In the wake of Bush’s trip to South America, sparking huge demonstrations during his arrival to Brazil, I’ll share with you some prime pictures from the ‘World Can’t Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime‘ protests that occurred in Washington in early February.

   

Hello friends and foes, one and all! First and foremost, PBH has seen some major revisions and tweaks recently that we hope will upgrade and facilitate the enjoyment of using this site. We have added some new regular contributors including Expo with Alec, Lucian, Eric, Jesse, and Kit still contributing regularly. Sexy and Disgraceful has also been fine tuned for everyone’s pleasure as well.

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Lisa de Moraes writes in today’s Washington Post about the most recent sign that a) network TV is a few feet further into the grave than Hollywood movies b) creativity has resorted to plagiarism c) Jesus will be flying down to Los Angeles in a hovercraft with Buddha to personally punish anyone involved in this project.

What is this project? Oh, just the fact that ABC has picked up a pilot based on the Geico commercial that features three Cavemen who are picked on by society at large for being cavemen. The basis of the sitcom is that:

It’s as simple as that, it’s a drunk squirrel and a drunk cat. Because we’ve sunk to that level and eventually we aren’t coming back. God I’m lonely.

At some point, we all have our sexuality questioned. In my case it was by two married gay men. I had expected a simple night out at the bar where a (female) friend of mine invited me to keep her company. She tended the bar while I drank the free beer she offered me. It was a good arrangement and needed no adjustment.

Drug use among the British elder generation and the country’s youth has soared over the past few years as discussed earlier today in the BBC.

It seems that substance use among the elderly has risen to a rampant new high. Grandparents in the UK have been observed smoking, and even GROWING marijuana. Today’s article details the story of a 68-year old grandmother, named Patricia, (perhaps an alias?) from Humshaugh, England, who has been convicted of possessing and cultivating pot. These types of charges carry serious penalties in the United States, and presumably most of the rest of the free world. Patricia manages to avoid time in the slammer, probably due to the expert legal counsel of some of the top drug law experts in the UK, and instead has been sentenced to 250 hours of community service.

Most elementary school teachers will tell you a simple fact about the relationship between positive and negative attention and the continuation of behavior, good and bad. When you acknowledge and give attention to negative behavior as much as you do to positive behavior, you tacitly endorse negative behavior. In the end, the child becomes disinterested in the exact nature of attention, and simply pursues attention for its own sake.

What a life! It’s been a few weeks since Anna Nicole Smith died, and miraculously, I’m still alive. Someone call Jesus or the mainstream media, because I am hearing far too much fuss about the ‘war’ (whatever that is) and not enough about Anna Nicole Smith. Because reporting on a blonde with a drug problem and double D’s is far, far more courageous than reporting on a corrupt, inept administration and the war they created. I mean, come on media, can we at least get a full-frontal of the corpse? I’m masturbating to my imagination here.

In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity’s so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise.

I have been really busy lately with official Peace Corps stuff like additional training and planning so I have been out of site for a while. It is nice to get away and enjoy some “american” time with the other volunteers. My life is not about to become any less hectic either. We are starting teacher workshops this week where volunteers share teaching techniques to Nicaraguan teachers around the department. This should give me some practice on giving charlas before I start my real work. I think that I´m also going to put a bookshelf together so therewont be a mess in my room when the family comes!

God damn! Y’knahmsayin?

As the Bush administration moves towards disengagement in the Middle East from those regarded as extremist — including Syria, Iran, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias in Iraq, Hamas in Palestine, and Hezbollah in Lebanon — the result has been a vacuum of power left from the absence of traditional diplomatic channels. In the post Cold War era, this meant typically working with, and in the least, involving the United States. But in recent months as American policy becomes more rigid and inflexible, Middle Eastern diplomatic channels have rerouted outside of Washington and back into the Middle East proper. In this capacity, Saudi Arabia has emerged as the new bridge where the forces of moderation can work within the framework of Middle East reality — a reality where extremists unfortunately are popular and united — and work on successful compromises.

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