Don't forget

This Thursday, Apr. 29th is National Party for the President Day! In honor of the president, why not take a vacation day? Give some money to a rich friend? Tell a bunch of lies? Or just do something really incompetent, endangering the lives of others.

These folks won't make it to the party, sadly....

Horrifying pix from Iraq

Really disturbing. I'm not kidding, severed limbs-type disturbing. Only view if you need a reminder that this is an actual war, and that it horrible.

JIM CARREY and J. LO -- true superstars!

It's a movie marketer's dream when the movie's star and title can be linked with "is" -- often with a dramatic pause in TV and radio spots. Example: Ron Perlman is ... "Hellboy"! Sometimes it can even work in the plural: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and some other guys are ... "Ocean's Eleven"!

And no actors are better suited for this pitch than Jim Carrey and J. Lo. Just about all of their fine films work this way. To wit:

Jim Carrey is...

"Once Bitten"
"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"
"Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls"
"The Mask"
"Dumb and Dumber"
"The Cable Guy"
"Liar Liar"
"The Truman Show"
"Man on the Moon"
"Me, Myself and Irene"
"The Majestic"
"Bruce Almighty"
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

Jennifer Lopez is ...

"Selena"
"Out of Sight"
"The Cell"
"Enough" (my personal favorite)
"The Wedding Planner"
"Maid In Manhattan"
and, of course, "Gigli"

Another first-person account from Iraq

A British protester in Iraq who was briefly taken hostage.

Best. Url. Ever.

http://www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com/

By all that is holy

Bush plans world recruitment drive to arm for peace

Here's a good plan. Spend well over a half-billion dollars to train soldiers in one of the most politically voltile regions on the planet, soldiers with no direct allegiance to the US, so that we can use them as cannon fodder in "peace operations," circumventing the U.N. entirely. Well, at least the administration won't have to report them as U.S. casualties....

Gah.

Husker Dos and Don'ts

Bob Mould, of all people, offers diet tips.

A report from the front.

The livejournal blog of one of our Marines.

Whatever your stance on the war, it's important to be reminded that those soldiers aren't statistics, they're our neighbors. And it sounds like we're doing them and ourselves an enormous disservice by allowing too much of this war to be outsourced to war profiteers like Dick Cheney's Haliburton.

F*&%ers.

Taxpayers unwittingly paying for Republican National Committee's propaganda

Woodward on 60 Minutes

Long, but worth it.

Yay.

Just strange.

And an outrageously ill-conceived joke.

I like lists.

Blender's 50 Worst Music Artists