Aren't you tired of privacy? Don't you want the government to know absolutely everything about you? Shouldn't they be able to give you any medical shot they feel like, no matter what your doctor says? Don't you think drug manufacturers should be exempt from liability, except for those who make painkillers like heroin? Aren't you glad they've built camps for you to live in just in case your home is destroyed in an attack? Doesn't that prove they care? Don't you want them to know precisely when your sons and daughters graduate high school so they can grab them and send them off to foreign lands to die for whatever? Doesn't that sound great? Be sure to contact your representative in Washington and urge them to vote for the Homeland Security Bill. Let them know that the book 1984 wasn't science fiction, it was a training manual. Show them that America has changed since 9/11. Before 9/11, it was 1983.

Donald Rumsfeld said the attack on Iraq "won't be World War III."

Meanwhile, the Bush administration is laying the groundwork for the resumption of nuclear testing and the development of new nuclear weapons.

The National Security Agency has an access code built into Windows.

Mad Magazine satirizing The Onion? Sounds impossible but they did it, including "Why running an editorial attributed to someone you wouldn't expect to be writing an editorial on a trivial subject that normally doesn't warrant an editorial is so damn funny week after week," by Nelson Mandela.

Don't miss Tell The Truth And Run: George Seldes And The American Press on the Sundance Channel. My hero. The first American newspaperman to do an anti-establishment weekly newsletter all by himself out of his own home.

The inventor of pop-up windows refuses to stay buried.

The John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project is a John Lennon tribute site with a pro-war message. When I confronted these bastards on it, here's the conversation that took place...

How dare you have a pro-war message on this site. John Lennon wouldn't want anything to do with you. You are despicable.
 

Dear Mr. Dare, 
Thank you for visiting Triumph PC ONLINE and our advanced Persona-BotsT, which represent the first use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the recreation or cloning of a human personality. We greatly appreciate your feedback. However, as you may not know, John Lennon was a great believer in free speech. While you are certainly entitled to your own opinion, I believe that if you take the time to actually read and understand that message (written by the Founder of Triumph PC, himself a peacenik who I believe was arrested in one of the final anti-Vietnam war protests in Washington, DC), I think you will realize that a (defensive) war against those who would murder innocent, unarmed civilians is far less despicable than the ignorance of those who would do little or nothing to put a stop to it. 

There isn't the slightest shred of any doubt that John Lennon would be against this war. It's like you've put up a site that's a tribute to Gandhi with ads for hamburgers. You can exercise your free speech all you want, but if you've got a pro war message, put it up on a Richard Nixon site.
 

Mr. Dare,
If you know John's feelings re Saddam Hussein and the War on Terror, we (and I'm sure many others) would love to interview you. None of John's close friends or living relatives that we've spoken to know? 
Most people aren't aware that while John was a peacenik publicly, he was still very much a macho Liverpudlian privately. When antagonized, John was generally the first one to throw a punch. But, as I said, if you have verifiable knowledge as to John's views on Saddam Hussein and the War on Terror, we would love to know them.
Dani

No reply to this one.

You are cordially invited to go to their site and let them know that John Lennon would want his name removed.

Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called for an invasion of Iran "the day after" Iraq is crushed. 

Saddam Hussein is getting e-mail from around the world offering to help fight against the U.S. (His e-mail address is press@uruklink.net)

Still the Maria Heller Show. Mandatory.

Following Al Gore's triumphant appearance on Futurama as a floating head in a jar, Bill Clinton is slated to appear as a floating dick in a jar. "They were going to have my dick floating in a jar," said the ex-president. "I couldn't let them do it with someone else's voice, could I?"

You know something is very very wrong with the world when George Putnam comes out against the war. He says "From January to August of this year, the single biggest customer for Iraq oil has been the United States. Iraq was one of America's largest suppliers, providing 525,000 barrels of oil a day. Recently, Iraq entertained lavishly at its Baghdad International Fair, and signed more than 20 oil-for-food contracts – worth $500 million – with Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, France and Spain. The 10-day trade fair attracted 1,600 companies representing 49 countries."

One out of three Britons think Bush is a bigger threat than Hussein. 

In a surprise announcement on Veteran's Day, George W. Bush announced that he was going to shift his focus onto helping our current veterans instead of creating new ones.

Wife: I said "Get the snow, Rob, off the back door."

