Why is legal-sized card or cover stock so impossible to find?
Month: September 2006
Is the Spammobile coming to your neck of the woods?
Via Neatorama. (And is it just me, or is that roll-over sound on Hormel’s page really annoying?)
Did you know all the members of Monty Python have asteroids named after them?
And you thought heroin chic was disturbing…
Via Boing Boing comes this “State of Emergency” fashion spread from Vogue Italia.
So while honoring the anniversary of September 2001, we must also never forget September 2000. That’s the month when Gov. George W. Bush said, “I know that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully.” If you don’t believe me, you can look it up on both internets. The world changed on 9/11. He didn’t. That’s why we owe it to ourselves, and our children, to never stop pointing out that George W. Bush is a gruesome boob.
You know, every once in a while you should bring the flag out and say, “What does our country stand for?” The first thing that I think of is the statement that I disagree with your beliefs, but I will fight to the death for your right to express them. When the secretary of defense and the president of the United States make statements that indicate those statements are no longer operative, then you have to say something. It’s no longer liberal versus conservative at that point. It’s American versus truly un-American. So I’m not courting anybody with these things, I’m saying these things because I think they need to be said. I think they need to be underlined and underscored in the public discourse.
Real democratic values in this country are currently under assault. Day after day, we must justify concepts that were once accepted as givens. We are forced to discuss whether a free country really needs the rule of law, or freedom of speech, or an executive subject to legislative oversight. It would be nice to begin campaigning for measures that would do more than just get democracy out of its defensive crouch — that would actually make democracy stronger. A right to vote might be one of them. When the argument is truly joined, who can be against it?