Working Ann's Dead

Will wonders never cease? It has been disclosed that Ann Coulter is an avid Deadhead. The anorexic right-wing hack with rhetorical Tourette's Syndrome seems to have been to her share of shows, and has the tapes to prove it. What's next- Dick Cheney admits to a fondness for Pink Floyd? Newt Gingrich longs for the good old days of following the Jefferson Airplane? Just where did the hippies go wrong that one of their ranks could turn out to be a trash-talking conservative she-devil? Needless to say, Ann Coulter won't be sleeping on MY couch any time soon.

On the other side of the fence, it has been disclosed that Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are annual attendees of the Bohemian Grove festivities, and have drawn the ire of the Bohemian Grove Action Network. This certainly represents the ultimate in selling out, and one wonders just what goes on out there. Do Bobby and Micky cajole Henry Kissinger and others into tie-dye t-shirts while they all drink blood from Geronimo's skull? Maybe so. The greater question, though, is, why were they invited? I guess it's mighty impressive that a rag-tag group of nominally-talented reprobates could create a financial empire off the backs of young burrito-vendors, hat-makers, and trustafarians. And, after all, they don't work- they play. That's doing it the opportunistic, I mean, the American way. Excuse me, but the colors are getting in my eyes.

http://pissedoffcabbie.blogspot.com/

They're all more special than you are (or me, for that matter) -- just ask 'em.

These guys are all in the stratosphere with regard to wealth and influence; it shouldn't be surprising that they have a wide range of interests and a willingness to absorb ideas outside the class of the manager drones who report to them in their day jobs.

If they have day jobs.

cow manure is a Dead Head.

And Bob Weir HATES tie-dye t-shirts.

Go to the blog, and read the interview with Ann. And, read the news report about Bobby and Mickey at Bohemiam Grove. I don't make this stuff up.

and you can get tapes on ebay. Doesn't prove a thing.

Gets trashed in the lot and then talks through the entire show about how trashed she got in the lot ;) Ugggh.

How would the kids on tour afford to get from show to show? ;)

(* For the uninitiated - "custie" is short for "customer", as in, "I'll sell you a $1 beer for $3 and you'll be trashed enough to pay for it :) )

creature?

You want to take about the Grateful Dead, great! (thought, I suppose, you will be moved to the Lounge - not that anything is wrong with this).

But do we really have to report here, on DU, on every bowl movement that she had, any belch, any mosquito bites?

Please, can we pledge to keep the pages of this blog clean and not to write about her - unless she is the target of Limbaugh Viagra?

Ah, you're no fun. Finding out that Ann Coulter is a Deadhead has made my day. I can't stop laughing.

Glad you finally found out, and got a chuckle.

This belongs in the Lounge.

(not that this has anything to do with Ann Coulter, but I found it interesting...)

According to this interview with John Perry Barlow:


AD: What is the story behind “Throwing Stones”? You wrote that in Cora as well, right?

JPB: Yeah. That’s the only explicitly political song we ever wrote. And the story behind that was that I was having a serious argument with Dick Cheney at that point, who I’d help get elected and been a pretty good congressman for the stuff that I was interested in, which was environmental stuff. We’d helped stop acid rain in the Wind River Mountains and passed the Wyoming Wilderness Act together and worked out a lot of the necessary compromises. He fished on my ranch and…we were co-conspirators.

But then he got into this obsession with the Russians and this conviction that we had a clash of cultures that had to be resolved by whatever means, and so he helped base the MX Missile in Wyoming. The original idea of the MX Missile was that it was a second-strike, retaliatory weapon that could not be taken out by a first strike because it would be running around on a vast railroad system kind of like a gigantic shell game, so the Russians wouldn’t know where the MX’s were. And the MX itself is an extremely destructive instrument. It has ten warheads, each one of which delivers 550 kilotons of explosive energy. And just for purposes of comparison, the bomb that completely leveled Hiroshima and took out half a million people in a second had only seventeen kilotons to give you some idea. So you can to the math. That’s just one missile. And the plan was to base 100 of them. And Dick was instrumental in seeing to it that they were not based in the original basing formula, which made them explicitly second strike, but that they were basically first strike weapons. They were completely naked and stationary and they were all put on launch on warning. And had all of those missiles gone, because some cloud of geese flew over a radar in Greenland, that would’ve been the end of all like on the planet. And I got so freaked out that somebody was so determined to win a political battle that he was literally willing to endanger all the life on planet Earth, that I felt like I had to say something…so I wrote that song. And like I say, I owe Dick a lot for that song.

http://www.planetjh.com/davis/davis_2005_07_27.html

Kinda looks like it, huh? If she turns sideways, she disappears.

But it'll never happen.

Bake