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

:: Saturday, November 26, 2005 ::

Went to see "Ushpizin" last night at the Crest. I thought it was really good.

:: Jim Nichols 11/26/2005 08:25:00 PM [+] ::
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The Bush administration cracks

:: Jim Nichols 11/26/2005 08:09:00 PM [+] ::
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statistics on gay couples in the Netherlands

:: Jim Nichols 11/26/2005 04:36:00 PM [+] ::
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Another Pro-war Representative says the war was a mistake.

:: Jim Nichols 11/25/2005 06:27:00 PM [+] ::
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"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my family over to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." --Jon Stewart

:: Jim Nichols 11/25/2005 05:23:00 PM [+] ::
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I call it Genocide Day but if you want to celebrate heres my favorite Thanksgiving poem

William Burroughs Thanksgiving Prayer

Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.


Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until
the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.

For nigger-killin' lawmen,
feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter,
evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for
Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the
war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind the
own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the
memories-- all right let's see
your arms!

You always were a headache and
you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams.

:: Jim Nichols 11/24/2005 05:12:00 PM [+] ::
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Blogs in China

:: Jim Nichols 11/23/2005 07:48:00 PM [+] ::
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Kerry did jury duty

:: Jim Nichols 11/23/2005 05:07:00 PM [+] ::
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New York Times article which hits the nail on the head

At a time when opposition to the war is growing, the white phosphorus issue has reinforced the worst suspicions about American actions.

America has bungled the Iraq war with its inadequate troop levels, its fucked up the war on terrorism with its treatment of prisoners, and now its screwing up on the question of weapon use.

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 09:20:00 PM [+] ::
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Atheist lobbying group

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 08:17:00 PM [+] ::
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Well gee... you mean Fox?

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 07:53:00 PM [+] ::
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Interesting post and yet another reassurance that I'm not making a bad choice by moving away from the academic world

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 07:39:00 PM [+] ::
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There you go

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 07:28:00 PM [+] ::
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More they didn't tell us

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 07:26:00 PM [+] ::
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Abolish the death penalty and you'll save money

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 03:09:00 PM [+] ::
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Not suprising but Bush planned to bomb al jazeera

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 03:07:00 PM [+] ::
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Asprin as the drug that wouldn't exist today.

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 03:03:00 PM [+] ::
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They messed with the wrong guy

:: Jim Nichols 11/22/2005 02:31:00 PM [+] ::
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A slanted article on Kurt Vonnegut

:: Jim Nichols 11/21/2005 10:45:00 PM [+] ::
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Approval of Handling of War, Johnson to Bush over at Political Arithmetik

:: Jim Nichols 11/21/2005 10:35:00 PM [+] ::
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Geoffrey Stone over at U.of Chicago blog

The plain and simple fact is that the Bush administration did mislead the American people. Undoubtedly, they did so for what they believed to be good reasons, and some or even much of this may have been sloppiness rather than intentional deceit. But surely they misled the American people by obscuring the different degrees of confidence necessary to justify different types of measures, by exaggerating the evidence (certainly with respect to Saddam Hussein's involvement in 9/11), and by failing to recognize the danger that as advocates committed to a particular outcome they themselves might erroneously assess the data and the risks. For them now to claim that it is their critics who are lying is shameful.

:: Jim Nichols 11/21/2005 10:28:00 PM [+] ::
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"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man" --Diogenes

:: Jim Nichols 11/21/2005 12:36:00 AM [+] ::
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Harvard Law school has a blog

:: Jim Nichols 11/20/2005 09:42:00 PM [+] ::
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Did Texas execute an innocent man?

:: Jim Nichols 11/20/2005 09:30:00 PM [+] ::
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