Yeah…there definitely needs to be air traffic regulation over the Hudson.
The bodies of two men were recovered from the skeletal remains of a single-engine plane that police divers and crane operators pulled from the Hudson River on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities said.
The recovery capped the major portion of an extensive salvage effort; workers have now found the bodies of all nine victims of the midair collision on Saturday between the plane and a New York sightseeing helicopter.
1) Noam Chomsky- Manufacturing Consent:The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988) with Edward S. Herman, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2006), Chomsky On Anarchism (2005), Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (2002)
2) Howard Zinn- A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present (1980)
3) Hunter S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971), Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2003)
4) J.D. Salinger- The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
5) Michael Azerrad- Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (2001)
6) Lester Bangs- “Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves,” (1975) “The Greatest Album Ever Made,” (1975)
7) Chuck Klosterman- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (2003)
8) Charles R. Cross- Heavier Than Heaven (2002)
9) Chuck Palahniuk- Fight Club (1996)
10) Abbie Hoffman- Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (1979), Steal This Book (1972)
11) Jerry Rubin- Do iT!: Scenarios of the Revolution (1970)
12) David Dellinger- From Yale to Jail: The Autobiography of a Moral Dissenter (1993)
13) Mumia Abu-Jamal- Live From Death Row (1995)
14) James W. Lowren- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)
15) Gary Webb- Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and The Crack Cocaine Explosion (1996)
16) Stephen King- The Shining (1977), Carrie (1974), The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
17) Roald Dahl- Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (1964), The Twits (1980) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
18) George Orwell- 1984 (1949), Animal Farm (1945)
19) Jack Kerouac- On The Road (1957)
20) Ken Kesey- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
21) William Shakespeare- Macbeth (1611), Hamlet (1601), Romeo and Juliet (?), Julius Caesar (1599)
22) Richard Wright- Black Boy (1945)
23) Bill Hicks- Love All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks (2004)
24) Judge James P. Gray- Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It (2001)
25) John Steinbeck- Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), The Pearl (1947)
26) F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby (1925)
27) Ernesto “Che” Guevara- The Motorcycle Diaries (1993 published, written in 1952), Guerrilla Warfare (1961)
28) Ralph Nader- Crashing the Party (2002), Cutting Corporate Welfare (2000)
29) Susanna Kaysen- Girl, Interrupted (1993)
30) Michael Cart- My Father’s Scar (1998)
31) Walter Dean Meyers- Monster (2001)
32) Markus Zusak- I Am the Messenger (2002)
33) Robert Cormier- The Chocolate War (1974)
34) Stephen Chobosky- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999)
35) Harper Lee- To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)
36) William Golding- Lord of the Flies (1954)
37) John Knowles- A Separate Peace (1959)
38) S.E. Hinton- The Outsiders (1967)
39) Emma Goldman- Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), My Disillusionment in Russia (1923)
40) Alexander Berkman- Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism aka What Is Anarchism? (1929)
41) Bill Ayers- Fugitive Days (2001)
42) Anthony Burgess- A Clockwork Orange (1962)
43) Henry Rollins- Get In the Van: On the Road With Black Flag (1994)
44) Timothy Leary- Flashbacks (1983)
45) Carl Jung- Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1966)
46) Sigmund Freud- The Ego and the Id (1923)
47) Friedrich Nietzsche- The Antichrist (1888)
48) Bobby Seale- Black Panthers Speak (1971)
49) Huey P. Newton- Black Panthers Speak (1971)
50) Eldridge Cleaver- Black Panthers Speak (1971)
51) Martin Luther King Jr- “Letter From Birmingham Jail” (1963)
52) Malcolm X- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965),
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements (1965)
53) Alex Haley- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965),
(1965)
54) Thomas Jefferson- “The Declaration of Independence” (1776)
Chris
Full Title: Love All The People: The Essential Bill Hicks aka Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Author: Bill Hicks
Year: 2004
Foreword “The Goat Boy Rises” By: John Lahr
Being one of the biggest Bill Hicks fans in the world it was a must that I read this work of incendiary material. With that being said if any of you, fellow readers aren’t little Goat Boy children aka Die Hard Hicks fanatics, I would not recommend reading it. Most of the book consists of word for word transcripts of his classic stand up routines, including, but not limited to: Dangerous CD, One Night Stand HBO Special, Relentless CD, “The Worst Show Ever”aka The Flying Saucer Tour Volume One CD, Revelations Channel 4 UK Special, Arizona Bay CD, and the Rant in E-Minor CD. Interviews, lyrics to Hicks penned tunes, poems, rants or brief manifestos, short stories, letters and response letters to David Letterman, Jay Leno, offended audience members (including priests), amongst other rare gems. I really enjoyed the short stories because they showcased even more of my hero’s talent. In some of these stories Bill appeared and then in others it was completely fiction. I particularly enjoyed a story in which he documents the day-to-day lives of writers for an underground newspaper known as, The Observer. The overall, recurring theme of the book is Bill’s humanistic, though misanthropic at times, approach to comedy and especially to life. Bill takes us on a journey through his mind in which he opines his deepest feelings on the evils of the world: Dogmatic, fear inducing religions (particularly Christianity), corrupt, War profiteering, Governments, Corporate shilling, Coke hawking, pop sell outs, and ignorant, flag waving, conforming Americans. It is rare in entertainment and even rarer in the comedy world, to see someone that threatens the status quo with a message and mission outside of making money and gaining some cheap chuckles. Honestly, how many comedians can you name whose mission is to evolve the human race? Maybe a few others. In conclusion,I, as most do, prefer comedy routines and Hicks in particular on videos (especially!) or on CDs, rather then in print, but I always enjoy learning more about Hicks and his philosophies and laughing my ass off simultaneously.
