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  In Argentina, goldfish have been recognized as "sentient beings with rights." Yep the goldfish have rights and more rights than Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. More rights than most First Nations North Americans. The goldfish here under discussion are named Fede and Magui and they've been living in a fish tank highlighting a sushi restaurant in Buenos Aires. Well not any more. After the Argentine court ruled on the goldfish' behalf, the fish were moved under tight Argentine security to a rather posh new fish tank that is roomy water conditioned for goldfish comfort and away from the glaring light of a Buenos Aires sun. Fish had been living in a restaurant window on a Buenos Aires street and the fishies were in close proximity to the restaurant kitchen. That had to suck no doubt. Anyway, goldfish won their case in Argentine Court, won their right to be sentient, and they won the right for all species to be all they can be. The celebrity goldfish wi...

The Architecture of Indifference co-authored by Nash/Gemini When I was a child, technology possessed a tangible, honest simplicity. My first radio was a tiny gadget shaped like a spaceship. It required no transistors, no batteries, and no wall plugs. To hear the world, I simply attached an alligator clip to my window screen to pull free audio right out of the ether, tuning the signal with a sliding knob. It was a direct, uncomplicated connection to the human voice. We listened to that radio in a world fraught with existential dread; my family, like millions of others, lived under the shadow of the Cold War, certain the "Rooskies" were going to drop the bomb. "Duck and cover" was the lesson of the day. We were hyper-aware of our fragility, and survival meant looking outward, together. Decades later, I sit before a brand-new desktop computer, having finally navigated a modern gauntlet of setup friction—a relentless barrier of codes, passkeys, and digital interrogation...

  The open then closed then open then closed then openclosed is back in the news and deer leader trumpf insists the Strait of Hormuz is open. No it's closed. Whatever. Trumpf plans to charge shippers a "toll" to navigate the Strait. I'm not sure who trumpf will get to man that toll booth. The Air Force? Army? Marines? Navy? USPS? Trumpf hasn't indicated how that's going to work. What is certain is trumpf is back to bombing school girls in Iran and the Iranians issued an APB for 25, no the Iranians changed their minds and it's just 13 world leaders are to be cacked. The new junior ayatollah made the change and you can bet that trumpf and the yid war criminal bibi netanyahu are one two at the top of that Iranian kill list. I wish the Iranians well and god speed on their mission of "revenge." Oh sorry I believe that should read allah speed. I suppose. Anyway, trumpf replied that should the Iranians actually manage to assassinate trumpf well we'l...

  Senator Lindsey 'swishy' Graham has bought the farm. Turfed it. Cacked cold. He dead kids and what a surprise for a Sunday morning. Don't be fooled by all the fawning hypocrisy washing hither and yon ... Graham was a war mongering torture approving fucknut that relished the chance to sit behind his senate desk and wish hell and high water on people run afoul of the U.S. of A.. Graham loved war. Graham loved torture being applied to "other" human beings. Graham was instrumental in assisting all the war crimes committed during the Bush wars of naked aggression on Afghanistan and Iraq. Graham approved of clandestine rendition. Graham approved of illegal detention. Graham was an armchair asshole that adored violence being wrought on other humans but not on himself. Hell no way. Our world is much better off with the evil freak dead. Now ... the McConnell people need to break clean on the alive or dead question being put to another absolutely abhorrent human being and...

  Saturday found  that the trumpf regime is going after the New York Times for an article the Times ran about Air Force One. That's the presidential jumbo jet that is exclusively used by American presidents and el jefe. I haven't a clue as to what the Times article may have reported. I can't access the Times website as they've got an absurd blockade on their webpage and if'n you've a mind to read what the Times has to say about anything ... well ... pay their toll and you'll get to read whatever. I'm not about to pay to read the Times. Not a chance. However, whatever it was the Times reported must have been spot on as the trumpf went ballistic and it's law suit city which is the trumpf usual response to just about anything his assholeness finds ... icky. Now and according to the Constitution of these United States of America and the very first in the Bill of Rights afforded to every last American in this land of gilded hypocrisy ...  The First Amendm...

FIFA should have never agreed to allow the trumpf version of Amerika to host the World Cup. First off there was the obscene grifting by Infantino, head cheese of FIFA, of the 'fifa piece prize' which should have warned the FIFA participants that the 2026 World Cup was compromised. It's my understanding that the FIFA board did not authorize Infantino's gesticulating to trumpf with the ridiculous fifa piece price. The piece price was the price Infantino had to grift to trumpf for White Trash House imprimatur for the games. Second off, Infantino himself is more than compromised and is as corrupt and malleable as would be trumpf. For FIFA to regain any sort of stature in the world of soccer, Infantino MUST be put on trial and held to account for his mismanagement of FIFA. Third up, FIFA needs to clean house on their officiating crews. Set rules, knowledgeable officials that can handle the job of referring those World Cup matches, and make damn certain the officials understa...