Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Chernobyl

So a while back I was enthralled by this site about a sexy Russian biker chick who roams around the lonely wastes surrounding Chernobyl, with memorable quotes about why Chernobyl is a good place for a biker, such as it is "a town where one can ride fast, with no stoplights, no police, no danger to hit some cage or some dog."

Anyway, there's a fascinating article in today's New York Times about tourism at Chernobyl, which also mentions this website.

In other news, a friend proposed an idea that is brilliant in its simplicity: instead of counting on the Democrats to save us from the frothing-mouthed religious right -- something the Dems appear incapable of doing -- why not just give up on them, and focus on taking over the GOP? Everyone should register Republican in the next election and vote en masse for whatever moderate Republicans are left.

1 Comments:

hellophotokitty said...

I've seen this girl's website - it rocks! And I saw something on 60 minutes that haunted me - Mike Wallace was walking through the streets of Chernobyl and he said that the gvmnt had to pump music into the streets because it was so quiet otherwise, that the cleanup workers started to go insane. And the peice they played was some Aria by Vagner. So creepy that it still haunts me to this day.

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