2006 January | buzz twang

Shine a light…

January 29, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Last night I watched The Boys from Brazil on TMC. It’s one of a few movies that truly scare me that I can watch over and over again. Gregory Peck puts in a fantasically maniacal, evil and paranoid performance as Josef Mengele, the Auzchwitz “doctor” who experimented upon children, poisoning them to test their immunity [...]

One reason I love the internets…

January 28, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

…among many reasons… You’re a fan of The Beatles. You haven’t seen Let it Be the documentary in over twenty years. It hasn’t been generally available on VHS for that time, and what copies one can find are kept tight and safe by collectors, and it has yet to be either rereleased in theaters or [...]

Controlling the World, Transcending the World

January 28, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Probably won’t be posting that much over the weekend. Some stuff I’ll be reading though: Via the Poor Man, an article on No Quarter entitled Why We Can’t Nab Bin Laden by Larry Johnson. The BBC has a report on the “Information Operations Roadmap” which… …calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military’s ability to [...]

Miserable Failure: The Sequel

January 28, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

It takes awhile for some realities to sink in. Case in point: Majority in U.S. Say Bush Presidency Is a Failure, Poll Finds Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — A majority of Americans said the presidency of George W. Bush has been a failure and that they would be more likely to vote for congressional candidates who [...]

The War on Constitutional Rights

January 27, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

The United States is headed for a serious Consititutional showdown over the NSA FISA wiretapping scandal. The White House is attempting to spin and twist it into all kinds of pretzel, from stating that only international calls were tapped (which has yet to be proved) to outright assertins that the President has the right to [...]

Increasing traffic and other business…

January 27, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

In an effort to increase traffic to this site, I’ve been reading a great deal of articles on how to do that and been getting good advice from a few fellow bloggers who’ve been successful at it. One of the larger problems I have is that the links to this site are a mess. There [...]

THE TRIANGLE: Matthews, Moore, Murtha, and the Media

January 27, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

As Avedon notes, everyone is talking about Peter Daou’s post yesterday. An excerpt: What’s the common thread running through the past half-decade of Bush’s presidency? What’s the nexus between the Swift-boating of Kerry, the Swift-boating of Murtha, and the guilt-by-association between Democrats and terrorists? Why has a seemingly endless string of administration scandals faded into [...]

American Jesus

January 26, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

I don’t need to be a global citizenbecause i’m blessed by nationalityi’m member of a growing populacewe enforce our popularitythere are things thatseem to pull us underand there are thingsthat drag us downbut there’s a powerand a vital presencethats lurking all aroundwe’ve got the american Jesussee him on the interstatewe’ve got the american Jesushe helped [...]

Brokeback Mountain a failure at the Box Office?

January 26, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

James Joyner at Outside the Beltway makes the fatal mistake of using Mark Tapscott as a factual source in order to get in a few anti-Hollywood points and call “Brokeback Mountain” a failure: Mark Tapscott notes that, despite incredible publicity and critical acclaim, neither gay cowboy movie “Brokeback Mountain” nor George Clooney’s “”Blood for Oil” [...]

World’s Smallest Political Quiz

January 25, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Don’t really think that you can sum up someone’s perspectives so easily. But, these type of tests are always fun.Try it yourself. (Thanks JKF) buzz-twang : news and views : blog

The 4th Amendment and Technology

January 25, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

The Poor Man hits it on the head. Go read the entire thing, but the final graph nails it: There is NO WAY for this to be constitutional. The 4th amendment, contra Gen. Hayden, clearly specifies “probable cause”, and there simply is no way to meet that standard with this kind of program. Which would [...]