Hammer Mill Days

I'm still a little lost here, so bear with me. Jesus. What the hell happened to the sun? Where is that flaming ball of gaseous energy? No one knows. Yeah, big things are happening here at the Hammer Mill. Really big things. Like the giant garage sale Marvin (my personal robot assistant) has talked us all into participating in (and contributing to). That's bigger than we really want it to be, frankly. For one thing, we don't HAVE a garage. And if we DID have one, we wouldn't sell it (we just got it in my imaginary world, for chrissake - what's the matter with you, man?) Seriously, though, I think Marvin is selling everything we own, including all of our instruments. That's like being up shit creek and selling your paddle in a garage sale. (In fact, it IS being up shit creek and selling the paddle... assuming some fool wants to buy it.) I understand someone has offered $12 for my Roland A-90EX. That would be a fair piece of change.... if I set it on fire first. Wh...

Just a short number again. Just flew in from tuckered-town. Man, my arms are tired! Kopassus redux. Looks like Obama is seriously considering restoring funding to the Indonesian armed forces, including the notorious Kopassus organization, renowned for human rights violations in Aceh, East Timor, and elsewhere in and around the archipelago. The indefatigable journalist Allen Nairn has been reporting on this consistently for decades, and was recently interviewed on Democracy Now! about the administration's flirtation with these pirates. Restoration of aid to Kopassus and other elements of the Indonesian military - responsible for killing hundreds of thousands - would not be good news, and it would be truly unforgivable for someone like Obama, who is not stupid and who spent some part of his youth in that country. There is no way that Obama doesn't know what these people are about. And yet, he appears to be on the verge of going there anyway. What's the excuse? In a way, the...