Even though they can’t play any of the music available through the music industry’s “legit” music-distribution sites like PressPlay, iPods will be distributed to attendees at the Grammy Awards. [via Boing Boing]

GOP Senators threatened the GAO with a budget cut if it did not drop the lawsuit against Cheney to get him to reveal information about his energy panel.

Joe Ovelman opens at Daniel Silverstein Gallery:

Opening: Friday, February 21 6 – 8 pm

February 21 – March 22, 2003
Daniel Silverstein Gallery
520 West 21 st
212 929 4300

There are more images on the gallery’s web site. We were the first people to buy a work by Joe, and I think he is incredibly talented. He is one of those people I expected to “make it” within weeks of meeting him.

James provides a photo of me, for those that are curious.

Is Israel today vis-a-vis the Palestinians the equivalent of 1938 Germany?

Is there a gay man on the Supreme Court?

- I love my dead gay son.

- How do you think he would have felt about a limp-wristed son with a pulse?

- My teen angst bullshit has a body count.

I watched Heathers a few nights ago. It has its moments, but I don’t think it has aged well.

Ann Telnaes cartoon – yes the networks are all sheep.

Yes, NYC really is under occupation. James comments on the personal account of Dan’l being handcuffed on a subway platform.

… about why I’m such a Europhile — from the NY Times:

As an Italian living in the United States, I see that Americans have more or less embraced the idea that food is an industrial product, while Europeans, especially the Italians and the French, see it as part of their culture (news article, Feb. 11).</p>

The idea that food should have a shelf life of 30 days to be economically viable is anathema to the Italians and the French. Modifying foods to satisfy the needs of industrial distribution is preposterous.

It is unfair for the United States to try to force the Europeans to accept genetically modified food, casting in economic terms what is a matter of culture.

SIMONE SANTINI
San Diego, Feb. 11, 2003</blockquote>