So Bush is trying to cut the EPA budget by 94%. That's right, the agency which is supposed to regulate what goes into our air and water (as much for the benefit of our health as for any lofty or "liberal" reasons) will be gutted. Thanks for looking after your constituency, Mr. President. (Oh, yeah, he's also cutting money to aid the elderly, the ( Read more... )

>Not One Damn Dime Day - Jan. 20, 2005 ( Read more... )

Corporate America Spends Millions on Bush Inauguration ( Read more... )

When it comes to "Survival of the Fittest", most species on the planet (i.e. insects) have the good sense to just die after they mate and save themselves from any vagueness of intent.

Well, the country did the most frightening thin it could: voted against its own self-interest. I don't mean that people voted for the president they didn't want, I mean they voted not to benefit themselves, but to benefit a concept. They voted for fewer jobs, for a bigger deficit, for a move away from Republican economic policy, for sending their ( Read more... )

Th' Big WK has returned (there should be an accent mark over the e, making that return ed...but i can't do that on a pc, or don't know how. YOU decide!) to the D-town.

no. i haven't started referring to myself as "Th' Big WK". that would be foolish. you're clearly hallucinating.

NEW YEARS IN SF! WHO'S WITH ME? (i'm trying to build some enthusiasm here. i get drunk in sf every year, makes no matter to me.)

The photographers are rabid. Pit bulls, attached by the blinding lights of their videocameras and flashbulbs. It's midnight, the party is just starting. The english speaker I've been seated with is hitting on his niece (by marriage, not blood). There is a young couple seated at my table, they are beautiful. I don't introduce myself. But for ( Read more... )

The young look like they're living in the USA. The girls wear those white skirts with wrinkles or ruffles or whatever and the wide waists. They wear white leather belts or belts with stubby pyramids of polished steel packed in tight rows. They wear wrap around sunglasses that fade, vertically. I've seen guys in "Atticus" t-shirts, god save us ( Read more... )

There is a large gazebo in the park outside of our apartment. Yesterday a group of Argentines piled their belongings in the center and danced a tango around the pile ( Read more... )