Monthly Archives: March 2005

INRI

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The fifth fire engine of the day just roared into Elysian Park. Does it really take that many hook and ladder trucks to correct a barbecue gone wrong? But then again, with the park more crowded than I’ve ever seen it, I can only imagine the Altamont scene that may be unfolding in the shadow of Dodger Stadium. With so many tinder-dry pinatas in such close quarters to so many barrels of flame….

In the spirit of the holiday, here’s my photos of SRL in downtown Los Angeles from July 2002, finally uploaded to flickr:
SRL Los Angeles

I.N.R.I. = Igne Natura Renovatur Integra:
“The Whole of Nature is renewed by Fire”

When David Frum Sneers…

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… it’s like a pizza delivery boy trying to imitate Harrison Ford.

Oh ye self-rightious ribbon-magnet slappers. Oh ye with-us or against-us chanters. Oh ye “never saw the movie but you know it’s all lies” — These are your people. You giggled at their shiny baubles, and pawed the air at their dangled trinkets. You licked the hardened sap from the nape of their wooden necks and called it sweat. You willingly voted for these zombie lords.

Now — as they live on, rotting in the open air, walking the earth with arms outstreched, sneering and sneering — now, you must sniff them.

Sniff them deeply, lowly henchmen. Sniff them deep and hard. For you and the rest of their zombie horde will gather at the feet of their undead god, sniffing and sniffing for all eternity. Amen.

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

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Constitutional law professor Eugene Volokh recently declared his desire to overturn the Bill of Rights in order to make America more like Iran, at least in terms of the slow painful public execution of some horrible criminals. He relishes in the pre-execution flogging, and he delights in the strangulation by crane, with the victim kicking above the crowd…

In defense of his vengeful bloodlust, he points out that the Bill of Rights is not likely to be amended (yet) to allow slow painful death by torture.

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Zombies

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High school junior William Poole wrote a story in his journal about zombies attacking a high school. His grandparents read his journal and turned him in to the police (it’s Kentucky, so apparently this is normal).

William Poole was arrested, charged with making a terrorist threat, and thrown in jail. The prosecutors asked to raise his bail due to the serious nature of the charge, and the judge agreed, raising it to $5000.
[original story at Lex18 via One Good Thing]

William Poole is 18 years old. At last report, he was being held in an adult county jail, presumably in the literature wing. If he were convicted, the felony would go on his adult record and he would lose his voting rights.

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