The Entroporium

To celebrate, a vision of unrest in the streets and flowers on the hillside. May we all be safe and strong. [Soundtrack] Bright Eyes – Old Soul Song (For The New World Order).mp3

FORT HOOD, TEXAS (Reuters) — A lawyer for Specialist Charles Graner, the accused ringleader in the Iraq prisoner-abuse scandal, said yesterday that leashing inmates was acceptable prisoner control, and compared piling naked prisoners into a pyramid to routines performed by cheerleaders. He compared some of the alleged instances of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to [...]

You know I’m really grasping for straws of good news when I hear that Arlen Specter is getting his rightful seat as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and I say, “Good!”

[Soundtrack] Willie Brown & Woodie – Ventriloquist Rap.mp3 I’m tired of thinking about this … thing. And you are too. So here is the silliest, most cheerful record I could find on the spur of the momen — a rap by a ventriloquist and his dummy, surely the only rap record of its kind. (If [...]

[Soundtrack] Mel & Tim – Starting All Over Again.mp3 Looking back it seems so obvious now. That sense of foreboding, of torpor and motionlessness was all the build-up to the election. Basically nothing seemed to happen in October — and the molasses-slow playoffs did nothing to dispel that impression. In retrospect, it feels like a [...]

I noticed that a whole lot of folks like yesterday’s propaganda image. There’s tons more at the Propaganda Remix Project. Go get ‘em. Plaster the town.

[Soundtrack] American Music Club – Patriot’s Heart.mp3 Swing states are part of the story, but consider: For the second time in a row, the Democratic ticket has failed to carry its own states. John Edwards’ North Carolina has 15 electoral votes; add on either Iowa or New Mexico and that’s enough to swing it — [...]

[Download] Stevie Wonder – He’s Misstra Know It All.mp3 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end [...]