Benjamin Maurice Melançon the First, A.D.H.D. variously known as BMM Inc., the Maurice Institute Library, and the godfather of CATSUP, is quite possibly a figment of his own imagination.
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Will (the powers behind) Bush cancel the 2008 election?

It's a question that has to be asked, and perhaps, in the asking, make it less likely to happen...

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2722

Impeach Cheney: On the Congressional Record, this time.

http://www.democrats.com/impeach-cheney-congressional-record

Impeach George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, and anyone else impeachable in the present illegitimate regime for war crimes, violating the constitution repeatedly, and for refusing to be accountable by any other means (including elections, since they are part of a major disenfranchisement and probably vote fraud effort).

Good advice

I don't remember if Dad initiated the outing, or if he came along, but one of the shows he went to with the family was a trio doing Allen Sherman songs.

(Dad I think was less likely to go to plays and shows, though one thing he made a point to do was take all of us sons at various times to both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Pops.)

The group did amazing work with a piano where Allen Sherman had a small orchestra backing him up.

Fluff media as pornography crowding out real news, a counterpoint: breaking the barrier between news and reality

Bob McCannon posted to the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) discussion list Robert Lipsyte's commentary in USA Today, A different type of porn: The Four F's — Food, Fashion, Fitness and Finances — masquerade as news, blotting out information we really need. (One post appeared to attribute the article to Kevin Taglang, and I made that mistake in my original post; this is corrected below.)

Half a brain

Usual assessment of my, others', and occasionally his own capabilities:

If you had half a brain, you'd be dangerous.

On stigma, food, and politics

I got to thinking (frightening, I know) because of this broadside reposted to the Food Not Bombs discussion list by Erich:

[According to the Terra Bite Cafe (http://www.terrabite.org/) in Kirkland, WA]

Tom Ashbrook, consigned to Hell?

The question is whether Tom Ashbrook, of NPR's "On Point," is consigned to go to hell when he dies, or is already broadcasting from hell.

So he's reporting that McCain is in trouble. Ashbrook decides this not because of any issue or political stance, but because McCain's campaign is reportedly low on money.

So who's going to benefit from this, Tom asks his guest. Guliani?

Only idle talkers regard the state as a thing one can smash

So I was thinking about how immigrants today bring some much-needed radical understanding and practices, and then thinking about how this has always been true, and then I asked myself, and the Internet, what happened to the anarchist jews?

And wow, I didn't answer that question but I came across some of the most important words I ever read, written one hundred years ago, in 1907:

SaveTheInternet.com Message to the FCC

http://www.savetheinternet.com/yourstory

Titled mine: For the sake of the United States

And billing myself as an Entrepreneur on their drop-down list, wrote:

For freedom, for creativity, for commerce, for prosperity: keep internet equality, the net neutrality provision.

Impeach Cheney

http://impeachcheney.org/petition.php

And Bush. And Rove, if he even has an impeachable position. He can just be charged with ordinary criminal stuff, right?

Lying to start a war alone counts in the old high crimes spot. Signing statements and other attempts to dismantle constitutional government is evidently why impeachment is in the constitution in the first place: to protect the constitution.

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