new crimethinc stickers

i just ordered like 100 of these

operation get behind the darkies

this reminds me of this

take a proper gander

here's the latest from the office of strategic influence... according to the daily news, iraq sent spies to new york and washington to stir up anti-war demonstrations. i wonder how long it'll be before ramsey clark or starhawk get labeled enemy combatants. we're only a step away now...

aim higher

Bill Gates pied for your(er, his) sins. again. Well almost. If you're in the bay area and you want to see what's been keeping me too busy to contribute here, head over to the Diego Rivera gallery before satuday and have a look.

summary of bush's state of the union address

(c/o weezy)

fuck joe lieberman right in the ear

*** Biden Introduces New RAVE Act!!!
*** Your Help Urgently Needed
(c/o the drug policy alliance)

Several weeks ago we warned you that last year's RAVE Act was incorporated into Sen. Daschle's domestic security bill (S. 22). It gets worse. Senators Biden (D-DE), Grassley (R-IA), Feinstein (D-CA), and Lieberman (D-CT) have introduced it as a stand-alone bill (S. 226 - which is not posted on thomas.loc.gov yet. We'll link from our site, http://www.drugpolicy.org, once it becomes available). It's not called the RAVE Act. Nor does it have a findings section talking about raves or electronic music. It's now called the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act. DON'T BE FOOLED! It's the RAVE Act in new clothing. If enacted, it would harm innocent business owners, undermine public safety, and stifle free speech and musical expression.

Your help is needed to stop this disguised RAVE Act from becoming law!!!

*** Fax your two Senators. Tell them to oppose S. 226 the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act. You can use our convenient system: http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/action/

Or find your Senators's fax number at: http://www.senate.gov

*** Please forward this action alert to your friends and family. The Senate needs to know that voters find this bill unacceptable.

For more information on the RAVE Act and S. 226 see: http://www.nomoredrugwar.org/music/rave_act.htm

Please consider making a donation to help the Drug Policy Alliance continue to fight for our rights: http://www.drugpolicy.org/join

We need your support to stop this bill!

boxgate

if only john stewart had known about this the other night when he gave his report on bush's heartland economic ass-kissing session, during which he appeared before a facade of boxes reading "made in america" when in actuality, he was standing in front of boxes reading "made in china."

in the meantime, bush continues to beat the drums of war, suggesting that our cause for action in iraq is provoked by terrorism and the potential threat of weapons of mass destruction. yeah fucking right.

another ridiculous survey

Which OS are You?

jesus wore combat boots

this piece is both interesting and irritating.

more interestingly, it seems even stormin' norman himself is telling cowboy bush to hold his horses.

big up!

all new cannabis cup band website in effect

teehee

One night, George W. Bush is awakened by George Washington's ghost in the White House. Bush asks: "George, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?"

"Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington advises.

The next night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moves through the dark bedroom. "Tom," George W asks, "what is the best thing I could do to help the country?"

"Cut taxes and reduce the size of government," Jefferson advises.

Bush isn't sleeping well the next night, and sees another figure moving in the shadows. It's Abraham Lincoln's ghost. "Abe, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?" Bush asks.

Abe answers: "Go see a play."

(c/o th'malcontent)

show some support

come check out some fresh indie rock tonight @ don hill's in nyc...



their promoter is a close friend of the jakeneck crew.

same old tricks

the cia has begun building the new al qaeda, turning iraqi dissenters into guerillas.

wanna fight a war on terror? stop training, arming & funding terrorists! assholes.

leaping technology, batman!

somebody print me out a vajoina!

i smell mothafucking halibut

just one day after announcing his bid for the presidency, reverend al sharpton's new york city offices have been destroyed in a fire. just a little too coincidental, no?

yes well, tell us something we didn't know

more evidence has surfaced in florida, confirming "allegations" of general misconduct in the florida elections bureaucracy.