Husband: I heard "get a blowjob from a crack whore."

Spokesputz: It's not your fault, it's your cellular static. You need Sprint.

Husband: And this crack whore?

Spokesputz: Let me know when you're done with her.

In order to restore her good name (!?), a federal appeals panel on Tuesday revived Gennifer Flowers' defamation suit accusing Hillary Rodham Clinton of masterminding a campaign to discredit her claim of an affair with Bill Clinton.

Religious fanatics against the war.

If you don't want to get thrown off a plane, don't jerk off in the bathroom. And while you're on the plane, don't drink the water.

You too can learn how to turn propaganda into reality TV.

Israeli security guards foiled a suspected hijacking attempt on an El Al Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, Meanwhile, security guards Saran-Wrapped a suspected hijacker on a Victoria's Secret flight from Istanbul to Constantinople.

When David Letterman asked Al Gore what he thought of the recent election, he said "The Republicans stole it, just like they did the last one."

Once again, the Leonids, from midnight to dawn, the morning of November 19th. (That's TONIGHT if you're getting this on Monday the 18th) Catch them at the right time and you will understand why people thought the world was going to end. And if you just happen to have problems with the "talking snake" theory of creation, you might pause to consider that the seeds of life on this planet didn't necessarily spring from a primordial ooze like evolutionists would have you believe. Our DNA could have come from the Leonids.

The next time you get an e-mail from someone trying to get money out of Nigeria, forward them dIsInFoTaInMeNt Today.

Absolutely, without a doubt, the best organized anarchists on the net.

Federal agents are already randomly stopping traffic in Detroit, looking for illegal immigrants, terrorists, drugs, or weapon.

"An entirely new arsenal of weapons, based on devices designed to introduce subliminal messages or to alter the body's psychological and data-processing capabilities, might be used to incapacitate individuals. These weapons aim to control or alter the psyche, or to attack the various sensory and data-processing systems of the human organism. In both cases, the goal is to confuse or destroy the signals that normally keep the body in equilibrium."
- from The Mind Has No Firewall, an Army article on psychotronic weapons -

LSD, Esalen, HAARP and the Cosmic Cointelpro
or
When You Dance With the Devil...

...who doesn't trust the U.N. inspectors any more than he trusts Bush or Hussein?

...who thinks the U.N. inspectors are as likely to plant evidence as discover it?

...who thinks there should be a 24 hour disarmament channel showing what the inspectors are up to every step of the way?

...who thinks the ICBM the UN inspectors find in Saddam Hussein's den will turn out not to be a weapon of mass destruction but his dope stash?

...who thinks the army dismissed those gay linguists just because it's fun to say "gay linguist?"

...who has full confidence that Hu Jintao, who is replacing Jiang Zemin as the ruler of China's Communist Party, will usher in the same era of peace and freedom in China that George W. Bush has ushered into the U.S.?

...who's just a bit pissed off that everyone is up in arms about William Safire's recent New York Times article about John Poindexter's Home Security Agency when the Guardian and I reported on it six months ago?

...who thinks we obviously wouldn't attack Iraq if they had nukes?

...who thinks the UN inspectors will find Saddam's porn collection in his sock drawer?

...who thinks that last one was just a rewrite of a previous joke?

...who thinks things would be a whole lot simpler if they got rid of income tax, added a 10% sales tax to everything, gave half to the federal government, and divided the other half between state and local?

...who thinks Freedom is the worst piece of crap Paul McCartney has ever written, that he should be ashamed of himself, that you can't have it both ways, that John Lennon would be ripping him to shreds, that fighting and love are opposites and you can't sing the praises of both without sounding like a hypocrite, that you can't say you're against fighting so we should all love one another except for people we really really don't like?

...who wonders why there isn't a gardening show on NBC called Lawn Order?

...who wonders why there isn't a cafeteria called Tray Chic?

...who wonders why there isn't a croissant store on Crescent Heights called Croissant Heights?

...who feels SO much safer now that Paul Reubens is in jail again?

...who doesn't give a damn about other people's sex lives?

...but who still thinks Bush needs a blowjob?

Dear Dr. Hollywood,
 

I recently moved here earlier this year after writing a couple of humorist columns for an alternative newsweekly in Nashville for the past three years. Confronted with the limited pay journalism offers and rigidity of the form I wanted to get into something a little more creative. Does this background give me any leverage in anyway? Could my columns be used to get an agent or would they not be interested in anything that wasn't in an entertainment medium format?

