Archive for December, 2005



December 1

It was on December 1, 1955, that Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat.
It’s also the birthdays of Woody Allen (1935), Richard Prior (1940), and Bette Midler (1945).
Watch the news this month . . . lots of stuff happens in December.
Madness.

December 2

December 2 is the birthday of the Manhattan Project, inasmuch as Fermi’s team had the first self-sustaing nuclear reaction in Chicogo in 1942. It’s also the birthday of the Ford Model A (1927), The EPA (1970), Rick Savage (1960), Lucy Lui (1964), Monica Seles (1973), and Brtiney Spears (1981).
And did you know that Limbo […]

Nick Ciofani

Nick Ciofani is a hired gun. My former college roommate (of 2 years!) is a soldier with the mafia, (aka the GOP). Dreams come true, Nick, good job!
via toyah
Madness!

Madness! Which super-hero am I?

You scored as Neo, the "One". Neo is the computer hacker-turned-Messiah of the Matrix. He leads a small group of human rebels against the technology that controls them. Neo doubts his ability to lead but doesn’t want to disappoint his friends. His goal is for a world where all men know the Truth and […]

Police State

Read about the Denver woman who refused to show ID on a public bus, and is about to be arraigned. Have we seen the end of the 4th and 5th Amendments?
Attention Conservatives: this is why we have an ACLU. Do you have your papers ready to show the police with you at all […]

Pearl Harbor Day

On this day, Dec. 7th, the Imperial Japan attacked without warning the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Let us not forget.

Today in History

Today in History from the AP. The US entered WWII in 1941, Sinead O’Connor turns 39, and more.
Madness!

Europeans make good nannys because . . .

. . . their government(s) teaches them how!
Some recent comments on my entry of 12/05/2005, “Police State“:
In the Netherlands (in which i live :)) It is mandatory to show your ID if someone from the police asks you since January 2005. this is because of security reasons(they say) so if they suspect you of being […]

An estimated 3 million soccor fans will visit a prostitute at German-hosted World Cup in June. Mega-brothels are rapidly expanding, and city officials are happy to see the increased tax revenue from the sex trade.
If ever it deserved to be said . . .
MADNESS!

the weirdest thing about that plane crash last night was that it was a southwest plane . . .
. . . madness . . .

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman’s cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
-Thomas H. Huxley

Repressed Memory

Anyone else ever watch a boring movie, then forget about it only to rewatch it later and hate it more the second time after remembering that you know already know how it ends halfway through?
Yeah, um . . . I just did that again.
Madness!

Hath not a Jew hands?

Israel prepares to rock the Casbah. As Iran sharpens its words, Israel sharpens its plowshares. Israel has probably had nuclear weapons since the early 1950s, and some have suggested that they have effective nuclear weapons aboard submarines. Iraq suffered Israel’s wrath when it toyed with nukes; Iran is literally asking for it, aren’t […]