Truthdig just posted this video interview with Gore Vidal, one of my favorite American writers.
Selected quotes:
So, my fellow countrymen, as I sit here, not yet at Gettysburg, I have a notion that this is the most important vote that you’ll probably ever cast. Because should this gang of thugs continue in the two houses of Congress, there isn’t any chance of getting the Constitution back….
Am I a conspiracy buff? No, but I’m a conspiracy analyst
and I know where there’s a conspiracy and how it is …

This makes me proud to be called a pinko leftist fag.

Here is a cool, interactive timeline from Mother Jones for learning all about the lies told by Bush&Co. You must have pop-ups enabled for www.motherjones.com, but it’s worth it.

Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold: August 1990 to March 2003
The first drafts of history are fragmentary. Important revelations arrive late, and out of order. In this timeline, we’ve assembled the history of the Iraq War to create a resource we hope will help resolve open questions of the Bush era. What did our leaders know and when did they …

I showed Ravi some videos on YouTube a few weeks ago, and he’s been crazy for them ever since. He especially loves and asks to see “change your shoes”, “the girl who isn’t pretty”, and “the woman with the skirt”. To make it easier to find his favorites, I’ve added a new page of Ravi’s Favorites.

Bianca Ryan, the winner of $100 million from “America’s Got Talent”, has a talent that leaves me shaking my head in amazement. When I first saw her on youTube I thought immediately of young Judy Garland, said to have a mature woman’s voice when only 9 years old. In these clips Bianca is 11. Judge for yourself if she is the reincarnation of Garland:

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On her second appearance she sang in a very different style. This one almost convinced me that Bianca is not Judy re-born …