I'd be interested in getting into or at least learning about comedy writing for variety shows (sketch comedy, late night). Would my columns be of any use in pursuing these ventures or will it basically count as bupkus? Is the talent/writers for this medium basically drawn solely from standup clubs or comedy troupes?

What about these much vaunted "writer's assistant" gigs that I hear are so important to getting your foot in the door and learning first hand about TV writing and such? Is there a resource to find out about these things other than the UTA list or the entertainment job websites? They seem to be as rare as a Republican at a pro choice rally.

Finally, is it truly impossible to make it anywhere in this business while remaining the misanthropic social malcontent that you are? Most writers I have ever known are not "people" people. Is it professional death here to not be adept at the schmooze and aimless small talk? How in the hell did Larry David manage to get where he is?

hugs, kisses, and inappropriate touching, 

BT

Dear BT,

Thank you for braving time and space to contact me.
 

In the vast majority of cases, the only thing that counts is personal contact. Unless you actually know the person who is hiring, or are recommended by someone they know, forget it. They won't even read your stuff. There are too many incredibly talented people with actual experience who are friends or friends of friends for them to consider hiring a stranger.

The only thing journalistic experience counts towards is another job in journalism. Moving to radio might help because then you'll end up with a demo reel instead of clippings. Being a journalist helped ME because I was a journalist in Hollywood, and people contacted me because they wanted publicity. Filmmakers would call me before their films were released and ask for my help fixing them before they were foisted upon the public. Producers who admired my film criticism actually hired me to fix scripts before they went into production. In all these cases, I did nothing to pursue the work. They came after me. Remember who's the fisherman and who's the fish.

Writer's assistant jobs do exist. There are ads in the trades all the time. If you can't afford a subscription to the incredibly exorbitant Variety and Reporter, move to L.A. and check out the lounge at the WGA where there are copies. It helps if you're a hooker or a drug dealer. 

Larry David was Jerry Seinfeld's best bud. Agreed, he's a major genius, but if he weren't Jerry Seinfeld's best bud, he'd be flipping burgers right now. Like I said, personal contact is EVERYTHING.

MD

Send your questions to "Ask Dr. Hollywood" at disinfotainment@earthlink.net

Calling All Performers

If you live near the Mississippi, Andrei Codrescu wants your help making a documentary.

"We are looking for art performances that engage the river itself or some entity that affects the river. For instance, if Miss River Bridge crashes a  public meeting of some sort, we want to be there. We are hoping that you could dream up an event, visual and expressive hopefully, that will  encapsulate in an interactive way the river and what role it plays in your life/art. We are, of course, interested in the ecology of the beast, but also in its political cultures, music, folklore, poetry. This is not an institutionally sanctioned project, so you can let your darkest or oddest ideas fly. Write back to me directly at andrei@corpse.org."

 

presents

A Movie I’d Like to See

Booze
By Michael Dare

Chicago, 1933

Simon Scorsese is the biggest bootlegger in town. He took over the gang from his father, who ruled with a ruthless hand. His younger brother, Marcus works for him.

Marcus is driving a giant shipment of booze over a bridge when another truck plays a game of chicken with him. Both trucks plummet from the bridge. The bodies of both drivers are recovered. Simon barges into the morgue to look at the body of his brother, but sneaks a peak at the body of the other driver, who appears Italian.

There are three rival Italian gangs the driver could have been a member of, the Pacinos, the DeNiros, and the Coppolas. Simon goes to the funeral and recognizes Frank Lucas, the consiglieri of the Coppola gang. He takes Frank’s presence as proof the Coppolas killed his brother. He declares war on the Coppolas and wipes them out, totally taking over the Coppola booze business on the West Side. 

DePalma, one of Scorsese’s henchmen, does a deal with the Pacino gang, supplying them with ammo to use in their turf war against the Spielberg gang, who are trying to move into the east side. The Spielbergs kidnap DePalma’s baby sister for protection. Simon Scorsese agrees to try to negotiate a settlement when the Pacinos wipe out the Spielbergs in a bloody massacre, taking out DePalma’s sister in the process. Pacino apologizes to DePalma, but claims he didn’t know DePalma’s sister was there. DePalma appears to accept the apology but vows revenge.

