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Diplomate mill?

…But to receive the award in person at a special two-day workshop in
Washington last month, Mueller found out that he would have to make a

$1,250 contribution to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The Republicans, under the direction of DeLay, came up with the idea
for the awards five years ago as a means of helping to raise funds for
the congressional campaign efforts for their party.

A Republican spokesman said there were thousands of doctors around the
country content with their Physicians of the Year awards, and that
there was nothing about the program to apologize for.

Aesthetic polymath internets battle of the sexuals… (blame this on Madame L., she’s the one writing La Vache Qui Lit and opening up my awareness to everything that happened since 1976, when I went on the corporate nod)  and today she has the picture of Chris and Rageboy, one of them in a Moe haircut…

THE GOOGLE FIGHT!

Rage Boy versus Lydia Lunch

White male domination! root-root-root-root-root.

Why?  You may well ask.  Surfing off of ATP and discovering my thorough-going disconnected and out-of-it-ness, familiar with so few names on the line-up, and one of those dispelt…

Lalala… Lydia Lunch…

Psychomenstrum.  Well, you just have to Google that, nicht wahr?  And, on googling, one discovers like thirteen links… further clickage (or click-ahj, if you prefer) reveals that they all contain the same copy, though some in languages quite foreign, each to the other.  So here we have the MRBPPR (multiple referent by promotional press release) phenomenon… "Mister Beeper" would be how you pronounce that.

Lots of clicks from a single mix.  Low authenticity factor.

And here’s Lydia, terminally hip and overecs-tended, with a great new brand called "Psychomenstrum," but a sniff of the stinkfist here tells me we’re dealing with vaporware.  On the other hand, how many screen plays are there?  Lots.  And how many ever turn into films?  Less than that. But how many are flogged through the writer’s releases for her other work?  One.  So someday, somebody who can stomach it may have the opportunity to see "Psychomenstrum" in a small screening room during an obscure festival and probably find it remarkable.  Meaty.

And as to the juxtaposition of Rage Boy with Lydia… well, think of it as some combination of hormones and genius… who else would you match against the woman?  And a quick scan shows his clicks/mix ratio has a higher authenticity factor than hers.  Nyaaa.

Perhaps Arto  Lindsay should have the last word…

salt

Madame L. filling in the empty spots with a Franzosichen Keyboarden machinenpunktstrokenmacher, domage — "it didnùt zork:"  Seems like things are getting raggedy there and she is surrounded by creatures with many paws.  And the ATP needs a spelt checker… or is that checkered spelt?  Hard to type with one fin while stroking cute little spawning spike with the other.  It’s up river all the way — going in Seine…

Spikking of hwitch… sounds like the daughter Leah has a few things she wants to share with her old mum too.  Gawd, this is such great family draaa-ma.  I think I’ll give those ATPists an email with a little 411 and ask them to get it right for 3375537.

Tom Matrullo explains it all quite nicely.

In search, the actual identity, brand, of the specific information
bearer, blurs, vanishes. For the specific bearer to attempt to call
halt, require the seeker to declare his name, address, likes and
dislikes ("Tiki bar or Quonset hut?"), is inappropriate in terms of the
form. Any messenger seeking compensation for bearing messages is a
contrivance, an anachronism, an obstinate effort to prolong the life of
a being whose time is gone. It is seeking to break apart something that
has fused into a single moment, a unified act of information seeking.

More
than simply derailing a process, it’s bad form: Trying to turn what is
an instantaneous quest into a marketing moment, a branding opportunity,
is like a pallbearer for a head of state suddenly dropping the casket
and breaking into "Gotta Dance."

One shrinks, hits the back button and selects another source.

Why wasn’t I notified?

Effective immediately, all earthlings posting to craigslist will have an
opportunity to earmark their message for inclusion in the historic
transmission from Cape Canaveral, immediately following the launch of the
Discovery Space Shuttle - currently scheduled for May 15, 2024. Deep Space
Communications Network will transmit the postings, along with a personal
video message from Craig, and a clip from the documentary "24 Hours on
craigslist" light years into space, for
the benefit and edification of potential future craigslist community
members in the great beyond.

And on a more sober note on, the HAARP program is researching…

Generation of ELF waves in the 70-150 Hz band to
provide communications to deeply submerged submarines. A program to
develop efficient ELF generation techniques is planned under the DOD
ionospheric enhancement program.

Geophysical probing to identify and characterize natural ionospheric processes that limit the
performance of C3 systems, so that techniques can be developed to mitigate or control them.
Generation of ionospheric lenses to focus large amounts of HF energy at high altitudes in the
ionosphere, thus providing a means for triggering ionospheric processes that potentially could be exploited for DOD purposes.

Electron acceleration for the generation of IR and
other optical emissions, and to create additional ionization in
selected regions of the ionosphere that could be used to control radio
wave - propagation properties.

Generation of geomagnetic-field aligned ionization to control the reflection/scattering properties of radio waves.

Note that last item.  Now consider that every so often the magnetic poles of the earth do a flip-flop.  No doubt about it… we’re doomed.

What would Chthulu do?

For me commercial television avoidance is almost a fetish.  Imagine my surprise at being sucked into West Wing re-runs.  They’ve been renewed so it looks like I have a lot of soap opera enjoyment ahead of me.  This is almost as good as the Sopranos and I get to write blog posts while they’re selling soap!

There’s a blogger named Hugh Hewitt who has an ax to grind.  The webcred conference didn’t invite any faith based bloggers.  I think they should have invited somebody who maintains a teardrop trailer wiki, but NOOO… so much for sensitivity to design, sensitivity to cultural nuance.  Intolerant, that’s what I call it.  But enough about me.  Let’s talk about Hugh.

Ed Cone shared portions of an email exchange he had had with this right-wing guy, and Hewitt called it unethical.  Of course nobody would have known it was Hewitt if he hadn’t outed himself.  Cone ethically provided his correspondent with anonymity. 

Thanks to Norm for linking Elaine who points to Tild who is sharing a good point of view on the ribbon magnet market place.  Up in Rice Lake after this year’s deer hunting homicides I saw a home made blaze orange ribbon on the back of a rusty Chevy Blazer.  Here are two more ribbons to further dilute the currency:

I think it’s high time the professional sports franchises started selling ribbons.  I need a Green Bay Packers ribbon for the pick-up truck.