We Will Serve No Wine

Top 10 Slogans for Wal-Mart Wine
By DAVID LETTERMAN

10. "When Kmart Wine Just Won't Do"

9. "I Can't Believe It's Not Wine"

8. "Show Your Friends How Little You Care"

7. "Kills Germs on Contact"

6. "Recommended by 4 Out of 5 Drifters!"

5. "Crack Open a Can Today!"

4. "Fresh From the Vineyards of Aisle 6"

3. "Here's to Making Bail!"

2. "Feeling Down After Being Thrown Out by Britney?"

1. "Goes Great With a 20-Dollar Hooker"

Labor Value

Guess who's quote?

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”

Hints:
Not Karl
WoN
Ricardo's Friend

More hints. Added after cranky comment:
No friend of Mercantilism
Once kidnapped by Gypsies
Handy

Freedom

Harley profits increase 18% in 3rd quarter. Exports soar as rich get richer internationally and China and India's economies expand particularly at the high end. This creates conditions very favorable for a massive expansion of the market for Harley's top sellers.

Harley workers accept massive cuts in wages and benefits for new workers with no garuntee of anything.

Roll freedom roll!

Sound Toys

Very cool shit. Warning: don't play this with Steve.

CD

Charles Dickens life story: the animated story.

JP Dead

Vladimir Palahnuik dead! I never thought this cat would pass.

The Wreck of the E

Why we are fascinated by this is beyond me? but here on the anniversary of the wreck of the E and friends of mine are named Ed and Fitzgerald, we need to recognize this in some way. Here are the workers that went to a watery grave in Lake Michigan in 1975.

The War as Catalyst

The election shows that even though the anti-war movement is anemic and the Democrats ran away from the issue both parties have to address the issue head on if they want to do well in 08.' This is evidenced by the firing of Rummy and Nancy Pelosi's comments that the #1 issue for the country is now the war. This talk will fade as Rove and Bush trot out new tactics with the Baker/Hamilton Commission with their new man at the Pentagon at the point. The Democrats hope for a calming because they are split on the issue-some Dems in liberal districts in cities have hard core Out Now constituencies and other suburban/rural Dems have a more hawkish/nationalist pose.

Cockburn points to the losers in the election-Neo-cons and liberal free traders.

To the Gallows?

Maybe he can join his old buddy?

Election 2006

Democrats win despite running away from the major issue in the campaign: the war. The other major issue was corruption. Schizophrenic voters in Arizona became the first voters in the US to vote down a ban on gay marriage and civil unions while at the same time deciding to punish immigrant workers by denying them another set of benefits not banned previously and making them speaks god's language, English! I say god's language following a former Texas governor who once quipped, "if English is good enough for Jesus and the bible, it's good enough for me." South Dakotans joined Arizonans in rejecting some very reactionary legislation by voting down a Draconian abortion bill passed by the legislature that would have banned all abortions.

A major dissapointment here in Wisconsin as gay haters everywhere united to say yes to changing our constitution so that the sodomites, I guess the yes voters are not having any kind of sex besides that which is holy?, cannot have the right to patriarchy's crowning achievemnt, marriage. Across the country it is amazing that we now have in the documents that are supposed to define our equality and limit the power of government over the individual-at least in theory-language that creates second class citizens. The gay rights movement needs to now re-think their electoral strategy and take a page from the civil rights movement and take to the streets. Equality now for all!

The Legacy of 1979 and the FSLN

As someone who felt personally crushed with the defeat of the FSLN in the Nicaraguan elections of 1990 yesterday's presidential results come as bitter sweet.
Given the FSLN's shift to the right the legacy of the party now seems to be the ending of the US backed Somoza family dictatorship and the implementation of a liberal democracy. Certainly a far cry from the revolutionary goals of Carlos Fonseca and the other heroes of the revolution that died in the struggle but a significant gain nonetheless.
Given the functioning democracy in Nicaragua as a result of the FSLN, which the US opposed by the way, if you hadn't noticed, it is even more appalling that the US now wants to punish the Nicaraguan people by threatening to cut off aid as a result of the election. Particularly given that the US has punished this tiny country for at least 150 years for trying to maintain its independence and dignity, which has led to war and sanctions that now rank Nicaraguans as poor as the average Haitian.

Viva Sandino! Patria Libre O Morir!

Bruno

Bruno talks to a Gay converter from Arkansas.

Bruno asks club owner, "if techno music was invented in the 1930's would Hitler have come to power?" He also asks, "the 1980's: the rise of techno and the fall of Apartheid, a coincidence? Watch the answer here.

Hunting Deer and Jews? With Borat

On the ranch with Borat.

A True Daughter of the Revolution

Some easy listening from the DKRP!

And have you seen the Metro?

Gillo Pontecorvo

Pontecorvo: dead. Long live the work of Gillo Pontecorvo!Obit for THE master radical film maker.

Dictat Ad Nasuem Erum Sanctamonius!

Madison Bishop orders churches to play a pre-recorded sermon this Sunday, or Saturday night for the late risers?, deriding the opponents of a mean spirited change to the Wisconsin contitution that would change nothing given that it is already illegal for gays to get married and for civil unions to be recognized. Why exactly does this sect of Christianity get tax free status?

Fox and a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Fox re-arranges schedule to air hysterical islamophobic docudrama just in time for the election.

Freedom's Daughter

I have never been the greatest fan of Indira Gandhi but always have had a soft spot for her dad. Sonia Gandhi has edited the letters between her mother-in-law Indira and her grandfather-in-law Jawaharlal. Quite a story of family love and politics of the struggle. Listen to them on BBC7.

Sir No Sir

The anti-war movement in the Army. Check it out!

Westerners Are More Promiscuous

Counter to common opinion a world wide study finds that westerners are fooling around more than other parts of the world.