Madman Entertainment in Australia just made a little music video for a band called (as I understand it) This Is Serious, Mum, or TISM. The new single from their album The White Albun is entitled "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me," and it's now time for you to go hear it (if you're not in a major hurry, I recommend the album mix, but I'm a take-your-time, 70s-style, album-ey girl, so what the fuck do I know? Nada).

But I think I'm beginning to understand John Edward's strange affinity for bunny-rabbits.

Hat tip for the bunny video goes to Lileks (who, in the last big paragraph of the linked post, explains how he handles it when his toddler sneaks into the room while he's playing a video about angst-ridden bunnies who are dissatisfied with their erotic histories—that lay in the house that Jack built).

Ye gads; could I be any wordier? Goodbye.

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1 Now that damn song is stuck in my head, thanks for sharing Miss Attila! I'm an old school rocker at heart, but that song sounded excellent on my computer stereo. I'm also a sucker for cute, cleverly-animated cartoon animals coming to terms with social angst. I also think it's a bit ironic that their video would have no doubt been "cutting edge" in MTV's heyday. "Internet Killed the Video Star" indeed! p.s. Did you see their "message from the band" video? It looks like they're dressed as Hershey's Chocolate Kisses or something. I'm keeping an ear out for TISM!

Posted by: Zoot at October 31, 2004 04:02 PM (buRV3)

2 No, I'll have to check that other one out.

Posted by: Attila Girl at October 31, 2004 06:33 PM (SuJa4)

3 Bunnies! (Finally I'm at a computer with Quicktime installed.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 01, 2004 03:44 AM (+S1Ft)

4 LOL YES! i love that video! i have watched it 18 times today (and counting) O_O those lyrics are really cool too....but i cant seem to find the rest of them meh - its still cool

Posted by: Uberfominian at November 19, 2004 10:10 PM (BFw8t)

5 does anyone have that song as an audio file? i really want it really bad!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: sprrrm at November 20, 2004 12:46 PM (ywoFM)

6 I've looked.........it's just not out there yet....

Posted by: Ruteger at November 23, 2004 11:22 AM (WltZP)

7 Everyone else has had more sex than me. Everyone else has had more sex than me. Everyone else has had more sex than me. Does anyone else get that feeling? Teenagers naked, Couple in threes Grandparents swing from the ceiling. Everyone else has had more sex than me. Everyone else has had more sex than me. Corporate chambers and office amore. Shenanigans outdoor and in. Resist and then later your find out there's more Regret in not doing the sin. Our lives have to die Of that there's no help My favourite way to end them Is the orb-weaver spider's whose pedipalp Enters the female pudendum. Then dies on the spot His corpse there still stuck, Left for his rivals to curse at. He would rather die than not get to f^ck Personally I reckon it's worth it. Everyone else has had more sex than me. Does anyone else get that feeling? Everyone else has had more sex than me. Does everybody else get that feeling? ... Does everyone think...

Posted by: chieftain at December 02, 2004 09:31 PM (rJcoj)

8 This song is great and funny. Just the fact that they use BUNNIES...thats just great... Rock On!!!!!

Posted by: wacky hack at December 13, 2004 01:41 PM (6tnQ0)

9 hehe i can relate

Posted by: itsmemario at December 13, 2004 08:06 PM (zB8Cn)

10 Where can I get a copy of this song either MP3 or WMA or somethin!! IT ROCKS.. I wish i could find a bunny that could sing! cuz then i'd train it to sing this song......!!!

Posted by: V3k at December 17, 2004 11:11 AM (GoM83)

11 Just ordered the boxset with the album containing this song and 2 DVDs of video stuff, including both versions of this video. Hope noone kills me for advertising this company, but i can reccomend http://fbo.com.au/ for getting this boxset, it's about $25US including shipping to europe. This song is definately going to be the next geek anthem...

Posted by: Ghlargh at December 19, 2004 02:30 AM (GfL9q)

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I don't know whether to weep or to eat my gun when I read things like this:

A talking animal on a Palestinian children's television show has advocated starting a massacre with AK-47 firearms.

The violent suggestion came in response to a question from a child moderator on the program, which runs on official Palestinian TV, reported Palestinian Media Watch.

The recently aired episode was dedicated to the importance of trees. The moderator asked "Tarabisho," a talking chick, what he would do if someone, specifically a "little boy," were to chop down his tree. In his squeaky little voice, Tarabisho answered that he would shoot the little boy with an AK-47 automatic rifle, create a massacre and make a riot.

The following is the full text of the translated dialogue between the child moderator and Tarabisho:

Girl: If a boy comes in front of your house where a tree is planted, and cuts it down, what would you do?

Talking chick: I have two trees in front of my house.

Girl: If a little boy cuts them down, what will you do to him?