Meanwhile, he’s got bigger problems. When Simon Scorsese finds out the Pacinos have taken over the East Side, he does an inventory and discovers missing ammo. He confronts DePalma who denies everything. Scorsese wants to declare war on the Pacinos but now he doesn’t have enough firepower. He calls a meeting of the heads of all the gangs.

The Pacinos, Scorseses, and DeNiros have a powwow. Scorsese threatens war against Pacino. DeNiro says, "Calm down. How about if Pacino opens up his warehouse for inspection? Then you can see if he’s got any of your property."

DePalma knows that Pacino has Scorsese’s property since he sold it to him. He fights against the deal but in the end, Pacino agrees to let a coalition of representatives from all the families inspect his warehouses.

In the middle of the night, Pacino is in the process of moving his inventory to another warehouse before the inspectors show up, when Scorsese and DePalma show up with their henchmen. It’s a tense showdown. Pacino says "Hey, let’s work things out." He is about to give up DePalma to Scorsese as a traitor when DePalma shoots him.

DeNiro shows up the next morning with his inspection team to find Pacino’s dead body in an empty warehouse. Scorsese’s gang is hidden. They massacre the DeNiro gang.

Scorsese adds Pacino and DeNiro’s inventories to his own. Now he controls all the booze in Chicago.

Late at night, a mysterious and swarthy man in a beard visits Scorsese. It turns out the dead Italian in the morgue next to Scorsese’s brother wasn’t the driver but a passenger. The swarthy man was the driver and he is alive. Scorsese plotted the whole thing, sacrificing his own brother in order to justify the attack on the Italians. His goal all along was citywide domination, and nothing would stand in his way. Scorsese pays the swarthy man, then the newspapermen, and the local politicians to keep their mouths shut.

Prohibition ends. With booze no longer illegal, Scorsese is suddenly and permanently out of business.

 

WHO’S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?

by Helen A. Handbasket

You never know who’s going to trade their soul away or what they’re going to get for it unless you’re Helen A. Handbasket, ex-executive chief in charge of operations for the burning flames of hellfire. Who are her sources? Wouldn’t you like to know? Sorry, all communications are confidential and the property of Helen A. Handbasket, whose opinions do not necessarily reflect those of this or any other publication. 

November 18, 2002

UNDO THE COUP
Satan for President in 2004

CARTOON FROM HELL

HISTORY LESSON FROM HELL

What is globalization? by John McMurtry 

There is immense confusion around the concept of globalization. Globalization of what is the question not asked. The reason it is not asked is that the answer reveals what is kept hidden in official culture - that globalization means dominant banks and corporations moving across the worlds borders in rising tides of short-term speculative capital flows and floods of junk, luxury and armament commodities with no accountability beyond themselves. The promised increase in prosperity means more privatization of public goods, more exotic commodities for those who can afford to pay for them, and an ever larger share of the profits of this global trade going to the borderless banks and corporations commanding the agenda. 

In other words, globalization is a masking term for oligopolist corporate globalization. This meaning is very different from what people think of when they think of the word globalization. They think it means world interconnection by trade when, in fact, it means the subordination or ruin of whatever public or private enterprise does not fit the demands of the imposed system.

INTERNET JOKE FROM HELL

After having his 11th child, a Bush voter from Alabama decided he had had enough children (he couldn't afford a larger double-wide for the family). So, the man went to his doctor (who also treated mules) and told him that he and his wife/cousin didn't want to have any more kids. The doctor, aware his patient was a Bush voter, told him that there was a procedure called a 'GOP vasectomy' that could fix the problem. 

The doctor instructed him to go home, get a cherry bomb (fireworks are legal in Alabama), light it, put it in a beer can, then hold the can up to his ear and count to 10. The Bush voter said to the doctor, "I may not be the smartest man, doc, but I don't see how putting a cherry bomb in a beer can next to my ear is going to help me -- I don't want to go deef!" 

So, the couple drove to Georgia to get a second opinion. The Georgia physician was just about to tell them about the procedure for a vasectomy when he noticed from the bumper sticker on their pick-up truck that they were Bush supporters from Alabama. This doctor instead told the man to go home and get a cherry bomb, light it, place it in a beer can, hold it to his ear, and count to 10. 

