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Monsters! They’re all monsters I say!
Month: August 2004
cool bike graffiti thingy
Posted by on 8/29/2004
Popular Science | Taking it to the Streets
Cool invention.
WTC bombing “toy”
Posted by on 8/27/2004
Yahoo! News – Co. Pulls Toys Depicting 9-11 Attack
and yes, it’s on ebay. duh. only this time it’s being sold as a “public service announcement” of some sort.
Press Action ::: Progressivism and
Posted by on 8/27/2004
Press Action ::: Progressivism and the Corporate Olympics
Olympic stories of noteworthiness are often buried, marginalized, or twisted. Witness the regard for athletes who are guided by moral principles. Iranian double world judo champion Arash Mirismaili refused to compete against his Israeli opponent out of solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people. Such dedication to principle over the selfish individual pursuit of gold seems to epitomize an athlete that people can openly admire. Now the sporting authorities are considering punishment of this morally principled athlete.
solidarity or racism? hrm? Continue reading the article and you’ll realize that all roads lead to the war in Iraq. All of them. And they’re all lined with Nike billboards and burning with the corpses of a thousand innocent civilians.
josh clayborn on his mom’s passing
Posted by on 8/27/2004
Everyone is either standing or sitting, just listening to her breath while a machine pumps oxygen and morphine. The inevitable isn’t far away, but no one seems to know what to do, other than the hospice nurse. “Talk to her, talk to her about all the great memories,” she says. The hospice nurse, trained to treat people who have a disease for which there is no treatment, means well. But at the moment my only wish was for her to leave or shut up. My mother is dying and I certainly don’t need to be told how to say goodbye by a nurse who doesn’t know any of us.
Josh is a truly gifted writer, I feel for his family.
