2/24/2005
A Couple of Bloggers Sitting Around Linking
Live from the blogosphere, these are the voices inside my head:
I'm officially appointing American Leftist liaison to Euro-Bush watch, for keeping on top of anti-Bush protests from around the world. From AL's comments section:
Needless to say, it was pretty crazy here yesterday. We had to come into work at 6am because the only bridge connecting central Mainz with the Wiesbaden side of the river was closed from 7 'til 7 - even though the Bush cavalcade would have spent, ooh, all of 30 seconds crossing the bridge on the way into the city and another 30 seconds on the way out again.Meanwhile, LVB.net describes the massive pro-Bush protests in Brussels:
Twenty Belgians and sixty Iraqis demonstrated peacefully in front of the US Embassy on Tuesday morning to show their support and gratitude for president Bush and the people of the United States.I say it's always nice to have a protest intimate enough that everyone can go to TGIFriday's later.
Oliver Willis let's us know that Media Matters is now podcasting (very cool).
Roxanne speaks tonight at Drinking Liberally here in DC.
And finally, for those of us trying to make sense out of Hunter Thompson's suicide last Sunday. His son and daughter-in-law explain: (Rocky Mountain News)
"He'd done his work," Winkel Thompson said, adding, in Hunter Thompson's own words, "He was a road man for the lords of karma."I think that's as good an explanation as we'll get.
Juan Thompson added, "And you couldn't ask him what it meant."
But, said Winkel Thompson, it is the idea that her father-in-law watched over the powers that be and meted out literary punishment to "wrong people" and "wrong deeds." Now, it will be someone else's time behind the keyboard.
"I think maybe he wanted to go out before it stopped being fun," said Hunter Thompson's only son.
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