Figuring that both learned physicians couldn't be wrong, the man went home, lit a cherry bomb and put it in a beer can. He held the can up to his ear and began to count, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5...", at which point he paused, placed the beer can between his legs and resumed counting on his other hand...

SATAN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW

If you microwave raisins, they turn back into grapes.

CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM HELL

Get someone a "You Make Jesus Vomit" T-Shirt
and while you're at it

get one for your teddy bear.

MAGIC NUMBERS FROM HELL

Five winning Republican candidates, got EXACTLY 18181 votes.

Last month, the average American spent...

$32 million on toilet paper
$89 million on CDs
$116 million on cigarettes
$804 million on porn
- From FHM and we KNOW they can be trusted -

QUOTES FROM HELL

One of these statements was never made.

"Aggressive pursuit of truth is the best safeguard of Democracy."
- Studs Turkel -

"There will come a time when, at the merest touch upon those keys, image will follow image and emotion develops into emotion, when the whole creation, the deeps of space, the minutest beauties of the microscope, cities, armies, passions, splendors, sorrows, will leap out of darkness into the conscious being of thought, when this interwoven net of brief, small sounds will form the center of a web that will hold together in its thread the universe, the All, visible and invisible, material and immaterial, real and imagined, of a human mind."
- H.G. Wells: The Making of Mankind (1903) - 

"The main threat to Democracy comes not from the extreme left but from the extreme right, which is able to buy huge sections of the press and radio, and wages a constant campaign to smear and discredit every progressive and humanitarian measure." 
- George Seldes: In Fact, (1950) - 

"Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: Stop participating in it."
- Noam Chomsky -

"In prisons across the country, phone and visitation rights are being steadily whittled away, making contact with our loved ones and support systems nearly impossible, and causing bitterness and hopelessness to increase dramatically. Our contact with the outside world is diminishing, and there is no serious avenue to report abuses. A major portion of the population is locked up, completely and purposely isolated, so that there can be no public oversight or scrutiny, or even knowledge of how we are treated."
- Leonard Peltier -

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." 
- James Bovard - 

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." 
- Dan Quayle - 

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." 
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery -

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." 
- Frank Zappa - 

"The Earth says: rejoice! You have been born into a world of self-maintaining abundance and incredible beauty. Feel it, taste it, be amazed by it."
- Donella Meadows -

"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
- Ernest Hemingway -

"Do not be too moral.  You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
- Thoreau -

"Know this, O good man: 
evil things are difficult to control. 
Let not greed and wickedness 
drag you to protracted misery."
- Buddha - 

"The opposite of a great truth is another great truth... plus sales tax." 
- Shockwave: You, the Jury -

"Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love." 
- Martin Luther King - 

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." 
- Viktor Frankl - 

"Pentagon officials anticipate a mobilization of the National Guard and Reserves equal to or larger than the 265,000 called to active duty in the first Gulf War. Most of these troops are expected to be deployed in the United States."
- Jack Rain -

"The Republicans now hold the U.S. Senate by virtue of two plane crashes."
-  Harvey Wasserman -

"If God had meant us to vote, he would have given us candidates."
- Jim Hightower -

"When a Republican runs against a Republican, the Republican always wins." 
- Harry Truman - 

"The election in Georgia said it all. The Democrat governor, Roy Barnes, had dared to remove the Confederate symbol from the state flag last year. His Republican challenger wanted to bring it back, to honor, he said, 300,000 Confederate 'veterans'. A Republican has not occupied Georgia's governor's mansion since 1872. After last Tuesday, one does, courtesy of wanting to celebrate a civil war fought to defend slavery."
- Will Hutton: A Dark Week for Democracy -

"This election was a victory for The Frightened Rich...who feel that the experiment of Democracy has gone far enough, and now they are content to retreat behind walls of money." 
- Lewis Lapham, Editor, Harper's - 

"The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial free."
- Will Durst -

"The events of 9/11 have less in common with Pearl Harbor and more in common with the Kennedy assassination in that the cover-up is so complete that we'll never know what happened. Ever."
- Andre Hakim -

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." 
- Kahlil Gibran - 

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, oppose any foe, support any friend, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." 
- John F. Kennedy - 

"Frisbeetarianism is the philosophy that when you die, your soul goes up on a roof and gets stuck." 
- George Carlin - 

