I’m not particularly superstitious, but this being Friday the 13th and all, I figure locking up the chainsaw and painting happy faces on all the hockey masks doesn’t really hurt anything.

Back in ‘89, while on a bit of a tequila bender, drove a 1984 Chevy Celebrity into an iceberg, spilling 300,000 gallons of oil into the Atlantic Ocean and getting a bunch of waterbirds all black and gunky and shit. Reject as crassly elitist the idea of “dolphin-safe” tuna.  Sorry, but there are no kings in this patriot’s ocean.  Or maybe you DOI folks missed that whole revolutionary war thing?

Well, I was sitting in my office stuffing cash in a box When an IRS guy gave me an evil wink. He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a paddy wagon, and the devil’s eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again. Let’s do the frog-march again! Let’s do the frog-march again! We don’t care if you’re Left.

C’mon over and sample a lovely aggregation of Afghan news and pics.

Scene: A cube farm’s conference room.  A jowly, sixty-ish, ulcerous-looking uber-boss sits glowering at his much younger underlings, who quail in their seats at the table. Cut to the wall clock.  It’s 1:00pm, time for lunch to be over.  Someone suppresses a burp. Cut to three empty seats.  The boss glares at them Cut to door crashing open.  A young woman of thin and nervous mien skitters in, jacket, papers,

There are Islamic reformers out there.  Consider the case of expatriate Syrian psychiatrist, Wafa Sultan.  She lives in the U.S., is estranged from her family back in Syria, and has participated in a couple of high-profile interviews on al-Jazeera, which got her banned from Arab media.  She also got leaned on by CAIR for her reforming work.  Until 9/11, that is; after which she told them to fuck off: “Today

A new Army advertising campaign.  I have rather deep feelings about it, but I don’t matter.  I am already in for over 21 years.  But what YOU think matters.  Please go HERE and watch the ‘brand ethos’ video and leave a comment – what worked and what didn’t.