Saturday, May 26, 2007
 

(3089/898) Let me have your partial attention, please!

995) [W]e now live in an age of what a Microsoft researcher, Linda Stone, called continuous partial attention. I love that phrase. It means that while you are answering your e-mail and talking to your kid, your cell phone rings and you have a conversation. You are now involved in a continuous flow of interactions in which you can only partially concentrate on each.

"If being fulfilled is about committing yourself to someone else, or some experience, that requires a level of sustained attention," said Ms. Stone. And that is what we are losing the skills for, because we are constantly scanning the world for opportunities and we are constantly in fear of missing something better. That has become incredibly spiritually depleting.
Thomas L. Friedman
"Cyber-Serfdom"
New York Times (1/30/2001)
found on a webpage belonging to
Neal Stephenson

996) Talk-show culture has tended to suggest that we can trace all our problems to past abuse of one kind or another, and that once explained, we are absolved. Talk-show culture has been the last refuge of the Enlightenment belief that to understand all is to forgive all.
Ron Rosenbaum
"Staring Into the Heart of the Heart of Darkness"
New York Times Magazine (6/4/95)

997) When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
John F. Kennedy
Speech at Amherst College (10/26/63) [ODQ]
posted by Todd McMasters [IQM] (6/2/95)

998) We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall
Commencement address, Dartmouth College (6/13/1965)
posted by Todd McMasters [IQM] (6/2/95)

999) You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everythinghe's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle (1968) [ODQ]
posted by Todd McMasters [IQM] (6/2/95)

1000) When I finally decided to get out of politics, academia, and the aerospace industry and try my hand at writing, [Robert] Heinlein was enormously helpful. Years later, when I was an established writer, I asked him how I could pay him back.

"You can’t," he said. "You don’t pay back, you pay forward." I never forgot that...
Jerry Pournelle
quoting Robert Heinlein in
Starswarm (1997) [WQ]
posted by Tom Parsons [UAQ] (6/2/95)

1001) The Ethiopians make the gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians say they have blue eyes and red hair. If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands and could draw with their feet and produce the work which men do, they would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
Xenophanes
Fragment 15 (c. 500 BC) [B16]
posted by William C. Waterhouse [UAQ] (6/2/95)
[Note: cf #532 Montesquieu]

Sources

[B16] - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (1993)
[IQM] - Internet Quotations mailing list
[ODQ] - Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition (1992)
[UAQ] - Usenet alt.quotations newsgroup
[WQ] - Wikiquote



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 604 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/26/2007 02:36:00 PM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE

 

(3089/898) Some thoughts on the OJ trial


993) WHY WE OBSESS

Because we are scientists, who can't help being appalled at this caricature of the scientific method. Because we are lawyers, who can't help being appalled at this parody of the legal mind. Because we are communicators, who can't help being appalled at what is being communicated here. Because we are teachers, who don't want to have to teach the true significance of what is being acted out here.

Because we cling desperately to the hope that "Equal Justice Under Law" is more than just a motto, but actually means something. And because we fear that, in the end, it may be the only fortress we (and our children) may have against an increasingly venal age. And because we recognize that the "rich man's" defense threatens that notion of equality to its very foundations.

Because we apprehend the wellsprings of emotion that the defense team has tried to tap into here, and put to such bastardized purposes. And because we know that those great themes (race, due process, the individual against the state, etc.) have nothing to do with the facts of this case, but if successfully exploited (in bastardized form) here, and broadly applied (in bastardized form) elsewhere, will ultimately amount to nothing more than a simple license to kill, available to anyone with the chutzpah - and the cash - to claim it. And because that license to kill is deeply, deeply threatening to us.

Because we, like most children of the modern age, have been supersaturated with advertising, commercialism, promotion, and hype, and have become profoundly cynical of it as a result. Because we recognize, to our horror, what Goebbels recognized: that human emotions are infinitely malleable, and capable of being put to any conceivable purpose with the right application of lies, hatreds, ignorance, and fear. And because we see those same propaganda methods being matter-of-factly employed here (in this latest version of the "thrilla in Manilla"), on multiple levels.

