…One Less Scene

 
There’s a Noam Chomsky video from an earlier post in which he talks about the guarded, narrow scope of content on public radio. I’ve seen “Manufacturing Consent”, but I’d never noticed how disappointingly lame “To The Point” and “Morning Edition” really were until the coverage of this current situation with Israel. Yesterday I heard a [...]

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I’m not the first person to draw a historical parallel between the plight of the Palestinians and the American Indian, but it is ironic that today is the 118th anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, in which U.S. troops murdered over 300 men, women, and children in the snow in North Dakota; and in [...]

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It’s interesting how much media attention Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme has attracted. Sure it’s the biggest fraud in history, but there’s so much more to it. I had to look up what “Ponzi scheme” even means on wikipedia, here’s how they defined it:
“A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that involves paying abnormally high returns to investors out of [...]

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The Real Change Organizing Project arranged a camp out last night on the Seattle City Hall property, with a Survival Gear Swap planned for 7:00 this morning. The action was to bring awareness to the city’s sweeps of homeless encampments, which are unbelievably heartless in these sub-freezing temperatures. Ironically, no one at Real Change was [...]

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I mentioned in a previous post that my co-worker Lee rides in all types of weather, and this week’s snow and ice are no exception. Lee bought a set of self-tapping tire studs from Aerostich that he screwed into the tread of his tires, and he’s been riding in the snow for two days. Yesterday [...]

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This ‘93 325is, a finely engineered German sports coupe, had an exhaust leak, so it sounded like a 1982 Buick LeSabre. I tried to fix it in a number of ways before finally buying an entirely new (used) full exhaust system, from an M3.  This post is to simply remind myself of how much this [...]

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Hey, editors at Time Magazine: want us to start reading your ridiculous, crappy propaganda rag? Here’s how: put a photo of Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at president Bush, on the cover of the next issue with the words “MAN OF THE YEAR!” at the bottom. This man has the style, heroism [...]

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Even though there have been record-breaking numbers of people listening to the Marketplace host’s weird lisp, NPR announced they’re still pulling the plug on several shows and laying off a bunch of people. Corporate donors must think that Morning Edition has gotten a little too radical, because NPR’s corporate funding has been drying up. [...]

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It’s kind of funny that when American university students refer to “Greek life”, they’re talking about date rape and beer bongs, while actual Greek university students are throwing paving stones at cop cars. 

The riots in 10 major Greek cities this week are pretty amazing; watching some of the videos on Youtube, I can almost smell [...]

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There were so many accidents today that I feel like buying a lottery ticket.
First, while making a right turn onto fourth avenue from Seneca street at about 2 p.m., I was nearly tagged by a teenager in a Toyota Four-Runner from another lane. I had to pitch my bike over to the left so hard [...]

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