"let us beg to differ"

I never thought I'd say it, but hey:
Eminem did something good.

get your geography on

How good is your geography? Mine has always sucked. But thanks to my sister Erika, I now can at least easily locate Kyrgyzstan on a map. I'm ashamed to say how many other countries I got wrong on this wonderful interactive map.
Start practicing!

the SF Weakly

About once or twice a year, I pick up a copy of the SF Weekly, just to see if it's still garbage, and guess what! it always is. This week, four of the five letters to the editor are from out of state, which maybe they did so as to say, "look! how widely we are read!" But really, I think it's because no one in San Francisco bothers anymore.

Ashkan Sahihi

Ashkan Sahihi: The Kiss Series

thanks to Lauren for pointing out:

"the president did meet with the congressional black caucus -- after they chartered a bus and went to see him at the white house uninvited because he hadn't made any attempt to meet with them about various issues they'd brought up."

Mark Morford

As Oprah Slaps Bush / With 30 states poised to smack down women's rights again, the one true savior emerges
"Here's the bottom line: 50 million eligible women didn't vote in 2000"

The Firebombers

We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

The bomb opens like a shoebox.
And the child?
The child is certainly not yawning.
And the woman?
The woman is bathing her heart.
It has been torn out of her
and because it is burnt
and as a last act
she is rinsing it off in the river.
This is the death market.

America,
where are your credentials?

- Anne Sexton, 1972

cheney vs. reality

an acquaintance from Texas points out:

"The DNC is kicking ass with the morning-after-the-debate commercials."

and I thank him, because I realized recently that I haven't watched a lick of tv for months and months.