april tools

MEDIA
* wow - our side of the blogosphere did a terrific job with the april fools day thing! who knew that everyone had so much fucking time??? arent we sposed to be saving the world? i hardly have enough time to scratch myself... they are all very funny, but deep inside-football so i wont bother linking to em - cos they wouldnt be funny.

* first reagan, then hunter thompson, then schiavo, and now the pope. why are all my heroes leaving me? it was the best of times, it was the end of times...

* "O’REILLY: All right, this hour’s devoted to the most intense threat to your freedom in the world. It’s not Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is not the most intense threat to your freedom -- it’s the American Civil Liberties Union." O’REILLY: All right, this hour’s devoted to the most intense threat to your freedom in the world. It’s not Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is not the most intense threat to your freedom -- it’s the American Civil Liberties Union.

* "The US military has acknowledged it was responsible for killing two journalists working for Dubai-based satellite channel al-Arabiya who were shot close to a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital earlier this month. "
but they didnt mean it. The US military has acknowledged it was responsible for killing two journalists working for Dubai-based satellite channel al-Arabiya who were shot close to a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital earlier this month.

* "Wednesday's episode of "South Park" was in horrible taste. But it was also brilliant, important and one of the few signs of sanity demonstrated by anyone who has been drawn into the Schiavo vortex. Long live "South Park"!" LINK i hear this was riotously funny. update - heres the vid (havent seen it yet)

* Don't Dream it's Over: "(Paul Hester) The drummer from 1980s Australian rock band Crowded House hanged himself in a park in southern Australia" LINK
(FWIW, i feel worse joking about this than making fun of the pope dying)