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In Celebration of the Individual - Issue 117 - Week of 3/22/2004

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'Al Qaeda Tape' Endorses Bush-Cheney Re-election 3/26

Bush's Silent Prayer 3/25

What Really Happened Before 9/11 3/25

The Wal-Mart Candidate 3/24

Queer Eye For the Straight Guy 3/24

Spanish Fly Gets New Name In Congress 3/22

Bush Walks Like An Egyptian 3/22

Bush Light 3/21

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Laura Bush's Maternity Fashion Ads For Charity 3/20

A Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue 3/19

The Coalition of the Wilting 3/18

The Sweatshop Solution 3/17

Bush Disturbed By Name Calling 3/15

Karl Rove Proposes Minor Change in Bush Campaign Strategy 3/13

Greenspan Goes Ballistic on Social Security 3/13

Greenspan and Said Melon

Lost in Space 3/10

The Bush-Cheney '04 Official Campaign Wallpaper 3/7

Bush Injures Campaign Supporter In Freak Accident 3/7

Bush's New Campaign Logo: Route 666 3/5

Sign of the Beast

Operation Patriot Eavesdrop 3/4

Bush Fundraising Linked to Spike in Gas Prices 3/2

Rumsfeld Marries Himself 2/29

Rummy Ties the Knot

Bush Announces O. J. Will Replace Kay 2/27

WMD Stockpile Discovered in Iraq! 2/26 Also see this Take 2 Version

Trogdor?

Ridge Announces: Homeland Security to Patrol Borders with Icarus Wings 2/25

IWR Comics - Karl Rove's Universe #4 2/25

Bush Reclassifies McDonald's as a 'Fast-Food Factory' 2/22

Karl Rove: The Case for Cronyism 2/20

White House Issues Revised Jobs Forecast for 2004 2/19

Dick Cheney's Terrible Secret 2/18

NASA Locates Missing Secret Third Rover 2/17

RNC Chairman Calls Kerry a Pervert 2/16

Bush Urges UN Action to Stop Boohbah Proliferation 2/15

The Official George W. Bush AWOL Doll! 2/13

Pickles Is Lost in the Ozone Again 2/11

George Isuzu 2/10

Bush Outs CIA Operative On Meet the Press 2/7

Bush Denies Telling The Truth About WMD 2/6

NASA Scientists Discover Gravel on Mars! 2/5

Bush Blames Darwin For Chimpanzee Jokes 2/3

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03/25/2004

• Belittle Richard
  The satire of the year from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Richard Clarke's 9/11 revelations. [Real]

Richard Clarke Testifies
Before the 9/11 Commission

• Strong Bad's Bored Game (MC)
  Also, see these other secret SB Games: I Rhino! I hunger! and I Strong Bad! I hunger!. [Flash]

Strong Bad

• Redneck Bowling Game
  I like this one, but this bowling game is more realistic. [Flash]

• The Japanese Gothic Lolita Look

Weird no?

• George Bush, Entertainer In Chief
  Monkey Pants kids about finding WMD, but his presidency is the real joke.
  
  

• get your war on | page thirty-three
  A great political comic strip.
  
  

• Petaphilia
  The Great American Man-Dog Marriage Panic.  Also see, Oregon county bans all marriages.

• Thou shalt not make scientific progress
  Medical research is poised to make a quantum leap that will benefit sufferers from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, diabetes and other diseases. But George W. Bush's religious convictions stand in its way.
  
  

• Maureen Dowd: Truth as a Weapon
  "Mr. Clarke is the first person who has apologized to the families and held himself accountable," said the lovely Kristen Breitweiser of New Jersey, whose husband died in the south tower. "I am enormously grateful for that." She and other widows left the hearing room to protest Condoleezza Rice's lame no-show.
  
  

• Clarke Stays Cool as Partisanship Heats Up
  Dana Milbank on Clarke's testimony before the 9/11 commission.

03/24/2004

• Python film to challenge Passion
  Monty Python's film The Life of Brian is to return to US cinemas next month following the success of The Passion of the Christ.
  
  

• The Redesigned Texas Flag
  A satire from the Specious Report.
  
