Next time I visit my D.C. homies, I’ll have to slip into the V-A to catch a look at President’s Park. “The park will feature 18-foot busts of 42 or our United States Presidents in a relaxed garden setting, along a beautifully landscaped pathway.“

If Texas Republicans aren’t to blame for polluting being more profitable than cleanliness (registration required), they certainly will have to bear the burden to fix it. (Of course, since the ‘Pubs have held the Governer’s seat and majority in the State House and State Senate for nearly a decade they can’t exactly point the finger elsewhere.)

State environmental regulators calculated that Amoco Oil Co.‘s Texas City refinery saved $123,013 by failing to control emissions of potentially health-damaging levels of sulfur dioxide. The fine, assessed in March 2002, was $11,893.

When the Statesman is attacking the GOP controlled gov’ment, you know something is up.

“In Texas, the majority of polluters aren’t fined, and even when they are, it’s well-documented that the fines are often lower than what the companies saved by breaking the law,” said Luke Metzger of the Texas Public Interest Research Group. “This is sending a clear message to polluters that it pays to pollute.”

Sad news today as SPNTR breaks up without another great album. You all enjoyed their self-titled albm, Sixpence None the Richer, I’m sure, but I highly reccommend you also grab Divine Discontent as it’s an equally melancholy heart warming drive through the countryside. I caught these guys during their first SXSW gig and between Matt Slocum’s mystical guitar work and Leigh Nash’s angelic vocals my brain melted in joy during their set.

Firmly asserting it’s place as the second best “movie song” — meaning a song that exists solely as part of the movie’s plot line — Scotty Doesn’t Know could possibly upset Joe Lies for younger generations in the #1 spot. Eurotrip was a funny romp in the vein of Meatballs and not much like American Pie at all. It is worth seeing if only to see Matt Damon in tats and piercings singing this song while grinding with Lana Lang. Before you are scared away by what you believe is solely an excuse to expose the female breast to young teenage boys, rest assured that this film balances it’s use of gratuitous anatomy to both sexes…in a very unappealing fashion. (hee-hee!)