The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush Disarms, Unilaterally: "Today, most U.S. homes can access only 'basic' broadband, among the slowest, most expensive and least reliable in the developed world, and the United States has fallen even further behind in mobile-phone-based Internet access. The lag is arguably the result of the Bush administration's failure to make a priority of developing these networks. In fact, the United States is the only industrialized state without an explicit national policy for promoting broadband.'"

Journalism is has gone to poop, reason number 456 for those stll countin: "What the audience didn't know was that the ABC videotape had been edited so as to create an inaccurate impression. At that press conference, Mrs. Clinton had been asked not how much work she had done for Madison Guaranty, but how her signature came to be on a letter dealing with Madison Guaranty's 1985 proposal to issue preferred stock. ABC News had seamlessly omitted thirty-nine words from her actual answer, as well as the cut, by interposing a cutaway shot of reporters taking notes. The press conference transcript shows that she actually answered as follows: 'The young attorney [and] the young bank officer did all the work and the letter was sent. But because I was what we called the billing attorney -- in other words, I had to send the bill to get the payment sent -- my name was put on the bottom of the letter. It was not an area that I practiced in. It was not an area that I know anything, to speak of, about.'"

More Bible?

Another thought: If I murder someone I deserve to go to prison whether I get caught or not. If I possess cocain, but do not get caught, do I also deserve to go to prison? If Bush has admitted to cocoaine, does that mean we are looking at a man who deserves to have been a prisoner of the state?

What is the elegant difference?

Are drugs that bad?: I remember back in my college days, I asked a buddy of mine what he had done on Saturday, and he said took some Mexican Fly, man. He then went on to describe in vivid detail the phychelic effects of the acid.

"So basically," I replied, "You sat on the sofa for six hours."

I thought of him this morning when I read a new report on TV viewership. Americans are watching an average of 4.5 hours of TV everyday, second only to Japan. I thought I had read that intenet use was driving down TV viewership, but I guess not. Or maybe it is one of those Bush decreases: It's not as high as it would have been had Al Gore not invented the internet.

(we all know at this point he never said that, right)

But what if a drug could be made that was cheap and healthy, but still obliterated the mind ino a mesmerizing kaleidescope of color, beauty, sound, and wonder. How many Americans actually have a moral standing that allows them to condemn someone who carefully builds a lifestyle around drug use.

4.5 hours a day. With your snacks on your lap. Your emaciated faces glowing blue in the flickering light of your boobtoob. Your brain reprogrammed to not hear the laugh track, to not see the over-acting. How is that respecting reality, physical, spiritual, or otherwise.

You might as well get all coked up and play Monopoly with imaginary friends.

Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of drug use.

Coning next season. Robot jockeys. Where is the union on this one?

A reminder that America's fighting force is not involuntary.

Fw:

graveyard in praha

the sea is in our sweat.
the ocean is full of tears.