Neil Gaiman: "So, after a week away I'm -- well not really back, but I'm home anyway, having seen The Magnetic Fields in Minneapolis last night (and chatted to Stephin about his plans for a musical stage play of Coraline), and tomorrow I fly in to New York, give the Harvey speech (which I will start to write as soon as I've finished writing this) and then straight home again, and back into my hole. "

WHOOHOOO! A musical version of Coraline done by stephen merrit...
this could be awesome!

the american street: Are You Better Off Now Than You Were in 1980?:
"The great progressive era extended from 1932 to 1968 and produced risk collectivization in the form of Social Security, Medicare, and welfare. The economy boomed and the US emerged from WWII as a financial superpower. In 1970, at the conclusion of the period, the median family household paid 16% of their incomes in tax (income and FICA) and the top 1% paid 69%. At the same time, corporations had a tax rate of 17%. The period, known as 'the great compression' because the richest and poorest Americans were closer in wealth than at any time since the early 1800s, ended in 1980 with the election of the optimistic Ronald Reagan."


the fact is, liberalism works...
when will all you "real-worlders" out there get it?

M

Dick Advice
"CNN is reporting that on the floor of the Senate yesterday, Dick Cheney told Sen. Pat Leahy, 'Go fuck yourself.'"

good thing the adults are in charge...
CRIPES! IS THIS ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR FOR A VICE-PRESIDENT ON THE SENATE FLOOR?!?!
I don't remember Gore EVER telling anyone to go fuck themselves...
in fact, if every sperm is sacred, is Cheney commanding Leahy to sin...that isn't very Christian...

Billmon: "Then during a trip to Paris, he took me to a sex club in Paris, without telling me where we were going. I told him I thought it was out of his system. I told him he had promised me we would never go. People were having sex everywhere. I cried, I was physically ill. [He] became very upset with me, and said it was not a 'turn on' for me to cry. "

alt.sex.stories?
No...
Jeri Ryan's declaration in her divorce from Republican Senator Jack Ryan. He's running against Barack Obama in Illinois.
I just hope they publish the rest of the declaration, or maybe turn it into a made for Showtime movie...

Salon.com Politics: "Bush tried to steer funding through U.S. agencies instead of an established international body, asked Congress not to fund his initiative because he said Africa governments couldn't handle the funding an even tried to delay full funding for his proposals until after his current term expired. Since signing the global AIDS Bill in May 2003, Bush has requested $1.2 billion less than what Congress approved and he signed into law, Zeitz said. The result of all this: The U.N. estimates that nearly 12 million people in poor countries will have died from AIDS during Bush's presidency and only a few thousand people will have received antiretroviral drugs from the U.S."


Gee, maybe Bush is more like Reagan than I give him credit for...