In the news this morning, Jill Carroll, reporter for the Christian Science Monitor was released by her Iraqi Fundamentalist kidnappers after an 82 day captivity. Ms Carroll announced that she was treated well despite threats to kill her if the terrorists demands were not met (What?!). Tom Cruise agreed to drop his lawsuit against the terrorists ( Read more... )

Gotta love the way the media is jumping on this shooting accident ( Read more... )

Nothing to report ( Read more... )

Am I the only that thinks these confirmation hearings are a farce ( Read more... )

It was 9 years ago today that I helped a friend whose place was completely obliterated by landslide. Rain, Rain, Rain. If you follow the news at all, you've heard that northern California has been deluged. The river here, Eel River was nearly 6 feet over flood stage, just higher than what we experienced nine years ago. All you can see is water ( Read more... )

Today's Headline: Saddam denounces White House 'liars'
talk about "pot calling the kettle black", Saddam is perhaps the only person that could make the White House look good.

Today's Weather: Raining like a mutha' f...

i'm having a strange case deja vu. a president trying his best to spin a war that nobody is buying, and breaking the law with illegal wiretaps "in the best interest of the country". Dubya should have read ahead to the final chapter before using Nixon's playbook.

yesterday i started a community mp3_rock. I had been part of an mp3 sharing community for nearly a year, uploaded thousands of songs to fill requests. In all that time, one person actually had a song/album that i wanted and couldn't find elsewhere. Otherwise it was pages and pages of the same requests for the same damn Disney channel pop crap. ENOUGH ( Read more... )

i used to go to collegehumor.com for my daily laughs, but this stuff is great!
http://www.thesuperficial.com/

So Bush is "firm" in his position against North Korea's nuclear program (story here)
He also recently went out on a limb denouncing China's human rights abuse (story hereWhat's wrong with this picture ( Read more... )