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TODAY I FLY TO TOKYO FOR SOME READIN’ AND ROCKIN’ SO DOC 4O WILL FOR SILENT FOR PRECISELY A WEEK – UNLESS OF COURSE YOU HAPPEN TO BE AT THE ...

THE DOG DID NOT EAT GEORGE’S HOMEWORK, BUT, IF IT DID, IT’S REALLY THE FAULT OF HILLARY AND THE MEDIA Ben Stein is a piece of human redundan...

FALANGIST FUNNIES For a long time I have wished people would stop using the word conservative when they mean neo-Nazi psychopaths. The letha...

WHEN I FIND MYSELF QUOTING CHURCHILL TWICE IN 24 HOURS, I KNOW WE’RE IN TROUBLE " The responsibility of government for the public safet...

WINSTON CHURCHILL CALLED IT THE BLACK DOG. THE MOMENT OF BLEAK AND WEARY DEPRESSION WHEN IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE FIGHT IS ENDLESS. SELF-SATIS...

BEYOND ALL EXCUSE OR REASON 1. The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S.S. Bataan, " equipped with six operating rooms, hundreds of ho...

THANK GOD FOR WONKETTE "We have it on good authority that Christopher Hitchens is preparing a ten-point litany explaining why condition...

ANNE RICE Over the years, I have, now and then, been unkind to Anne Rice. Those of us in the vampire business can take on all the bitchiness...

FRESH LINKS From guys running a blog from a building in downtown NO, which may tell more than any of the increasingly confused news channels...

MY PET GOAT AND THE BUTCHER’S BILL At the end of the engagement Nelson would ask for "the butcher’s bill." (For the historically-c...

SEE THE CONSERVATIVE COMPASSION SEE THE PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP ALL THE FUN OF THE FIASCO BUT THE POOR DIE IN THE STREET Around 3.00AM last ...

THE DOOMWATCH THAT NEVER SEEMS TO END WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? This is going to appear disjointed because, right now I feel...

DOOMWATCH KATRINA It’s hard to come to grips with the fact that New Orleans as we knew it is history. I also worry about the friends and fol...

SUNDAY OP-ED Today I had my first op-ed piece in the LA Times, which I guess is some kinda landmark. If the subject matter seems a little un...

SATURDAY ODDS AND ENDS Saturday afternoon. It’s hot. The TV beyond the wall just told me it was 108F in Chatsworth (where the porn comes fro...

DOOMWATCH As part of Doc40's untiring efforts to prove that it’s later than we think, and global warning is further advanced than most i...

BOSS GOODMAN UPDATE A little tardy in posting, but all is well. Su writes... You probably already heard, but Boss has had his angiogram and ...

RE ANN COULTER (see yesterday) The following was sent over by HCB... One of my favorites, from Casablanca: Major Strasser: Are you one of t...

COMPARATIVE RELIGION So the founder of the Christian Coalition and constant political player Pat Robertson called for the assassination of V...

SUNDAY FUNNIES Woke up this morning, and, for want of anything better to do, I read the NY Times (oh boy). Gleaned some hope from an excell...

REAL BAD NEWS THE HORROR, THE HORROR, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT! For more, read.... http://www.thesuperficial.com/arc...

ASSORTED PLUGS & COMMUNICATIONS Dimitris sends the following as discordant satire, but I tend to believe it especially, the bit about pi...

SPEED. KNOW WHAT I MEAN? RIGHT? Cover story in current LA CityBeat is a summation of most of my current thoughts on amphetamine. (sniff) ht...

The following fell from the net and... ALL I CAN SAY IS...YES!! OH YES!! To : Friends, Family, and my fellow Americans Subject : Get America...

BOSSWATCH Most other things have been off the table in the last 24 hours while emails have been flying over the condition of our favorite he...

BOSS GOODMAN Stop The Presses – For those of you who know him, either personally, or by repute, Boss has suffered a heart attack. The follo...

BITING THE BULLET II Second day in and my nicotine withdrawal is going wholly to plan. This is not about to become some dreary detox diary –...

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...