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Posted April 24, 2007 To the extent that other people's problems help
you forget your own, this has been a good week. I thought my problems were
pretty bad until this week happened. Sometimes you need to be reminded, in the most drastic
moments, when your own prospects look dim, that things could be worse,
a lot worse, and you should be grateful for your pitiful
problems. Bad news reminds you that things could be worse, good news reminds you
that things could be better, and we need both to remain sane. Despite recent
events on the world stage to the contrary, I continue to maintain sanity is a
good thing.
How can anyone not want to kill once in a while? After all, who wouldn't
want to lay waste to some innocents after finding out you're no smarter than a
5th grader and Howie Mandel won't shake your hand no matter what. I blame it all
on emotional trading stamps.
They used to give away S&H Green Stamps with every purchase, one for
every dollar spent. You'd fill savings books with the stamps and redeem them for
items in a catalogue or at an S&H Redemption Center near you. A new lamp! A
new toaster! A bike! All thanks to Green Stamps.
 This concept has gone away every way but emotionally. Every time something
pisses you off, you put another hate stamp in your emotional savings book. Fill
up a book of hate and trade it in on a tantrum. You can take it out on anybody,
and they'll think you're over-reacting to the last stamp in the book, little
realizing you're simply redeeming a tantrum based on the completion of a
whole page of emotion and not just the single stamp.
You can trade in a single page for a little shit fit or save up the pages,
like tickets at a carnival arcade, to be traded in for something on the top
shelf, a furious fist through a wall or face, or worse, much worse, depending
upon how long you've been saving up the hate. Scrooge it up for a week
emotionally, then throw down on someone just because they happened to fill
in the last stamp, never knowing why you over-reacted. Save up your emotional
hate trading stamps for a lifetime and look what happens.
Don't buy into the system. Throw away your emotional trading
stamps, never even stick 'em in a book. After all, the glue
tastes awful and you'll just redeem it for something stupid. Better to be a
little irrational every day than really irrational once a year or totally
irrational once a lifetime. Don't bottle up that hate for a rainy day. There is
no tomorrow where a bottle of old hate will come in handy.
How about some preventative medicine? Maybe if Cho had had the opportunity
to jump into one of these, he'd never have needed
the reality...
Sophistimicated Doowacky of
the Week
 The Virtusphere uses new locomotion technology for
immersing you in a
virtual reality where, naturally, you kill people.
I guess it didn't occur to them to create "A
Walk Through Paradise."
(Note to self: Create a virtual weight
loss program for the Virtusphere
where you have to run through an
endless landscape after a
beautiful member of the opposite sex,
never quite catching them,
while listening to your favorite MP3s
on random.)
I Feel So Much Safer
Now
"A University of Colorado student pleaded not guilty
Wednesday to making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the
gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities
said.
"During a class discussion Tuesday of Monday's massacre
at Virginia Tech, Max Karson 'made comments about understanding how someone
could kill 32 people,' university police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said."
- The Associated Press: Student
Arrested Over Va. Tech Remarks -
"If I made comments about understanding how Max Karson could have made
comments about how someone could kill 32 people, would I be breaking the
law?"
- certainly not me-
"In order to reflect the hierarchy of faculty, there
would have to be stratification:
"Assistant Professors get muzzle-loaders
"Associate Professors get semi-automatics
"Full Professors get automatics
"Adjuncts get a sharp letter-opener
"Chaired Professors are irrelevant, since they never
come to campus.
- Hoosier
in response to the idea of arming professors in colleges -
"Under the list of countries the State Department
recommends Americans to avoid altogether are Israel, Haiti and Colombia. In the
case of Colombia, it says that 'citizens of the United States and other
countries continue to be victims of threats, kidnappings, and other criminal
acts,' even though 'violence in recent years has decreased markedly in most
urban areas, including Bogot, Medellin, Barranquilla, and Cartagena.'
