetic.

Did I forget to mention that I have an inner ear condition? Loud noise causes dizziness and vomiting. I’d be really pissed off now otherwise.

Ironically, I’ve never been seasick.

planet fubar

The verdict is in. Global Climate Change is the result of pollution. It will continue to get worse for the remainder of our lifetimes.

President Bush wants nearly three quarters of a trillion dollars for the U.S. military in 2008.

The National Intelligence Estimate has a grim assessment of Iraq.

Read all about it in Slate’s “summary of what’s in the major U.S. newspapers.”

The MoJo blog reveals Exxon Mobil’s ongoing clumsy impersonation of Big Tobacco.

Here are some previous episodes of this bad melodrama.

Did Exxon Nix Showing “An Inconvenient Truth” in Schools?
[November 2006]
Put A Tiger In Your Think Tank Part I
[April 2005]
Put A Tiger In Your Think Tank Part II
[April 2005]
Some Like It Hot
[April 2005]

Members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists have been very busy lately.

Ted Rall shared his thoughts about popular harmless radiation emitting devices.

Meanwhile, Elena Steier of the Center for American Blogress has got a bad feeling about the Dubster.

psychedelic vomit

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Collaborative digital collage from SITO Panic.

Molly Ivins

The Texas Observer has published a special section devoted to columnist Molly Ivins. They have also published a noteworthy obituary.

Mooninites in Moosylvania

UPDATE: This evening I made changes to the item below about the recent arrest of two artists in Boston.

“Past is prologue” – William Shakespeare

Wikipedia says that Jay Ward–the creator of Rocky & Bullwinkle–and his publicist “crossed the country in a circus wagon, gathering signatures on a petition for statehood for Moosylvania. They then visited Washington, D.C. and attempted to gain an audience with President John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, they arrived at the White House just at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and were escorted off the grounds at gunpoint.”

no comment

You can make comments from now on. I’ll be moderating ’em. So expect a 24 hour delay before your comment is published. More or less.

I’m sorry to be a censor. But I’ve seen some really sick stuff online. Not to mention spam. I don’t want it here.

who are the brain police?

“Hey, you know something people?
I’m not black
But there’s a whole lots of times
I wish I could say I’m not white” – Frank Zappa, Trouble Every Day 1966