First off, and in non-facial hair interests, for a "searchable database of Congressional voting records from a Progressive perspective," go to
http://www.progressivepunch.org/
Now down to business:
Facial Topiary in general.Mustaches: Dali mustaches, Hungarian mustaches, handlebar mustaches, imperial mustaches, Pancho Villa mustaches, horseshoe mustaches, walrus mustaches, pencil mustaches (aka the John Waters), the GG mustache, chevron mustaches, lampshade mustaches, painter's brush mustaches, the Zappa, the Rollie Fingers, the Pi, etc...
Mustache competitions, mustache parties, mustache wax, mustache brushes, mustache combs, mustache scissors, mustache cups, mustache nets, mustache marches, mustache leagues, mustache culture, mustache rights, mustache rides, mustache nicknames like pushbroom, soupstrainer, cookieduster, nose neighbor, flavor saver, mouth brow, nose beard...
Flavor saving, upper lip warmth...
Besides a roid-raging Jesus, I'd really like to meet Bill Moyers and the obviously excellent folks at the American News Project
This is the greatest thing I've seen in a long, long time.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is legit:
Cecil Taylor
Create Your Own!
This link is to an incredible list, and the movies are all available for viewing.
Midnight Movies
Create Your Own!
Public television. PBS and LinkTV.The only bearable regular television I can consume comes from Stewart and Colbert.Mostly my favorites are all old, cancelled shows like HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David, Wondershowzen and Home Movies.
Create Your Own!
"If to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy and every species of hereditary government - to lessen the oppression of taxes - to propose plans for the education of helpless infancy, and the comfortable support of the aged and distressed - to endeavor to conciliate nations to each other - to extirpate the horrid practice of war - to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce - and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; - if these things be libellous, let me live the life of a libeller, and let the name of libeller be engraven on my tomb!"
-Thomas Paine
Carl Sagan:
"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces... I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)