"In the case of Israel, it says that there is a
continuing threat of suicide bombings. 'The January 2006 and April 2006 suicide
bombings in Tel Aviv, the December 2005 suicide bombing in Netanya and a similar
incident in Hadera in October 2005 are reminders of the precarious security
environment,' it says.
"But it so happens that this week's killings at Virginia
Tech were as deadly as the worst recent incidents of violence in Colombia or
Israel...
"My opinion: Does it make sense for the United States to
warn Americans not to travel to countries whose capitals are as safe - or unsafe
- as major U.S. cities?
"Furthermore, does it make sense for the U.S. government
to spend billions in economic aid to friendly countries such as Colombia and
Israel, and at the same time shoot down their tourism industries?"
- Andres Oppenheimer: U.S. may have to include
itself in 'travel warnings' -
"The lizard lounged, the crickets chirped and the
tarantulas perched on fuzzy legs at the edges of a turtle-shaped enclosure,
oblivious to their role as stars in a battle of artistic freedom versus
animal-welfare concerns.
"That was yesterday. As of today, however, the creature's part
of an exhibit called Theatre of the World by renowned Chinese artist Huang Yong
Ping will be gone, removed after the Vancouver Art Gallery decided it could not
comply with additional orders from the British Columbia Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals without compromising the artist's
work."
- Wendy Stueck: Rights
of insects, reptiles trump artistic freedom -
"Operation Broken Bong, maybe? That's the million-dollar
question...
"When agents stormed into the West Valley Co-op this
time, Joyce says she was not actually in the dispensary, but in a suite next
door that houses Natural Care 4 Wellness, a doctor's office that offers medical
marijuana recommendations.
"She was there waiting for a ride from Jim Wilson, the
business manager of that office, who had just picked up the car-less Joyce from
an interview for National Lampoon Radio about The Dope Show.
"Wilson said federal agents entered his office after
dispensary patients and staff fled there during the raid.
"'They were kicking doors down when the people who were
there were saying, "You don't need to kick that door down, let me give you the
key." They were kicking the doors down just because they could, and they had
their guns drawn,' recalled Wilson, who prevented agents from seizing medical
records because they carried a warrant only for the dispensary, not the separate
medical office.
"Before her release, Joyce was forced to give up her
address and the name of her parents and roommate, who she fears are now part of
some federal database.
"'They asked everyone, "Who knows the safe number?" I'm
like, "Are you fucking high?" They're like, "You're lying." We were guilty by
association, and I really didn't know,' said Joyce."
- Joe Piasecki: Bongloads
of Justice - How getting caught up in a federal drug raid turned Pasadena comic
Tere Joyce into a marijuana missionary -
"A time will come when the sky is torn apart; when the stars scatter, and
the ocean drains away; and when the graves are tossed about, and laid open. At
that time every man will be told what he has done, and what he has failed to do;
and every woman will be told what she has done, and what she has failed to
do."
- Qur'an, Al-Infitar, Surah 82:1-5 -
"It was my fault."
- Maralyn Manson -
 Idiot's Guide to the Testimony of Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Judiciary
Committee
Gonzales' introductory statement: "I shoulda been more precise… My
misstatements were my mistakes, no one else's… I have been extremely forthcoming
with information… not the actions of someone with something to hide…"
Responses to Committee Chairman Sen. Leahy (D-VT.): "I can only
recall… I don't recall… I did not know… it appears… I was not responsible for… I
have no recollection… Again, Senator, I was not responsible for compiling that…
I don't recall a specific mention… It appears… as I recall… I don't recall
Senator Dominici ever… That rationale was not in my mind, as I recall… Senator,
that's an answer that I have to get back to you… Senator, I'd like to give you
that information, but…"
Responses to Sen. Specter (R-PA.): "Senator, I don't want to quarrel
with you… Based on what I thought, what I understood was going on… I believed
that was ongoing… I don't recall… What I recall is… I don't recall whether Mr.
