MacDries says,"Sounds like boss in Cool Hand Luke. So, lets just get some other more intelligent people and put them in charge. The politics of paranoia continues. How much did we spend for this politcal football?"
As I said...
... why are we (via the Postal Service) paying the tab for Lance's ego trip?
And now I hear he's cuddling with Sheryl Crow? Geez what a deal that guy's got, make a few million as a catamite to the Postal Service and get to... you know... with Sheryl.

MacDries says, "Or, you can just eat 3-4 tspns of sugar."
Brat Eloquence
Jenna Bush sticks her tongue out at photographers Tuesday after arriving with President Bush in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dancing Duck
©Carl Grupp (detail)
Black Holes
Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says black holes, the mysterious massive vortexes formed from collapsed stars, do not destroy everything they consume but instead eventually fire out matter and energy "in a mangled form."

MacDries says, "Sounds like a woman I once knew."
iTunes
OK, I've crossed over into MP3 land and bye-bye to CDs for daily rotation. I bought a nifty pair of JBL Duet speakers for my little G4 Powerbook, loaded it up with 20 GB of my favorites converted to MP3s and discovered a great option: Party Shuffle. No more periodic decisions about what to play next. iTune decides for me. And endless jukebox of only those tracks that I have chosen. Kewl!
Haven't bought an iPod yet because I seldom listen to music on the street and rental cars have CD players. I've burned 20-30 jukebox CDs for such occasions. No more loading and replacing disks in the proper sleeves. My CDs are now merely backups.

MacDries thinks the gal may be a tad ambivalent about performing these days. And how old is that photo?
The Land Is Their Land
Everyone is sending me this Bush/Kerry Woody Guthrie link. Go HERE.
The Bushiad & The Idyossey
Go HERE.
Thanks and XXXXOOOOO to Midnight Mango.
Botox Baths
Botox apparently temporarily paralyzes a nerve that stimulates sweat glands. In one study, 91 percent of patients who received Botox underarm injections saw their sweating cut in half in a month, compared with 36 percent of patients given salt-water injections.

MacDries says, "Phew! Now I only have to take a bath when my prescribing physician is out of town. Kewl."

MacDries says, "That's a pretty nice rack you've got there yourself, Arnold. And your hair... what sort of conditioner do you use? What really goes on in those locker rooms? Or the shower stalls? Oops... did you drop your soap?"
Artist Of The Day
My friend Carl Grupp is having a traveling retrospective out there in the so-called Midwest. If you are near any of these place at these times you could do worse than to stop in and take a peek. Artists don't come any better.

July 27 to November 14, 2004
South Dakota Art Museum
Brookings, South Dakota

January 7 to February 2, 2005
The Dahl Fine Arts Center
Rapid City, South Dakota

March 29 to April 24, 2005
Eide-Dalyrmple Gallery
Augustana College

September 4 to 26, 2005
Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts
The University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

Go HERE or HERE to visits Carl's pages emphasizing his watercolors.
Quote Of The Day
"Back in 2000, a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true."
--James Carville
FUCK NADER (repeat)
Click HERE to buy your button.

MacDries says, "Nader is a senile old man out to make mockery of his life's work. But if the truth were told, Al Gore (Fuck Lieberman too) should have kicked The Shrub's tight little ass, despite Nader. Kerry just might do it, (despite The Twerp Edwards). Register and vote anyway and make sure your kids do too. No election day hangovers allowed."
A Really Good Email Newsletter
Michael Wiship is a friend and a writer who sends a well thought out (meaning Liberal Humanitarian, non-knee-jerk) email columns to people who want to hear such things or receive a bit of ammo in the fight to defeat the Cheny/Bush administration. Email Michael at BartlebyMW@aol.com and ask to be put on his list. Tell him MacDries said so.
Now They Tell Us, Sort Of
Flicking away pesky mosquitoes may be better than swatting the bloodsucking insects, which can risk infections if their body parts are smashed into human skin, researchers say.
But flicking the bugs off is not a permanent solution. Unfortunately the mosquito often goes on to bite another person, or bites you again.

MacDries says, "Will you make up your mind? Flick? Or don't flick!"
Oh, Christ! NO!!!!
Bush: U.S. probes possible Iran links to 9/11
"Tehran government hiding Al Qaeda members," President claims.
"I have long expressed my concerns about Iran. After all, it is a totalitarian society where free people are not allowed to exercise their rights as human beings."

MacDries says, "Does this sound vaguely familiar?"

MacDries says, "In case Martha doesn't know it, Mandella went to prison for over 20 years for protesting Apartheid in White minority ruled South Africa. She is going to jail for stealing and lying about money that wouldn't pay her limo driver's salary."
Artist Of The Day
Bob Hicks of somewhere up there in Canada, eh? Bob is the bass player in the B&H Duo, Herb plays piano (and paints) and they are the ones mentioned in some of my music memoirs.
Maui Condo Time Share
US$1000 per year. 1 bdrm. Breezy. View of Pacific.
RomDogs
Y'know you really should visit RomDog every once in a while. Fred is sitting over there in Brooklyn after being kicked out of NYC. He's lonely, give him a visit.

MacDries says, "Give me a deal like that."
BUCHAREST, Romania July 15, 2004
Lovestruck Man in Romania Sues Dozens of Times Just to See Female Judge
"I fell madly in love with her and when I found out she was married, I didn't know how I would manage to see her," the pathetic man said. "The only way was to see her was in the courtroom, so I looked in the law book and came up with all kinds of excuses.

MacDries says, "That's gotta be an expensive date. But if he kept it up he might be a pretty good jailhouse shyster."

