alpha charlie bravo presents:
Strange things I've seen on the internet

Episode 2:
Food Party

alpha charlie bravo presents:
Strange things I've seen on the internet

Episode 1:
Green Porno

There isn't much time left, so I've decided to provide the coveted acb bump, which does not exist, to one candidate in the Iranian presidential elections. Now, everybody knows that Mohammad Khatami is my guy, but he dropped out of the race. So, my endorsement goes where Khatami's goes.

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Endorses for President of the Islamic Republic of Iran:


Mir-Hossein Mousavi

In spite of the fact that he's got kind of an Aerosmith thing going on with the scarf around the microphone.

Hey kids, it's time for another glimpse into my imaginary political career. Before Jesse Jackson Jr. became the congressional representative for Illinois' 2nd District, the office was held by Mel Reynolds. Mel had a little problem in that he liked to touch underage girls. Mel went to prison. With the congressional seat vacant, I began to plot my own ascension to power. There were several problems with this idea, but my biggest barrier was a constitutional one: I was seventeen at the time.

Nevertheless, I began to plan my campaign strategy. I would take my message directly to the people; a megaphone and a soapbox would be my accoutrements. My cause célèbre? The drug war.

It was a plan destined to fail as poor urban neighborhoods are famously conservative when it comes to crime and other social issues. However, these same areas are disproportionately affected by the collection of ineffective laws and misguided policies that characterize our response to the problem of narcotics.

The shocking violence perpetrated by Mexican drug cartels near the border has brought the issue to light again. Earlier this year, the Secretary of State acknowledged that the U.S. shares "a co-responsibility" for the violence that is decimating Mexico¹.

Her statements however, do not go nearly far enough. Our drug control policies have given us more addicts, more criminals, more violence and more narcotics at higher prices. If I may, Sec. Clinton, I've prepared a sentence for you which will effectively sum up the situation:

Our four decades long policy of criminalization and interdiction² has been an unmitigated failure.

Brick

You may not give a damn about what I'm watching through Netflix, but I didn't blog in the month of May, so I'm just going to throw everything against the wall...

Brick
At first, I didn't like it. The characters are not believable, the dialogue is preposterous, but then I reminded myself that it was a genre movie. It's a Film Noir. It has all the trappings one would expect from a noir: a dead girl, a hard-boiled detective, a femme fatale, twists, turns, angles and campy Dashiell Hammett style dialogue. It just happens to be set in a high school.

Wrong!

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And...


Also wrong.

Yeah, so um... May; I don't know what happened. I was working on a post about the drug war and then the next thing I knew, it was June. So anyway, you may have noticed that I heart the BBC mini-series Jekyll. It has the greatest opening scene ever: