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HAPPY NEW YEAR.

( fnord and music )

US Death Toll in Iraq Reaches 3,000 (Voice of America)
Just as I was about to post this entry, Last.fm played a song for me. Here, I’ll share it with you:
Anti-Flag, “Die for Your Government”

TAX CHECK REALITY CHECK

In 2003, Americans were asked, “How many of your tax dollars would you be willing to have go to economic and humanitarian aid for African countries?” The median response was $20—over six times the actual amount.

The percentage proposing an increase in spending on aid to Africa in principle is far lower than the percentage proposing […]

TODAY’S BLOGQUOTE

( politics and fnord and quotes )

With Washington Post reporters, you never know what they are thinking. Is Fletcher omitting the relative scale measures because he knows that readers will conclude that he is really stupid if he writes “Bush has dramatically increased aid to Africa from $2 to $6 per African per year” and the purpose of his article is […]

NIXON BLOOPERS

( politics and history and video )

The cameras roll as Nixon prepares to announce his resignation.

Nixon Resignation Outtakes (YouTube, via Editor & Publisher)

QUIZ TIME: S.F. WRITERS

( quiz and writers and stories )

I am:
James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon)
In the 1970s she was perhaps the most memorable, and one of the most popular, short story writers. Her real life was as fantastic as her fiction.

Which science fiction writer are you?

James Tiptree, Jr. World Wide Website
Stories online:

Love is the Plan The Plan is Death
The Women Men Don’t […]

TOP TEN

The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006 (Slate)

NO NEW YEAR!

( fnord and funny and music )

“It is about time that the passage of time ended,” said one of the hooded organisers. “We are fed up with getting older. Why should we follow the fashion? The planet is getting older and warmer. Not us. Stop this mad race towards death.”

Vive la révolution: Protesters take stand against the march of time (Independent)
FONACON […]

WRITING ADVICE

( funny and howto and writers )

Alcohol is not your friend. Meth is your enemy. Cigars are neutral. Computers are overrated. Haste is overrated. Sloth is just as bad as haste. Ten words are better than ten thousand, if those ten are right and the ten thousand are wrong. Personal experience is useless if you cannot leverage it with imagination. If […]

MARS:2020:SPRINGTIME

( video )

Mars:2020:Springtime (YouTube, via Reality Carnival)

IRAQ

Riverbend posted again.

A day in the life of the average Iraqi has been reduced to identifying corpses, avoiding car bombs and attempting to keep track of which family members have been detained, which ones have been exiled and which ones have been abducted.
[…]
My only conclusion is that the Americans want to withdraw from Iraq, but […]