Moaning Lisa is like a Rubik's Cube, a puzzle that you have to solve with your hands and your innate pattern-recognition ability.

But with her exaggerated Barbie doll body shape -- giant breasts, tiny waist -- she's also a parody of female sexuality.

She meets our expectations for what a sex doll would be, then frustrates those expectations by responding to salacious touches in a chaotic and peculiarly human way.

That's what makes her a truly great piece of art. You cannot pin her down. You cannot forget her.   more »

Hillary Clinton: Authoritarian, Corporate & Imperial Democrat

She’s a neoliberal champion of such vicious and reactionary policies as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the abolition of poor families’ entitlement to federal cash assistance.

She belatedly rolled out a mild universal health insurance plan (largely lifted from the John Edwards campaign) and then falsely claimed to have made a strong and good-faith effort to advance universal health care during the early 1990s.

Having been an Iraq invasion hawk well past the point where many moderate Democrats got off the “war” train, Hillary has essentially announced (with her call for keeping combat troops in Iraq to “fight terrorism”) her determination to indefinitely continue the bloody, illegal, racist, mass-murderous, and petro-imperialist occupation of Mesopotamia.   more »

I think it’s always delightfully good to keep in mind that happy note of divine fatalism.

The notion that life is pretty much always, every minute, working very, very hard to kill you. But in a really nice way.

Enjoy it, quietly, slowly, bit by bit and blink by blink and often with a smile and an organic chai tea and a big green salad and a whole steaming pile of free wi-fi at the coffee shop.

There you can post semi-naked pix to your Flickr stream and download the new Radiohead and flirt mightily with the hot barista.

Meanwhile silently sing the praises of a divinely weird, messy, radioactive universe.   more »

Bush's bagman is now preparing the

ideological ground for an attack on Iran.

"Analogies especially with the rise of fascism

can be misleading but, in pure chronology,

I sometimes wonder if we're not in the 1920s,

if not the 1930s, I fear this ideology now has a state

- Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror"

Blair implies Islamo-Fascism, the Neocon mantra

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Keywords: islam, warmonger, blair, fascism, propaganda, iran

Bush wants the world to believe that most of the attacks

on US troops are coming from members of al Qaeda,

but as the film shows, that is far from the case

The insurgents featured in this film are

ordinary citizens who are resisting the occupation

of their country by a foreign army —

which is exactly what Americans would do

were they to suffer the same fate

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Keywords: support, resistance, iraq, occupation