MacDries wants to know, "Does anyone know what the hell this story is about? Please tell me."

MacDries says, "I do a mean imitation of The Possum singing White Lightning."
Roll Another Number
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon ballot measure expected to qualify this week would make it legal for medical marijuana users to possess one pound of pot, create state dispensaries and allow nurse practitioners and naturopaths to prescribe it.
Make it a Spliff but don't give it to your pet spider. Or caffeine for that matter.
Go HERE.
While you're there Go HERE as well.
This Ain't Kansas Anymore


Go HERE for lots more Bush Bashing Images.
Quote Of The Day
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
-Thomas Jefferson
Re: Queer Bashing
A majority of U.S. Senators defeated an attempt to ammend the Constitution of the United States which has previously been amended a mere 17 times out of about 11,000 attempts.

"The founders wisely made certain that the Constitution is difficult to amend and, as a practical political matter, can't be done without overwhelming public approval. And thank God for that."
- Sen. John McCain

MacDries says, "No John, thank Thomas and Ben (etc.) and you and the Democrats."

MacDries says, "Now there is another heavy thinker."
The Criminal Architect
MacDries pleads, "Someone please stop Frank Gehry before he builds again. I hear Chicago's Millenium Park is the latest victim after LA, Seattle and Bilbao. The man did to Bilbao what LBJ & Gen. Westmoreland did to Vietnam; "destroyed it to save it."
Pictured is the Jimi Hendrix "Experience Project". Jimi's rolling over in his grave, thinking he took a bad tab.
Luckily the project he had plotted in our neighborhood near the South Street Seaport fell through, victim of Thomas Krens' lack of any self-restraint. Unfortunately, he has another project in Green Light next to our local hospital. I hope to be gone before it is finished since I walk by the site daily to pick up my
"Little Sparkler" from school.
Doofus Ditka
Run, Doofus, run. His wife says she'll divorce him if he does but that's just a double dare. She's hoping he does. Then she'll have better grounds than complaining about a measly 1 SuperBowl in his whole career.
Workers Unite Against Duane/Reade
Go HERE to support the workers or for info.

MacDries says, "Inch for inch the highest price ever paid for a (fake) painting."
Kenny Boy Does The Perp Walk
The Shrub scarcly knew his largest contributor. Neither did Cheney. And if you buy that, I have the Brooklyn Bridge right out my window and it's For Sale.
How Enron Came Into So Much Trouble
Capitalism
You have two horses. You sell one and buy a stallion. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

Enron AdVenture Capitalism
You have two horses. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four horses back, with a tax exemption for five horses.

The breeding rights of the six horses are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven horses back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight horses, with an option on one more.

Now you know why a company with $62 billion in assets declared bankruptcy?
Bush/Cheney2004 Bumper Stickers
Go HERE.

Touch Screen Voting?
If you're concerned about this issue, HERE is a good introduction by David Pogue in Word.doc format.
The Heavy Hand
Nicole Rank, who was working for FEMA in West Virginia, and her husband, Jeff, were removed from the Capitol grounds in handcuffs shortly before Bush's speech. The pair wore T-shirts with the message "Love America, Hate Bush."
Dozens of people who attended Sunday's event wore pro-Bush T-shirts and Bush-Cheney campaign buttons, some of which were sold on the Capitol grounds. Go HERE for the article.
The Real Terrorist Is Within
Security Chief Ridge says al Qaeda is planning an attack. Terrorists' aim is to influence presidential vote.

MacDries says, "To paraphrase Walt Kelly, we have seen the terrorist and he is Ridge. And what is Ridge's aim? Does he really think our children need to be constantly bombarded with this crap, to walk streets crowded with barriers and barricades and SWAT teams carrying machine guns on every holiday and political occasion?
Do your job Ridge, leave politics out of it, tell the appropriate officials and Shut the fuck up! There is not one god damn thing an individual can do except buy into this maniacal frenzy."
Writing Off Them Coloreds
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
The Shrub declined an invitation to speak at the NAACP's annual convention, the group said.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People expects more than 8,000 people to attend the convention.
Democratic challenger John Kerry accepted an invitation to speak next Thursday on the final day of the convention.
The Shrub spoke at the 2000 NAACP convention in Baltimore when he was running for president. Since then he realized he has no one in that group behind him.
NAACP spokesman John White said Wednesday that Bush has declined invitations in each year of his presidency - becoming the first president since Herbert Hoover not to attend an NAACP convention.
As I said...
Armstrong Loses Yellow Shirt in Tour de France
... why are we via the Postal Service paying the tab for Lance's ego trip?

MacDries says, "Sorta disappointed in you already Kerry. Picking a nothing like that with less than one term as a Senator. But, hey, they say the women like his boyish smile. Think I'll go back to bed.

Well, I've had all day to think about it and I still think Gephardt (with nearly 30 years dedicated service to the party) got screwed and Edwards is a nobody, which is, I suppose, still a few (thousand) steps up from Dick (Go F*** Yerself) Cheney.
Yeah, you, Dick!

Edwards is known for his courtroom-honed oratorical skills and his youthful appeal which helped land him in People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue.

MacDries says, "Damn, I must have missed that issue. But now I'm impressed with his credentials."
Zowie!!!!
Step aside Kournikova and Paltrow.
Kerry should have picked Maria Sharapova. One of the sweetest and sexiest persons of all time, living or dead. And she beat Serena!
HIV Zowie!!!!
Almost 5 million people became infected with HIV last year - the largest number of new infections since the disease was discovered in 1981.

MacDries says, "People are just gonna have to STOP having sex. OK?

Brando On Celebrity:
"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."
Can I Get A Witness?
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."
--Dylan Thomas