Talking chick: What I'll do to him? I'll fight him and make a big riot. I'll call the whole world and make a riot. I'll bring AK-47s and the whole world. I'll commit a massacre in front of the house.

Palestinian Media Watch, which features a video of the exchange, reported the moderator twice checked her notes while asking the questions, suggesting this was not a spontaneous discussion but was a deliberate educational message planned by the writers and producers of the show.

The program aired shortly after the Israeli army leveled many of the trees used by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza to hide rocket launchers.

As WorldNetDaily reported, Palestinian Authority television produced a "Sesame Street"-like children's program called the "Children's Club" – complete with puppet shows, songs, Mickey Mouse and other characters – focused on inculcating intense hatred of Jews and a passion for engaging in and celebrating violence against them in a perpetual "jihad" until the day the Israeli flags come down from above "Palestinian land" and the Palestinian flag is raised.

In one song on the "Children's Club," very young children are shown singing songs about wanting to become "suicide warriors" and to take up "a machine gun" to direct "violence, anger, anger, anger" against Israelis.

During the show, which featured children aged 4-10, one young boy sings, "When I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber." Afterward, other children stand to call for "Jihad! Holy war to the end against the Zionist enemy."

It always makes me wonder how guys like Jeff and Laurence can joke about the sick, murderous nature of Palestinian society. How are you able to make light of the fact that people want you dead? I find myself railing at them each for a moment every now and then until I remember that I'm now in the same situation myself, and I've only really been aware of it for three years.

I'm just not yet accustomed to the fact that there are a lot of people out there who want to kill me because I'm from this country. And nothing else would matter to them.

A lot of aware Jews out there have lived with this their entire lives—at least on a theoretical level—and are therefore coping better than I am.

(Also, Laurence and Jeff are funnier people from the get-go.)

The riff started with Protein Wisdom, who provided the link to this rather horrific little bit of news.

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Power Line's Hindracker hits the big time:

NBC News has asked me to be part of their election night broadcast team. I'm not sure yet exactly what the format will be, but I'll be in New York at the NBC studio. I'll once again be paired with the Wonkette. Given the long hours that these election night shows consume, I expect to get some air time. I'll try to lend whatever balance I can to NBC's coverage, and if I get the opportunity, I'll let Tom Brokaw know that I'm one of the guys he called a "Jihadist" in connection with Hurricane Dan.

So: tune in to NBC on election night. If it's a good night for President Bush and the Republicans, I'll be the only happy guy in the building.

I'll be with the Los Angeles Bear Flag Leaguers on the West Side, celebrating the Bush win, and I would think we'll probably tune in, though it certainly won't be up to me.

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Over at Jane Galt, Megan McArdle has fiiiinaaalllyy made up her mind. She goes through the issues close to her tree-hugging, libertarian heart and tells us which guy wins out on each issue before making her reluctant declaration.

It's good reading, because she in some ways a genuine centrist, and she's smarter—and better-informed—than I am. Good stuff. Go, now—no matter your political persuasion. It's one of the most thoughtful political essays I've read this whole damned election season.

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Oh, no fair. Eminem has this new video to underscore the fact that we're never the cool kids on the block. And they're all wearing their black hoodies to the polls.

Nice video, though: I like the way the animation is integrated into the live action of Eminem himself.

Hm. Should I wear my gray zip jacket with the hood? Will it make me cool? At 42, I'm finding that quality more and more elusive.

We should wear hoodies that are white. Or multicolored ones in red, white and blue. Or orange hoodies, since it'll be two days after Halloween. Or maple-leaf brown, for autumn.

You know what we should wear?—red. It's the symbol of blood and bravery.

Michele praises the video, and notes that it's Eminem's right to speak his mind about the President. But she points out that it's a little hypocritical of the left to 1) lionize celebrities who speak out on politics only when you agree with them, and 2) suddenly decide they like Eminem after all, when just ten minutes ago they despised him as a gay-bashing misogynist who glorified violence.

Hey, Michele—that was then. This is now.

You know what sucks about this election? In a sane year, efforts like those of Election Protection would be bipartisan efforts, rather than the Democrats having their own poll observers and the Republicans, our own. Or we'd at least be able to cooperate to the point that we would have squads of observers, equally matched as to party, at each location to make sure that no one is intimidated, but that no voter fraud occurs. Instead, we have mutual suspicion and rumors of intimidation based on race—and yet, at times, an out and out celebration of vote fraud by Democrats. And of course that isn't right, either: whenever someone votes fraudulently another citizen is being disenfranchised.

This sucks. No matter what happens, I hope America regains its equilibrium, and I weep for what we've lost.

I hope it doesn't take another attack to bring us together again.

