Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I just took this photo about fifteen minutes ago. I'll post more tonight maybe as I figure out where I'm headed and all… It's still a mystery but I hope it's settled soon. I do have some more stamps on my passport though, after a lengthy period of interrogation that is.

It's hard to totally follow the news, but I thought that this article (click) about how war costs due to long-term damage to gear are much higher than reported was interesting, and that this article (click) on the over six thousand Americans that have been evacuated for medical reasons from Iraq was very sad… Both because it's not cool to see young people getting their legs blown off, and it's because it's not cool to hide that from the American people.

Oh, and Atrios caught this crazy quote from Ann Coulter that I thought was pretty funny:

On the basis of their recent pronouncements, the position of the Democratic Party seems to be that Saddam Hussein did not hit us on 9-11, but Halliburton did.

Um… Everyone (well, 30% of Americans these days, and 100% of the rest of the world) know that Saddam Hussein didn't do the 9-11 strikes. Whether ones believes it was Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, or some grand conspiracy, it was most definitely not Iraq. There's not a shred of evidence for that, and there never has been.

Coulter of course knows this as well, so one has to ask why she would make such a statement — the answer is simple: because current neo-con strategy is to redefine truth and history for that percentage of people who are too stupid to be able to understand it… The people who don't believe the obvious lies, well, they just don't count I guess.

After all, this is a democracy. If there are more stupid people than there are smart people (which statistically should be true), perhaps it is good strategy to characterize the intelligent as kooks, and market solely to the ignorant?

I think everyone knows about the $200 bill story now, but The Smoking Gun managed to get a picture of it… Come on! I can't see even the dumbest person falling for this. I mean, it's a picture of George Bush, and the White House has signs on the front lawn like “We Like Broccoli” and “No More Scandals”.

Anyway, I can't imagine that there's an explanation other than the person who passed the bill being a friend of the teller…

I have discovered that people like my posts more if I preface them with some sort of classic quote… and not the liberty kind — I'm talking about the kind that makes you remember when you were young enough that your biggest problems didn't involve the apocalypse.

In terms of my previous question, I think maybe that the most economical solution will be to use one computer as a mixer, that will generate output containing the music, mic, and telephone. This will feed to a second computer which will stream to the Shoutcast server… That would cost me very little to set up, so maybe it's the best solution?

Well, don't mess with the bull young man, you'll get the horns.