Doc 40

MESSING WITH THE PRESS This week, in LA CityBeat , I add my eleven cents to the discussion of the propaganda war as conducted by the Bush Wh...

CRYPTIQUE -- Don't send a hillbilly for champagne

SOMETIMES ONLY A MARTINI WILL MAKE IT Who remembers Judge Robert Bork? He was a right wing absolutist who was kept off the Supreme Court bac...

TOOKIE WILLIAMS -- RIP

In California, to all human disgust, this depressing fucking gangsta execution grinds on. (And will the hood riot?) While, in New York, acto...

IF YOU LOVED PENGUIN WHACKING YOU’RE GOING TO LIKE THIS (OR VICE VERSA)... The longer you shake it, the more they scream. (sent by Rumor) ht...

RICHARD PRYOR -- RIP

OKAY YOU CYBER-PAGANS, GET FESTIVE WID IT... IT’S PENGUIN WHACKING TIME AGAIN! This link has been posted before, but since Lazzafairy remind...

BUT AFTER ALL OF YESTERDAY’S GLOOM AND DOOM (SEX)... Here’s more than you ever needed to know about Jenna... (With pictures) http://www.jenn...

OKAY, IT’S ALL OVER The ever watchful Kaymo sends over the following. The first real bad news comes from London and The Guardian ... " ...

RUNNING OUT OF ROAD I had a whole bunch of stuff that I was going to post tonight – including the latest move by The Inuit Circumpolar Confe...

EXPLAIN THIS ONE, DOROTHY! For the last couple of days, I’ve been coughing like Doc Holiday and feeling lousy. Flu? Cold? Stress? Who the he...

GEORGE BEST For those who know, Miss Templeton has a moving blog on George Best's funeral. (You have to scroll down a couple of items.) ...

THE GREAT ESCAPE Our pal, MrMR points out to me that Al Qaeda is as busy escaping from Afghan jails as Brit POWs were from Germany Stalags i...

THIS BLOG FOR SALE I heard yesterday that Gawker Media, the corporate blog bundle that owns, among others, Disclaimer, Fleshbot and Wonkette...

I just saw a Che Guevara emoticom happy face on some teen message board. I think I'll quietly put myself in a home.

MODERN LOVE As David Bowie once remarked – " God and man - no confessions/God and man - no religion/God and man - don't believe in ...

AND WE EVEN HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PANDA CAM Try clicking this and, if your media player plays ball, you get another view of Butterstick. (But ...

THE PANDA CAME IS BACK! http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html

THIS TROLL FOR HIRE Sometimes, as the bills roll in, I reflect bitterly on how fascism is so much better paid than fighting the Good Fight f...

DAMN IT TO HELL! THE PANDA CAM IS DOWN!

A MISSION FROM GOD (HE AIN’T DRINKING, HE GOT RELIGION) According to Seymour Hersh, writing in the New Yor ker, the President now believes t...

SHALL WE GO FOR A THOUSAND? The ancient and highly cranky comments board – right over on the right there – has now made it to 800 comments. ...

LA TIMES Today I have an oped piece in The Los Angeles Times . In contrast to the morose posting below, it suggests that maybe we’re actuall...

ON THE SUNDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING (EAT THE RICH, YUM) I keep telling myself I watch too much TV, and especially TV with commercials, and esp...

MORE ON LITTLE TONY Phil Franks sends the following from his extensive archive... http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/friends/littlet.html

EXTRA! EXTRA! WILD TURKEYS THREATEN YOSEMITE! (So we needn’t feel so bad about eating the bastards) http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me...

GOBBLE FUCKING GOBBLE I learned a lot today. As in... South Caroline is the #1 turkey producing state in the nation. (But, unfortunately, th...

LINK WRAY -- RIP (Nobody told me)

AND ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF DEALEY PLAZA... http://www.wonkette.com/politics/conspiracy-theories/index.php

SCENES FROM IDIOT AMERICA No comments, just read ’em and weep... "The godfather of the Dominionists is D. James Kennedy, the most influ...

THE MORE TIME PASSES, THE MORE OF A BILL CLINTON FAN I BECOME And happy to see that he is finally climbing down off the fence on Iraq. http:...

Damn it, but that panda can sleep!

BEWARE! THE PANDACAM IS ADDICTIVE!

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS, WHATEVER ELSE YOU DO, YOU GOTTA WATCH THE PANDA CAM! http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html The secret word...

SINGULARITY So it’s Thursday in what is proving to be a long and anxious week, with the Santa Annas blowing out from the canyons, where pach...

BILL O’REILLY has started an enemies list and I sooooo want to be on it! http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/14/oreilly-mccarthyism/

WHILE SONY MURDERS YOUR COMPUTER... http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20051115-1407-sony-copyprotection.html (Class action suit?)

ANYONE FANCY A HEINEKEN COMMERCIAL? http://www.ps260.com/editors/hein_dominatrix.html

GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING PLANET! Before the six disc DVD collection of the best of Oprah gets me! (That's true torture.)

MY BRANE STILL HURTS No time today to continue yesterday’s mental stumblings, but, fear not, I will return to them. Maybe another part of th...

I just realized it’s the 13th. Maybe that explains some of what’s below. Triskaidekaphobia may have unconsciously set in. On the other hand,...

MY BRAIN HURTS (When in crisis look to the old Python) MY BRANE HURTS (When in crisis look to string) Unless you have the fortune to become ...

LOCAL GLOAT A smug happiness descends on Doc40 with today’s news that the voters in California have seemingly proved they’ve finally come to...

I just heard "The Times They Are A'Changing" and "I Can See For Miles" on back to back TV commercials. On whom do I...

PARANOIA, PORNOGRAPHY AND TORTURE First Paranoia... The last couple of weeks have been something of private nightmare, which may explain why...

MARTIAN CHRONICLES (How else do you follow vampires?) In 1990 I published a novel titled Mars, The Red Planet . And in it, I made one of the...

THIS WOULD SEEM TO NAIL IT From MrMT. In yesterday’s Washington Post , E. J. Dionne Jr. seen to drive a stake to the heart of the White Hous...

SEX, LIES, AND LITERATURE To write fictional sex is unavoidably self revealing, and if you can’t handle the revelation, don’t go join the ga...

HCB DOES NOT AGREE "To paraphrase an old lawyer joke...Q: What’s the indictment of one Bush henchman? A: A good start." But from o...

LAST NIGHT IN AMERICA, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO PUT OUR CLOCKS SOMEWHERE. I PUT MINE IN THE MICROWAVE. MARS IS VISIBLE http://www.space.com/space...

ONE DOWN, HOW MANY MORE TO GO? To paraphrase an old lawyer joke...Q: What’s the indictment of one Bush henchman? A: A good start. MrMR (who ...

MIERS DONE GONE LIKE A TURKEY THROUGH THE CORN And I can’t improve on Wonkette... The radical right-wing sleestaks that stalk this land hopp...

THE WORKS OF GENERAL ZOD? (From MSNBC) An Austrian man who claimed he was Superman and could fly was hospitalized early Tuesday after leapin...

LATE NIGHT FINAL FOCUS In one of those moments of weary clarity, I had a final thought on the whole New Times business (see most of yesterda...

MILESTONE/MILLSTONE " U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, director of the force's combined press center, wrote in an e-mail to reporte...

POST SCRIPT (WHICH OF COURSE, IN THE BLOGOSPHERE, PRECEDES THE SCRIPT IT POSTS) It just occurred to me that maybe New Times is the alternati...

NEW TIMES/BAD TIMES Hell, I didn’t like it when underground became alternative... The news was out yesterday that the long rumored a merger ...

WEEKEND READIN' A whole lot of really interesting stuff has been coming down Doc40's pike in the last 48 hours with which to occupy ...

HAPPY 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR TO THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT THE HELL I’M TALKING ABOUT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_...

LAUGH OR FUCKING CRY Kaymo sent over the following that would have me rolling on the floor if this slick-suited sonofabitch wasn’t so hideou...

BEYOND THE WILDEST NIGHTMARE While still dealing more the usual crap that flesh is heir to, (maybe one day I’ll look back and laugh and tell...