Mercer presented me the numbers… Senator, I have no recollection about that, but
I presume that that is true… Senator, I do recall having a conversation with Mr.
Rove… Senator, you're talking about a series of events that occurred over
possibly 700 days… putting it in context, Senator, I would say that my
involvement was limited… Senator, of course, in hindsight…"
Reponses to Sen. Kennedy (D-MA.): "I think that's a fair question,
Senator… I was not the person in the Department who had the most information…
Since then, I have gone back and looked at the documents available to Congress…
I'm not aware that anyone… I believe that I had a good process… Senator, I did
not review the document… Senator, I think it's a good question… I don't recall
in connection to this review process Mr. Sampson was involved in… I don't recall
everyone who was there… Senator, there may have been other discussions…"
Responses to Sen. Brownback (R-KS.): "I do not recall what I knew
about… I just don't recall the reason… It appears there were concerns about…
Now, in hindsight… I'm not aware of any new facts here… She's the other person,
quite candidly, Senator, that I don't recall… I myself was confused, quite
frankly, when I testified… Generally, I recall…"
Responses to interjection by Chairman Leahy: "Sir, I don't recall
sending a follow-up quite frankly. I don't know if it was a mistake or
misstatement in my testimony… "
Responses to Sen. Kohl (D-WI.): "Senator, I was never aware…
Senator, again, this is a process that was ongoing that I didn't have
transparency into… With all due respect Senator… he's the person who has the
answers… Senator, I'll go back and see if there is something that I can do…
We've done great things!..."
Senator Feinstein (D-CA.): "Senator, I don't recall specifically the
genesis of the idea… I don't have any recollection about the mechanics of the
legislative process… As I recall, his updates were brief… as Mr. Sampson gave me
updates, I don't recall… I accept full responsibility… Senator, I don't recall
making the decision that day… I don't recall exactly when I made the decision…
Senator, I don't recall knowing whether… Senator, I don't know that…"
- Tom
Engelhardt -
Under-Reported Stories of
the Week
"Without a single speech, the Vermont Senate voted 16-9 early Friday
morning to support a resolution urging the initiation of impeachment proceedings
in Congress against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney."
- Nancy Remsen: Vermont
Senate supports Bush/Cheney impeachment resolution -
 "The administration of THC
significantly reduces lung tumor size and lesions, according to preclinical data
presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer
Research (AACR) in Los Angeles.
"Investigators at Harvard University's Division of
Experimental Medicine reported that THC inhibited the growth and spread of cells
in vitro from two different lung cancer cell lines and from patient lung tumors.
They also reported that THC administration reduced the growth of lung tumors in
mice by more than 50 percent compared to untreated controls over a three-week
period."
- Paul Armentano: Pot's Active Ingredient
Halts Lung Cancer Growth, Study Says -
News for
Fetuses
"Here's the part that's got smoke coming out of my ears. The part that makes me
so mad I could spit nails. The part that's got me purple with
apoplexy.
"The
five boy justices on the Supreme Court who voted to take away our reproductive
freedom last week were treating us like silly girls who can't be trusted to make
our own decisions.
"Worse
than silly girls, really. Cows with no more brains than to find the right stall
in the dairy barn.
"In
his written decision allowing the federal government to criminalize a certain
kind of abortion procedure, Justice Anthony Kennedy explained in simple words
that even we girls could understand that the court's decision was actually good
for us.
"Why?
Well, gosh and by golly, because he wanted to protect us from having a procedure
that we might not fully understand and would probably come to regret. Well, duh!
I surely am grateful to those boy justices for assuming I can't read or follow
the words when my doctor 'splains things to me."
- Beth Quinn: So girls, did you notice you were raped last week? - "Mexico City's Legislative Assembly is scheduled
to vote today on a measure that would legalize abortion in this city of more
than 8 million people. The legislation, which is expected to win approval, could
signal the demise of a subculture that profits from the desperation of thousands
of women."
