Monthly Archives August 2005

Mixed emotions.

“There are gangs of armed men in the city moving around the city.”
New Orleans is under water. The only strip that has remained dry is the French Quarter and a strip of land in what is known as “Uptown;” the part that has been used for hundreds of years as a trading post by [...]

Let Freedom Ring.

Today is the thirty second anniversary of the March On Washington. On this day, 33 years ago, it was the largest and most significant demonstration of its kind in the history of the United States.
Yaz sent me

New chair!

I got a new computer chair today. It is far superior to the old computer chair, seeing as how the new computer chair is not tipping me out onto the floor, like the old computer chair has been doing.
This morning, I finally took a look under the old chair and saw that [...]

An excellent article

I should so be working right now…but I’m distracted and I stumbled across this op-ed piece on the New York Times site.
I don’t always agree with what Bob Herbert has to say, but he’s usually a good writer. I just read his article linked below, and even though I try never to link New [...]

Balls Up From Beginning To End

Back when this happened at the end of July, I blogged it. At the time, although I questioned why they needed to kill this man, as he’d been subdued before he was shot, I also said that I wasn’t censuring the London police as harshly as I censure the LAPD.
Well, that’s all changed now. [...]

Human beings sicken me.

Loathesome and disgusting. Fucking disgusting.
CNN.com – Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops – Aug 16, 2005

YES! YES! YES!

WOOOOOOHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO! :D
Judge Says CBGB’s Can’t Be Evicted