Please get this over with, and please—let there be some peace and reasonableness when it's done. And get my democracy to some radiation therapy, please: it has cancer.

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Watch your backs, boys and girls. Bin Ladin might be getting ready for another attack over the weekend; CIA analysts are trying to figure out if there are hidden instructions in his latest videotape.

Of course, he might not try to attack us, figuring that Americans could well react just the opposite of the Spaniards in such a case.

But keep on the lookout anyway; it'll be a scary weekend in a very literal, non-Halloween-like way.

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And they voted my entry, "Letter to an Undecided Voter," the best non-council entry! That's pretty gratifying.

The best Council entry was Alpah Patriot's essay on Judging Character.

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. . . malfunctions in the Rove chips? I'm having trouble thinking straight. Lots of static.

Supposed to say . . . Russians took the explosives from Al-Qaqaa . . . Ter-AY-suh is ugly, and Edwards is dim . . . we're up in Florida and Pennsylvania, and still might take Ohio. Michigan is falling, falling to us fast. Hawai'i is being seduced by the dark side . . .

Out. Signal's out. Nothing to blog about.

Perhaps Voldemort can help me; as it turns out, he's a good IT guy. Who knew?

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Megan McArdle, guest-blogging for Glenn Reynolds, links to her idea of an "October surprise."

I think it's cute, but I'm crude. I've been told that it's about ten years old.

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All I can say is, I hope he's in a lot of pain. Maybe he'll have a slow, lingering death—just in case there isn't a hell. (I'm not against hedging my bets.)

My favorite part of the coverage is the fact that his wife has to join him from France, reminding us that his family is safely ensconsed in Europe: he only wants other people's families to die.

Outside the Beltway:

It must be getting serious. The press is already dusting off the Arafat obituary. Apparently, contrary to my belief that he was a mass murdering scumbag, he was simply a dynamic leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize. I stand corrected.

That's vintage Joyner.

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A new group, The Truth About Iraq, is trying to counter the media distortions and omissions about the liberation; they even ran an editorial in the L.A. Times to try to get it across to skeptical Americans that Iraqis really do want democracy:

Nearly 55% of Iraqis say that toppling Hussein was worth the price of the current difficulties. These figures are easy to understand when you look at another set of numbers. In an Op-Ed article circulated this year among the more than 200 independent newspapers now published in Iraq, an Iraqi democratic activist observed that Hussein tortured and killed as many as 750,000 of his own people. Iraqis don't understand the debate about whether Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. To them, Hussein was a weapon of mass destruction.

UNICEF, hardly an apologist for the Bush administration, estimates that 5,000 Iraqi children a month died of starvation and malnutrition while Hussein siphoned funds from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program to build his palaces and enrich French politicians.

Via Dean Esmay.

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Wrote a rather remarkable essay called "Why I'm (Slightly) For Bush." And one of the most remarkable things about it is that it was printed in The Nation.

Real Clear Politics has it listed right next to Andrew Sullivan's endorsement of John Kerry, of course.

Wonder if they're still talking. I hope so.

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Jeff at Protein Wisdom sums up the situation:

If we are to believe the subtext of The New York Times / Kerry / CBS missing explosives story—which argues, however obliquely, that US troops under the command of the Bushies allowed high-grade explosives to be pilfered by terrorists from beneath their noses—we must accept at least two conditional assumptions upon which the Times / Kerry / CBS News axis pins its hopes—first, that an initial cursory search by the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division overlooked (or, at the very least, missed the IAEA seals labeling) the explosives that were in fact still there at the facility; and second, that between this time (April 10) and the time “a special U.S. exploitation team looking for weapons of mass destruction searched all 32 bunkers and 87 buildings” and found nothing (May 27), hostiles were able to remove the explosives from the facility while many US forces remained in the general area (and where the roads were closed)—managing not only to avoid detection by US forces on the ground, but managing likewise to thwart surveillance by satellites and spy planes, loading the explosives on a large number of heavy trucks and disappearing unnoticed. Couple these two conditional assumptions with the Times / Kerry / CBS News’ cabal’s omission, in its recent reporting, of two reports from early April of 2003 suggesting the 3ID had already investigated the Al Qakaa facility, and we’re now left with yet another narrative nodal point where—if we are to believe the Times / Kerry / CBS version of events—we must assume US military command incompetence is ascendent.

...Or (and hereÂ’s the possibility the NYT / Kerry / CBS collective doesnÂ’t want to acknowledge) another explanation is, the explosives had already been either removed or destroyed before US troops arrived.

Granted, this second possibility isn’t so sexy—no stealth super terrorists to embarrass the dundering US military and its evil, arrogant Commander in Chimp by filching materials needed to detonate a nuclear weapon out from under our imperialist noses—but from the standpoint of plausibility (and, I almost hasten to add, terrestrial physics) ...well, I’ll let you decide which of the two scenarios is more likely.