- Cecilia Sánchez and Héctor Tobar: Vote
could end Mexico's abortion subculture -
25 Years Ago in
Disinfotainment Today
 April 24, 1982, Disinfotainment Today
infiltrated this meeting of the Bilderbergs
Answers to Last Week's
Stupid Question
Whom are you plagiarizing?
Another Stupid
Question
Not So Holy
Moses
"It did not look like much -
some ancient buried walls of a military fort and a few pieces of volcanic lava.
The archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, often promotes mummies and tombs and pharaonic
antiquities that command international attention and high ticket
prices.
"But this bleak landscape,
broken only by electric pylons, excited him because it provided physical
evidence of stories told in hieroglyphics. It was proof of accounts from
antiquity.
"That prompted a French
reporter to ask about the Exodus, and if the new evidence was linked in any way
to the story of Passover. The archaeological remains roughly coincided with the
timing of the Israelites' biblical flight from Egypt and the 40 years of
wandering the desert in search of the Promised Land.
"'Really, it's a myth,' Hawass
said of the story of the Exodus, as he stood at the foot of a wall built during
what is called the New Kingdom...
"Egypt is a spiritual
center, where for centuries people have searched for the meaning of life.
Sometimes the two converge, and sometimes the archaeological record confirms the
history of the faithful. Often it does not, however, as Hawass said with
detached certainty.
"'If they get upset, I don't
care,' Hawass said. 'This is my career as an archaeologist. I should tell them
the truth. If the people are upset, that is not my problem.'
"The story of the Exodus is
celebrated as the pivotal moment in the creation of the Jewish people. As the
Bible tells it, Moses was born the son of a Jewish slave, who cast him into the
Nile in a basket so the baby could escape being killed by the pharaoh. He was
saved by the pharaoh's daughter and raised in the royal court; then he
discovered his Jewish roots and, with divine help, led the Jewish people to
freedom. Moses is said to have ascended Mount Sinai, where God appeared in a
burning bush and Moses received the Ten Commandments.
"In Egypt today, visitors to
Mount Sinai are sometimes shown a bush by tour guides and told it is the actual
bush that burned before Moses.
"But archaeologists who have
worked here have never turned up evidence to support the account in the Bible,
and there is only one archaeological find that even suggests the Jews were ever
in Egypt."
- Michael Slackman: In Sinai desert, no trace of Moses -
Satan Didn't Want You To Know
If you'd invested $1,000,000 in Berlin
Zoo stock before they got that cute
little polar bear cub, it would be worth
$1,940,000 today.
Satan Doesn't Want You to Know
There's no "u" in Armageddon.
Don't Take My Word For
It
"This is why oil is so
valuable: one tank of gas from a typical S.U.V. has the energy equivalent of
more than 60,000 man-hours of work - roughly 100 men working around the clock
for nearly a month. That is the power that the American consumer can access for
about $60 at the gasoline pump. If gasoline were a person, we would be paying 10
cents an hour for his labor. Easily accessible reserves are running dry, though,
which means that the industry must develop increasingly ingenious - and costly -
techniques for getting at the oil. Deepwater drilling, for example, now happens
so far offshore that rigs can no longer be anchored to the seabed, they must be
held in place by an array of propellers, each the size of a two car garage. The
cost of deepwater drilling is close to twice that in shallow water.
"As result, oil is one of
the few commodities with virtually no surplus production; just about every drop
of oil that gets pumped gets used. The world currently goes through 84 million
barrels a day, a figure that is expected to rise to almost 120 million barrels
in the next 25 years. As that happens, oil will become more and more expensive
to extract. When oil was first exploited, in 1859, the energy equivalent of one
barrel of oil was required to pump 50 barrels of oil out of the ground. Now that
ratio is one-to-five. Thus far, nearly half of the proven, exploitable oil
reserves in the world have been used up. Barring the discovery of new reserves
or new drilling technology, some experts predict the world will run out of oil
by 2040."