Finally, a political party for the freaks

The US department of Art & Technology is calling on artists from all over to express the problems of the world through art. In our age of the inevitable N.W.O., the Experimental Party seems like a good idea.

hell hath frozen over

hillary rosen resigns from r.i.a.a. (c/o fonadi)

holy smoke

israel may be making moves towards marijuana decriminalization. more at jewschool.

the modern prometheus

it's nothing worth losing your head about

no justice for rosenthal

ed rosenthal, the man who quite literally wrote the book on marijuana cultivation, was arrested on february 12 of last year for cultivating medical marijuana legally under california's proposition 215.

as his trial draws near, it would appear that the odds are stacked against him in the courtroom and that he has no chance of receiving a fair trial. whereas it has now been shown that 80% of the american people support use of medical marijuana, federal district court judge charles breyer has dismissed more than half of the potential jurors in rosenthal's case—specifically those in favor of medical marijuana, because he fears they will vote their conscience rather than the letter of the law (which is in fact their right and responsbility).

in may of last year, a medical marijuana buyer's collective in california managed to bring this issue of state's rights versus federal drug law, to the supreme court. the supremes summarily ruled against the use of medical mj, dealing another major blow to state's rights and, of course, medical marijuana patients. interesting though, isn't it, how george bush, while campaigning, said specifically on the issue of medical marijuana, "i believe each state can choose that decision as they so choose." fucking liar! just a few weeks after september 11, 2001, the department of justice began a major crackdown on medical marijuana cooperatives. disregarding the lies we can only expect from bush, the question must be asked, then—if the government spent less time persecuting drug users and more time tracking terrorists, would september 11th ever have happened? and what of this drugs equals terrorism stance? who are the bigger terrorists? drug users or drug prohibitionists?

author peter mcwilliams was no stranger to the harshness of federal anti-drug laws. he died under house arrest, in a puddle of his own vomit, face down in his bathroom, stricken with both cancer and AIDS, suffering unto his death, prohibited from imbibing in the one natural, safe substance that brought calm to his stomach and his composure, which he was arrested and prosecuted for cultivating.

who will be the next victim of unjust (and highly profitable) anti-drug laws? apparently it will be ed rosenthal, and for this fact, it is again a sad day in america.

more on this issue @ plastic

Public suicide

Lara Flynn Boyle, once a personal Twin Peaks heart throb of yours truly, looks to me like one very sick little puppy in her tutu at the Golden Globes. If she were to die, Karen Carpenter style, right before our eyes, would the public who watched her decline to this emaciated status bear any responsibility? In short, are we witnessing a slow, performative suicide?

to what new lows...

shall republicans swoop?

the ascent of the hookup

why was i conditioned otherwise? lord, why? ugh. morality is a curse.

would you believe...

this jack ass? heh... "ass is forty-four." best. line. ever.

yo, what the fuck is up with this?! (c/o lgf)

quadrophelia

fuck, i just realized i spelled it wrong

Ahh the fresh smell of astroturf

Nick Koszykowski, Trevor Carlson, Nile Gomez, Dirk M. Maurins and countless others agree: Bush Demonstrating Genuine Leadership. What the hell am I talking about? You ever read newspaper letter to the editors and marvel at how close to the party line (right or left) some of them hew. You ever feel like they're just cranked out by some faceless lobbying group somewhere and signed with a random name? Surprise, surprise: apparently this one was. Just another reminder to read critically, I suppose. Actually, have any of you ever even written a letter to the editor or know anybody who has?

(Unearthed on plastic)

Finally, some good news!

In a day and age where we can't trust our own government, it's nice to know that some board room assholes are looking out for the people. In the immortal words of the man who cries more than any hero in modern fiction, "WOOHOO!" Yes, the Simpsons has been renewed for two more seasons.

"This is not about price. This is an event."

Gee, I'm hungry. In fact, I'm starved. Anyone feel like buying me a $41 hamburger?

ba na na

the vanishing banana

and in completely unrelated news, total information awareness may not see light of day

Terrapin Station for Real: Cardinals Owner "Shell-shocked"

You environmental activist types are sure to have a field day with this one. Turns out, Arizona Cardinals owner Bill Bidwell has willfully and underhandedly attempted to build a new $355,000,000 football stadium on top of the habitat of the endangered and protected desert tortoise.

Speculation has already begun as to whether there are more tortoises inhabiting this area than there are fans of Mr. Bidwell's football team.

i fell into a burning ring of fire...

this has to be the coolest computer peripheral ever. (c/o eben)

pee wee's big adventure

you want to fight a drug war?

fight a war on this. forced medication, mesmerization through co-optation, and slow euthenasia of the next generation.

uh huh. look up novartis. hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.

this is just a symptom. so is this. here is the problem. and here is the solution.

Damn, those are some hot tits!

