…’cause dictators don’t get all their kicks from oppressing and killing people. Dictators are people too!

via boing boing

From the Voice Project, a wonderful project trying to support the peace movement in Uganda. Artists spread the word by covering music by another artist. There’re some fantastic videos on their web site. Here’s another great cover by Priscilla Ahn.

number of escort services and mcdonald’s restaurants, respectively, in washington d.c.: 26, 23
percentage change in the average amount of food a person will consume when eating with one other person: +35
percentage change with four or seven others, respectively: +75, +96

from harper’s magazine, october 2007

i saw this info when i created a log-in for the weather.com web site: “In addition, we ask for year of birth as part of our compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.” Ok…makes sense…i mean…weather is so…err…um…

estimated number of gallons of extra gasoline burned each year because americans are overweight: 938,000,000
from the harper’s index, november 2006

…the bush administration cut anti-terrorism funding to new york by forty percent this year. the reason: the department of homeland security concluded that the city has no national icons or monuments that terrorists would want to attack…

Nothing more needs to be said.

wait, so michael brown was fired because of everything that went wrong in new orleans after hurrican katrina…then…rehired…as…a…consultant to find out…(scratching head) what went wrong……in…new orleans…after…katrina……?!? what the f—?!?
i want his job!

This is from a series of spray paintings done on the Palestinian side of the Israeli “separation wall.” More background here.