MOMA Says Art Began Hibernating in 1970

village voice > art > Saltz on the new Modern's great failures by Jerry Saltz: "Obviously, everyone wants to see the peaks. But if you're only seeing mountaintops you can never know how high they are. "

Modern art is currently punchless.

Airline Seating Policy 'Demonizes' Men -- 11/29/2005

Airline Seating Policy 'Demonizes' Men -- 11/29/2005: "Most males in the world, I'm sure, are perfectly law-abiding, good parents, good fathers, brothers, whatever,' he said. 'They're basically accusing half the population of the world of being a potential pedophile.'"

Ex-Powell Aide Criticizes Detainee Effort

Ex-Powell Aide Criticizes Detainee Effort: "He said Cheney must have sincerely believed that Iraq could be a spawning ground for new terror assaults, because 'otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard.'"

Bull's Blood Baths Bogus Bullshit

HBO Rome.html: "Perhaps the most glaring error/anachronism took place in the first episode, when Atia took a shower in bull�s blood. This ritual was called the taurobolium; it was practiced by the eunuch priests of Cybele and also by the male adherents of the cult of Mithras, which became a major rival to Christianity...but the earliest known performance of the taurobolium in Rome was about a century after ROME takes place. A hundred-year anachronism may not seem a big deal, but imagine watching a drama about the American Civil War...and seeing Hare Krishnas chanting in railway stations! "

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At 62, Englishman Anthony Everitt recalls taking precisely one science course in high school. But he knew his classics ... According to Everitt, it is the toothsome stew of civility, theaters, dinner parties, politics and "paroxysms of really appalling violence" that continues to mesmerize. After Cicero was murdered, his head and right hand were hammered to the speakers' platform in the Roman Forum. But first, the wife of one of his enemies, Fulvia, reportedly stuck hairpins through the great orator's tongue.

Violation of a Divine Right

My Way News: "'If someone is called to the priesthood by God but denied it by church officials, then it is not a violation of a human right, it is a violation of a divine right--the right of God to call whomever he chooses to the priesthood,' he said."

When God makes a fool, she means it!

The Environment Has Been Sold to the Bone

George W. Bush Gives Me Hope / The astonishing collapse of the Bumbling One surely means healthy change is imminent, right?: "We cannot afford any more wars. The environment has been sold to the bone. The national spirit has been beaten like an Alaskan baby seal and the GOP has worked our last nerve, passed through the karmic blood-brain barrier, reached saturation to the point where even moderate Repubs and gobs of intelligent Christians are finally saying, Oh my God, what have we done, and how did it all go so wrong, and how much Prozac and wine and praying to a very disappointed Jesus will it take to fix it? "

Murtha verifies that Cheney is a Ball of Shit

"'I like guys who've never been there who criticize us who've been there,' Murtha said. 'I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and sent people to war and then don't like to hear suggestions that what may need to be done.' "

Now this is progress !

Intelligent Design is neither

BREITBART.COM - Just The News: "The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that 'intelligent design' isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was 'wrong' and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.
'Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be,' the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. 'If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.' "

Maybe there's some hope for sanity after all...

'Cheney is vice president for torture'

'Cheney is vice president for torture': "A former CIA director has claimed that torture is condoned and even approved by the Bush government.
The devastating accusations have been made by Admiral Stansfield Turner who labelled Dick Cheney 'a vice president for torture'.
He said: 'We have crossed the line into dangerous territory'. "

How much do we let go by before we drag these debased Republican fucks out of their chairs and slap them silly.

Let Us Blow Up Bill O'Reilly

Let Us Blow Up Bill O'Reilly / Of course the PR-sucking Fox News blowhard is off his nut. Again. Question is, Should you care?: "In a way, we should be grateful for O'Reilly and Robertson and Limbaugh and Coulter and their slime-slinging ilk. They live in those black and nasty psycho-emotional places, so we don't have to. They show us how ugly we can be, how poisonous and ill, so we may recoil and say, Whoa, you know what? I think I need to be more gentle and less judgmental and kinder to those I love. BOR works an inverse effect on anyone with a vibrant and active soul -- he makes us better by sucking all the grossness into himself and blowing it out via a TV channel no one of any spiritual acumen really respects anyway. "

He's right, Coulter, O'Reilly, and all of them make one want to avoid that kind of soul-sucker life.

