As Campaign 2004 continues to heat up, the Bush administration follows a tradition of awarding monies to key areas in an effort to gain votes. However, the interesting thing about this year’s porkbarrel vote buy in is that the Bush White House is now taking credit for awarding money through programs that Bush specifically tried…

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Jerome F. Keating summarizes recent media coverage of politics in Taiwan with the slant that politicians seeking to use the media to their advantage will often be shown as fools by the media than as heroes. Some humorous images.

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Stodgy White Guy is back in Utah with his kids while his wife is stuck in Taiwan waiting for the immigration people to approve her re-entry permit. The waiting period is something over four hundred days. That is just plain suckful to the maximum. Excuse me, could I bend over while you insert that baseball…

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These are some very striking photo retouches by Glenn Honiball.

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Mindcrime posts a panorama from two years ago . . . Hong Kong. My wife is from Hong Kong and I love the city. It’s been awhile since we visited . . . but will definately be there for the Disney’s opening . . . not so far away in the future.

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Poagao has a rather intriguing photograph of TC Lin using a tripod with a video camera that is well worth a looksee. Poagao’s Journal . . . who would have thunk it? Been there, done that, have the lousy photos to prove it.

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Dr. Susan Block gives a run down on what she calls Bush’s POW Porn, discussing the recently released photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse. One flaw in her essay is simply that she’s overstepping . . . way over the line . . . there is no evidence, none whatsoever, that Bush gets some sort of…

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Okay . . . not the kind of bodypainting I usually post about here at Life of Brian, but this is really quite the interesting take on Spiderman. It’s both a good rendition of Spidey and a bit of a taste of reality. Makes me think twice about breaking out my old Kaptain Krimesquasher uniform…

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These are really well done . . . why you should never post your picture on the internet . . . very clever use of photoshop.

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A few of these FunnyAzHell short animations are a bit disturbing and for mature audiences but others are okay for work. Figure it out on your own. The Jesus Saves is a bit much in the pointless violence but the How to Pick Up is funny.

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You will note that I have added a new category to Life of Brian . . . the Games by Brian David Phillips section will be where I post one-off or flashtype games (as in flash fiction, not as in computerie things). I will on very rare occasions post the rules here and the game materials in…

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Neil Gaiman and child have been playing around with Hunkin’s Experiments. Some entertaining bits worth the ol’ look-see.

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Recently, grade inflation at American universities has been in the news . . . it’s been a bit of a conundrum on the local level as well . . . while we have the “best and the brightest” students, it seems awkward to grade them with the same standards as other schools. Unfortunately, the trend…

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Dan Renzi, of Real World television series fame, was arrested for masturbating in a gay porn theatre in Kansas City. He was the only one of the folks arrested taken to the police station and that is only because one of the arresting officers recognized him from television. Evidently, celebrity is the kiss of death…

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The New York Times reports

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This girl is playing with fire. Wow. Definately not the best idea and most certainly not safe for work. Don’t check this out unless strange sexual antics amuse you. Basically, she goes around Tokyo flashing and performing sexual acts in public to see how passersby will react . . . part of a new wave…

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The Taipei Kid has been eating at Hooters: It has been a long time since I’ve been to Hooters. It was packed last night, packed with both foreigners and locals–tons of businessmen, couples, families, and, inexplicably, gay men. Unlike other Hooters, the draw in Taipei is actually the food, tasty, but very expensive food. As…

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This is just plain ridiculous. The middle school basektball coach calls this kid up and tells him to be certain to attend the awards banquet as he would be getting a special award. After all of his teammates recevied their standard awards, the coach calls this kid up and gives him the “Crybaby Award” for…

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Not all of the images from Iraq are of atrocities. Not all of the soldiers there are doing evil. Most believe they are there to do a job. Whether Americans believe in the job they have been sent there to do, we still must respect the young people doing it honorably to the best of…

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