"I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 'Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?'"
'cause this life is a farce
PORNOLOGY - Master's Degree
If I were teaching a course, this would be its reading list. Nothing gets on this list
unless it is both an outstanding piece of art and a work which might seriously change
a person's mind about an important issue. This is the best of the year, so far.All works listed here have impacted my life during the year 2004.
Fiction Books :Captain Corelli's Mandolin The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts In the Pond War and Peace Burr The Broken Betrothal Non-Fiction Books :Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet Guns, Germs and Steel Shah of Shahs Heroes Hidden Agendas The Blank Slate Films :Did We Go to the Moon? (tv documentary)Essays :Government Considering Dismantling BBC Aristide Statement The
Flag and the Anthem: Enforcing Japanese Patriotism MLK
Day Report Shows Greater Disparity Between Black and White The
Terrorism Case That Wasn't The Case for Boycotting Israel White Terror British Spy Op Wrecked Peace Move The Guardian Profile: Mordechai Vanunu Bush by Numbers: Four Years of Double Standards Clarke's Take on Terrorism Interview with Noam Chomsky US-Haiti The Fog of Cop-Out The Stench of Doom Bush v. Kerry? Not Even a Dime's Worth of Difference The War on the Poor Has Bush Gone Over the Edge? My First (and Last) Time With Bill O'Reilly Climate Change May Threaten More Than One Million Species With Extinction - New Cover Story Published in "Nature" Represents Most Comprehensive Analysis To Date and related article by David Edwards: Climate Catastrophe - The Ultimate Media Betrayal , as well as the follow-ups: Paul Brown Responds , Self-Deceits Held in Common and Guardian Greenwash The
Australian in the 1980s: Covering for SaddamArresting the Uninsured India Not Shining, After All Kosovo
and Iraq 1 and 2 Burying Genocide - The UN 'Oil for Food' Programme 1
and 2 Rejecting
the Virtue of Suffering Let Freedom Reign - The Big Lie Part
1 and 2 The BBC on Hiroshima Rolling Deeply in the Dust - The Guardian Media Group, Spark Magazine And Toyota and the follow-up: Media Alert Update: The Guardian's Spark Editor Responds 1
and 2 , and related: Haiti: No News is Bad News The Mythology of 'Mistakes' The
Guardian and BBC Interview with Bill Clinton Ugly Underneath Racism in Canada Death, Delusion and Democracy The Ghosts of Vietnam The Occupation at 114 Degrees Iraq,
One Year On Operation Enduring Sweatshop Football, Pot and Pain Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War Department's Timesman Won a Pulitzer Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked Dasht-E Leili Nearly 36 Million Americans Living in Poverty Axis of Execution: American Justice Ranked Alongside World's Most Repressive Regimes America's Empire of Bases IRS Has Become a Subsidy System for Super-Wealthy Americans This Won't Hurt Much Maestro
of Chutzpah NYC Denies Permit for Huge Anti-War Rally During GOP Convention $2,150 Per Family and Counting U.S. Ally Sentences Elderly Mother to Prison, Hard Labor Murakami Ichiro and Ultra-Nationalist Intimidation in Japan Japanese
Hostages Return Home to Mauling from the Right The Pakistan Connection The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003 Think Inside the Box Expose the Tax Cheats Apocalypse
Please Living with the Age of Entropy A Deadly Reversal Beware the Fossil Fools The
British Threat Rwanda: Victim's License Proliferation Treaty On the Edge of Lunacy Seeds of Distraction Feeding Cars, Not People The Sleaze Behind Our Science This is What We Paid For I'll
Be Voting For Wesley Clark / Good-Bye Mr. Bush and related article by Dave Lindorff: Michael Moore Smears Kucinich Fahrenheit 9/11 Opens Across America and related: The View From America: Responses to Fahrenheit 9/11 Alan Greenspan is the Ultimate Oligarch UN: Iraq Had No WMD after 1994 Inside the Cells of Abu Ghraib An Election Spoiled Rotten The Forgotten Soldiers of Operation "Iraqi Freedom" Kerry Won ... Lost
Votes Guerrilla of the Week Vanishing Votes Will The Gang That Fixed Florida Fix the Vote in Caracas this Sunday? Sulaiman's
Story 2nd Act Australia's
Dark Secret Paradise Cleansed Bush
or Kerry? and related article by Paul Street: Kerry is Coke, Bush is Crack Another
Turn of the Spiral First They Came for the Shock Jocks Monster of an Attorney The Terrible Human Cost of Bush and Blair's Military Adventure: 10,000 Civilian Deaths Michael Moore's Candid Camera Graveyard of Justifications: Glossary of the Iraqi Occupation How
Deep Shall We Dig?
Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush and related articles by New York Times: Disney's
Craven Behavior and FAIR: Eisner's Fantasyland Excuse for Censorship Where
Do We Go from Here? George Will's Ethics Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2004 Brown vs. Board Fifty Years Out Education Case Study Let Them Eat Cakewalk Iraq:
Money for Nothing Word for the Year 2003 CEO Pay / Worker Pay Ratio Reaches 301-to-1 UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count New York Tramples Bill of Rights to Protect 'Grass'? Israeli
Nuclear Whistleblower Risks Arrest, Again 1 ,
2 and
3 Civil War Nepalese Style Cold Turkey An Interview with Sue Niederer The Most Important Thing I Learned in School This Year My Life as a Resident Alien Sex Across the Color Line Who Really Pays Taxes in America? Black Women in US 23 Times as Likely to Get AIDS Virus President Spends 40% of Time Out of the Office Ex-Arms Hunter Kay Says No WMD Stockpiles in Iraq For Memorial Day / D-Day New Word Order The Stupid White Man Quiz Baseball Comes to DC and related: Oh the Humanity! Baseball Stymied in Bid for Free DC Stadium Olympic Sized Horror in Greece The Black Commentator Guerrilla News Network Michael Zezima The New Standard Research Guide to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Sorry Everybody and related site: Apologies Accepted U.S. National Debt Clock Extra Credit :Papillon The Shadow of the Sun Angela's Ashes The Bridegroom A Fine Balance Fahrenheit 9/11 Kundun Supersize Me
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths ... I
mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my
beautiful mind on something like that?"
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