Monday, March 22, 2004
Good morning. I am at work now, so I should have plenty of time to blog. What I can't figure out is how to edit the links on the sidebar or how to have a comments page. This blog is failing, but we will persist until we succeed. By we I mean me, and whoever answers my cries for help at technical support.
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Saturday, March 20, 2004
Jus saw School of Rock. Which it did. Totally. The sequel of course is School of Rock vs. Rock and Roll high School. Joey Ramone played byeee??? Jeff Goldblum? Feh Anyway, a ridiculous idea a School of Rock? Hmmm, check this out.
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Hi. So my next order of business after subjecting people(meaning, I'm sure, no one at this point) to that piece is to figure out how to use this thing. Sidebar links. a comments page, correct grammar, all beyond me as a blogger. But I wanted to blog just to keep in the habit. Something much more interesting in this space later today.
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Friday, March 19, 2004
So I am restarting this blog. I have deleted all the old posts and will start fresh. to briefly recap the old one: I started the blog when I snapped my achilles tendon. I went for about a week, and then stopped when my percocet prescription came through. I will now start again by posting this piece I wrote about Jose Padilla(I'm a comedian, so I wrote it originally for stand-up, but it's not posted here in that form). If you don't remember, (which you might not, it was a while ago) he was a guy who was wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for terrorism. Hope you enjoy.
Jose Padilla
After the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the first thing I did was phone the people I’m closest to, all of them, whether they were at work or at home. Just to make sure they were ok, even though most of them were many miles away from the attack. In the process of doing this, I also did a selfish, suspicious thing. I stopped in the course of one of the conversations to declare that “everyone had better watch out because there go our civil liberties.” Like I’m some sort of insensitive Nostradamus. Just as unfortunate as my making that selfish comment, is its coming true.
There’s a man named Jose Padilla, a Puerto Rican man born in New York, raised in Chicago.
Most of you have probably heard of him. He was involved in the “Dirty Bomb Plot.” Involved as in, someone told him it was possible. The U S government happened to uncover this “plot” around the time they started taking heat for knowing about the probability of hijackings and terrorist attacks over that summer of . Quite coincidentally, I’m sure. As John Ashcroft himself put it when asked about the danger:
“No. There was no way of knowing what would happen, and no, I haven’t flown commercially
since May.”
So this character, a civilian and American citizen, Mr. Padilla, is currently in a military prison because there was not enough evidence to hold him in a civilian one. Yeah, makes sense -- considering that these are drastic times calling for drastic measures, or that the military is where they called the bombing of the Chinese embassy a few years ago a tactical error.
So what we’re basically allowing here is thought police. I understand that people are scared, and this is a retort. Is it a good retort? Personally, the only time I see supporting thought police is if you had
a meeting between Thomas Edison and the Marquis De Sade. That would definitely call for some thought cops.
But, it’s a scary time, and I can see why people might support this idea. However, the two top thought cops, George W and Ashcroft, couldn’t get themselves arrested for possession.
My girlfriend tried to defend Attny. Gen. Ashcroft. She said, “No he’s not stupid. He has thoughts; they’re just evil.”
I thought, “that’s a good point.” But then again, this is a man who spent almost ten thousand dollars on drapes, which he then used to cover up a statue’s tits. That’s fuckin’ stupid.
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Jose Padilla
After the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the first thing I did was phone the people I’m closest to, all of them, whether they were at work or at home. Just to make sure they were ok, even though most of them were many miles away from the attack. In the process of doing this, I also did a selfish, suspicious thing. I stopped in the course of one of the conversations to declare that “everyone had better watch out because there go our civil liberties.” Like I’m some sort of insensitive Nostradamus. Just as unfortunate as my making that selfish comment, is its coming true.
There’s a man named Jose Padilla, a Puerto Rican man born in New York, raised in Chicago.
Most of you have probably heard of him. He was involved in the “Dirty Bomb Plot.” Involved as in, someone told him it was possible. The U S government happened to uncover this “plot” around the time they started taking heat for knowing about the probability of hijackings and terrorist attacks over that summer of . Quite coincidentally, I’m sure. As John Ashcroft himself put it when asked about the danger:
“No. There was no way of knowing what would happen, and no, I haven’t flown commercially
since May.”
So this character, a civilian and American citizen, Mr. Padilla, is currently in a military prison because there was not enough evidence to hold him in a civilian one. Yeah, makes sense -- considering that these are drastic times calling for drastic measures, or that the military is where they called the bombing of the Chinese embassy a few years ago a tactical error.
So what we’re basically allowing here is thought police. I understand that people are scared, and this is a retort. Is it a good retort? Personally, the only time I see supporting thought police is if you had
a meeting between Thomas Edison and the Marquis De Sade. That would definitely call for some thought cops.
But, it’s a scary time, and I can see why people might support this idea. However, the two top thought cops, George W and Ashcroft, couldn’t get themselves arrested for possession.
My girlfriend tried to defend Attny. Gen. Ashcroft. She said, “No he’s not stupid. He has thoughts; they’re just evil.”
I thought, “that’s a good point.” But then again, this is a man who spent almost ten thousand dollars on drapes, which he then used to cover up a statue’s tits. That’s fuckin’ stupid.
