So, I've only had one or two days off from doing the show since January and no days off if you count all the other stuff I gotta do, and since I've been working my ass off all weekend and I'm jealous about all these jerks who get two weeks to go to the beach and whathaveyou, and since so many reds were slaughtered by federal troops so I can take Labor Day off, I'm thinking I should slack off and just play music on the show today. Unless ya'll got the day off and want to call in the show and...

(*supposedly)

"The battle is over," an unoffficial source in the Lebanese army said. "The Lebanese army has seized the last positions of Fatah Islam in the camp."

First, there was this piece in the (otherwise highly unreliable) Debka file website: ------- DEBKAfile: USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group takes up position opposite Lebanese coast amid trepidation over September presidential election Our military sources report that aboard the Kearsarge group’s vessels are members of the 22nds Marine special operations-capable Expeditionary Unit, ready to execute landings on Lebanese beaches. Wednesday, Aug. 29, Adm. William Fallon, chief of US Central...

Video here.

$10 Billion a month for $3.25 (USD) Add $100,000 a Minute for $3.25 (USD) Add $600 billion so far for $3.25 (USD) Add 200 Million Died When Wilson Lied for $3.25 (USD) Add 25% of all the prisoners for $3.25 (USD) Add 655,000 Dead Civilians can't be Wrong - Vote Republican for $3.25 (USD) Add A highway man is as much for $3.25 (USD) Add Abandon Israel for $3.25 (USD) Add All I Need to Know I Learn from Pirate Radio for $3.25 (USD) Add All libertarians are anti-war for $3.25 (USD) Add All...

for today: Will Grigg and Wayne White. Listen live here 11am-1pm Texas time. MP3 here.

Now here's an idea for making more:

Video here. Thanks to the brilliant Max Raskin.

Here. Thanks to Tex.

Folks, this is what's being done on Linux these days. My desktop is very similar to this. I don't have all of these features enabled because I don't currently have a powerful CPU, but this is a lot closer to mine than anything else I could find on Youtube. The window manager is called Beryl, and it is what is causing these effects, including the 3D cube (Skydome) effect and all of the neat things done with the windows. For all the hype about Vista's "Aero" desktop, Microsoft could only do...

http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/post-labor-day-product-rollout-war-with.html

And you? Thanks to Tex.

for today: 1st hour: Patrick Cockburn. 2nd hour: Gareth Porter. Listen here 12-1 Eastern.