Operation Hey Mackey! - Whole Foods, Oakland

Check out this wonderful, militant, musical, humorous attack on the greed and hypocrisy of Whole Foods!

A Farewell Salute

Too bad Blogger has awkwardly cropped this and other images, at least on my browser ... click on the cartoon to see the original.

on procrastination

I CAN DO ONLY ONE THING AT A TIME, BUT I CAN AVOID DOING MANY THINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY.


one of Ashleigh Brilliant's "Pot Shots," as seen on ashleighbrilliant.com


( which I am posting, of course, on the last day of the academic quarter, when I should be working on final papers ... )

No We Can't, White Folks

Now that Obama has won, here are five things white people shouldn't do ...

Click to read this from Christopher Beam & Chris Wilson on TheRoot.com.

If the candiates were trains ...

Ferocious Attack Kitten

My internet dependency seems a veritable addiction at times, like right now, when I decided to look at "just one more thing" before bed - the Best of Craigslist.

I'm glad I did.

[click headline to see why.]

Cheat Neutral: just as great as carbon offsets.

Some clever Brits have taken the concept of carbon offsets -- people paying a voluntary fee for their "carbon footprint" so that carbon emissions will be reduced somewhere else -- and applied it to the ethics of cheating on your partner.

[Click on the headline to see how it all works]

The Mouth Revolution

the Gringo-thon

A friend just turned me on to this short movie, Gringotón (Gringo-thon), both an amusing spoof on Mexicans' and Americans' perceptions of each other and a biting critique of U.S. militarism. Check it out, if you are amused by the idea of a gringo washing windshields and selling chewing gum in Mexico City to raise money for an armed insurrection against Bush ...

"Language Burier": Why English should the the official language of the U.S.

[ if you're aghast that I should post such a thing, here's a hint: it's a video from Comedy Central ]

Stephen Colbert's guts and glory

I can't think of any other moment in Bush Jr.'s presidency when anyone criticized him to his face for more than 30 seconds. Here, he is seared, roasted, basted, turned on the spit and served with an apple in his mouth. A very satisfying counterpunch to the years of murderous lies.

The truthiness hurts | Salon.com

Stephen Colbert's brilliant performance unplugged the Bush myth machine -- and left the clueless D.C. press corps gaping.

Some gallows humor about "Homeland Security"

Talking Turkey

The Story of How the Unofficial Bird of the United States Got Named After a Country