Because, like Kurtz, we travel in grim fascination to the heart of darkness, in order to know what true horror really is, lest we lose our innocence by default from our failure to recognize it. And because we know, on some level, that our own innocence somehow depends upon our willingness to look unflinchingly upon the ugliness, ugliness, ugliness of it all.

Because, as Americans have always been, we are profoundly ambivalent about heroism and villainy. Because we desperately need our heroes, and desperately need to see them ripped apart in calumny when they fall, as they surely must; and because we love our villains and love to hate them and hate to love them. And because outlawry is (perversely enough) one of the highest forms of artistic and heroic expression in America, and always has been. (Darth Vader? Billy the Kid? The Wild One? Petrified Forest? Bonnie and Clyde?)

Because we are all refugees of the sixties, and came away from that time with the idyllic vision that racial harmony was achievable; because we don't want to let go of that idyllic vision, and know that the "race card" being played here can only come to a bitter end, no matter what the outcome.

Because we know full well that a brutal, murderous, raging evil stalks the land, and are profoundly mesmerized by the utter banality with which that evil expresses itself in this courtroom. And because we foolishly imagine that our participation in it can somehow ennoble it above the banalities in which it is now mired.

Because this melodrama has everything that the dream machine could possibly hope to marshall, all in one script: sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, violence, glamour, heroes, heroines, and villains, race, who-dunnit, sports, ritual, ignorance, greed, ineptitude, pride, politics, high-tech, history, stubbornness, Ben Matlock, Perry Mason and Grace Van Owen, insanity, farce, gospel, World War II, John Wayne, you name it. We've got it.
Tom Fellows
"Why We Obsess"
posted on the Court TV O.J. Simpson discussion board (5/31/95)

994) Another way to put it is this: The only obstacle to the establishment of the guilt of O.J. Simpson is legal. The whole of the epistemological apparatus of the modern world - psychology, science, logic, reason - establishes that he is guilty. Only the law stands in the way of the application, paradoxically, of justice.
William F. Buckley
"The DNA Is Persuasive: Will The Law Go Along"
op-ed in the New York Post (5/30/95)
posted by Sharon Rose on the Court TV O.J. Simpson discussion board (5/31/95)


Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 604 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/26/2007 11:59:00 AM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE


Friday, May 25, 2007
 

Friday Photography: Flatiron Spring


click to enlarge
Daryl Samuel
(April 2003)

Location: Madison Square Park,
Manhattan, New York City


Previous: Photos posted in 2006 / 2007: Pagoda / Ferry / Sand Tracks / General Store / Taverna Tables / Finger Piano / Bridge at Sunset / Snowfall in Cambridge / Boats / Grandma in Motion / Museum Silhouette / Brooklyn Bridge / Seascape / City Hall / Santa Fe Hotel / Lunch Break / Low Rider / Giant Crab Invades Boston! / East Meets West / Building Reflections

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/25/2007 11:25:00 PM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE

 

(3089/898) All growed up

989) There is no such thing as "natural law": this is old nonsense. Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion or, the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
The Red and the Black (1830) [B16]

990) Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
Joseph Heller
Catch-22 (1963) [ODQ]

991) All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
(one-woman show, 1985)
spoken by the character "Chrissy,"
played by Lily Tomlin
posted by Scott Birk [IQM] (5/31/95)

992) When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C. S. Lewis
"On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952)
Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
Walter Hooper, editor
sig of Katherine Rossner, seen on
Wordplay-L mailing list (5/31/95)


Sources

[IQM] - Internet Quotations mailing list



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 605 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

Note: Quote #989 was inadvertantly left off of the original version of this post.

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/25/2007 11:21:00 PM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE

 

I'm of two minds about the media

Help me out here -- which is the truer statement?

The press is a fool.

The press is an ass.

I can't decide.