Everyone knows about MTV's Jack Ass. They also probably know about Steve O. Here are some hillarious clips from his new video in which he lights a hottie's tits on fire!

rave act reintroduce as piggyback bill

drug reform advocates exhaled a huge sigh of relief when last year's rave act, which sought to prosecute club owners and party promoters under federal crackhouse statues, never made it to a vote in the previous house session. the bill has now, however, come back with a vengeance, having been tacked onto a national security bill which is likely to pass (a la patriot act).

take action and defend the right to dance! click here to fax tom daschle, the bill's sponsor, and tell him to remove the crackhouse provisions from S.22!

pete townshend joke contest

the best i could come up with so far was, "you know why the bus was magic right? cuz he could make the salami disappear!" what's your best pete townshend joke?

say it ain't so, pete!

guitarist pete townshend has been busted for kiddie porn. truth be told, i've never much liked the who... now i've gotten an even better reason why.

Well, it's official. We've got our first major-party Jewish presidential candidate.

new globalhiphop in effect

check out the latest mobiusmedia creation, in partnership with headsnack inc.: the all new globalhiphop.com.

global cypher revision coming soon.

this is pretty fucked up right here...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y., Jan. 9 - It started unfolding inside a psychiatrist's office in a small brick office building here: one man confided to another that he wanted to kill as many as six people, then drop their dismembered bodies in the Atlantic Ocean, the authorities said today.

But the man who did the confiding, they said, was the psychiatrist, and his confidant was a patient he hoped to enlist in his plan.

Instead, the authorities said, the patient alerted the police, who arrested the psychiatrist, Dr. Richard J. Karpf, on Wednesday, after he tried to buy a gun with a silencer and 50 rounds from a detective posing as an underworld gun dealer.

[more...]

a year in the life of the drug war

alternet reviews the year in drug prohibition

and since it was elvis' birthday yesterday and nixon's today, here's the story of how the junky elvis became a narc for the nixon administration. here's the best part—from elvis' letter to nixon: "i have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and communist brainwashing techniques and i am right in the middle of the whole thing where i can and will do the most good." bwahaha. (c/o metafilter)

medical studies reveal...

dressing like a hoochie can be bad for your health.

and she's ri-i-ding a sta-air-way...

this is just too much

er...

maybe michael moore really is a dick.

please don't tell me i'm getting old

avril lavigne, the 18 year-old skater-chic pop-singer (who—my god—actually writes her own songs and has a computer virus named for her), just scored five grammy nominations including "song of the year," yet has no idea who david bowie is. well... she was only one when labyrinth came out.

bowie celebrates his 56th birthday today.

try this...

spiffy anti-american quiz at the bbc. i only got one right...

Coming To Grips and Moving On: An Open Letter to Giants Fans

I've decided that I simply cannot keep talking about the Giants/Niners game anymore. It's over. We lost, and there's nothing I or anybody else can do about it. Lamenting the loss and debating about the officiating isn't going to change the outcome or make me feel any better about what happened. The statement from the league about the blown call at the end does not lessen the sting even a little bit. It's over, Giants fans. So I say let's move on.

Those who know me know that I bleed Giant blue. I'm a season ticket holder who has only missed a handful of games since 1982. My father has held tickets since 1964. That's 39 years for him and 20 years for me, and sure, there have been plenty of ups and downs along the way. Over any extended period of time there are bound to be disappointments. Sunday might have been the lowest point of them all, but you know what, so be it. They blew a 24 point lead and lost, and it was horrible, but it doesn't diminish any of the great memories I have from those 20 years. If anything, it helps to make me appreciate them more. It puts them into perspective, and reminds me how fortunate I've been to see my squad take two Superbowls and five division titles. My faith in this team and this organization, in truth, has never been stronger.

For true fans, there are going to be times when your loyalty is tested. The Dave Brown years, for instance. Horrific playoff losses to the Rams, Vikings, and now the Niners. They happen, and as a fan you have to learn to come to grips with them and move on. There's no point in dwelling on them, because if you do, you'll eat yourself up inside.

What happened on Sunday was an abomination, plain and simple. It made me sick to my stomach. But you know what else happened on Sunday, Giants fans? Harry Carson and George Young were both named finalists for the Hall of Fame. And as a long time fan, I take great pride in that. Harry Carson was the embodiment of what it means to wear that Giants jersey. He understood the great history of the organization, and was one of the best and classiest players the league ever saw. He definitely deserves a place in the Hall of Fame, right next to L.T. and the other all- time greats who have made the Maras so proud.

