Year: 2005

Thesis

The decline of this country began when I was a freshman in high school in 1979 when California passed Proposition 13, a scam pulled by landowners to reduce their taxes at the expense of schools and local services.

The whole slide to the right and beyond begins precisely there. I shall write a history lesson about this, because I doubt anyone younger than me remembers the story, or knows what it means today.

I’m a Disgusting Parasite: Get Me Out of Here!

From Gawker:

Two years ago, Downtown Julie Brown, the host of “Club MTV” in the late 80’s and early 90’s, agreed to be placed in a plexiglass tub full of leeches while taking part in the ABC television series “I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!” On Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, she filed suit against the producers of the show (Granada US Productions and Granada Entertainment USA) and ABC Television for fraud, battery, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. She contends that they failed to disclose that leeches can carry numerous diseases, viruses and bacterial infections, and that bites from leeches can cause scarring, inflammation and blood infection. She is seeking more than $1 million in damages. Neither Granada nor ABC would comment on the suit.

I have this beautiful image of Downtown Julie Brown covered in ring shaped scars, twitching and foaming at the mouth from “numerous diseases”, hobbling into the courtroom. “I didn’t know they’d be bad for me! You guys are mean!”

..so that older Americans would never again be eaten by hoboes or washed by monkeys.

Here are the latest hot issues and talking points. Thanks for keeping up to date with these so that we are all on the same page.

  1. Rotisserie cock fighting
  2. The threat of postmodernism in intramural athletics
  3. So-called “clean” water and the liberal agenda
  4. Batter: do we really understand this mysterious substance that affects our lives in so many ways?
  5. Acne Treatment for Iraq: an American Miracle
  6. The Tragedy of the Garrulous Child
  7. Rethinking Garrotting
  8. A cure for Tennis Elbow in our lifetimes
  9. Counterfeit Condiments and what they mean to you
  10. Earl Scheib’s Legacy now and for the future

Once again thanks in advance for your cooperation.

It’s all worth it if great art results from this terrible suffering.

Sri Lanka Tsunami Suffering May Inspire Sting Song
Wed Feb 23, 2005 06:41 AM ET

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Pop icon Sting has been deeply moved by the suffering of Sri Lankan children who lost parents to Asia’s tsunami and may pen a song about the island’s worst natural disaster, his wife said Wednesday.

Sting and his actress wife Trudie Styler, who is an ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are visiting devastated seaside towns and villages along Sri Lanka’s tsunami-battered southern coast.

“Sting … has been very moved and saddened by the plight of the people in Sri Lanka,” Styler told Reuters by telephone from the remains of the southern fishing town of Hambantota. “What he has seen will definitely influence his work, a song in the future maybe.”

Sting was to visit Sri Lanka as a part of his world tour earlier this year, but the gig was called off after the Dec. 26 tsunami plowed into the island’s palm-fringed south, east and northern coastline killing nearly 40,000 people.

“A song or a performance, in whatever way Sting can help, he will always be there,” Styler said. “(It) is going to take the rest of our lifetime and more to rebuild the countries that have been affected.”