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/25/2007 10:18:00 PM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE


Tuesday, May 22, 2007
 

Friday Photography: Building Reflections


click to enlarge
Daryl Samuel

Location: Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida


Previous: Photos posted in 2006 / 2007: Pagoda / Ferry / Sand Tracks / General Store / Taverna Tables / Finger Piano / Bridge at Sunset / Snowfall in Cambridge / Boats / Grandma in Motion / Museum Silhouette / Brooklyn Bridge / Seascape / City Hall / Santa Fe Hotel / Lunch Break / Low Rider / Giant Crab Invades Boston! / East Meets West

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/22/2007 03:11:00 AM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE


Monday, May 21, 2007
 

(3089/898) On religion

980) In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Antichrist (1888) [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (5/31/95)

981) Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Twilight of the Idols (1888) [B16]

982) The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science (1882) [ODQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (5/20/95)

983) Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them - I can write in letters that make even the blind see [...] I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Anti-Christ (1895) [CQ]

984) God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science (1882) [B16]

985) We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711) [ODQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (5/31/95)

986) Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Kevin Harris [UAQ] (5/31/95)

987) All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (widely attributed)
quoted in The Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations
Jonathan Green, editor
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (5/31/95)

988) History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
Robert Heinlein
Time Enough For Love (1973) [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (5/31/95)


Sources

[B16] - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (1993)
[CQ] - Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
[ODQ] - Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition (1992)
[UAQ] - Usenet alt.quotations newsgroup
[WQ] - Wikiquote



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 609 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/21/2007 05:58:00 PM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE


Sunday, May 20, 2007
 

(3089/898) Bits and pieces

970) Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Kevin Anthony Boudreaux [UAQ] (5/29/95)

971) Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H.L. Mencken
"Sententiae: The Mind of Men" in
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) [CQ]
posted by Kevin Anthony Boudreaux [UAQ] (5/29/95)

972) A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
quoted by Opie Percival Read in
Mark Twain and I (1940)
posted by Kevin Anthony Boudreaux [UAQ] (5/29/95)

973) Morality is society's rules for the individual's survival; Ethics is the individual's rules for society's survival.
Theodore Sturgeon
"Baby is Three" in
Galaxy (1952)
the basis for the novel
More Than Human (1953)
posted by Martin Cohen on the Dinosaur mailing list (5/20/95)

974) Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

975) The fact is that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation becomes almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1895) [B16]

976) The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance (play, 1893) [ODQ]

977) A remarkable characteristic of the Americans is the manner in which they have applied science to modern life [...] In England an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America an inventor is honored, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar Wilde
Lecture in England (1883)
posted by skeptic3 [UAQ] (5/23/95)

978) As I looked at this great shopping center as we drove in here, I was thinking of one of the bedtime stories in this campaign [...] and that is that America has been standing still for the last 7½ years. Well, you know anybody that says America has been standing still just hasn't been traveling around America, that's all. [Cheers.] Where did that freeway come in? It wasn't here 7½ years ago. Where did this shopping center come from? It's been built in these last 7½ years. After all, those people who say America's standing still, of course, are living in a dream world.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
remarks at the Hillside Shopping Center, Chicago, IL (7/29/1960)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (5/31/95)

979) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
speech at the Scopes trial (7/13/25) [ODQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (5/31/95)


Sources

[B16] - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (1993)
[CQ] - Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
[ODQ] - Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition (1992)
[UAQ] - Usenet alt.quotations newsgroup



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 609 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/20/2007 04:43:00 PM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE

 

(3089/898) The artist speaks


966) Well, for me, that whole business of narrative - I'm always uncomfortable with that. I wish I didn't have to do that. I'd like to be able to write books that don't need verbs. Just large collections of nouns and modifiers would work for me. [Laughs.] The ongoing descriptions of things is where the pleasure is in writing. But there's always the editor in the back of my head saying, Now wait a minute, these people have to be doing something and going somewhere.
William Gibson
science fiction author and screenwriter of the film
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
interviewed by Rogier van Bakel in
"Remembering Johnny" in Wired (6/95)

967) Punk was the last viable bohemia that we've seen, perhaps the last bohemian movement of all time. I'm afraid that bohemians will eventually come to be seen as a byproduct of the industrial civilization; and if we're in fact at the end of industrial civilization, there may be no more bohemians. That's scary. It's possible that commercialization has become so sophisticated that it's no longer possible to do the bohemian thing. [...] Look what they did to those poor kids in Seattle! It took our culture literally three weeks to go from a bunch of kids playing in a basement club to the thing that's on the Paris runways. At least, with punk, it took a year and a half. And I'm sad to see the phenomenon disappear. I think bohemians are the subconscious of industrial society. Bohemians are like industrial society, dreaming.
William Gibson
science fiction author and screenwriter of the film
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
interviewed by Rogier van Bakel in
"Remembering Johnny" in Wired (6/95)

