:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Saturday, October 23, 2004 ::

The New Tom Waits Album: Real Gone

Tom Waits has mastered the surreal. And with his new album he tests his listeners with tastes of grit and steel. By removing piano from the background of each song the ragged pop sensibilities are thrown out the window and what we have left is shattered on the concrete below your open window. Pull your ears inside your head and let the little rhymes and storys lull you to sleep or maybe should I say its less like sleep and more like a dance on a razor but none the less listen to this album in bed with the covers over your head and booze on your breath.

:: Jim Nichols 10/23/2004 11:20:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Jon Stewart Talks TV News on '60 Minutes':

"After his outburst on CNN's 'Crossfire,' 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart will have a few words for '60 Minutes.' The comedian will be profiled on this Sunday's broadcast of the CBS news program. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/23/2004 04:29:00 PM [+] ::
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Business catching up with sex -- at least on the Web - 2004-10-22 - Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal:

"In the last seven years, the percentage of Web searches on sex has declined, while that of business-related searches has gone up, according to a new book on Web searching coauthored by a University of Pittsburgh professor"

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2004 07:45:00 PM [+] ::
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LRB | Andrew O'Hagan : The God Squad:

"America is now offering lessons in what little wisdom it takes to govern the world. Confounded in Iraq, isolated from its traditional allies, shamed over Abu Ghraib, soaked in corporate corruption and the backwash of environmental harm, sustaining an uninherited budget deficit while preparing more tax rewards for the rich, as dismissive of the unhealthy as the foreign, as terrified of the unfolding truth as of mailed anthrax, it is a society made menacing by a notion of God's great plan. America is tolerance-challenged, integrity-poor, frightened to death, and yet, beneath its patriotic hosannahs, a country in delirium before the recognition that it might have spent the last three years not only squandering the sympathy of the world but hot-housing hatreds more ferocious than those it had wished to banish for ever from the clear blue skies."

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2004 09:39:00 PM [+] ::
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Democracy Now! | Noam Chomsky on the State of the Nation, Iraq and the Election:

"A conversation with linguist, author and leading dissident Noam Chomsky on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the presidential election, and the current state of the country."

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2004 07:09:00 PM [+] ::
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TheStar.com - Drug exports threaten supply, group warns:

"Cross-border Internet pharmacies threaten to drain precious supplies needed to treat sick Canadians and could lead to a 'full-scale disaster' for the health system, a coalition of groups representing seniors, pharmacies and patients warned today. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2004 06:25:00 PM [+] ::
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Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Arts: The Mona Lisa experience:

"It's the most famous painting in the world and a must-see for anyone visiting Paris. But most people fight through the crowds to spend a mere 15 seconds in front of it - just long enough to grab a snapshot. So why do they bother? To find out, Amelia Gentleman spent a day with the Mona Lisa"

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2004 07:34:00 PM [+] ::
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Everyone must watch this.... IFILM - Short Films: Jon Stewart's Brutal Exchange with CNN Host:

"Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart browbeats CNN's Tucker Carlson over journalism ethics on Crossfire. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2004 07:53:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Poll: Florida Senate Candidates Tied:

"The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has erased the small gap between her and her Republican rival, and they were locked in a tie as they headed into their first debate Monday, a new poll showed. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2004 07:06:00 PM [+] ::
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One more has seen the light...
Yahoo! News - Michigan's Milliken Endorses Kerry:

"Former Republican Gov. William Milliken of Michigan endorsed Democratic Sen. John Kerry for president on Monday, saying President Bush has pursued policies 'pandering to the extreme right wing.'

Milliken, governor from 1969-82, accused the Bush administration of rushing into the Iraq (news - web sites) war, pushing tax cuts that benefit the rich and blocking meaningful stem-cell research.

"I felt so strongly about the direction of this country that in the end, it wasn't a difficult decision to make," Milliken said in an interview Monday with Traverse City Record-Eagle reporters and editors. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2004 07:04:00 PM [+] ::
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No spoiler in 2008!

Center for Voting and Democracy - CVD:

"Last week Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D -IL) introduced a pair of powerful bills aimed at election reform.

H.R.5293 would require states to conduct general elections for Federal office using an instant runoff voting system.
H.J.R. 109 would amend the Constitution to abolish the electoral college and provide for direct election of the president by majority vote.

FairVote also is working with Congressman Jackson in support of a right to vote in the U.S. Constitution."

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2004 06:59:00 PM [+] ::
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"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed,
given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2004 06:48:00 PM [+] ::
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"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just
discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
-- Sydney J. Harris

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2004 06:44:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Canada Urged to Halt Internet Drug Sales to U.S.:

"The Canadian government must stop the online sale of drugs to U.S. customers before it leads to a severe shortage north of the border, a coalition of health lobby groups said on Monday."

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2004 06:37:00 PM [+] ::
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