licentious radio

Sunday, September 8, 2002
[12:28:41 PM]

I gather there's a tv show called "Donohue". It must be freaky. The transcript is practically insane. They seem to allow fifteen seconds to present your months of research, and then they allow some bozo fifteen seconds to say you're crazy before cutting to commercial.

Greg Palast was on. He pointed out that GWB is doing his best to buy JEB's re-election -- using tax dollars. One example is paying oil companies over $100 million not to drill on offshore oil leases -- that they originally paid $13 million for. So then a right-wing Congressman comes on to say that's just business as usual; no story in that.

Palast said JEB's Florida lost over $300 billion on Enron. Right-wingers say "everybody lost on Enron". GP points out Florida had three times as big a loss as any other state, and that JEB collected a $2 million campaign contribution from Enron just as Enron was going bankrupt. Right-wingers basically just go ad hominem.

GP also has the goods on the JEB/Harris conspiracy to deny the right to vote to almost 100,000 eligible Florida voters in 2000, and the even more shocking news that despite settling the lawsuit, those voters still won't be able to vote in 2002. There is, of course, no argument to make about this. It's what happened. Bush and Harris targeted black voters with several tactics; this is the one where the paper trail is irrefutable. All the right-wingers could do was shriek hysterically, hoping that volume and bile would distract viewers from the hard evidence of conspiracy to deny voting rights to blacks.

Greg Palast on Donohue transcript.

[12:03:05 PM]
Some more good political cartoons:

A Saudi holds a bag of cash... "Famous phrases from 9-11: 'Let's bankroll!' "

"Bill Simon denies his tax returns are in the closet because they're gay. Says his paperwork would do any woman 'any time, any place'. Is Simon being pressured by the GOP to cover up his documents' sexual orientation?"

And then there's Boondocks. Apparently, the kid and I were born under the same horoscope sign:

"You will continue to fight a losing battle against the corrupt corporate and government powers-that-be. Regardless of how loudly you shout the truth from the moutaintop, your words will be dismissed as the rantings of a paranoid, leftist, anti-american radical loony. Find a hobby."

Of course more people read Boondocks than licentious radio, but I *do* have a hobby. (Typography.)

But I don't know about horoscopes. The other kid's horoscope seems to apply to me, too:

"Despite your charm and youthful exuberance, neither Beyonce Knowles nor anyone who looks like Beyonce Knowles will fall madly in love with you today."

Did I mention "Fonts & Logos" by Doyald Young. It's among the finest soft-core typography around. We're talking about 250 point Sabon, and examples of dozens of typefaces. There's an X with an x-height of 18 picas! Excuse me while I go take a cold shower.

[11:09:08 AM]
Andrei Codrescu's poem, 9/11 for Allen Ginsberg, mentions "gargoyled faces of the Cold War" (Rumsfeld, Cheney, and the gang).

It really is like the return of banished gargoyles, whose temporary exile has made them twice as intent on destroying the remains of democracy and peace. The good news is that they'll be dead soon. The bad news is: not soon enough. They'll use our tax dollars and good name to slaughter innocents around the globe, specifically with the intention of provoking anger and militancy. The gargoyles only win when they have someone to fight.