968) Although he sympathized with the fanaticism of his colleagues [on the Xanadu project], [programmer Rob] Jellinghaus also began to question whether a hypertext revolution required the perfect preservation of all knowledge. He saw the beauty of the Xanadu dream - "How do you codify all the information in the world in a way that is infinitely scalable?" - but he suspected that human society might not benefit from a perfect technological memory. Thinking is based on selection and weeding out; remembering everything is strangely similar to forgetting everything. "Maybe most things people do shouldn't be remembered," Jellinghaus says. "Maybe forgetting is good."
Gary Wolf
"The Curse of Xanadu" in Wired (6/95)

969) The performer's copyright performance is vested in this performer. It is not given nor assigned to any other party who might claim this as a necessity to protect the performer's interests, collect their royalties, and defend their copyright at law throughout the world.

(A few words to the young musician: if a manager looks you in the eye and claims this necessity, that you might assign to them your copyright for your own best interests, know well that your manager is lying to you.)

The phonographic copyright in these performances is operated by Discipline (GM) [Global Mobile] Records on behalf of the artist. Disc. Glob. Mob. accepts no reason for artists to give away such copyright interests in their work by virtue of a "common practice" which is out of tune with the time, was always questionable and is now indefensible.

The copyrights of the composer's improvised compositions rest with the composer, who recognizes no good reason to assign them to the publisher as an inevitable, necessary, useful or helpful part of the business of collecting publishing royalties.

Crimson Music is currently administered by FujiPacific in Japan, Golden Pony in Hong Kong, and BMG for the rest of the world.

The right of Robert Fripp to be identified as the owner of this and these works is asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act (1988) and in pointed disregard of efforts within the music industry to limit and restrict the moral rights of those who bring music into the world. The formal view of Crimson Music and Discipline GM is that (widespread) business practices which seek to deprive the creative element of its authority are short-sighted.

Let us acknowledge, experience shows that some men will lie for money.
Robert Fripp
liner notes for 1999 (CD recording, 1995)


Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 610 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/20/2007 01:23:00 PM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE

 

Friday Photography: East Meets West


click to enlarge
Daryl Samuel

Location: Istanbul, Turkey


Previous: Photos posted in 2006 / 2007: Pagoda / Ferry / Sand Tracks / General Store / Taverna Tables / Finger Piano / Bridge at Sunset / Snowfall in Cambridge / Boats / Grandma in Motion / Museum Silhouette / Brooklyn Bridge / Seascape / City Hall / Santa Fe Hotel / Lunch Break / Low Rider / Giant Crab Invades Boston!

Ed Fitzgerald | 5/20/2007 03:55:00 AM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE







by

Ed Fitzgerald

Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right,
Here I am...
site feed
2008 rules of thumb
Progressive populism!
Economic insecurity is key
Restore the balance
Cast the candidate
Persona is important
Calm,calming,assured,reassuring
Iraq, not "national security"
Prefer governors over senators
recent posts
bush countdown
oblique strategies
recent comments
some links
baseball
storm watch
(click for larger image,
refresh page to update)


topics
a progressive slogan
Fairness, progress and prosperity, because we're all in this together.

"I had my own blog for a while, but I decided to go back to just pointless, incessant barking."
(Alex Gregory - The New Yorker)
new york city
another progressive slogan
The greatest good for the greatest number, with dignity for all.
reference & fact check
iraq
write me
reciprocity
evolution v. creationism
humanism, skepticism
& progressive religiosity
more links
election prediction
HOUSE
Democrats 230 (+27) - Republicans 205

Actual:
Democrats 233 (+30) - Republicans 201 - TBD 1 [FL-13]

SENATE
Democrats 50 (+5) - Republicans 50

Actual:
Democrats 51 (+6) - Republicans 49

ELECTION PROJECTIONS SURVEY
netroots candidates
unfutz
awards and nominations
Never a bridesmaid...

