Sep 06 2007
Hat tip Sydney Indymedia
Nothing else reaches the frat boy. Maybe he will understand this.
Organizers in Sydney hope to set a new world record on Friday, mooning the president of the United States with 2000 sideways smiles simultaneously from Hyde Park, an area of Sydney not off limits for normal use during the APEC meeting.
Details at bumsnotbombs.org
by photobucket
blast it all. Imageshack:
Thanks LoE. I’ve seen about enough different versions of this image now.
Sep 05 2007
The News at 4 o’clock. Four stories, only four, that are interesting or important. The headlines:
The stories are below the fold.
Sep 05 2007
Please give your suggestions for additions to the Blog Roll.
Does anyone have any objections to the sites I have already listed? (I have to include all the places buhdy cross-posts… not sure what they all are, but MLW is one of them)
Should we create more subsections, e.g. Politics, News, Take Action, Congress, Humor, etc. (or put some of these in their own blox)?
Also, if you are a contributing editor here and I haven’t listed your alternate blog(s), I apologize. Please let me know the name and URL and I will add it.
Sep 05 2007
This is a slightly edited version of a story I did last year in July about a friend of mine. Juan didn’t go back to Baja after all past Christmas. He told me it would be too difficult to return here and he has few people left in Santa Rosalia now. He’d like to go back before he dies, though. That’s what he told me.
I haven’t seen Juan for almost four months – the longest it’s been since I met him years ago. When the weather gets cold here in Seattle, perhaps he will knock on my door.
Juan, I have more work for you, and a pot of coffee to brew.
There is a town by the name of Santa Rosalia on the Sea of Cortez, in Baja California. When you hear a Santa Rosalia native say the name, the word “Rosalia” has the most lyrical and lovely sound, and you imagine the town as a woman, dark hair captured at the nape of a long and elegant neck, red rose behind the ear, smoky eyes. A sultry rolling “R”, a slightly flat “O”, and softer “S” – “Rosalia”.
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Sep 05 2007
Welcome to a weekly news roundup of news related to the gay, lesbian, trans, and otherwise “other” community. I haven’t yet decided on the final form for this kind of roundup, so suggestions are much appreciated:
See below for more…
Sep 05 2007
Admins and editors who haven’t signed in to docudharmaadmin, please do. And check it, every day. Ek has put up a weekly schedule, so you can see which slots are taken, and which are open. Once we go live, it will be important that everyone keep track of where they can fit their front page posts, so we aren’t stepping on each other, and aren’t leaving any dead slots.
Sep 05 2007
With tensions again building between the Bush Administration and the current regime in Iran, this would seem to be a good time to consult the world’s foremost objective expert on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Spiegel Online did just that, in a wide-ranging interview with United Nations chief weapons inspector, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mohamed ElBaradei.
SPIEGEL: Mr. ElBaradei, the international community suspects that Iran aims to build nuclear weapons. Tehran denies this. Have we now reached the decisive phase in which we will finally get an answer to this central question of world politics?
Mohamed ElBaradei: Yes. The next few months will be crucial for the overall situation in the Middle East. Whether we move in the direction of escalation or in the direction of a peaceful solution.
SPIEGEL: You have been given a central role. The new report on Iran by your International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) could lead to more severe sanctions against Tehran.
ElBaradei: The international community will have to make that decision. We can only deliver the facts and our assessment of the situation. There are hopeful and positive signs. For the first time, we have agreed, with the Iranians, to a sort of roadmap, a schedule, if you will, for clarifying the outstanding issues. We should know by November, or December at the latest, whether the Iranians will keep their promises. If they don’t, Tehran will have missed a great opportunity — possibly the last one.
Sep 05 2007
So, some of you may know that every once in a while, I throw up a diary on Daily Kos called “Quotes for Discussion”. Sometimes the quote is from a play or a book, sometimes it is from the news or from history, and sometimes it is just the lyrics to a song or a bit from a comedian.
Anyways, I was thinking of doing it more regularly as a feature here. But does anyone at all besides me have an interest in that?
Sep 05 2007
Via Yglesias, comes a review by Andrew Bacevich of a revisonist history of Stalin. I find the review to be brilliant. I am curious to see what others here will think. Here is a piece:
Sep 05 2007
The way you drive today will not be the way you travel in 10 years. Unfortunately, there will no be Jetson cars, lifter technology is still in its infancy. But by around 2012 a transformation will begin to happen to our infrastructure that will be a much needed breath of fresh air.
Follow me while I futurize: