When I Warned of the Fires of Hades, What I Meant Was...

Hell on Earth is a step closer.

For everybody, I mean, not just for the wretched unwashed Nike-sewing, Starbucks-serving, five-star McDonald's-swabbing, penal-system-swelling hordes that underpin the grate capitalist democracies of today.

Yeah, I managed to say that with a straight face, too.

"Yeah, yeah, another bombing in Iraq, Big deal," so many people are saying, either consciously or without realising it. Your mentality might have washed for a few hundred years of "black on black" violence in the USA but those of you going about your daily hard work, head down, nose to the grindstone, might want to sit up a bit and open your eyes.

The bombing of the mosque in Samarra was no small step and it was not subtle. It was deeply, deeply significant, especially if you have been trying to see beyond the media hype, circus or, alas, snoring, that has accompanied or, again, failed to accompany so many major recent events.

I know some people wonder who on earth cuts my hair, considering the lunacy of my fringe but I've been banging on about this for a while now. Repeatedly.

Perhaps Jim Henson never died. Maybe puppet masters don't die, they just go to the great Muppet Workshop in the sky? Somebody is pulling the strings, that's for sure.

Ain't nobody gonna be applauding when the curtains finally open on this performance, that's for sure.

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A Fistful of Links

Revealed: the terror prison US is helping build in Morocco

the cool hunter is, well, pretty darn cool

engadget has a handy ask: how do you like to move media on WiFi? as well as news on the kewwllll full-motion "video" stamps just issued in the Netherlands.

Frogman invades bedroom is a strange enough headline but I had an even stranger headline and I lost it.

sorry.

While We're At It, Let's Help Sue Ann Coulter

Ted Rall needs financial support to take his cases for libel and slander against Ann Coulter to the courts.

Sorry, I don't have a link to Ann Coulter's site but here's a more advanced life form for you to enjoy.

What is Dick Cheney Covering Up?

Information Clearing House has an interesting article about Dick "Porn Star" Cheney's recent attempt to aerate his hunting partner. Apparently, upon hearing that his vice-president had shot a DC lawyer in the head, Bush said, "Well, it's a start..."

One wonders why a man who has twice been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol is allowed to be the vice-president of the most powerful nation on earth.

Silly me! Of course! What's good enough for the president has to be good enough for the vice-president, but at least Curious George was never actually convicted. We commie-pinko bastards north of the border (I like to call it 'our' line in the permafrost there, eh?) could make it hard for Bush to visit Canada, though.

Alcoholism and criminality are not the only things you need to join this club, however, and shirking one's duty is way up the list of requirements. Dubya technically served some time in the armed forces. Maybe Cheney IS smarter than his boss?

It's a good thing mature, responsible, level-headed people we can trust are in control(???) of 10,000 nuclear warheads. Otherwise, how could we sleep at night?

Bend over and prepare to be "governed"!!!

Apparently, it's only a coincidence that radiation detectors across the UK detected a 400% increase in uraniuam levels in the atmosphere a week and a half after the USA's "shock and awe" bombing campaign in Iraq.