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We all prisoners, chicky-baby. We all locked in.
Coupl’a weirdos, Guinevere.
Baltimore (or should I say, B4LT1M0RE) represent.
Paste: Confess With Thy Mouth: Mountain Goats Frontman Grapples With Faith
The feature I wrote on John Darnielle about his new LP The Life of the World to Come for the November issue of Paste. This was probably one of the best interviews I’ve ever done.
Boston Globe: Afghanistan - the proxy war
Fantastic op-ed by Andrew Bacevich about what’s at stake in the Afghanistan debate, well worth a read.
Belle and Sebastian - “It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career”
A song for graduating at a terrible time, and being interested in one of the least-stable lines of work.
Bunker, a french short film by Paul Doucet. A lil post-apocalyptic grimness to cheer y’all up this morning.
John Darnielle lit it up on the Colbert Report tonight/last night. I get shivers when I hear this song.
He has fixed his sign in the sky / he has raised me from the pit, and set me high
Cobb County student kicked out of school for dressing “too feminine.” You stay classy, Georgia.
As there is no real case against Iran, Obama took a script from Bush’s playbook and fabricated one. First the facts: As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran’s nuclear facilities are open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which carefully monitors Iran’s nuclear energy program to make certain that no material is diverted to nuclear weapons.
The IAEA has monitored Iran’s nuclear energy program and has announced repeatedly that it has found no diversion of nuclear material to a weapons program. All 16 US intelligence agencies have affirmed and reaffirmed that Iran abandoned interest in nuclear weapons years ago.
In keeping with the safeguard agreement that the IAEA be informed before an enrichment facility comes online, Iran informed the IAEA on September 21 that it had a new nuclear facility under construction. By informing the IAEA, Iran fulfilled its obligations under the safeguards agreement. The IAEA will inspect the facility and monitor the nuclear material produced to make sure it is not diverted to a weapons program.
Under the safeguards agreement that Iran has with the IAEA, a nuclear facility is not secret unless Iran completes and operates the facility without informing the IAEA.
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By accusing Iran of having a secret “nuclear weapons program” and demanding that Iran “come clean” about the nonexistent program, adding that he does not rule out a military attack on Iran, Obama mimics the discredited Bush regime’s use of nonexistent Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” to set up Iraq for invasion.
(via CounterPunch)
More excellent work from PCR. Another thing to keep in mind: American foreign policy apparachiks make great hay about how Iran is a fundamentalist Shi’a Muslim state (it is), while conveniently ignoring that their supreme leader has declared nuclear weapons antithetical to Shi’a Islam.
Metallica - “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
Time marches on.
Titus Andronicus - “Titus Andronicus”
There’ll be
No more cigarettes
No more having sex
No more drinking til you fall on the floor
No more indie rock
Just a ticking clock
You have no time for that any more
The C Bump by Rx2008. This guy is great, even if he probably drops too much acid.