  

• Nostalgia Prompts Return Of Negro Baseball Leagues
  A satire from the Onion.
  
  

• Bush: John Kerry Is Muy, Muy Bad
  A satire from Chortler.
  
  

• Protecting the Sanctity of Divorce and Marriage from the Homosexuals
  A satire from Betty Bowers.

03/23/2004

• Danger Man Music & Records (Cartoonist)
  Classic 60's secret agent MP3s.

Patrick McGoohan

• American Gallery of Psychiatric Art (UI)
  Weird, no?

Tranxene Drug Ad

• Strong Bad Goes To Jail!
  Biscuit Dough Hands Man gets busted stealing the Poopsmith! Excellent. [Real]
  
  

• Pre-emption's a Bitch
  A great satire from the Daily Show.  [Real]
  
  

• Bjork Makeup Art (ML)
  Play dress up with Bjork. [Flash]

• Memoir Criticizes Bush 9/11 Response
  I've seen several interviews with Richard Clarke, and he seems very credible to me.  One thing is very clear:  The so-called Vulcans of Bush Administration were fixated on Iraq from day one, and that fixation allowed al Qaeda to escape at Tora Bora in Afghanistan and then evolve into the multi-headed hydra it is today.  It's like bin Laden was writing the script for this White House.
  
  

• How we got homeland security wrong
  At the end of the day, blowing off New York and L.A. so that you can make sure Wyoming is safe just makes no sense.
  
  

• 9/11: Internal Gov. Documents Show Bush Administration Reduced Counterterrorism
  The Bush Administration blew it, and they should just concede the point.  Just like they should admit that they were obsessed with Iraq from day one!

• Eve and the Identity of Women
  "The story of Eve and its many misogynistic interpretations have over the centuries defined the image of woman in Western civilization."

Lilith by John Collier 1887

• Paul Klee
  Paul Klee on Art: "Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible."

Senecio 1922

• The Paintings of Katherine Dinger
  I like these. Here is a tutorial on how she created the pinup image below.

Pinup

• Drawings of Jim Dine
  "Jim Dine is a consummate draftsman whose images of tools, large-scale nudes, self-portraits, and studies from nature and after antiquity are among the most accomplished and beautiful drawings of our time."

Pinocchio with Clippers 2002

• Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (Plep)
  "Yoshitoshi Tsukioka was the last and greatest genius of traditional ukiyo-é."

The Strong Woman Takashima Oiko 1890

• Luca Matti (Cipango)
  These intriguing images remind me a bit of the work of Escher.

La Sitta Sorda 2003

• Jeff Bohlander Illustration (Life In The Present)
  These are great.

The E-Commerce Connection

• Chiura Obata (Plep)
  I liked the images of California, and this beautiful print of Mono Lake in particular.

Morning at Mono Lake 1930

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03/22/2004

• The Bird and The Sea
  Direct the seagull to catch the fish. [Flash]
  
  

• Hook, Line and Sinker (UI)
  Catch the fish size as specified. [Flash]

• Niff Actuals (MF)
  Products for the connoisseur of absurdity.  Funny stuff.

Meaningless Mementos

03/21/2004

• Animations by Luca Matti (Cipango)
  These are wonderful works of animated art. [MOV]
  
  

• The Dog Club Museum (Fresh)
  A warning for you diabetics out there the sugar content in these sweet puppy videos is very high. [MOV] [WMV]
  
  

• Nun Gunner Game (B3TA)
  Juvenile alert! Get even with those darn nuns!  I can say that since I had to endure their treachery in grade school. ;-) [Flash]
  
  

• Cub Shoot Game
  Have you no sense of decency? Hopefully, this is the last Smack the Pingu knockoffs, because I can't take any more!!! [Flash]

• Eccleston is new Doctor Who
  I know, like who cares. But hey, I love those Daleks!  I give anything to have a pair of  talking salt and pepper shakers like those guys below!

Exterminate!!!