...and never a bride, either!!

what I've been reading
Martin van Creveld - The Transformation of War

Jay Feldman - When the Mississippi Ran Backwards

Martin van Creveld - The Rise and Decline of the State

Alfred W. Crosby - America's Forgotten Pandemic (1989)
bush & company are...
absolutist
aggresive
anti-Constitutional
anti-intellectual
arrogant
authoritarian
blame-placers
blameworthy
blinkered
buckpassers
calculating
class warriors
clueless
compassionless
con artists
conniving
conscienceless
conspiratorial
corrupt
craven
criminal
crooked
culpable
damaging
dangerous
deadly
debased
deceitful
delusional
despotic
destructive
devious
disconnected
dishonorable
dishonest
disingenuous
disrespectful
dogmatic
doomed
fanatical
fantasists
felonious
hateful
heinous
hostile to science
hypocritical
ideologues
ignorant
immoral
incompetent
indifferent
inflexible
insensitive
insincere
irrational
isolated
kleptocratic
lacking in empathy
lacking in public spirit
liars
mendacious
misleading
mistrustful
non-rational
not candid
not "reality-based"
not trustworthy
oblivious
oligarchic
opportunistic
out of control
pernicious
perverse
philistine
plutocratic
prevaricating
propagandists
rapacious
relentless
reprehensible
rigid
scandalous
schemers
selfish
secretive
shameless
sleazy
tricky
unAmerican
uncaring
uncivil
uncompromising
unconstitutional
undemocratic
unethical
unpopular
unprincipled
unrealistic
unreliable
unrepresentative
unscientific
unscrupulous
unsympathetic
venal
vile
virtueless
warmongers
wicked
without integrity
wrong-headed

Thanks to: Breeze, Chuck, Ivan Raikov, Kaiju, Kathy, Roger, Shirley, S.M. Dixon
recently seen
Island in the Sky (1952)

Robot Chicken

The Family Guy

House M.D. (2004-7)
i've got a little list...
Elliott Abrams
Steven Abrams (Kansas BofE)
David Addington
Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson
Roger Ailes (FNC)
John Ashcroft
Bob Bennett
William Bennett
Joe Biden
John Bolton
Alan Bonsell (Dover BofE)
Pat Buchanan
Bill Buckingham (Dover BofE)
George W. Bush
Saxby Chambliss
Bruce Chapman (DI)
Dick Cheney
Lynne Cheney
Richard Cohen
The Coors Family
Ann Coulter
Michael Crichton
Lanny Davis
Tom DeLay
William A. Dembski
James Dobson
Leonard Downie (WaPo)
Dinesh D’Souza
Gregg Easterbrook
Jerry Falwell
Douglas Feith
Arthur Finkelstein
Bill Frist
George Gilder
Newt Gingrich
John Gibson (FNC)
Alberto Gonzalez
Rudolph Giuliani
Sean Hannity
Katherine Harris
Fred Hiatt (WaPo)
Christopher Hitchens
David Horowitz
Don Imus
James F. Inhofe
Jesse Jackson
Philip E. Johnson
Daryn Kagan
Joe Klein
Phil Kline
Ron Klink
William Kristol
Ken Lay
Joe Lieberman
Rush Limbaugh
Trent Lott
Frank Luntz


"American Fundamentalists"
by Joel Pelletier
(click on image for more info)


Chris Matthews
Mitch McConnell
Stephen C. Meyer (DI)
Judith Miller (ex-NYT)
Zell Miller
Tom Monaghan
Sun Myung Moon
Roy Moore
Dick Morris
Rupert Murdoch
Ralph Nader
John Negroponte
Grover Norquist
Robert Novak
Ted Olson
Elspeth Reeve (TNR)
Bill O'Reilly
Martin Peretz (TNR)
Richard Perle
Ramesh Ponnuru
Ralph Reed
Pat Robertson
Karl Rove
Tim Russert
Rick Santorum
Richard Mellon Scaife
Antonin Scalia
Joe Scarborough
Susan Schmidt (WaPo)
Bill Schneider
Al Sharpton
Ron Silver
John Solomon (WaPo)
Margaret Spellings
Kenneth Starr
Randall Terry
Clarence Thomas
Richard Thompson (TMLC)
Donald Trump
Richard Viguere
Donald Wildmon
Paul Wolfowitz
Bob Woodward (WaPo)
John Yoo
guest-blogging
All the fine sites I've
guest-blogged for:




Be sure to visit them all!!
recent listening
Smash Mouth - Summer Girl

Poulenc - Piano Music

Pop Ambient 2007
influences
John Adams
Laurie Anderson
Aphex Twin
Isaac Asimov
Fred Astaire
J.G. Ballard
The Beatles
Busby Berkeley
John Cage
"Catch-22"
Raymond Chandler
Arthur C. Clarke
Elvis Costello
Richard Dawkins
Daniel C. Dennett
Philip K. Dick
Kevin Drum
Brian Eno
Fela
Firesign Theatre
Eliot Gelwan
William Gibson
Philip Glass
David Gordon
Stephen Jay Gould
Dashiell Hammett
"The Harder They Come"
Robert Heinlein
Joseph Heller
Frank Herbert
Douglas Hofstadter
Bill James
Gene Kelly
Stanley Kubrick
Jefferson Airplane
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Marx Brothers
John McPhee
Harry Partch
Michael C. Penta
Monty Python
Orbital
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
"The Prisoner"
"The Red Shoes"
Steve Reich
Terry Riley
Oliver Sacks
Erik Satie
"Singin' in the Rain"
Stephen Sondheim
The Specials
Morton Subotnick
Talking Heads/David Byrne
Tangerine Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
J.R.R. Tolkien
"2001: A Space Odyssey"
Kurt Vonnegut
Yes
archives
08/31/2003 - 09/07/2003
09/07/2003 - 09/14/2003
09/14/2003 - 09/21/2003
09/21/2003 - 09/28/2003
09/28/2003 - 10/05/2003
10/05/2003 - 10/12/2003
10/12/2003 - 10/19/2003
10/19/2003 - 10/26/2003
11/02/2003 - 11/09/2003
11/09/2003 - 11/16/2003
11/16/2003 - 11/23/2003
11/23/2003 - 11/30/2003
12/07/2003 - 12/14/2003
12/14/2003 - 12/21/2003
12/21/2003 - 12/28/2003
01/11/2004 - 01/18/2004
01/18/2004 - 01/25/2004
01/25/2004 - 02/01/2004
02/01/2004 - 02/08/2004
02/08/2004 - 02/15/2004
02/15/2004 - 02/22/2004
02/22/2004 - 02/29/2004
02/29/2004 - 03/07/2004
03/07/2004 - 03/14/2004
03/14/2004 - 03/21/2004
03/21/2004 - 03/28/2004
03/28/2004 - 04/04/2004
04/04/2004 - 04/11/2004
04/11/2004 - 04/18/2004
04/18/2004 - 04/25/2004
04/25/2004 - 05/02/2004
05/02/2004 - 05/09/2004
05/09/2004 - 05/16/2004
05/16/2004 - 05/23/2004
05/23/2004 - 05/30/2004
05/30/2004 - 06/06/2004
06/06/2004 - 06/13/2004
06/13/2004 - 06/20/2004
06/20/2004 - 06/27/2004
06/27/2004 - 07/04/2004
07/04/2004 - 07/11/2004
07/18/2004 - 07/25/2004
07/25/2004 - 08/01/2004
08/01/2004 - 08/08/2004
08/08/2004 - 08/15/2004
08/15/2004 - 08/22/2004
08/22/2004 - 08/29/2004
08/29/2004 - 09/05/2004
09/05/2004 - 09/12/2004
09/12/2004 - 09/19/2004
09/19/2004 - 09/26/2004
09/26/2004 - 10/03/2004
10/03/2004 - 10/10/2004
10/10/2004 - 10/17/2004
10/17/2004 - 10/24/2004
10/24/2004 - 10/31/2004
10/31/2004 - 11/07/2004
11/07/2004 - 11/14/2004
11/14/2004 - 11/21/2004
11/21/2004 - 11/28/2004
11/28/2004 - 12/05/2004
12/05/2004 - 12/12/2004
12/12/2004 - 12/19/2004
12/19/2004 - 12/26/2004
12/26/2004 - 01/02/2005
01/02/2005 - 01/09/2005
01/09/2005 - 01/16/2005
01/16/2005 - 01/23/2005
01/23/2005 - 01/30/2005
01/30/2005 - 02/06/2005
02/06/2005 - 02/13/2005
02/13/2005 - 02/20/2005
02/20/2005 - 02/27/2005
02/27/2005 - 03/06/2005
03/06/2005 - 03/13/2005
03/13/2005 - 03/20/2005
03/20/2005 - 03/27/2005
03/27/2005 - 04/03/2005
04/03/2005 - 04/10/2005
04/10/2005 - 04/17/2005
04/17/2005 - 04/24/2005
04/24/2005 - 05/01/2005
05/01/2005 - 05/08/2005
05/08/2005 - 05/15/2005
05/15/2005 - 05/22/2005
05/22/2005 - 05/29/2005
05/29/2005 - 06/05/2005
06/05/2005 - 06/12/2005
06/12/2005 - 06/19/2005
06/19/2005 - 06/26/2005
06/26/2005 - 07/03/2005
07/10/2005 - 07/17/2005
