Doc 40

BITING THE BULLET Having finally admitted what many have been telling me for years – I will almost certainly die a week from next Thursday u...

DRUGS, DRUGS, AND MORE DRUGS For the last two/three days I have been writing an erudite piece on crystal meth, its manufacture and history. ...

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE INTERLUDES OF CHAOS?

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NOVAK UNGLUED Seems that the wantonly ugly Robert Novak came unglued on CNN. I missed it, but some girl sent over chapter and verse for thos...

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER WEEKLY LA CityBeat comes round again, and this week I have two pieces. An analysis of the new terrorism that I really...

THE CIRCLE MAY SOON BE UNBROKEN Some girl sent over this link which would seem to indicate that even solid, old-school rightwingers are havi...

YESTERDAY’S BUSTS Part 2 As I was cutting the codes out of this second piece from The Guardian sent over by Roger in Scotland, I wondered t...

MARTIAN ICE AND TERRESTRIAL STUPIDITY Some girls sends us the story of how there is ice on Mars. http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/technology/te...

NEW PLANET??? Check this out... http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050729_new_planet.html

MACAW INDECENCY HCB sends the following... LONDON (AFP) - A foul-mouthed parrot previously owned by a lorry driver has been banished from pu...

THIS MAY, OF COURSE, BE THE ANSWER A group of fundamentalist Christians from Texas (where the hell else?) want vast numbers of their kind to...

LINKS (GET ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE HOT) MICK ON PIMPING Great riff of pimpery in LA CityBeat by your humble scribe... http://lacitybeat.com/artic...

A WEEK FOR FABULOUS IDEAS About six minutes ago it occurred to me that one – and maybe the only – effective way to reign in both terrorism a...

FROM THE FAR LEFT OF THE BRAIN Preferring my torture to be delivered by more intimate means that either gravity or centrifugal force, I have...

NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE? After feeling disconnected and lousy from the heat all weekend, I turned on Sunday night’s ABC News and discovered that...

CRYPTIQUE SPECIAL – I’M THINKING ABOUT IT The significance has still not fully sunk in. Suicide bombers have attacked a major international ...

AND THEN, ON THE WAY TO BED, I FLIP ON CNN TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY WORD ABOUT THE BREAKING STORY OUT OF CHINA THAT THE DOLLAR IS BEING ALL...

AIR CONDITIONERS HUM AS L.A. SWEATS AND POISONOUSLY SWELTERS UNDER THE THREAT OF A FULL YELLOW MOON. I SHOULD PROBABLY WRITE REALLY DEPRESSI...

TUCK YOU, TUCKER Tucker Carlson is an annoying neo-yuppie TV-boy and professional right-winger who believes that wearing a red polka-dot bow...

CALIENTE FUCKING LOCO We might as well give up arguing about global warming. The way it feels tonight, we’re in the terminal stage. It’s 2.1...

GERRY THOMAS -- RIP (The inventor of the TV dinner)

AS THE WORLD TURNS And the day rushes by a dizzying speed (and I seem to be achieving nothing) I pluck this item from this morning’s NY Time...

MAKING QUITE HORRIBLE SENSE The link below was sent by kaymo and I would humbly recommend taking a look at it and becoming very, very parano...

ANYHOW... It also occurs to me, before I retire to TV and bed, that even if this doesn't, in the end, bring down the whole wretched pa...

LATE NIGHT TOAD WATCH Glancing through the first of the online morning news it seems that Rove is now dumping the problem on the equally rep...

(Did anyone see Johnny Depps' Gonzo t-shirt on Leno last night? I want one! I want one!)

LA CITYBEAT Two quite lengthy gems o’mine in this week's issue... ...on celebrity... http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2340&Issue...

TOADWATCH (Maybe best to read yesterday first.) Today Karl Rove – described last night by Jon Stewart as "the only man in Washington wi...

THE FALL OF THE DARK TOWER – SHALL WE GET THE PARTY STARTED? Gather round friends and neighbors, this might just be the best vertical fun we...

MORE ACID DISCOVERIES Spent the weekend writing about last week’s Jihadist nastiness and also the horrors of contemporary celebrity. The pro...

An overwhelming concern for personal safety is, at best, pragmatism and has never been deemed a high virtue in any culture worth a damn.

"WE WERE PACKED IN LIKE SARDINES WAITING TO DIE..." Right now I find myself at a loss to think, let alone analyze, and simply watc...

IN THE MATTER OF NY TIMES REPORTER JUDITH MILLER GOING TO THE SLAM This would be my impression, open of course to comment. Bush’s Dark Lord ...

MORE NARCO-TRIVIA Munz just sent me the following and I couldn’t resist simply posting it. I hesitate to say more than, back in the day, tha...

INDEPENDENCE DAY As an Englishman, it’s a little hard to get worked up over July 4th. As a pyromaniac, I’m inordinately fond of fireworks, b...

HAVE THIS SHOW CANCELLED! I returned from some external local wanderings around the pharmacy and the hardware store and found George Bush mo...

IF YOU GO DOWN IN THE WOODS TODAY*... Although I’m well aware that there are many more crucial things going on around the planet, I've m...

IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTS (712) BOARD (just over there>>>)... I really don’t recall ever being on a bill with Chas and Dave, but,...

IT’S 2008, OKAY? (ALL ACROSS THE USA) Seems like the 2008 Presidential Election is underway already. I’m no great Hillary Clinton admirer, b...

BEFORE EVEN THERE WAS EDDIE COCHRAN ... Mercifully the English are obsessive about preserving cultural minutiae otherwise we would have miss...

I MEANT TO POST THIS ON SUNDAY But the weekend grew hectic and the world again turned into one giant movie promotion with live ammunition, a...

WARNING, MICK FARREN, WARNING! So there I am, it’s 8.40 and I’m watching back-to-back reruns of Law & Order , scratching my feet and ref...

WHAT ME WORRY? Michael Jackson walks, and do I worry? Actually I’m kinda glad. I spent too much of my youth listening for the ominous bellow...

ONE CANNOT HELP BUT THINKING Smoking marijuana rather than ranting about it, one I cannot help thinking. I just watched Kevin Spacey in Beyo...

SOME OPTIMISM FROM MUNZ (HA-HA) I received the following from Munz regarding yesterday’s post... Mick: Obviously I share your half-century f...

ANNE BANCROFT -- RIP

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I’VE HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP Yesterday the Supreme Court handed the Federal Government and the DEA ove...