The Financial Times says Bush’s economic policy is lunacy.

Our SCLM (so-called liberal media) sucks. I just heard about this.

February 22, 2003

Carol Gilbert, 55, Jackie Hudson, 68, and Ardeth Platte, 66, have been held since shortly after their Oct. 6 arrests at the tiny Clear Creek County Jail in Georgetown. The sisters have cooled their heels there since the Federal Detention Center in Englewood can’t accommodate women.And, although they could have been free months ago on personal recognizance bonds, they have stayed put because they decline to sign a promise they will stay clear of further legal trouble.

But they appeared no worse for wear after nearly five months of confinement and were met Friday by several dozen fellow pacifists who crowded the court benches to show their support.

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The nuns, operating under the umbrella of Sacred Earth & Space Plowshares II, a national movement for nuclear disarmament, trespassed early the morning of Oct. 6 on to the site of a Minuteman III nuclear missile site in northeastern Weld County.

There, as they chanted and prayed, they allegedly poured what is believed to have been their blood on the silo missile lid, in the shape of crosses.

They are slated for trial March 31 on charges of damaging of federal property, and of injuring, interfering with or attempting to injure national defense material.

Their defenses largely are linked to a theory this was a crime of necessity. They say America, by arming itself with hundreds of first-strike capability nuclear missiles, is in violation of the United Nations charter, numerous treaties and long-established, internationally accepted rules of war.

More than once, a defendant or her lawyer pointed to America’s nuclear arsenal and the fact that recent reports indicate the Bush administration has considered scenarios where a nuclear response could apply to Iraq.

Colin de Land, gallerist/art lover extraordinaire, has died.

A man <a href=http://www.msnbc.com/local/wnyt/m276307.asp?0ct=-302&cp1=1">was arrested</a> at an Albany-area mall for wearing a “Give Peace a Chance” t-shirt.

More <a href=http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/04/janet.rehnquist/index.html">immoral Republicans</a>: Janet Rehnquist, daughter of U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, is stepping down as inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, in the face of allegations of professional misconduct, several sources told CNN Tuesday.

Get Your Sad On: A tribute to Mr. Rogers.

I’m going to the 7:30 show of Kiki and Herb at Knitting Factory tonight.

I note that Knitting Factory Hollywood has Ellen Degeneres while the NYC one is putting on people like Kiki and Herb. That rather sums it all up, doesn’t it?

Courtesy of Chris, here is an MP3 of Kiki and Herb’s “People Die”. It’s high quality, so it’s rather big (10.9 MB).

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Yes, I know I should really be going to a performance of Lysistrata. There is one at Barracuda at 4pm…

No War Blog has links to two good refutations of Kenneth Pollack’s arguments for attacking Iraq.

Williamsburg galleries will be open until midnight this Saturday, March 8 — followed by an afterparty at northsideBank. More details may be found here.

In honor of France’s pro-peace stance, Plus Ultra Gallery will be holding a wine tasting featuring French wines from 9-midnight.

I now feel completely justified in my opinion of Thomas Friedman.

Go read Digby on Sunday’s column:

This wishful thinking is running amuck among people who are even less dazzled by the President’s manufactured machismo than Tom Friedman. They cling to the idea that even though this administration has fouled up every single foreign policy initiative, that they wasted all of the U.S. moral authority emanating from 9/11, that they have been proven over and over again to be the boldest and most shameless liars to ever occupy the White House, that somehow they “Just Have To” do this one right. The long bomb “Just Has To” connect.

I think it’s time for everybody to start considering just what we are going to do in the event this thing, like every single other thing this administration has done, goes wrong? What are we going to do when the “It Just Has To Work” theory of geopolitics fails?

Also, go read David E.