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The Final Bush Legacy? TVA Sludge Spill.

• Republicans are so dumb that they are closing off subway stops and major Washington streets on Inaugeration Day making it difficult to attend the ceremonies. Since only Republicans would be interested in attending, they've only penalized themselves.
• Fixing Social Security: The cure.
• In his first term, President Bush assumed extraordinary powers with the compliance of a Republican Congress: signing statements, executive privilege, upsetting the balance of powers between the three branches of government, obstruction of justice, misuse of authority, ignore checks and balances that were set up in the Constitution. He used the fear and anger after 9-11 to do it.

Terrorist Alert!

• Public Reaction
• Civil defense of the '50's reinstated. Duct tape not required. Are you too young to have heard the Civil Defense answer to a nuclear attack? Here it is: the infamous "Duck and Cover".

September 11 : Shock, grief, fear, and patriotism, but already the beginnings of hypocrisy.

Taking advantage of the situation, within hours some gas stations raised their prices to $5.00 a gallon. Within days, the already failing airlines whined to the government to bail them out for their losses. Public outrage brought gas prices back to merely exorbitant, but 6 months later they rose again for absolutely no excuse.

• Awkward attempt to shame Saddam Hussein
• Why Terrorism Works
• Londoners Avenge Tube Bombings
• Carpe Dementia
• The Trashing of the Constitution
• Rumors
• Terrorist in a Box
• Profiteering
• Where's the money? Huge amounts of money are being contributed to the Red Cross and taken in by celebrity concerts. But is it "going to the victims"?
• Unofficial support from Israel
• New/old war?
• Let's go to war. Why not?
• Patriotic Spending A remarkably rational analysis in the Washington Post.
• Biological Warfare (fiction, so far)
• A New Urban Legend The ll letter coincidence
• TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell Would you believe what he's said now?
• Anthrax Source Discovered

The Osama Tapes: These audio tapes were retrieved by courageous HT journalists from a remote palace in Saudi Arabia. Analysts surmise that, like Richard Nixon, Osama had his conversations recorded for historic purposes or perhaps for his memoirs.

Political cartoons

Endangered Species	Mount Rushmore
Teletubbies	Don't worry. Be happy.
Parade Magazine's World's Worst Dictators	Ambassador John Bolton
What? Me Worry?

Rantings and Ravings

• Dilbertisms:
• DC Statehood
• Ethnic Humor (March 26, 1998)
• Rant of the Day (October 12, 1997)
• Scam Spam and Pornography on the Internet
• For Techies Only
• 1996 Darwin Awards
• Quiz
• New Vicious, but accurate commentary on Desktop Publishing
• Comic Section Warning. These comics are scanned from previously copied comics.
• More Comics
• And Yet More Comics
• The Melting Pot No Longer Bubbles.
• Blame it on SUVs, regardless of the facts.
• Ann Coulter: is this the best spokesperson the radical right can offer?

Arcade Game Reviews

• Gang Warfare, hot new electronic game with social significance.

Computer Greeting Cards

Computer Cards

Alien Song (MPG -- takes awhile to download, but it's worth it. Unzip it, and run the .exe file. (It runs on any media player.)

Book, Movie, and TV Reviews

• Steven Spielburg's Taken: Review of the maxi-series on SciFi channel, including the ending if you don't want to watch the whole 20 hours.
• TrafficThe War on Drugs Hypocrisy
• An American Tragedy The TV Movie OJ Didn't Want You to See.
• What do Kevin Costner movies have in common?
• Wild sociopaths in South Florida Review of a novel by Carl Hiaasen
• Millenium What will the next millenium bring? 1000 years of the same old crap.
• TV Mini-Serious, Asteroid reviewed by Cisco and Bert
• Darth Vader Decloaked by some guy I never heard of
• Cracker. Or Crackers?

Miscellaneous

• Elian
• DC Cops, the Blue Blues
• FLASH Those devious, sly, and comical world wide web tricksters have done it again. Make a mistake in The Whitehouse URL and you'll end up at whitehouse.com. Guess what that web site content is. Here comes Janet Reno.

Hypocrites of the 20th Century

• Hypocrisy Today's Man of the Year (1998) Award
• Hypocrisy Today's Man of the Year Award for 2006.
• Unsung villains who have changed history.
  *Now accepting nominees for 1999 Man of the Year
  **Previous Man of the Year Awards

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