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Dave

Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen? - Brother Maynard

About Me

I'm old and uncool, but I have a cool daughter. I have a disease, but it doesn't have me. scleroderma.org
"My Story"

My Interests

Music, books, politics, movies

I'd like to meet:

Jack Black, Jack White, Thom Yorke, Bjork, Howard Dean

Newer stuff:

Is it art? Some of the strange things that live in my brain:

Sometimes, faces emerge when I'm not expecting company

Bill Maher on Valerie Plame

Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Homer takes a trip

Praise Bob!

Music:

Mike Keneally, Radiohead, Tool, White Stripes, Bjork, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Beatles, David Bowie, Corrosion Of Conformity, Dead Meadow, The Who, Bob Dylan, and on and on..

Movies:

Clerks, Blue Velvet, Seven Samurai

Television:

The Simpsons, Remember Twin Peaks? Six Feet Under, Arrested Development

Books:

Dune, anything by Neil Gaiman, The Silmarillion, Lord Of The Rings, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, David Sedaris, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Maguire, Ray Bradbury, P.G. Wodehouse, Isaac Asimov, Christopher Moore, Clive Barker, Douglas Adams, Alan Dean Foster, Umberto Eco, T.H. White, Dan Simmons, Jasper Fforde, Amy Tan, George R. R. Martin, David Mitchell, Etgar Keret, Norman Mailer, Stephen R. Donaldson

Heroes:

Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, FDR, Harry Truman, Emily

My Blog

A small scale act of terrorism

About a week ago, my wife and I purchased a Barack Obamayard sign and put it on our front lawn. This morning, as she was pulling out of the driveway onher way to work, my wife realized the sign was go...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:33:00 PST

The war on drugs

We're loosing. 40 years ago, we decided to start a war against our own citizens. Mostly poor people. Instead of helping them overcome their addictions, and fix the problems that lead to drug abuse in ...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:14:00 PST

New job!

No, not me (far too lazy to work) - Toni, my wife! For those who didn't know, her company lost their biggest customer. The customer hired a new guy, who decided to prove himself by making big changes,...
Posted by Dave on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:31:00 PST

Senator Hypocrite

A letter from Norm Coleman's (R-Min) old college roommate
Posted by Dave on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:00:00 PST

Holy crap, Batman!

Found ANOTHER bat in the house tonight. Toni heard it - in the laundry room. I went in, closed the door and stood still for a few minutes and looked around. I was about to give up, when I finally saw ...
Posted by Dave on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:50:00 PST

True Colors

My wife, Toni and I went to see the True Colors Tour - Put together by Cyndi Lauper to bring together people to end discrimintation and for equality and raise public awareness of the issues facin...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:08:00 PST

Don't you step out of line kiddies!

School to Prison Pipeline    By Bob Herbert    The New York Times     Saturday 09 June 2007     The latest news-as-enter...
Posted by Dave on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:47:00 PST

Foulmouth Federalists

Poetic justice: The Bush administration's FCC tries to fine networks for "blurted explatives" on live TV shows - a football player gets kneed in the groin, says %&#$! - and the mic picks it up = b...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:37:00 PST

Interview

Lewis Black is one of my heroes. http://progressive.org/node/4677  
Posted by Dave on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:26:00 PST

McCain's not so straight-talk express

Q: "What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions about using contraceptives? Or should it be Bush's policy, which is just abstinence?" Mr. McCain: (Long p...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:03:00 PST