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Next month will be the 6th time I have marched in Washington DC in the past 25 years. The first 3 times were the National Gay Marches for Equal Rights and the last 2  times were against Bush's planned invasion of Iraq. Now it is time to put on my comfortable tennies again and keep pushing to end this Occupation of horrors. One must add to the crystals that Cindy Sheehan began and let them multiply.

I had to drive across country this week (do you really care about the bi-coastal details?) and it was an adventure that won't leave me anytime soon.

I started on the West Coast. Picking up my car from the auto shop I met some friends for dinner and a screening of a new film "Crash". It's a furiously earnest film about the current state of affairs in America and it hit me square. I'm not saying the film is perfect by any means but if you think Cinema in America in 2005 is represented by Batman and a Pitt/Jolie combo, please get out of your Access-Hollywood coma and get your ass to the theater. This film will have you squirming in your seat and justly so. Check it out and write your own Diary, we cover so little about Art on this blog it's shameful, about as pathetic as our governments interest in it, save for co-opting it into propaganda.

They get into the subject of the war in Iraq and she goes ballistic on him, ultimately screaming that Bush should be tried for War Crimes. I thought Hannity was going to give birth to a cat then and there. He screams back about the whole 'isn't it better that Saddam is gone' and she buys none of it.

My own view is we need to come up with a definitive meme for this. The first one that popped into my head was "If you break into someone's house and take all their electronics and happen to do their dishes on the way out, it's STILL Robbery".

On the way out tonight, the weather was on my mind all day. It was beautiful here, not just pleasant but extraordinary. How often does life get extraordinary? For some it is often, but how often can you live in extraordinary until it doesn't seem so?  Maybe we can ask Jenna and Barbara and Paris and Nicole about that. But rarely can media ask the overpriveliged about it without even seeming more banal , for what would they compare it to, maybe that's why we tune into the lives that fall from grace.  Tonight I was one of the millions of priveliged as I walked around a truly great city and felt what it was like to be amongst 10 million priveliged people all at once.

Evidently not as large as even they think and nowhere near large enough to change anything nationwide on their own. If you want to just do a quick eyeball count, this group isn't enough to keep a television series on the air.

CBS today cancelled "Joan of Arcadia" after its 2nd season because of low ratings. This series premiered to critical and audience acclaim when it debuted 18 months ago and its ratings have plummeted. Now CBS it cutting it's losses. This show was the youth-appeal follow-up to "Touched By An Angel" which lasted several times longer.

On top of this the NBC End-of-Days themed mini-series "Revelations" is a similar dud, not winning it's time slot and diminishing weekly in audience.

I just returned from seeing ENRON:The Smartest Guys in the Room and I am about to bust a gut yet again. This film chronicles the absolute craven souls who did a world of damage to a city (Houston) an entire state (California) and showed us just how corrupt our banks, accounting firms and government still are today.

I've read quite a bit over the years but until I saw the film this afternoon it never congealed just how brazen these people were and how they still to this day boldface lie about the entire matter. This should be a great tool for the prosecution in the cases coming up to trial.

Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay engineered the most horrendous business environment imaginable and then proceeded to rob, steal and Ponzi their way into wealth while leaving a devastating trail of victims. Even today people are still wiped out by the events of a few years ago and many pensioners and workers will never recover. This film really delivers the punches.

You can sleep well tonight, law enforcement is doing it's job.

In this News Report and Video we get to see a 5 year old girl put in hand cuffs for throwing a tantrum. Thank goodness the state of Florida under Jeb Bush knows how to treat it's citizens, leaving no child undisciplined.

A 5-year-old girl was handcuffed by police after she tore papers off a bulletin board and punched an assistant principal in kindergarten class, according to a video released by a lawyer for the child's mother.
The 30-minute tape shows the child appearing to calm down before three officers pinned her arms behind her back and put on handcuffs as she screamed, "No!''

But why leave it at that? Possibly it's time for some new weapons in our arsenal to deal with these Child Terrorists:

Well, here's another good indication on the front page of USA TODAY of all places. The title is: "GOP's MORAL AGENDA DOUBTED".

Boy, am I glad I sucked it in and got on the plane.

The American Taliban (my term for the Religious Right-- because they are not religious and not right) have no objection to the lovely Martha. She willingly duped stockholders by selling her shares based on insider information and was convicted by a jury.

HBO took out a full page ad in todays NY Times to tout that Maher will be back for 23 (Count 'Em) Episodes of his political talk show.

With Jon Stewart and now Bill Maher back, hopefully some of these stories like Gannon will get even more national attention, forcing the MSM to get off their sorry asses. And with Maher, no fucking BLEEPS!

In this News Report that was accompanied on-air with more information I was thrown back to a time that I never want to visit again except in memory. We have a new strain of AIDS that is deadly and drug resistant called 3 DCR and it could hurl many of us right back to our lives circa 1983 when the `gay cancer' got a name.

This bill if it clears the Senate would give the Secretary power to eliminate every Environmental, Labor and Eminent Domain law, not to mention Endangered Species Laws and more, and with NO judicial review!

And on top of it they have included a rider to make sure states must verify immigrant status when issuing drivers licenses.

The text of the bill is below the fold.