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civil rights activist, dead at 14 [via]

this came to my attention quite some time ago, but it must have been when i wasn’t feeling bloggy… so i’m making up for it, late to this party. led throwies rock.

led throwies, from the graffiti research lab

ok, maybe not your soul, but pretty much anything they knew about you. are you now or have you ever been an at&t customer? this lawsuit may be something you want to keep in the back of your mind…

from our good comrades in london, the clash is now enough to stop a plane

Man held as terrorism suspect over punk song [reuters, 2006.04.05]

Anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said on Wednesday.

here’s my echo: “…dnd you know what they said? well, some of it was true”

see you in detention.

once in… a thousand years. unless, of course, jesus comes back and resets the calendar.

(ok, once in a hundred years… )

stuff happens

a political-geek humor moment crashed into me this evening, when googling for vacation days, the first hit is “How many vacation days has George W. Bush taken to date as president?” from ask.yahoo.com.

A Veteran’s Letter to the President [Joseph W. DuRocher, 2006]

Until your administration, I believed it was inconceivable that the United States would ever initiate an aggressive and preemptive war against a country that posed no threat to us. Until your administration, I thought it was impossible for our nation to take hundreds of persons into custody without provable charges of any kind, and to �disappear� them into holes like Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram. Until your administration, in my wildest legal fantasy I could not imagine a U.S. Attorney General seeking to justify torture or a President first stating his intent to veto an anti-torture law, and then adding a �signing statement� that he intends to ignore such law as he sees fit. I do not want these things done in my name.

i salute mr. DuRocher.

my president is “concerned” about the message scuttling the uae-ports world deal sends to our friends and allies, particularly in the middle east.

i only wish my president were equally concerned about the message that torturing prisoners, indefinite detentions, and compromising traditional american values sends to our friends and allies, particularly in the middle east.

my america values art and culture and realizes that we are all nude under our clothes.

The Case of Pete Panse [art renewal]

Pete Panse is a talented and popular high school art teacher in Middletown, NY who uses traditional techniques to to train his students. In December 2005 Mr. Panse was suspended from his job for recommending that some of his advanced students consider taking figure drawing courses that included nude figure drawings. Mr. Panse is suspended from his job pending hearings after which he may be permanently fired, ending a 25-year teaching career. In the meantime, his students are sitting in study hall learning nothing and failing to prepare the materials necessary for their receiving scholarships.

save art for our children. seriously.

perhaps even more importantly, save a good teacher for the children yet to come.