"Facts are stupid things."
- Ronald Reagan -

"Reality fails to interest me." 
- Joseph von Sternberg -

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer -

"I do not need to explain why I say things - that's the interesting thing about being a president - Maybe someone needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation" 
- George W. Bush on 60 Minutes -

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
- Aleister Crowley -

"We've been putting out fire with gasoline."
- David Bowie -

"Sometimes I want to stop and crawl back into the womb
Sometimes I cannot tell wrong from right
But I ain't gonna quit until I'm laid in my tomb
And even then they better shut it tight."
- T-Bone Burnett -

QUIZ FROM HELL

The proper response when a madman says "Just like you kill us, we will kill you" is...

a) back off
b) go ahead and kill some of them and take no responsibility when they go ahead and kill some of you.

If the United States of America completely withdrew from Iraq, stopped all flyovers, and completely ignored the embargo, Iraq's response would be to...

a) immediately attack the United States of America.
b) celebrate their new freedom and praise the United States of America.

Would a) or b) make the United States of America more safe?

There's only one word for Americans who are willing to give up the lives of their sons and daughters for World War W. 

a) Patriotic
b) Gullible

Here's an excerpt from the Nuremburg Code. See how many infractions the U.S. is currently guilty of.

SITES FROM HELL

Mandatory reading: I really hate to say it, but this very well documented article, Stranger Than Fiction, makes some damn good points in its case for Israeli Zionists being behind the events of 9/11. Like most conspiracy theories, it's a mixture of facts and crap. You've got to sort through the garbage, but a lot of it is hard to dismiss. Fact: At least four of the nineteen hijackers of 9/11 named by the US government are actually alive and well. Their identities were stolen by the actual hijackers, who remain unknown. The FBI has acknowledged the error but, of course, hasn't fixed it, and the U.S. media has ignored it. The pictures of the men with the hijacked identities are still the ones posted. Big Question: Why would Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, attempt to cover his tracks by stealing the identities of....fellow Saudis? Makes no sense. Really big problem with some of the theory: Why bother crashing planes into the WTCs if they're rigged to be brought down by a controlled demolition, as this article suggests? 

Also, 92-year-old Doris "Granny D" Haddock, who walked across the U.S. in 1999-2000 for campaign finance reform, made this amazing speech to Citizens for Participation in Political Action in Boston, on Sept. 27, 2002.

At Idealswork, you can find out if the companies that produce the brands you buy: pollute the environment, treat women fairly, discriminate against minorities, support gay and lesbian employees, profit from tobacco, manufacture nuclear weapons, harm animals, support oppressive governments, or use sweatshop labor. 

Bill Moyers on the cost of war.

Not to be pessimistic, but War Times thinks we're headed for disaster.

Here's a great story on the PR firm that was recently hired by the Pentagon to win over the hearts and minds of Arabs and Muslims worldwide. Do they have another agenda? Well duh.

This site lists all the sites where you can make a free donation to a charity just by clicking on a button.

Here are the top 10 reasons to be disgusted about corporations.

Hey, let's remineralize the earth by using powdered rock.

Stay Free Magazine agrees with me that copyright is dead. That's why the world needs more illegal art.

You can't trust the vote count anywhere, in any race, in any election.

So you're President of the United States? Lesson one: how to hide the vice president.

The Shadow has radical news from Manhattan's lower east side. Lots of great stories.

Here's a catchy title: John Ashcroft: Drug War Ultra-Hawk, Confederacy Nostalgist and Corporate Shill.

U.S. news coverage might convince you that Iraq is the war hotspot of the world. Would that it were so. Here's the best site for world wide war coverage.

What do you think, should we be moving toward war or toward freedom?

What do Tootsie Rolls have to do with murdering bears? Find out at The Best of the Worst in Comic Book Advertising.

Before regime change in Iraq, there's a little bit of unfinished business between Hussein and W's daddy.

Here's a nice little list of suspicious voting results from Diebold Electronic Voting Machines.

Of course there's going to be WWIII, it's already been illustrated.

Hey, guess what? We're losing the war in Afghanistan.

Want to know what's really going on in Afghanistan? You can trust the American press or you can go to the Afghan News Network.

Here are the best singing horses on the net.

Oh, by the way, the sun's rays are going to roast the earth when the magnetic poles flip.