Actual AP headline: Bush pledges fight against evil:

“Evil is evil, and we will fight it with all our might,” the president said.

I am bouncing around all of the stations at soma fm.

Interesting article in the Washington Post:

A conservative group is suing the Bush administration for access to documents about last fall’s anthrax attacks, asserting that top officials might have known the bioterrorist attack was coming.

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Larry Klayman, chairman of Judicial Watch, said administration officials said last fall that some White House staff members had begun taking the antibiotic Cipro on Sept. 11, weeks before the anthrax attacks were made public.

“We believe that the White House knew or had reason to know that an anthrax attack was imminent or underway,” Klayman said. “We want to know what the government knew and when they knew it.”

I’m not posting much lately because I’m going to a lot of films at the New Festival. I’ll make comments later on my favorites. Almost nothing I’ve seen has been sold out (since I tend to shy away from this sort of material), so all of you reading this should go see some movies!

Good column in the SF Chronicle, courtesy of Sam:

Is It OK To Hate Bush? In which the president’s carefully orchestrated dumb-guy shtick proves hollow and dubious

I think I better plan my trip to Sicily soon. This might change it, and not necessarily for the better.

From the Times of London:

They have endured taunts from male colleagues and abuse from passengers, but the army of women drivers recruited by the London Underground have proved that they are better than men at making Tube trains run on time.

The number of women driving Tube trains has almost doubled in the past year, and managers believe that their influence has helped to end a culture of absenteeism and militancy in the workforce.

For the first time last month, London Underground recorded a week in which none of its 5,000 peak trains were cancelled because a driver had failed to turn up for work.

An artist who amuses me, Eric Doeringer, got a mention (and photo) in Artnet for his bootlegs project. His show at Caren Golden opens June 14. A visitor to my apartment today mistook my bootleg Rob Pruitt for the real thing.

Can someone explain to me why I should even consider voting for one of the 2 major parties at this point? The people in charge are too stupid to figure out how to make the world safer. They’re doing everything they can to destroy what good will we had from the rest of the world after 9/11.

Gephardt Backs War on Terror

House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) said yesterday he supports military action “to terminate the threat” from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but said he is “deeply concerned” that the administration has moved too slowly to improve homeland defenses.</p>

Gephardt, a prospective 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, offered broad support for President Bush’s war on terrorism. He endorsed views outlined in the president’s commencement speech at West Point on Saturday, saying that, with the new threat of global terrorism, the United States must be “ready to strike, not just deter.”</blockquote>

The latest “Get Your War On” episode was published on May 22 and I hadn’t even noticed until today.