ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT

As the squeeze on the American middle class gets tighter and tighter, we can expect less fun and more "staying at home and watching movies on the DVD player," or whatever... movies, music, TV, and pop culture are mostly boring these days anyway... I suppose it beats staying at home and watching the lies on TV while drinking beer, which is what we did during the '80s... I suppose I will be alone tomorrow as I do Food Not Bombs, serving meals for maybe ten people... I need to get out of here...

BILLMON CITES BUSH SPEECH

In commentary here upon the speech taped here:

The moral of the story, I guess, is that you don't need to be an inhuman monster to cause an inhuman amount of death, destruction and suffering. You don't even need evil -- ignorance and arrogance and incompetence can manage the job quite nicely. But, as I've said before, it does requires a rare combination of those qualities to take a situation like Saddam's Iraq and make it worse.

Billmon's list: "ignorance and arrogance and incompetence" -- don't forget to mention "weaponry," though of course it's implied. Iraq is the operational version of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

GOVERNMENT FAILS TO IGNITE PLANTS

Canadians fight through pot plants...

"We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said.

Go plants!

THE PEOPLE IN POWER ARE NOT QUITE AN OKAY BUNCH

Does this page confirm your worst fears?

AND THEY'RE DOING SOOO WELL...

in Russia now that the Thatcherists are in power...