The U.S. military announced the death of the 100th service member killed in combat this month.

“The white American's children and adults I met attacked me with verbal “kindness,” not verbal cruelty. But it was no less hurtful or damaging. Their branding came in the form of adjectives, not nouns---special, exceptional, different, exotic. These words, which flowed so freely from the lips of teachers, parents, and fellow students, were intended to excuse me from my race, to cage me like some zoo animal being domesticated; these words, I realized years later, were intended to absolve those white people from their own racism. I was among the black people to whom many white people were referring when they said, “some of my best friends…” I was complimented for not talking like “them,” not looking like “them”---“them” being black Americans, the only other physical reflections I had of myself besides my family. But, of course, that wasn’t acceptance; it was tolerance."

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama “Half & Half.”

Brian Jonestown Massacre just keeps getting better!

So it looks like we're going to be in Iraq until 2010, and now we have North Korea threatening atomic warfare, not to mention the constant threats of terrorism here in the States. Gotta love Bush and the Republicans!

I'm moving to Switzerland.

Stay away from those fucking bags of Spinach!

Oh, yeah, why are we still in Iraq again?

Travis Barker is a punk.

Evangelists!

Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that helped CEMENT the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen the understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars.

Evangelists! Your time is up!