Gerbil's Giant Gumball Gumbo

Interview With The Slip

The GOP's Sabotage of Social Security

The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus

WIDESPREAD PANIC ANNOUNCE THEIR RETURN

RHAPSODY PLAYLIST FOR DECEMBER 20, 2004

These Three Words-Stevie Wonder-At The Close Of The Century
Live-Bob Marley & The Wailers-Original Cuts
Freakin' Disco-John Scofield Band-Up All Night
Just Like A Woman-Jeff Buckley-Live At Sin-e
Chained and Bound-Otis Redding-Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology
The Black Angel's Death Song-Velvet Underground-Peel Slowly And See
Music Lesson(Music Gonna Teach)-Bob Marley & The Wailers-Grooving Kingston 12(The JAD Masters 1970-72)
Knock On Wood-Otis Redding-Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding
Paranoid-Grand Funk Railroad-Trunk Of Funk
Earth Blues-Jimi Hendrix-Live At The Fillmore East
Song-The Slip-08.29.2003-Bumbershoot Festival-Seattle, Washington

The War on What, Exactly?:

"Setting aside the political and practical merit of the president's definition of the war on terror, the important question here is should the media, as custodians of the public discourse, have immediately pressed the president to sharpen his definition? On a certain level the answer is unequivocally yes. Slogans like the 'war on terror' are carefully crafted political bumper stickers developed by politicians to generate support for their policies. Think of the 'death tax,' No Child Left Behind, or the Healthy Forest initiative. The political significance of these phrases is hard to overstate. It's reasonable to ask, for instance, that if the war on terror had been called the war on Islamic extremism, would the American public have supported the invasion of a country, like Iraq, with a secular government? Similarly, had it been called the war for global democracy, would the Patriot Act have become law? What if it hadn't been called a war at all? Journalists, in other words, must resist employing political jargon--it tends to shortcut analysis in favor of mobilization."

Fly Through Your Computer

John Perry Barlow loses legal challenge of luggage search

t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | The Greene County Lockdown:

"Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. made the point that we must have a standardized national voting process and take the matter out of the hands of individual states, which can keep the process 'separate and unequal.' We must have a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. How can people argue that the right to own a gun is explicitly stated in the constitution, and then turn around and say it is acceptable to have the right to vote only be 'implicit' in the constitution?"