Free Republic

An organization called Global Exchange, based in San Francisco, promotes political tourism to Venezuela, defined in its brochure as a country where "winds of change are blowing." The introduction to the sales pitch is full of praise for the strongman Hugo Chávez, while all references and links recommended to those who might be interested are those known to be shameless propaganda appendices of the Venezuelan regime: Venezuelanalysis.com, VHeadline.com and such. Chávez's agenda, reads the brochure: "includes fighting corruption, redistributing national wealth and opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas." My laughing aloud gave way to indignation when the brochure...

MIDI - END OF THE WORLD We are the RAT underground gang Our hopes cannot be renewed It feels like it's the end of our world By dumb, drunk, frat boy we've been screwed We thought we really could nail 'em We still fought Florida's feud It feels like it's the end of our world By dumb, drunk, frat boy we've been screwed We're told "Your head is in the seventh planet" And we'll blow up the next time we sneeze We can't understand…no, we can't understand Our only friend's Tarik Aziz We have been rooting for Saddam We...