2:53 pm CDT
More on the Philip K. Dick Android

Photos of PKD's Head Under Construction

Official Website of the PKD Android

2:51 pm CDT
The War on the Middle Class

Supreme Court: Cities May Seize Homes to Benefit Wealthy Developers

2:50 pm CDT
Taser Report

Texas:
Police Taser Man to Death for Staying in a Closet

West Virginia:
Police Taser Senile, Frightened 82-Year-Old Man

Arizona:
Police Taser Handcuffed Suspect

1:48 pm CDT
The Simulacra



I have this uneasy feeling that when the Philip K. Dick android is unveiled in Chicago this weekend, he will tell us he did not really die in 1982, but rather, wrote a novel in which he died and was later resurrected as an android. Everyone will get a big laugh out of this, but the laughter will die out when a large object suddenly covers the sun and we realize it is a giant book cover closing down on us ...

An Android-Portrait of Philip K. Dick

(Link found via bOING-bOING.)

3:39 pm CDT
Two Dubyas for the Price of One

Rigorous Intuition: Doppelganger?

2:24 pm CDT
Ripped from Today's Headlines

More proof that Penn (of Penn and Teller) is full of bullshit when he says the government doesn't care enough to spy on you:

Feds Collect Data on Air Travelers

FBI trawls libraries for terrorist readers

2:0 5 pm CDT
Another Disinfomercial from Penn and Teller

In a recent segment of their bullshit show, Penn and Teller enumerate the dangers of the Patriot Act. This is of course commendable. However, a few minutes into the segment, Penn (who supports the official versions of the JFK assassination and 9/11) characterizes the passage of the Patriot Act as the result of "incompetence" on the part of Congress, rather than something more sinister, and at the end of the segment assures us that "America is really safe and your government probably doesn't care enough to spy on you"--a readily verifiable untruth.

See the segment HERE if you have time to waste ... on bullshit.

5:51 pm CDT
Bullshit

Cranky the Clown has a few things to say about Penn and Teller's "disinfomercial" Bullshit. Read it HERE.

5:49 pm CDT
The Downing Street Memo

Classic Bait and Switch Enacted As Downing Street Memos Called Possible Hoax

5:47 pm CDT
Taser Report

Rush's Alex Lifeson Recounts Graphic Details of Police Altercation

Quote: "The legal action we are embarking on now will hopefully bring attention to the fact that people cannot and should not be treated this way. I was fortunate to have the resources and will to fight to the end, but there are many who don't and they will forever suffer from the forced compromise of an unfair plea bargain or the threat of sentencing guidelines that demand imprisonment, that hang over one's head like the sword of Damocles ..."

9:51 am CST
A Good Start

House Votes To Curb Patriot Act: FBI's Power to Seize Library Records Would Be Halted.

9:25 am CST
The Downing Street Memo

John Conyers' hearing on the Downing Street Memo will begin today at 2 pm Eastern Time / 1 pm Central / 12 pm Mountain / 11 am Pacific. It can be heard live HERE.

12:28 pm CST
Fourth Reich News



New Bill Could Make Bush President for Life

Former Bush Admin Economist Says Official Story of WTC Collapse 'Bogus'

8:32 pm CDT
Taser Report

Las Vegas: Man Dies after Police Use Taser

Florida Investigating Death of Man Zapped with Taser

Central Texas Man Dies after Officers Use Taser

Lorain (Ohio) Police Use Taser on Second Child in Week

There is a dreary sameness to the above reports. Cops Tasering people to death, cops Tasering children, etc. etc. Therefore, it is refreshing to discover a new trend in Taser reports: Cops Tasering each other:

Miami-Dade Officer Accidentally Zaps Partner with Taser During Scuffle

Officer Quits after Florida Taser Incident

8:32 pm CDT
SOS ... SOS ... SOS ...

Stop Congress from restricting your access to dietary supplements):

Save Our Supplements

2:30 pm CDT


Military Draft Back on US Agenda

Congress Ready to Resurrect Draft

2:27 CDT
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

"A series of standards and guidelines are being readied and ratified which, one by one, are intended to remove our health rights and freedoms to choose anything but pharmaceutical medicine and poisoned foods of big agriculture (pesticide/herbicide-ridden foods and foods with genetically modified organisms) ..."

Health Freedom USA

Daily CODEX Update Blog

12:32 pm CDT


Now that I've got my priorities straight, I'm going to start posting all the latest links on the Michael Jackson trial. I realize it's a bit late, considering that the trial is almost over. But what the hell, better late than never.

My first link, appropriately, concerns the sheer size of the media coverage of this historic trial. To be exact, there are presently 2,200 journalists awaiting the verdict. It is believed that this is "the largest-ever media contingent for a criminal trial," surpassing even the O. J. Simpson and Scott Peterson trials in its importance to humanity.

Meanwhile, for those of you still curious about the trivial stories not being covered by those 2,200 "journalists," here's a website you might find interesting:

The Downing Street Memo

8:55 pm CDT
Important News by the Numbers (continued)

This just in: Paris Hilton (3,870 Google news search results) is thirteen times more important than depleted uranium (320 Google news search results). It is a good thing I discovered Google News Search; now I can re-prioritize my entire life and be so much happier.

3:45 pm CDT
Important News by the Numbers

Hey, boys and girls, here's a game you can play that's fun and educational!

It will teach you all about numbers and how they reveal the importance of different news stories.

The premise is very simple: The more coverage a news story receives, the more important it is. Does this make sense to you? It makes sense to me.

Let's get started.

First, you must determine how much coverage a story is receiving. How do you do this?

Well, you could go through each newspaper in the world and count all the stories. But that would be difficult and would take a very long time.

Fortunately, thanks to the Internet, there is a much easier and faster way: the Google news search!

Here's how you do it. Do a Google news search under any topic of your choosing, then write down the number of results for each topic.

Today (6/10/05), let's start by doing a Google search of H.R. 1528, the "anti-drug" legislation introduced by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI); this yields 16 results.

Next, let's do a Google search of famous movie star Russell Crowe; this yields 3,310 results.

What does this tell us? It tells us that news stories about Russell Crowe, who made headlines this past week by throwing a telephone at a hotel concierge, are more important than news stories about H.R. 1528, the Stalinist legislation that would force American citizens to snitch on their friends and family members.

Now, to determine with mathematical precision just how much more important the Russell Crowe story is than H.R. 1528, get out your calculators and divide 3,310 by 16; this produces a quotient of 206.875 = 207.

What does this mean? This means that famous movie star Russell Crowe's temper tantrum is 207 times more important than H.R. 1528.

Wasn't that fun, boys and girls? And educational, too!

Let's do a few more Google news searches and see what we can learn about the world we live in.

A search of Downing Street Memo yields 756 results.

A search of military draft yields 4,310 results.

A search of roadside bombs in Iraq, which are the number one killer of the troops (today, 6/10/05, five Marines were killed), yields 11,400 results.

A search of famous pop star Michael Jackson (whose trial for child molestation has made headlines for many months) yields 40,300 results.

Which proves mathematically that the child molestation trial of Michael Jackson is three-and-a-half times more important than the slaughter in Iraq, nine-and-a-half times more important than the possibility of America's youth being drafted to die in that slaughter, and 53-and-half-times more important than the fact that the entire slaughter is based on lies.

Now, don't you feel better knowing these Fun Facts?

(NOTE: Search results change by the minute; therefore, the above numbers will not be accurate after the time this blog entry was written. Therefore, it is suggested that you keep track of newer search results of these topics. You'll have great fun watching the Michael Jackson story become more important by the minute!)