03/18/2004

• New Pingu Game: Seal Bounce (MC)
  A new penguin game from Chris Hilgert's Yeti Sports. [Flash]
  
  

• Pingu Panic Game
  Freeze that penguin! [Flash]
  
  

• Pengu San Game
  Catch fish with Pingu and earn bombs to drop on the Eskimo.

03/19/2004

• Medic Alert
  A satire from the Daily Show.
  
  

• Polly Wants Game
  Don't get caught!

• Diner serves Spam, Spam, Spam
  But I don't want any spam?
  
  

• Terrorist Election
  A cartoon by Mad Kane.
  
  

• Lynne Cheney, Second Lady - Ask the White House
  A satire from Whitehouse.org.

03/17/2004

• Mask
  Another episode of Weebl and Bob. [Flash]
  
  

• Strong Bad's 100th Email!
  The story of Duck Shirt, the giant egg and the fish sticks.
  
  

• Omelet Game
  How many omelets can you make? [Flash]
  
  

• Rummy Caught With His Pants Down
  Rummy does his Porky Pig impersonation on Face the Nation. [WMV]

• Rumsfeld Hosts No-Holds-Barred Martial Arts Tournament
  A satire from the Onion.  It has a great picture of Rummy.
  
  

• The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic (ML)
  "We don't know, and we don't care."

03/16/2004

• Legoladen
  A very silly movie from Lego Goes To Hollywood. [WMV]
  
  

• Mili and Tary Game (MC)
  Hey what happened to da pingu?  I wonder if there is a snow version? [Flash]

• The Brick Testament (MF)
  Funny stuff.

When to Stone Your Children

• A Lot of Bull
  A political cartoon by Steve Bell.

03/22/2004

• Iraq war wasn't justified, U.N. weapons experts say
  The United Nations' top two weapons experts said Sunday that the invasion of Iraq a year ago was not justified by the evidence in hand at the time.
  
  

• Did Bush Press For Iraq-9/11 Link?
  Yes. Says Richard Clarke:
  "Frankly," he said, "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know."
  
  

• Bush's Medicare dream turning into a nightmare
  Less than four months after he signed it into law on Dec. 8, Bush's Medicare reform dream has turned into a nightmare and a potential drag on his bid for re-election.

03/21/2004

• Did Bush Press For Iraq-9/11 Link? (BF)
  Watch 60 Minutes tonight and find out.

03/20/2004

• Ex-Advisor Says Bush Eyed Bombing of Iraq on 9/11
  He tried to "kill my dad".  Just makes you wanna sing the Bomb Iraq Song,  doesn't it?  Or perhaps even listen to the Bomb Saddam song?

03/19/2004

• McCain Says Kerry Not Weak on Defense (BF)
  McCain counters the Bush-Rove smear machine.
  
  

• Off the Mark on Cost of War, Reception by Iraqis
  An analysis of the Gang that couldn't shoot straight.

03/18/2004

• Maureen Dowd: Pride and Prejudice
  An excellent analysis of the Spanish situation.  BTW. Before the war, al Qaeda was isolated in the Kurdish section of Iraq.  Eliminating those terrorists should have been our focus rather than regime change.  Now Iraq is a stinking mess. It's like Osama bin Laden is writing Bush's game plan.

03/17/2004

• Iraq on the Record (BF)
  A database of the Bush Administration's lies about Iraq.
  
  

• Iraqi exile group fed false information to news media (C)
  The assertions in the articles reinforced President Bush's claims that Saddam Hussein should be ousted because he was in league with Osama bin Laden, was developing nuclear weapons and was hiding biological and chemical weapons.

03/16/2004

• Krugman: Weak on Terror
  The truth is that Mr. Bush, while eager to invoke 9/11 on behalf of an unrelated war, has shown consistent reluctance to focus on the terrorists who actually attacked America, or their backers in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
  
  

• Bush Administration Accused of Manufacturing the News
  You mean like they have on Fox News and CNN?
  
  

• Spooks want more Web-tapping powers
  Can you say Big Brother?

03/15/2004

• Spain PM to withdraw Iraq troops
  There goes the coalition.
  
  

• Spanish government admits defeat (BF)
  That's what happens when go against the will of the people.  Who's next in line for defeat Blair or Berlusconi?