Criticism of Voting Law Was Overruled

Criticism of Voting Law Was Overruled: "But an Aug. 25 staff memo obtained by The Washington Post recommended blocking the program because Georgia failed to show that the measure would not dilute the votes of minority residents, as required under the Voting Rights Act.
The memo, endorsed by four of the team's five members, also said the state had provided flawed and incomplete data. The team found significant evidence that the plan would be 'retrogressive,' meaning that it would reduce blacks' access to the polls.
A day later, on Aug. 26, the chief of the department's voting rights section, John Tanner, told Georgia officials that the program could go forward. 'The Attorney General does not interpose any objection to the specified changes,' he said in a letter to them."

Cheney is wrong, was wrong, and will continue to be wrong

VPOTUS cuts another one for 'ya: "Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who also voted for the war in 2002 and whom Bush defeated in the presidential election a year ago, accused Cheney of engaging 'in the politics of fear and smear.'
'It is hard to name a government official with less credibility on Iraq than Vice President Cheney,' Kerry said. "

He has other priorities, like siphoning money from the government.

Oh THAT old statement. I only say that when I don't care what I say.

The Messiah's Newspaper: "Judge Alito went on to say that 'racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed' and that he strongly favors 'limited government, federalism, free enterprise, the supremacy of the elected branches of government, the need for a strong defense and effective law enforcement, and the legitimacy of a government role in protecting traditional values.'
Mr. Neas said this proves the nominee's 'fervent allegiance to virtually every pet cause of the radical right' and 'underscores our concern that he would vote to turn back the clock on decades of judicial precedent protecting privacy, equal opportunity, religious freedom, and so much more.' "

You Have No Right To An Abortion - so shut the hell up !

Alito rejected abortion as a right - The Washington Times, The Messiah's Newspaper: "'I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.' "

"Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times. "I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position, Mr. Alito wrote on his application to become deputy assistant to Attorney General Edwin I. Meese III."

Any questions ?

Tours.2

Arabs Blame French Society, Discrimination: "The worry is that right-wing groups will gain power in France because of the uprisings, he said.

Gee, 'ya think ?

'Will Europe enter into a confrontation phase with Muslims on its territories?' he asked."

Yes, and it'll become a way of life, awful and spreading like infected blood thru the cortex of the West. The Moor is here, after all these drinks. Arggg !

Kansas debate focuses on defining science - Future of Evolution - MSNBC.com

Kansas debate focuses on defining science - Future of Evolution - MSNBC.com: "'In order to live in this science-dominated world, you have to be able to discriminate between science and non-science,' said Alan Leshner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 'They want to rewrite the rules of science.'"

Fox News Is Accused in Bias Suit - New York Times

Fox News Is Accused in Bias Suit - New York Times: "The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Fox News network, claiming it harassed and discriminated against its female employees, creating a 'hostile work environment because of their sex.'"

Fox packers are rich in colorful fuckups.

BREITBART.COM - Just The News

BREITBART.COM - Just The News: "'We are hopeful that you will be able to accomplish this task in a bipartisan manner given general agreement that intelligence matters should not be politicized,' it added.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said Republicans 'should be focused on the illegality of these prisons, not the revelation of the illegality.'
The allegations about secret prisons prompted denials from governments in the former Soviet bloc. Such prisons, European officials say, would violate the continent's human rights principles.
While not confirming the existence of secret prisons, Rice told reporters, 'We, our allies, others who have experienced attacks, have to find a way to protect our people.' "

Paris Burning: How Empires End by Patrick J. Buchanan

"The West is aging, shrinking, and dying. "

"Colonization of the mother countries by subject peoples is the last chapter in the history of empires—and the next chapter in the history of the West—that is now coming to a close."

Vegas Mayor Might Want Hookers To Lose A Nipple !!

But Starts First With Proposal To Cut The Thumbs Off Of Graffiti Artists: "`I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb,' the mayor added. 'That may be the right thing to do.'
Goodman also suggested that whippings or canings should be brought back for children who get into trouble.
`I also believe in a little bit of corporal punishment going back to the days of yore, where examples have to be shown,' Goodman said.
`I'm dead serious,' said Goodman, adding, `Some of these (children) don't learn. You have got to teach them a lesson, and this is coming from a criminal defense lawyer.'
`They would get a trial first,'' he added.
Another panelist on the show, Howard Rosenberg, a state university system regent, responded by saying that cutting off the thumbs of taggers won't solve the problem and Goodman should `use his head for something other than a hat rack.'''

Now there's a guy for whom the voices are beginning to loom large.