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Where the hell did all these anti-Hollywood blogs come from? - 03/11/03

www.boycott-hollywood.us, www.hollywoodhalfwits.com, Citizens Against Celebrity Pundits, VikingPhoenix (huh?), DumbCelebs, and all the rest. Hollywood Halfwits refuses to correct the Janeane Garofalo quote, which I corrected here. As the comments to

Dazed progressive confesses to La Habra 9/11 Incident - 03/11/03

[Newer information will be put in this post.] I just saw on the TV news confirmation of this post. A kinda dazed or stoned-looking young progressive college student type confessed to putting up the Bob Dylan sign and burning or slashing a couple of the flags.

Let's get memetical - 03/11/03

I just tried to contact the La Habra PD for more information on the 9/11 memorial which was apparently trashed by peace protesters. Only their PR department is giving out information, and there were four other callers ahead of me, so I'll try later. Lord knows, I'm no big fan of peace protesters, but it's always good to keep an open mind. Did the cops really witness this act of vandalism? Did they just let it go on as described?

Six degrees of Medea Benjamin - 03/09/03

A new day, a new "peace" group: CodePink4Peace. That was started by, and using a mailing address of, Susan Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange. You might remember Global Exchange as the author of the inflated civilian death statistics in Afghanistan. Oh, and CodePink4Peace is not to be confused with just regular old CodePink, started by the Utne reader.

I missed a war protest? - 03/08/03

And this one actually sounds like it was fun: The federal building in Westwood became a focal point for anti-war demonstrators on Saturday, with a handful of women stripping to their thongs and a separate group led by actor Danny Glover marching down Wilshire Boulevard to protest a possible war with Iraq. The women who shed their clothes were followers of the Raelian sect, who believe that life on Earth was created by space aliens. Convert me

Another interesting Mark Morford column - 03/01/03

'Hippie Crap Saves The World: Can better orgasms and upping your personal vibe really thwart BushCo idiocy?' is yet another thought-provoking column from S.F. Chronicle commentator Mark Morford: Wanna know what conservatives really hate?

Sheryl Crow's instant karma - 02/26/03

Sheryl then and now.

L.A.: Biggest laughingstock in the U.S. - 02/21/03

According to this: Elected leaders of the nation's second-largest city on Friday approved a resolution opposing a unilateral war against Iraq and urging the Bush administration to exhaust all diplomatic options before committing military forces... "I hope people understand we're not a bunch of crazy politicians trying to dictate federal policy," said Councilman Ed Reyes, who voted for the resolution. "We are echoing the sentiments of people who are hurting. Where do we begin to matter in the priority of our federal dollars?..." It also said the billions of dollars that would be spent on war...

Get your war on and end California's high unemployment - 02/19/03

The article about CA's unexpectedly high unemployment rate here ends with With Gray Davis and George Bush California gets nothing. Davis is too incompetent to employ effective political tactics of any sort, while George Bush simply doesn't care. 205,000 jobs lost in one year in the country's most populous state? Get your war on. In response, I posted the following comment: Get your war on indeed. War would bring a tremendous boost to California's economy.

Still Not In Our Brain Again - 02/15/03

I went to today's peace protest in Hollywood. The pics are here. Got there a bit late. As with the past protest, I was riding my bike, which makes covering open streets easy but isn't so good for pushing through the throng. There were the same dumb signs as the past protests, although the number of swastikas seemed to be less, countered by a corresponding increase in the number of nazi references. Getting near the stage, I was surprised to hear that the "acting President of the United States" was here.

Anti-warriors, cartoon-style - 02/13/03

Ken Layne links to this funny cartoon (reason . com/0303/bagge.shtml) about a visit to an anti-war protest.

L.A. City to consider anti-war resolutions - 02/12/03

Via Volokh comes the link to this article about the City of L.A. considering adopting one of two anti-war resolutions. One is from Councilpersons Eric Garcetti and Ruth Galanter, and the other is from Councilman Tom LaBonge. According to a representative of Garcetti's office, their resolution was created with the cooperation of the Neighbors for Peace and Justice.

This is why warblogging is so appealing - 02/10/03

According to the piece 'Idiotarians and Traitors of the Right': There have been many right-wing attempts to cozy up to the Islamofascists. In every case an alliance was proposed against the same enemy: against liberals, against secularists, against the ACLU, against the liberal press, against Hollywood, against atheists and unbelievers, against gays and liberated women, against death-penalty opponents, and so on. And they aren't faking it.

