Once again, Bush says Guantanamo should close. So close it! Who’s stopping you?! Big Rummy? It’s times like these that I find myself imagining that Rumsfeld has a secret torture fetish, and is somehow extracting life essence from prisoners to keep himself alive. Although, I’m pretty sure that’s the plot of several movies I’ve seen.

Spiderman takes off his mask. No, not Toby Maguire… Peter Parker. Apparently, this is the first time a superhero ever revealed his/her secret identity in a comic book. Also - it’s a comic book. Who cares?

Word has it that New Mexico’s Governor, Bill Richardson, may run for the democratic ticket in 2008. I’ve never even heard of the fella, but I’m posting this just because I want to contribute to a buzz that is in no way related to Hillary Clinton. Vote NO on Hillary.

I found this particularly fascinating: pictures from North Korea. A Russian web designer traveled there, and took a lot of pictures he probably wasn’t supposed to. They’re posted on a message board, and the posts run into the 2nd page, fyi.

In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital city, there are a great deal of children living under the city, in makeshift houses. Here’s a series of photos from the BBC.

Photoshopped roadsigns. Meh, some are funny.

Well folks, I’m headed to Indianapolis, the landlocked concrete jungle, for my cousin’s wedding this weekend. Instead of blogging, I’ll be soaking up the sights of I-70 West, including the world-renowned mile of Tom Raper RVs billboards! Eat your heart out!

Bush heads to Baghdad; everyone but US Republicans want him to set a withdrawl timetable - including Iraqis. Look, jerkface, this business of “it will be seen as a sign of weakness” is some tired bullshit. If you ever bothered to listen to Iraqis, you’d know that even those who condemn the violence altogether want us to start heading home. Instead, you decide to listen to your flawed conscience, which got us into this pointless conflict in the first place. You’re a walking disaster Mr. Bush, and you ought to let someone with a functioning brain make the decisions that count.

Here’s some nice satire regarding the statement that the Guantanamo suicides were an ‘attack on America’. I found it rather amusing.

You can now view the most popular stories around the world on the BBC website. Kinda neat.

Here’s a very ill-timed advertising spot!

I can empathize with this Sneeze.com contributor. He’s trying to develop a taste for scotch, even though he finds it disgusting. I too find all brown liquors to be nasty (even though I know they add the color), and couldn’t imagine enjoying the complexities in a sip of scotch. I’ve learned to love things like blue cheese, dry wine, cigars, pipes, and even gin… But I doubt I’ll ever enjoy scotch. Oh well - if you have a suggestion for getting “in” to scotch, pass it along to him.

Michael Jackson literally patented the anti-gravity lean used in the Smooth Criminal video. You can view the patent here. (I can’t see the images due to some sort of Quicktime issue.)

A new Ghostbusters movie in 2008? Yep! Ghostbusters in Hell.

Hamster vs. Sink.
Results: Sink 1 - Hamster 0.

I’m not even going to link to the story, but on damn near every page I went to today, they’re saying Karl Rove won’t be indicted in the CIA leak case. Big surprise. You know, this whole scandal is so damn boring that I have to believe it’s being used to divert focus from politics to something more benign - like the World Cup.

I won’t be watching the World Cup.

The EU is expected to request that we close Guantanamo. Aw man! Are you guys sure? Everything was going so well, too.

If you drink lots of coffee (you know, like Humes or DPF), it can help prevent cirrhosis of the liver. Caffeine itself is not the miracle chemical though - because tea apparently does not have the same effect. Damn… I’m sorry, liver.

Google Earth 4 (beta) has been released. It’s pretty sweet, too. So far it seems to be running just a little faster than before, and also has a more streamlined layout.

Rob Cockerham of Cockeyed.com fame will be appearing on ABC’s 20/20 this Friday to discuss his piece about the ripped-up credit card application. (If you don’t recall, he ripped one up pretty good, then reassembled it and sent it in - hoping to determine whether or not it’s possible for someone to use your trash to get a credit card. It worked.)

I’m not sure you could land these babies anywhere else: Unicorn Turds. Get ‘em while they’re… hard?

What happens when you throw liquid nitrogen into a pool? This.

Another weekend of throwing things away, packing things up, and sorting through my junk. Who knew that about 60% of my vinyl collection is complete shit? Not me. I’ll be selling those - and for defenders of Prince, I have two copies of 1999, both for sale. (I consider that “complete shit”, despite claims to the contrary.) My entire CD collection will be abandoned, so all of that will be up for grabs as well. Also, if anyone wants some hand-me-down clothes, I set aside a pile for my friends to rummage through… seperate from the “no one should wear this, so I’ll donate it” pile.

Even though they now act as though killing Zarqawi was a pivotal moment in this occupation, it turns out that the Bush administration had no less than 3 chances to kill him back in 2002 and 2003. Why didn’t they pull the trigger? Because it would have “undercut the case for war against Saddam.” Or, more specifically, it didn’t fit into their PR campaign.

Riverbend talks about the death of Zarqawi - a man she (and her neighbors, apparently) consider to be an “American creation” whose influence was “greatly exaggerated.” I also love that she calls out the administration on their use of the phrase “A New Day for Iraqis.” Amen to that… it couldn’t be a bigger crock of shit.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around this one: A camp commander at Guantanamo called the recent prisoner suicides “an act of war” against the US. Another report I read today said the White House is calling the whole incident “a PR stunt.” Really now. Let’s see - the whole world and many of our own elected officials want it to close down, but we should be led to believe that it’s really not that bad? I think I know who to believe.

Global military spending? $1.12 trillion. Our share? 48%. The biggest share after ours? 4 to 5 percent. What a complete waste.

Apparently they don’t like speed cameras much in the UK.

Two things I don’t have time to watch, but want to:
The Making of Steely Dan’s Peg
Seth MacFarlane speech at Harvard

Migrane sufferers report higher levels of sexual desire than those who suffer from other types of headaches. This might explain why my ex teased me about being “ready at all times.”

Screenshots of Photoshop 1.0 on an old Mac.

Here’s a pretty cool optical illusion.

A ballsy cat in New Jersey actually tree’d a bear - twice. With pictures.

cleaning off my desk, and came across these inane demographic high jinks:
- vocabularic hegemony of our sponsor (the letter h)
- classical indulgences (take i) (take ii)
- the five true pleasures (thanks to tk, circa 1996)
- finally, a measure of mass insanity.

thank you, and may you now all return to getting drunk in the afternoon.