- Sebastian Junger: Blood Oil (Vanity
Fair, Feb 2007) -
"A new study by
the Pew Research Study shows that viewers of the Daily Show and the Colbert
Report have the highest knowledge of national and international affairs, while
Fox News viewers rank nearly dead last:
"Despite significant technology shifts, however, Pew found
that today's citizens are about as able to name their leaders, and are about as
aware of major news events, as was the
public nearly 20 years ago.
"The results about Fox News echo findings of previous surveys.
In 2003, University of Maryland researchers studied
the public's belief in three false claims that Iraq possessed WMD, that Iraq was
involved in 9/11, and that there was international support for the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq.
"The researchers stated, The extent of Americans
misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news. Those who
receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have
misperceptions. Fox News viewers were three times more
likely than the next nearest network to hold all three
misperceptions."
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a
yellow spot into the sun."
- Pablo Picasso -
"We are entitled to ask - we are required to ask -
how many more men, how many more lives, how much more destruction will be asked,
to provide the military victory that is always just around the corner, to pour
into this bottomless pit of our dreams?"
- Bobby Kennedy, March 18, 1968 - "'All people are born alike - except Republicans and
Democrats,' quipped Groucho Marx, and in fact it turns out that personality
differences between liberals and conservatives are evident in early childhood.
In 1969, Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of
childhood personality, asking nursery school teachers to rate children's
temperaments. They weren't even thinking about political orientation.
"Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects'
childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found
arresting patterns. As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with
peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive,
and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by
their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful,
rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the
Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of
tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative
politics."
- Nicole Belle: The
Ideological Animal -
"They can't really kick someone out because they're writing papers about
weird topics, even if they seem withdrawn and hostile."
- Dr. Richard Kadison, chief of mental health services at Harvard University, on a college's limitations in dealing with a disturbed student - "The FDA is entertaining a 'citizen's petition' to allow
manufacturers to substitute vegetable fats and oils for cocoa butter.
"The 'citizens' who created this petition represent
groups that would benefit most from this degradation of the current standards.
They are the Chocolate Manufacturers Assn., the Grocery Manufacturers Assn., the
Snack Food Assn. and the National Cattlemen's Beef Assn. (OK, I'm not sure
what's in it for them), along with seven other food producing associations.
"This is what they think of us chocolate eaters,
according to their petition on file at the FDA: 'Consumer expectations still
define the basic nature of a food. There are, however, no generally held
consumer expectations today concerning the precise technical elements by which
commonly recognized, standardized foods are produced. Consumers, therefore, are
not likely to have formed expectations as to production methods, aging time or
specific ingredients used for technical improvements, including manufacturing
efficiencies.'
"Let me translate: 'Consumers won't know the
difference.'
"I can tell you right now we will notice the difference.
How do I know? Because the product they're trying to rename 'chocolate' already
exists. It's called 'chocolate flavored' or 'chocolaty' or 'cocoalicious.' You
can find it on the shelves right now at your local stores in the 75% Easter sale
bin, those waxy/greasy mock-chocolate bunnies and foil-wrapped eggs that sit
even in the most sugar-obsessed child's Easter basket well into July."
- Cybele May: Hands
off my chocolate, FDA! The FDA may allow Big Chocolate to pass off a waxy
substitute as the real thing. -
"Our airwaves, the single most
important method by which Americans get information about choosing the future
president, are being held hostage by corporate broadcasters.
"As the TV pundits on the
networks gab about the tens of millions of dollars raised by the top
presidential candidates, what they don't talk about is where that money is
going: to their own networks.
"Money is now considered the single most important factor in
our electoral process. Ideas and issues take a back seat to the bottom line.
This prostitution of our electoral process has one key culprit: television
advertising... The citizens are the losers, and the broadcasters and elite
political consultants are the winners.