Grade: B+
P.S. There is one intriguing essay in which he proposes gun control, as Hicks fans should know he completely championed. Being, against gun control myself, I always wanted him to elaborate more on his stance rather then a few jabs about American violence and the NRA, which were hilarious of course. So, anyway, Hicks makes the point that if guns weren’t as easily available as they are there would be less violence in America. Well, whether that is true or not to me doesn’t matter because it violates a basic concept of freedom, it evens violates Hicksian logic! Ok, if you apply Hicks’ logic on drugs, which I completely agree with: people should be able to put whatever they want in their bodies as long as they don’t harm anyone else. So, if drugs were available to the public, there is a good chance that there would be in an increase in drug use (initially) and if you took his logic on guns and applied it here by banning drugs then there wouldn’t be as many people on drugs or dying from drugs. Now, even a novice in drug war knowledge could tell you that’s ludicrous.
Chris
Bad news for Darfur peacekeepers…
For nearly two years, the United Nations has appealed to its 192 member nations to provide 18 transport helicopters so the peacekeeping force in Darfur can quickly get troops to troublespots. But not a single country has pledged a chopper.
The great thing about terrorists is, when they die, you can actually be happy.
New Delhi; and Islamabad, Pakistan – A US drone strike Wednesday probably killed Baitullah Mehsud, a senior Pakistan-based Taliban leader who organized dozens of terror attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His death may substantially weaken the Taliban insurgency within Pakistan, a country that some US leaders feared was careening toward collapse just a few months ago.
With an additional $2 billion in funding, the “Cash for Clunkers” program has a new lease on life until Labor Day. But it’s not clear if Clunkers, the sequel, will show the same robust results that the program did in its first week, quickly running through the $1 billion that was supposed to last until November.
Again, this was a great idea for the short term, but who knows what long-term effects it will have?
Reporting from Washington and Nairobi, Kenya — After years of worldwide outrage over suffering in Darfur, the Obama administration will soon launch a new policy that could soften some longtime U.S. sanctions against the Sudanese government implicated in the large-scale killings and displacement of African tribespeople.
How exactly will policy change?
White House officials say that specific conditions would have to be met before sanctions would be lifted, and that Sudan could face even tougher sanctions if its leaders act in bad faith. But President Obama’s handpicked envoy to Sudan, J. Scott Gration, said in an interview Monday that the Khartoum government, which expelled humanitarian groups this year after an international court accused Sudan’s president of war crimes in Darfur, has shown a willingness to work toward stabilizing Darfur in order to allow aid to be delivered.
“We see that there is a spirit of cooperation and an attitude of wanting to help,” Gration said.
Guess I spoke a little too soon in blasting Obama’s Darfur policy…
Former US President Bill Clinton has met North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during an unannounced visit to the country, state media have announced.
Mr Clinton is in Pyongyang to discuss the fate of jailed US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
Sanford goes to Argentina, Clinton goes to Korea…
Three Americans arrested after apparently straying into Iran are being questioned by police, Iranian state television has reported.
…why?
“We don’t know whether they are tourists or not. We are questioning them,” said a local security official.
Well come on. What kind of American would want to go to Iran for a *vacation*?
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