I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. . .
So begins, arguably, one of the greatest American poems written in the last 100 [...]
The Daily Mail is reporting today that thousands have been massacred in Burma over the weekend, and that there is little hope left for the Burmese people. The repressive regime has deployed over 20,000 troops in Rangoon and has been performing mass arrests and killings, dumping the bodies in the jungle. Ko Htike has been [...]
I have written several times in the past about AT&T’s questionable treatment of content in order to further their own business agenda. Now comes word that AT&T is officially enshrining their policies in their Terms of Service agreement with AT&T users. As Slashdot reported a few days ago, the updated ToS includes the following [...]
The Iraqi government said today that it would revoke the license of the private security firm BlackwaterUSA, due to the reckless actions of its employees. Blackwater is is best known for supplying the contractors who were killed in Fallujah — an event which sparked a major siege of the city costing thousands of lives. Lesser [...]
Ok, not quite that bad, but close. The David Horowitz Center for Freedom is sponsoring Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week on college campuses throughout the country in October. According to their guide this will be the “biggest conservative campus protest ever.” — meaning more then 100 people will participate.
The organizing guide for the event makes the agenda [...]
Oh, this is great. Earlier this year, Christopher Knight made a video to promote his run for the Board of Education in Rockingham County, NC. He posted his video to you-tube, and because it was clever and funny it got a lot of attention. VH-1 decided to include Mr. Knight’s video in it’s Web Junk [...]
It has become the worn cliché of our times to express one’s disbelief in the ineptitude and corruption of our government or its officials. The very idea that the government should aid its neediest citizens has become a nostalgic dream — a tail handed down from past generations. Two years ago this week, hurricane [...]