"Some bold members of Congress
have tried throughout the decades to end this stranglehold on the political
process. Sen. Bill Bradley tried in the 1990s. He said then: 'Today's Senate
campaigns function as collection agencies for broadcasters. You simply transfer
money from contributors to television stations.'"
- Amy Goodman: Take Back the Airwaves
-
"I thought Shirley Temple was terribly potty-mouthed in the classic 1933
movie, 'Salt-Water Tots Meet Captain Cornhole.' Such language from a 7-year old!
Just give me the %^&*ing lollypop, you $@#*ing mother-@&%er! or Ill rip
you a new #@%"@%! I was appalled. Really."
- Walt's response to Danny Gallagher's The
10 Greatest Mother*#$ing Cursers in Movie History -
"10. In your view, does the theory of the unitary executive bar the Justice
Department from prosecuting White House officials for contempt of Congress if
they refuse to comply with Congressional subpoenas?"
- Mark A.R. Kleiman: Fourteen questions for
Attorney General Gonzales -
"Score one for common sense. A
California Superior Court judge ruled this week that Kaleidescape Inc. did not breach its
contract with the DVD Copy Control
Association when it manufactured and sold a high-tech system that let
consumers copy the DVDs they owned onto a home video jukebox.
"I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not going to do my usual legalistic
pantomime on this one. As a principle, I accept that contracts are binding when
properly done. On the other hand, you have to wonder whose interests were served
by this litigation. Kaleidescape sells extremely high-end gear - at
the time of the lawsuit, the entry-level system cost $27,000. Its systems are
closed networks with military-grade security, so even if a Kaleidescape owner
should rip a copy of a movie he/she rented from Netflix (because, having spent
$27,000 on a state-of-the-art video jukebox, the person isn't likely to drop $15
for a copy of "Little Miss Sunshine"?!?), those bits will never leave the
building. By contrast, a pirate equipped with a $900 Dell can easily transform
an encrypted DVD into an unencrypted file, then burn multiple copies of the
movie for friends and offer it online to downloaders around the
globe.
"So clearly, this case wasn't about protecting Hollywood
against bootleggers. Instead, it seemed to be about stopping Kaleidescape from
doing something nifty and compelling that other consumer-electronics companies
were either too timid or not clever enough to do."
- John Healy: Bit Player - Hollywood's Love/Hate Relationship with Technology - "The Red Cross sought out less
politically inspired views of everyday life in Baghdad. Kraehenbuehl told the
Associated Press how one of his Red Cross colleagues polled several Iraqi women,
asking them what 'their most pressing need was.'
"After a long silence, one of the women answered with a
request that ought to be repeated to every member of Congress and included in
every statement they make about Iraq: 'The most important thing that anyone
could do is to help collect the bodies that line the streets in front of our
homes every morning. No one dares to touch them, but for us it is unbearable to
have to expose our children to such images every day as we try to bring them to
school.'
"The Bush twins should be volunteering for that duty, along
with every chapter of the College OF Young Republicans. Rush Limbaugh could give
up drugs to offer his services. Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter
should be packing their bags to join in the mortuary duties."
- Bill Gallagher: Bush Best Buddy bin Laden Ever
Had, as Iraq War Goes from Bad to Worse -
"When the subject has refused allegiance and the
officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is
accomplished."
- Henry David Thoreau -
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The Last
Acknowledgment
Disinfotainment Today is starting to regret
the whole idea of rewriting the acknowledgment each week. It's getting to be a
drag to create the whole damn issue, then get to the bottom and realize there's
a whole other section to write. What do you think I am, MADE out words? They've
gotta come from somewhere. Every word of this acknowledgment comes from
something else I could have said, but didn't, no thanks to this acknowledgment,
which never seems to gets around to acknowledging anything anyway. Here's
to the work ethic. Nothing gets done unless you do it and unless you do it
it won't get done. Who said anything about fair use? Wasn't me.
Thanks,
Thanks,
Alicia
Gottlaid
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