As many of you know, Fox News is suing Al Franken over the words “fair and balanced”.
Because Fox exudes those concepts in its news coverage.
And because it’s really cool for a purported news organization to try to take away someone’s freedom of speech.

What we need is some good, old-fashioned trademark diluting.

Luckily, Friday is Fair and Balanced Day.
Please add the words “fair and balanced” to your Web sites, your journals, your blogs, and anything other people see. There are many people participating, and the list is growing.

Let’s all get sued together. It can’t be any more expensive than standing up against Bush’s war fantasies.

Things I love to do that make me happy & fulfilled: Writing (especially poetry), photography, mountain biking, hiking, camping, whitewater rafting, traveling, visiting good friends.

How often I do any of these things: Ugh (pulls covers over head)

Level of existence I’d like to reach again: “I am invincible and now realize that I can do anything because I know I can.” (June 2, 1989, journal entry)

Pure, beautiful inspiration:

“But we also want to leave you with an intimation that the universe, all its horrors notwithstanding, is strange and marvelous; that love is the law and the drug and the pull and the push of all we do; that the pursuit of beauty is useful, honourable and healing; and that our actions in this time, in choosing forgiveness over vendetta, brilliance over mediocrity, the clean difficult way over the dubious easy option, will determine whether or not we will realise the wealth of possibilities implicit in existence.”

… Shriekback
(From the liner notes of “Big Night Music”

I know everyone is in a huff (some excited, some pissed) about the latest candidate for California governor. I’m just hoping that during a debate he grabs one of his opponents by the ankle, holds him over the edge of the stage and calmly says “Dis is my weak arm.”
Arnold’s got the starpower, the muscle and the accent, but he doesn’t have the brilliant ideas of some of his opponents. And, well, politically he’s a fascist.

No, our favorite state of sin deserves something better. It deserves a certain little something that we all have deep down inside and want to shine. It deserves another Arnold from Hollywood – a mighty voice once known to millions as Arnold Jackson. I think you know who I mean.