07/17/2005 - 07/24/2005
07/24/2005 - 07/31/2005
07/31/2005 - 08/07/2005
08/07/2005 - 08/14/2005
08/14/2005 - 08/21/2005
08/21/2005 - 08/28/2005
08/28/2005 - 09/04/2005
09/04/2005 - 09/11/2005
09/11/2005 - 09/18/2005
09/18/2005 - 09/25/2005
09/25/2005 - 10/02/2005
10/02/2005 - 10/09/2005
10/09/2005 - 10/16/2005
10/16/2005 - 10/23/2005
10/23/2005 - 10/30/2005
10/30/2005 - 11/06/2005
11/06/2005 - 11/13/2005
11/13/2005 - 11/20/2005
11/20/2005 - 11/27/2005
11/27/2005 - 12/04/2005
12/04/2005 - 12/11/2005
12/11/2005 - 12/18/2005
12/18/2005 - 12/25/2005
12/25/2005 - 01/01/2006
01/01/2006 - 01/08/2006
01/08/2006 - 01/15/2006
01/15/2006 - 01/22/2006
01/22/2006 - 01/29/2006
01/29/2006 - 02/05/2006
02/05/2006 - 02/12/2006
02/12/2006 - 02/19/2006
02/19/2006 - 02/26/2006
02/26/2006 - 03/05/2006
03/05/2006 - 03/12/2006
03/26/2006 - 04/02/2006
04/02/2006 - 04/09/2006
04/09/2006 - 04/16/2006
04/16/2006 - 04/23/2006
04/23/2006 - 04/30/2006
04/30/2006 - 05/07/2006
05/07/2006 - 05/14/2006
05/14/2006 - 05/21/2006
05/21/2006 - 05/28/2006
05/28/2006 - 06/04/2006
06/04/2006 - 06/11/2006
06/11/2006 - 06/18/2006
06/18/2006 - 06/25/2006
06/25/2006 - 07/02/2006
07/02/2006 - 07/09/2006
07/09/2006 - 07/16/2006
07/16/2006 - 07/23/2006
07/23/2006 - 07/30/2006
08/06/2006 - 08/13/2006
08/13/2006 - 08/20/2006
08/20/2006 - 08/27/2006
08/27/2006 - 09/03/2006
09/03/2006 - 09/10/2006
09/10/2006 - 09/17/2006
09/17/2006 - 09/24/2006
09/24/2006 - 10/01/2006
10/01/2006 - 10/08/2006
10/08/2006 - 10/15/2006
10/15/2006 - 10/22/2006
10/22/2006 - 10/29/2006
10/29/2006 - 11/05/2006
11/05/2006 - 11/12/2006
11/12/2006 - 11/19/2006
11/19/2006 - 11/26/2006
11/26/2006 - 12/03/2006
12/03/2006 - 12/10/2006
12/10/2006 - 12/17/2006
12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006
12/24/2006 - 12/31/2006
12/31/2006 - 01/07/2007
01/07/2007 - 01/14/2007
01/14/2007 - 01/21/2007
01/21/2007 - 01/28/2007
01/28/2007 - 02/04/2007
02/04/2007 - 02/11/2007
02/11/2007 - 02/18/2007
02/18/2007 - 02/25/2007
02/25/2007 - 03/04/2007
03/04/2007 - 03/11/2007
03/11/2007 - 03/18/2007
03/18/2007 - 03/25/2007
03/25/2007 - 04/01/2007
04/01/2007 - 04/08/2007
04/08/2007 - 04/15/2007
04/15/2007 - 04/22/2007
04/22/2007 - 04/29/2007
04/29/2007 - 05/06/2007
05/13/2007 - 05/20/2007
05/20/2007 - 05/27/2007
05/27/2007 - 06/03/2007
06/03/2007 - 06/10/2007
06/10/2007 - 06/17/2007
06/17/2007 - 06/24/2007
06/24/2007 - 07/01/2007
07/01/2007 - 07/08/2007
07/08/2007 - 07/15/2007
07/29/2007 - 08/05/2007
08/05/2007 - 08/12/2007
08/12/2007 - 08/19/2007
08/19/2007 - 08/26/2007
08/26/2007 - 09/02/2007
09/02/2007 - 09/09/2007
09/09/2007 - 09/16/2007
09/16/2007 - 09/23/2007
09/23/2007 - 09/30/2007
09/30/2007 - 10/07/2007
10/07/2007 - 10/14/2007
10/14/2007 - 10/21/2007
10/21/2007 - 10/28/2007
10/28/2007 - 11/04/2007
11/04/2007 - 11/11/2007
11/11/2007 - 11/18/2007
11/18/2007 - 11/25/2007
11/25/2007 - 12/02/2007
12/02/2007 - 12/09/2007
12/09/2007 - 12/16/2007
12/16/2007 - 12/23/2007
12/23/2007 - 12/30/2007
12/30/2007 - 01/06/2008
01/06/2008 - 01/13/2008
01/13/2008 - 01/20/2008
01/20/2008 - 01/27/2008
01/27/2008 - 02/03/2008
02/03/2008 - 02/10/2008
02/10/2008 - 02/17/2008
02/17/2008 - 02/24/2008
02/24/2008 - 03/02/2008
03/09/2008 - 03/16/2008
03/16/2008 - 03/23/2008
03/23/2008 - 03/30/2008
03/30/2008 - 04/06/2008
06/01/2008 - 06/08/2008
09/21/2008 - 09/28/2008
search

search websearch unfutz

policies
Comments
Bullshit, trolling, unthinking knee-jerk dogmatism and the drivel of idiots will be ruthlessly deleted and the posters banned.

Entertaining, interesting, intelligent, informed and informative comments will always be welcome, even when I disagree with them.

I am the sole judge of which of these qualities pertains.


E-mail
All e-mail received is subject to being published on unfutz without identifying names or addresses.

Corrections
I correct typos and other simple errors of grammar, syntax, style and presentation in my posts after the fact without necessarily posting notification of the change.

Substantive textual changes, especially reversals or major corrections, will be noted in an "Update" or a footnote.

Also, illustrations may be added to entries after their initial publication.
the story so far
unfutz: toiling in almost complete obscurity for almost 1500 days
2005 koufax awards

BEST BLOG (NON-PRO)

Bradblog
Carpetbagger Report
*Crooks and Liars*
Eschaton
Firedoglake
Hullabaloo
Majikthise
Pandagon
Pharyngula
Progressive Blog Digest

BEST BLOG (PRO)

AmericaBlog
Daou Report
Media Matters
Orcinus
Political Animal
Sirotablog
*Talking Points Memo*
Think Progress
James Wolcott

*Winners*
2004 koufax winners
2003 koufax award
"best blog" nominees
r.i.p.
the proud unfutz guarantee
If you read unfutz at least once a week, without fail, your teeth will be whiter and your love life more satisfying.

If you read it daily, I will come to your house, kiss you on the forehead, bathe your feet, and cook pancakes for you, with yummy syrup and everything.

(You might want to keep a watch on me, though, just to avoid the syrup ending up on your feet and the pancakes on your forehead.)

Finally, on a more mundane level, since I don't believe that anyone actually reads this stuff, I make this offer: I'll give five bucks to the first person who contacts me and asks for it -- and, believe me, right now five bucks might as well be five hundred, so this is no trivial offer.

original content
© 2003-2008
Ed Fitzgerald

=o=

take all you want
but credit all you take.



Creative Commons License



This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Buzzflash Bushisms Democratic Underground Impeach Bush Coalition