Get over there for the links, updates, and other coverage of this issue—as well as pictures of John Edwards with bunnies and pages from Martha Stewart's prison diary. It's your basic one-stop shopping for info and entertainment.

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. . . from Mark Steyn, in which he uses the recent "assassination joke" on the part of a countryman as a point of departure to discuss cool irony and the European penchant for passivity. As in, how does it fit into the current world conflict, with people getting their heads chopped off just for attempting to do good works?

Not very well, he concludes:

This new war requires action, resolve, ongoing participation—and most of America's "allies" just can't be fagged. The Spanish vote was a vote for passivity, a call for inaction, and a quiet life no doubt with many "ironic jokes" about the absurd Americans. The "civilised world" sees itself like Continental skating judges at the Olympics, watching the Yanks career all over the ice and then handing out a succession of cranky 4.7s. The decadence of passivity does not express itself solely in "ironic jokes".

My problem is that John Kerry is part of that culture: he wants to criticize people of action rather than actually doing anything himself. Look at his lackluster Senate record, and listen to his micro-criticisms of the Bush Administration's accomplishments. Listen to his own plan: I'd have done everything better somehow, and people in other countries wouldn't dislike us so.

It may be too late for John Kerry to grow a spine, but I still have some hope the Western Europeans will figure things out soon. Certainly there are plenty of English who "get it." And then there are the Australians, to whom I'm grateful. Even a few Canadians (Kate, are you reading this?). And the Polish, for whom this is a labor of love. God bless them.

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So, I can't access the old Yahoo account from this computer, probably because I need to clear out my LMA in box. I thought I'd mostly solved that problem when I opened the Gmail account, but now Gmail won't come up for me. Could this be because my machine is a little light on memory?—or is there another explanation. I haven't been able to get to my Gmail at all since I returned from Santa Barbara. So that's over 24 hours.

Let me know if you have insight.

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Gives us the Complete Idiot's Guide to Bumperstickers. Brought to you from spectacular Berkeley, California—the bumpersticker capital of the world. Enjoy.

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. . . I'll be at 30,000 unique hits to this site, unless there's a huge drop in traffic.

Every 10K visit mark gets easier to get to—they come closer and closer together.

However, I'm not yet at the point that I can claim I'm getting all Dan Rather's old viewers. Not yet.

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My husband has a friend who's a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat—a staunch union advocate, someone who associates the GOP with society's elites. He's had a troubled relationship with his party for years, especially when it was pushing hard for gun control in the 1990s. But on the whole he's been remarkably loyal. He despised Gore for the phony he was, and swore he wouldn't vote for him. But at the last minute he found himself at the polls pulling the level for Albert, Jr., with a heavy heart.

He's voting for Bush this year.

Why? Well, for one thing, he was in an army LRRP unit in Vietnam, and got wounded. When they offered him a purple heart, he refused it: in his mind, purple hearts were reserved for those who got badly wounded—shot up so much they needed surgery to survive. People who suffered, not people who got scratches. And for another thing, as an anti-elitist he despises the fact that officers can recommend themselves to receive decorations for valor—and enlisted men cannot. The fact that Kerry took advantage of this inequity disgusts him.

And Kerry's actions when he returned from the war do not help at all.

But most of all, our friend is convinced that we are locked in a mortal conflict with an enemy who wants to kill us, and we need someone decisive at the helm. Someone who really wants to win this war, rather than hold summits.

Kerry's history, and what it says about his character, doesn't help. But mostly, our friend wants the guy who's willing to do what it takes to protect this country.

So he's holding his nose and voting for Bush.

And he won't be the only one: there are plenty of Democrats who feel the same way. They may not proclaim it loudly right now, but in a week they'll let their ballots do the talking.

Remember the "Reagan Democrats"? They're back.

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. . . has Bush at 296, and Kerry at 242 EVs. Plus: Cal-ee-fornia has just moved from "Solid Kerry" to "Close Kerry." Mary Beth Cahill is in bed with a headache.

Real Clear Politics has it much closer, of course: Bush 234, Kerry 228, with a handful of undecideds—but those include both Florida and Ohio. Obviously, Bush needs both those states to win (well, he might not need Ohio, if he gets Minnesota and/or Wisconsin—but no one wants something close enough that the Dems can contest it in the courts).

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Scott Ott breaks the story! Bush concedes that there will be bad news after the election:

"My opponent speaks the truth when he says that some Americans are going to get some bad news--maybe even before the sun comes up on November 3," said Mr. Bush, "It will involve defeat and the realization that huge sums of money have been wasted on an unwinnable battle against a determined and entrenched foe."

Read the whole thing.

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