There has been a work stoppage in the porn industry after 2 actors tested positive for HIV. 45 actors are now under voluntary quarantine. Sad. I guess in that industry it’s always a risk, but there is so much opportunity to spread the virus to so many different people.
Archive for April, 2004
So funny. Like Queer Eye, but with Rush Limbaugh instead of Carson and Pat Buchanan instead of Thom.
Wow. Did you know Bush has spent 500 days or 40% of his presidency on vacation? The article seems also suggests that this fondness for leisure has led to him being less than in-touch with important issues, say like 9/11.
A writing student at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco was expelled for writing a violent story and the suspension of a teacher for assigning her students to read a violent story. Here is an article from sfgate.com on the background.
This is just one more example of how ridiculous this country has become in terms of censorship. Thank you, Janet Jackson, and your stupid nipple. And what good does it do to immediately kick the kid out of school, instead of maybe calling him in for a talk about what his motivations were for writing such a violent story? Does that really require expulsion? We’ve become so reactionary - violent story obviously = bad/dangerous kid who needs to be removed from all the nice normal kids who aren’t writing violent stories. Gimme a break. [link via reenhead]
This is a great article from Common Dreams about Bush’s press conference last night.
George Bush’s press conference on April 13 was a scary performance.
Not because his second sentence was ungrammatical: “This has been tough weeks in that country.”
Not because he pronounced “instigated” as “instikated” in his fourth sentence.
Not because he said Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of State.
Not because of his foolish comment that before 9/11 “we assumed oceans would protect us.” (Ever since the Russians built their first ICBMs fifty years ago, the oceans haven’t protected us.)
Not because he said of the August 6 briefing, “Frankly, I didn’t think it was anything new”!
Not because he said that even if he had known beforehand that Iraq did not have WMD stockpiles, he still would have gone to war against Saddam Hussein.
Not because he had no coherent answer as to why Dick Cheney must hold his hand when he testifies to the 9/11 commission.
Not because he said that no one in his Administration had “any indication that bin Laden might hijack an airplane and run it into a building,” when in fact, at the Genoa G-8 summit, there were precautions taken against incoming airplanes as missiles.
And not because he repeatedly refused to take a shred of personal responsibility for allowing the 9/11 attacks to happen on his watch.
No, his performance was scary because he plunged the United States deeper into a no-win war in Iraq.
“We will finish the job of the fallen,” he said.
Yeesh.