I am a Giants fan. So mock me. I love my team no matter what. I show up when it rains. I show up when it snows. I live and die with every snap. But I'm not going to dwell on this loss. I can't do it, for my own health and sanity. I've got to move on. It's the only way.

Hockey season is now in full swing, and my Islanders seem to be making a run. I guess I can turn my attention to them for a while. The Knicks are improving as well, and before you know it baseball season will be upon us. My Mets can't do any worse than they did last year, so there's hope there, too. All of this will give me plenty to distract myself from the horrors of this past weekend, and in time I'll get over it. I promise.

Giants fans, I urge you to follow my lead. If you need to do what I did yesterday, and watch an old game tape of Superbowl XXI, definitely do so. It was therapeutic, friends. Really, it was. And it served to remind me why I put myself through this insane drama every year. I do it because every once in a while you get to feel that feeling I felt in 86 and 90. You get to feel your loyalty rewarded.

Yes, we blew a 24 point lead and lost a true heartbreaker, but there's nothing we can do about it by crying in our beer. Next year is a new year and a new chance to shine. If history has taught us anything, it's that our team rebounds from horrors like this. What did the Giants do the year after the 21-0 loss at the Bears in the 85 playoffs (the Sean Landeta "missed punt" game)? What did they do the year after the Flipper Anderson game? That's right. In both cases, they followed up those horrors with a Lombardi trophy, an award named after a former Giants assistant, let me remind you.

So let's be optimistic, Giants fans. There's no reason to think that 2003 can't be a "super" year for our Giants. Stay loyal.

yargh, let the pirates roam free!

jon johansen has been acquitted! long live deCSS! (c/o boingboing)

blogging chrome

william gibson, the one-time "luddite" who allegedly wrote most of his vr and internet-age prophesying sci-fi novels (such as neuromancer and count zero) on a hermes typewriter, now has a weblog.

high times dares ask...

was jesus a stoner?

for further support of this argument, i refer you to the ethiopian zion coptic church.

randizzle

10 worst corps of 2002 | top 10 conspiracy theories of 2002 | america works to save her idols | them finns sure know how to party | oh canada

Prosecutors Seize Bail Money, Claim Pot Smell—A New Tactic?

In two widely separated cases in December, local police and prosecutors attempted to seize bail money on the grounds that it smelled like marijuana and was thus presumed to be proceeds of illegal drug trafficking. The proceedings, in Massachusetts and South Dakota, may mark the emergence of a new tactic in the never-ending, ever-escalating attack on marijuana and those who use, buy, and sell the weed.

Last Sunday, police in Northampton, MA, confiscated $50,000 in cash from a Vermont couple who had come to bail their daughter out of jail after she was arrested on marijuana distribution charges. A police officer at the jail smelled the money and detected "a slight odor of marijuana," according to affidavit filed in support of the forfeiture. A drug sniffing dog then confirmed the odor, the affidavit said. Police then seized the money as the proceeds of drug dealing. Hampshire County prosecutors are seeking to confiscate the money. A hearing is set for January 16.

A week earlier and 2,000 miles away, police and prosecutors in Huron, SD, pulled the same stunt. According to court documents in State of South Dakota vs. $5,000 made available to DRCNet, police sought to seize $5,000 in cash bail on the grounds that it smelled of marijuana. Beadle County prosecutors revoked the bail of the young man in question and rearrested him. But Circuit Court Judge Jon Erickson, raising a judicial eyebrow at prosecutors' claims, ordered the defendant re-released. The prosecutors' motion to seize the $5,000 remains pending, but the person who put up the cash told DRCNet he is seeking legal counsel to fight the forfeiture.

In 1994, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ruled that police officers could not seize suspected drugs money or raid premises just because a sniffer dog had indicated it was contaminated. They would need better evidence than that. All of which begs the question: How many pot dealers are throwing their hundred dollar bills in with the buds?

(c/o drcnet)

shtv made fucked weblog ... even so, you should nominate shtv for a bloggie... specifically under the "best merchandise" section for our bush knew mugs and rocket pickle thongs.

oh canada

the number of americans seeking refuge in canada, citing political persecution, has grown 135% since january of last year. ah ha—you see... i am not alone.