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DemocraticUndergroud.com’s Plaid Adder has a great piece on why Fox’s Daily Show parody, The 1/2 Hour News Hour, is such a sad failure. It’s a great essay on the trouble with irony and why political humor trying to shore up the political power system just doesn’t work. After all, there really isn’t anything funny about [...]

Congrats, punk rockers, you are now a demographic! And a lifestyle no less! Can’t wait to buy me some of that culture!
indieclick:
IndieClick effectively targets the seventy-five million savvy young Americans, 16-34, who spend in excess of $200 billion each year on DVDs, CDs, iTunes, clothing, music, shoes, magazines, books, movie tickets, accessories, beverages, food, liquor, [...]

Update: Ack! Now news of Arthur’s demise. Crap! On the pandemic of dead indy magazines, Punk Planet has this subtle headline: And you will know independent publishing by the trail of dead.

I just found out that Clamor Magazine, a great DIY publication, has ceased publishing. I wrote one article for them and was happy to [...]

The above was a subject line for a spam email. I thought it was cute enough to warrant a post.

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I’m a big fan of solution oriented thinkers. Thus it’s refreshing to hear the clarity of David Korten’s ideas and his overview of history. His book, “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (BK Currents)” (David C. Korten) comes highly recommended. Please, if you have time, watch this video.

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The current 411 from our fave dissident intellectual (read the whole interview if you have time).
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Chomsky on Why Bush Does Diplomacy Mafia-Style:
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi’ite population but also toward some degree of autonomy. You can imagine a kind of [...]

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“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.”
For insight into the brilliant [...]

When I was in college my co-op had a special junk food brunch. Among other things we ordered sugary cereal, Pop Tarts and Twinkies. The normally staid, academic bunch went temporarily insane (thankfully no one was killed!), breakdancing on top of tables and jamming Twinkies into the ceiling with forks. Those Twinkies stayed there for [...]

Artist Icaro Doria has created a series of flags that are also info graphics called “Meet the World.” H/T to Dave.
www.BrazilianArtists.net, the A-Z of Brazilian Arts, Entertainment & Cultural Events in the UK:
This is how we thought of the concept Meet the World.
We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up [...]

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I hope you are bored right now because as soon as you finish this clip you are going to want to watch every other Eddie Izzard video on you YouTube, because here’s the thing: if a British cross-dressing comic is shredding your foreign policy and history, then I’d say your empire is in big trouble. [...]

Bloggies, I need your help. I’m trying to remember great punk names that punned or used ironic humor, like Diana Cancer, Chuck Wagon and Jello Biafra. I’m totally brain dead and I urgently need input. Please post in the comments area any funny names from the old punk days. Thanks!!!!!!!

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OK, I know the day that Anna Nicole Smith appears on Blogdisease.com is a day that I should just off myself, but the only reason I found this a tad bit interesting is that I’m starting to wonder if reality is actually becoming a David Lynch movie. Talk amongst yourselves.

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Yet another dispatch from the sci-fi front, this time brought to us by none other than Disney and Co.:
Disney World, Orlando Beyond Disney - National Geographic Magazine:
The Theme-Parking, Megachurching, Franchising, Exurbing, McMansioning of America: How Walt Disney Changed Everything
Everything happening to America today is happening here, and it’s [...]

Just when you need one more thing to get depressed about. This comes from vbs.tv; you can view the whole West Virginia strip mining series here. I happened to visit one of these strip mines many years ago and was amazed by the vastness of destruction these projects cause, including the VW Beetle-sized projectiles [...]

My old school homie, Jimmy Alvarado, just informed me of his most-excellent article detailing the history of the East LA punk scene, “Teenage Alcoholics: Punk Rock In East Los Angelese.” It’s a great piece and I was thrilled to have been mentioned in part of the story. Jimmy knows his shit. Because some of the [...]

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Forget Vegas, forget Disney. Meet Dubai. Nice beach-front property, just a stone’s throw from Iran and WWIII. God willing for oil economy investors, may the Straits of Hormuz remain open and sea levels even.
If the above promotional video isn’t convincing enough (yes, it’s real), read a sample of Mike Davis‘ remarkable piece on Dubai, sci-fi [...]

Roses are red, violets are blue, the world sucks, and so do corporations…
Below is Democracy Now!’s main lineup for its Valentine’s Day broadcast. I don’t know about you, but I celebrated the day with my loved one. Yes, it’s important to acknowledge all the bad, nasty things going on in the world, but sometimes I [...]

FYI, just in case you thought the world was ending. From the Tyndall Report Homepage:

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Klaxoncow’s comment posted on the above YouTube video:
You’re clearly not a bomb expert.
Just to clue you in: Bombs are traditionally not covered in LEDs which trace out the shape of a cartoon moon person giving you the middle finger.
Generally, as terrorists don’t want their bomb plots foiled, they tend not to decorate their bombs in [...]