The sun is certainly shining brightly on the Bush Regime's various administrative atrocities. First Michael Jackson appears to keep the mainstream media dutifully distracted from anything important. Like the quiet insemination of "Patriot Act II," which basically dismantles the Constitution and then urinates on the pieces.

Now, some ex-baseball player named Pete Rose is all you hear about. Something tells me we'll be hearing about Pete for a long time. Between the spectacle of Jackson's imminent "trial of the century," Saddam Hussein's interrogation and Rose's gambling confession, how much room for real news will newspapers and television have time for?

I've harped on this issue before, but please sign the Media Carta manifesto. Our military-industrial-entertainment complex is a sad and twisted mockery specifically designed to distract, confuse and move product. Only the product being sold is you.

Turn off your televisions. This is memetic war to extermination.

"We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself."

--William S. Burroughs