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Go Bush!

A bumper sticker by Jesse and Mark.

Don't Kill People

Bush Condemns Terrorist Attack on Moscow Subway. "No cause ever justifies the killing of innocent life," he says.

Oops. Did they misquote you, Mr. President? Surely you didn’t mean that.

Order of Operations: Fix Earth, Then Go to Mars

You know what we should do? Send up a Mars mission and once they’re up in space, call them and say, “You guys can’t reenter the atmosphere until you develop a cure for AIDS. Get crackin’.”

Beautiful satire from the two-year-old, but newly Rolling Stoned “Get Your War On” strip.

The Governor of California

Arnold Schwarzeneggar for Arinamin V at the very amusing Japander.com, who explains the product thusly:

Arinamin V is a bizarre "genki" drink designed to keep overworked "salarymen" wide awake in those unpaid overtime hours. It contains nicotine among other stimulants and gets that heart rate right up there.

“Bill Gates is a Parasite”

Noam Chomsky, interviewed by the BBC:

“My success comes from my ability to embrace and expand the ideas of others.” — Bill Gates. He is a parasite. All he has to add to that is that he’s a parasite off the public sector. Because, in fact, almost everything that he does, whether it’s computers or the internet or anything else, are things that the ordinary person paid for. Think of the internet. That’s thirty years of development, inside the public sector, mostly out of the pentagon. All of the ideas, the technology, the hardware, the software, everything. Finally, just two or three years ago it’s given over to Bill Gates. And that’s called a victory of the market.

Listen to the interview. (Try to ignore the interviewer’s obnoxious interjections of a “yeah” every few seconds.)

My Home Country Is a Movie

Today, while chatting with Eric online, he sent over a couple files, “Beth Orton.Ooh Child.mp3”, “amazing soccer save.mpeg”. Nothing too unusual, standard internet file sharing. But those were immediately followed by “skeletors reaction to the california gubernatorial election.jpg”.

Ahh, Arnold. It’s difficult to be abroad in this time of embarrassing American politics. My Svensk coworkers can’t stop laughing at the news from the U.S. I tell them I am here as a political refugee.

Read It and Weep

The Cost of War

Absentee Vote

Here are my results from the SelectSmart.com 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector:

1. Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (100%)
2. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (95%)
3. Green Party Candidate (94%)
4. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (84%)
5. Socialist Candidate (78%)