Does your city have a New Year's Eve celebration planned?
George W. Bush has quipped several times during his political career that it would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship. Apparently he never told his vice president that this was a joke.
"Welcome to Fucking, Austria."Pronounced "fooking," the little hamlet of Fucking is named after the man who founded the village in the 6th century. His name? Focko. The town sign has been stolen seven times in the last few months. With signs costing several hundred dollars apiece, much of the tiny town’s budget is being spent replacing the signs, says Siegfried Hoeppel, the Mayor of Fucking. He went on to express his hope that further thefts will be avoided through the use of increased concrete and . . . bigger screws.
The Human Rights Campaign’s Buying for Equality guide provides you with the information you need to support products from companies that support equality. 
Friday Random Ten - Haven't done this in a while. If you'd like to play along, shuffle 'em up and show us your ten in the comments or on your site. 
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BEST JOKE OF THE WEEK -- And it comes from Comedy Central star Jon Stewart: 
Zombie Claus was celebrated in Michigan last night. [via] 
Why is Christmas just like a day at work? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit?
- "Who's my little douchebag of liberty???"
- "Fox News-where you go when your media/journalism career is in decline
(need we mention Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo Rivera?)"- "Novak to Fox? That's like shit crawling back up into an asshole."
What has 1572 tips, is 7-feet tall, and can be purchased at your local Wal-Mart for $79.98? The artificial Christmas tree I promised my Mum I'd put up for her this year.
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Re-Blogging
Interview with Stephen Gaghan, Director and Writer of Syriana
» Introducing: The Beatles (or Retirement Plan #7129)
» Only $2.99 for Zappa's 200 Motels Soundtrack from 1971? But Ringo Starr is Larry the Dwarf. 2 lps and a booklet, too, and the booklet is priceless. 2 by gawd dollars and 99 frickin' cents.
» Blonde On Blonde and Ebay asks $7.49 for my favorite Dylan album. 
For 11 weeks, PETA supporters have hammered retailer J.Crew with letters, and phone calls, and protests, demanding that the chain stop selling fur. This pressure paid off on November 30, when J.Crew confirmed that it will pull fur from its stores and never sell it again. Most fur sold in the United States comes from China, where investigators found that fur farmers swing animals by their hind legs and smash their heads on the ground—breaking the animals’ necks or backs but leaving them panting, blinking, and conscious as they are skinned alive. So this is a huge victory for animals throughout the world, and we hope that you will celebrate with us!
Mellen Thomas Benedict has some wonderful insights on after-death communications with departed loved ones through dreams and synchronicity. I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few friends and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a private agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die. I went back to sleep. The next thing I remember is the beginning of a typical near-death experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing up, but my body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out of my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid that I could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the house, I could see around the house, I could see under the house.
There was this light shining. I turned toward the light. The light was very similar to what many other people have described in their near-death experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is alluring; you want to go to it like you would want to go to your ideal mother's or father's arms.
As I began to move toward the light, I knew intuitively that if I went to the light, I would be dead.
So as I was moving toward the light I said, "Please wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about this; I would like to talk to you before I go." [Read More »]
"The plea came in a letter from a group of U.S. senators to nine big oil companies: With huge increases in winter heating bills expected, the letter read, 
I've seen this story a few places today...
Diana Darby’s album, The Magdalene Laundries, is inspired by the Irish social institution of the same name, which is in the long tradition of the Medicant movement founded by Francis of Assisi. In the Laundries women are sentenced to a life of slavery under the supervision of nuns; forced to work six days a week in the laundry of the Church, in an attempt to wash away their sins.
Known as a friend and champion of officers at the Pentagon and in the war zone, it is widely believed in Congress that Murtha often speaks for those in uniform and could be echoing what U.S. commanders in the field and in the Pentagon are saying privately about the conflict. 
LSD Blotter Art
has the largest selection of blotter art for sale. The All In Your Head and Felix-Yellow pics shown here are some top sellers.
The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's an international grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Since I first posted about it, many other communities have opened up their own Freecycle groups. Put in your zipcode and check it out.. Best thing I've freecycled or bartered lately? The car I'm driving was bartered for my husband building someone a deck. 
* Bandnews.org - Live from the Web | Search & Read official Music News - Band Directory - Archive. "Bandnews.org is a search engine keeping track of what is going on in the band scene. A bot collects the news from official band websites and magazines so you can read them on one page." [via: DJ Martian] Professors publish case study of successful nutritional treatment for cancer. Link [via: Rutabaga Stew] November 15, 1969. 250,000 War Protesters Stage a Peaceful March and Rally in Heart of Washington. - Link [via: One Thousand Reasons] AOL has a new stand alone browser. They took some ideas from Firefox, like tabbed browsing, and there's some nice, new features of their own. Check it out @ AOL Explorer. For Windows, Mac, and Linux. 10 minutes download for modems; 1 minute for DSL, Cable. Now Playing - Incredible String Band - The Sun In Pale Silence 
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1% Republican. | "You're a complete liberal, utterly without a trace of Republicanism. Your strength is as the strength of ten because your heart is pure. (You hope.)" |
This is Wal-Mart The Movie documentary premiere week. Don Hazen (Alternet) organized an impressive editorial collaboration around our film release: Harold Meyerson profiles whistleblower Jim Bill Lynn for the American Prospect, Christopher Hayes tackles Wal-Mart's union busting for In These Times, Joshua Holland investigates Wal-Mart's China Price for Alternet, Liza Featherstone sniffs out the Wal-Mart Money Trail in The Nation, and Greg LeRoy reveals the Wal-Mart Tax for Alternet. Best quote of the day-- 18th Cannabis Cup - November 20-24, 2005 in Amsterdam. November 10th - On November 10th, 2005, stand with the Ogoni people in remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa. Bhagavan Das will do a live interview with Virato on Asheville's The Revolution radio this Saturday morning. Link Ben Frost Gallery - Art as freeform popculture assault. I like it.Take revenge. Shit on a pigeon.
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