Sheryl Crow's big sister - 02/03/03

According to this: The White House's postponement of a literary symposium it believed was becoming politicized led two former U.S.

"The Left betrays the Iraqi people by opposing war" - 01/13/03

Here's an interesting editorial: As Tony Blair yesterday reaffirmed his determination to confront Saddam, the Stop The War coalition was able to present an impressive list of celebrities to add glamour to the fight to save Iraq from Anglo-American terror... Everyone who is anyone from the soft-headed centre to the anti-democratic Left is there.

Freund oder Feind? - 01/13/03

Andrew Sullivan links to the cover of the current Der Spiegel: "Blood for Oil - What it's really all about." In the next entry, he links to one of my pics from Saturday's peace protest. Vielen Danke.

Still Not in Our Brain - 01/11/03

I went to the anti-war protest in downtown L.A. earlier today, and the pics from the event are here. After having attended this and the previous protest, I only have one question: Can we just nuke Iraq and shut these people up? Now - really - I'm not a warblogger. But, I just think that would be sweet. Unfortunately, this peace protest wasn't as fun as the last one.

The Unreasonably Fugly Women of Marin County - 01/06/03

A group of Marin County women plan to march naked through San Francisco on Jan. 18 to protest the possibility of war with Iraq. I already covered these people.

The Tyranny of Reuters - 01/02/03

For my very first link to a Steven den Beste novel(la), I'm choosing this post about anti-warriors and "news" reports from Reuters. Which, at 104x768, only takes up 3.5 vertical screens! Thanks Steve.

Why didn't the anti-war folks think of this? - 01/02/03

According to this article: About a dozen Arab writers and lawyers plan to appeal to the Arab world to put pressure on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down to avert a war... The appeal -- made by lawyers and writers fed up with their governments' opposition to U.S.

"Your koolaid is foul, ignorant and devolved" - 12/17/02

I spotted the following extremely funny comment here on a report on the Hollywood peace protest I covered below. Your commentary is joke! What cheap thrills do you get posting here? I would not be surprised that you concur with Trench Lott's bigoted (in no way revealing) commentary, about race relations in this country. Do you wear your swastika in, or out of your lapel?

Not In Our Brain - 12/15/02

Last night, I went to the anti-war protest in Hollywood at Hollywood Blvd. and Highland. I'm not a warblogger (I swear!) but I kinda wanted to do something like this, but not like this. You can see the photos I took by clicking the pic to the right.

You call these celebrities? - 12/10/02

Via LGF (link right) the full text of the celeb letter of support to Saddam is here. The cumulative number of months that these people haven't worked is probably well into the 4 figures, as they say in Hollywood. And, how did these has-beens find out about the letter? Is there a celebrity mailing list? Did they put up a poster at the unemployment office? You might ask, who cares what some celebrities think? Well, unfortunately, celebrities do have an influence on society.

December 13... Love checks in. - 11/20/02

That's the tag line for Jennifur Lopez's new opus "Maid in Manhattan." It's got a picture of her with the leading man, and a smaller pic of her in a maid outfit. Gosh, I can't quite figure out the plot. I'm sure JLo is a horrendous bitch, but on this billboard, an interview I saw with her, and the ads for The Wedding Planner she manages to come off as sweet, innocent, and even more luscious than SavOn Pecans and Praline ice cream. Anyway, who thinks up these titles and tag lines? Couldn't they have spent just another 5 minutes or so coming up with something just a wee bit better?

Yes, but what do the East Marin women think? - 11/18/02

Instapundit links to a picture in which 50 women from west Marin county got nekkid and spelled out the word "PEACE" in solidarity with the innocents of Iraq. (Geez, check out the porker in the "E." OK, that's a nasty thing to say...) Excuse me for a moment please, there's someone on the phone. Hello? Who is this with whom I'm speaking? The innocents of Iraq? Wow, I was just blogging about you. How can I help you? Uh huh. OK. Uh huh. Uh huh. OK, I'll tell them.

Picture of the Day - 09/27/02

I can imagine the shooter's glee when he got this shot. The other one earlier in the slideshow featuring the girl giving the dual peace signs between cops looks a little too staged for my tastes.

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