The Usual Suspects - There's

The Usual Suspects - There's another anti-Bush protest going on in Minneapolis today. While KARE11 says the protest is "big", the pictures show a rather small group.

They're blocking entrances to parking ramps and office buildings.

My open note to all of you: keep up the good work. Hassle working people. Make people late for work. Clutter up the sidewalks and intrude on peoples' spaces with your insipid chanting. Parade through the city in all your scraggly-goateed, tie-died, counter-social contempt for those around you; stand and croak your facile slogans in your alpaca sweaters and Volvo skirts and correctly-grayed Lutheran helmet hair. Piss off the people who are already leaning toward supporting this war - give them one more reason to go over the edge, to actually think about what's going on.

You make life so much easier.

Incidentally - Molly McMillen looks fabulous.

Tim Robbins - Peace Activist - WaPo gossip columnist Lloyd Grove on his post-Oscars encounter with "peace" activist Tim Robbins:

we said hello to him in a crush of partygoers that included his life partner, Susan Sarandon (both of them had displayed their deep commitment to nonviolence by holding up the two-fingered sign of peace at the Academy Awards). Robbins flashed a smile and jovially shook our hand -- Bob Roberts at a campaign stop. But when we mentioned that we'd had the pleasure of talking recently with 79-year-old Lenora Tomalin -- conservative Republican, George W. Bush supporter and wry observer of her daughter Sarandon -- his expression turned cold.

"Wait. You're the one who wrote about Susan's mother?"

Robbins narrowed his eyes and pursed his lips -- the secretly murderous neighbor in "Arlington Road."

"You wanted to be divisive and you caused trouble in my family," he went on -- the unjustly imprisoned banker in "The Shawshank Redemption." He added that it was especially low to have quoted Tomalin's speculation that he and Sarandon had politically "brainwashed" her grandson Jack Henry.

"At least you got Jeb Bush to call her -- that was great," Robbins spat -- the bitterly cynical studio executive in "The Player." He moved within inches and said into our ear: "If you ever write about my family again, I will [bleeping] find you and I will [bleeping] hurt you."