Doc 40

I woke up on Thursday morning, after just two hours sleep, to the sound of agricultural-strength garden impliments. I had typed t...

(Image from Mother and Doctor)

This is Tempest Storm – the prima Bay Area/Vegas stripper of the 1950s. If memory has not distorted she cheated on bandleader Harry James wi...

Elizabeth Warren is the Harvard law professor who also heads up the Congressional Oversight Panel, which has monitored the iniquities of the...

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Although not due for release until September 3rd (my birthday incidentally) Robert Rodriguez has put together a special trailer ...

Our pal Faux Smoke sent us this story and pic of Chinese sweatshop workers slumped over their work stations from exhaustio...

When the present overwhelms, the only workable solution can be to take a little refuge in the past. As I escaped from the TV, this Terry O’N...

(But the nauga has, of course, been extinct since the 1980s.)

Once the novelty of his act wore off Chip Frozdick found himself banned from even the less particular gay bars.

( Banksy on AZ .) As the oil clogs the Gulf and a sea of troubles yet to be defined will, without doubt follow, plus all...

…this is Woody’s first written draft of the lyrics for “This Land Is Your Land.” (Discovered by Valerie) Click here fo...

“First you eat in your car, then you live in your car.”

(I have been shamelessly lifting images from You Fill Me With Inertia )

Our friend Kass (from whom we haven’t heard in a while) delivered this most distressing news… “Disturbing evidence that honeybe...

Our pal Faux Smoke sent is this set of two images. You may be able to click on them and read the text, but sufice to say that the o...

Uncle Bill had a very precise understanding of the territorial symbolism created by the placement of hats.

Image by Nemo Gould Click here for Duane Eddy (Thanks Jett)

That it was the Beltane morning-after made no difference. Her greeting was a typically hostile tossed gauntlet. “You know...

The good news for those of you who like this kind of thing is that the novel currently designated Renquist V is now underwa...

“Just saying no is far more complicated than one might imagine.”

Click here for The Grateful Dead (Yes, that’s what I said.)

Click here for Tequila

Part of the week here – maybe as an antidote to all the dire news, or maybe just because we like that sort of thing – has been ...

Click here and pass the ammunition (for a weapon of cake destruction.)

…to post a link to Torture by The Fendermen. (Image by Stephen Pierce)

In Arizona the police are now empowered to demand US citizens prove their legal status by producing their papers. In Oklahoma wom...

We give names to hurricanes (and we call the wind Mariah) but we don't name oil slicks. Maybe we should. Maybe we should call t...

Back on April 21st Doc40 angrily noted that the Supreme Court had struck down a 1999 law to forbidding sales of so-called crush...

But I’ve heard this is going viral, so maybe you’ve already seen it. Click here for Connie Francis

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Pholomene Frozdick’s enthusiasm for steampunk retro-tech was rapidly waning. And she didn't much like her frock either.

The ultimate green. Grow your own house.

While Stephen Hawking warns us not to trust ETs, and NASA gets in a fight with the UK newspaper The Sun over life on Mars, blogg...

I lifted this from Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing as a reminder of how the corporate bastards operate… “A music-industry speak...

Yeah, maybe you thought it was all Don Rickles, redneck folklore, and Jerry Lee Lewis, and cousins didn’t really marry here in t...

While checking out YouTube for Jerry Lee Lewis, I came across this scarcely believable comment. I mean, if it been posted in 1955, I might h...

The following came from Frances Beinecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council… "Dear Mick, Right now, ...