Oh Joe

June 29th, 2009 § 6

Joe Bageant: Deer in the headlights of America.

I went to coffee houses, listened to poets, felt the dynamic beating heart of a great America city—got my first blowjob from a wonderful hipster chick who took it upon herself to educate me about a life of the mind.
Needless to say, given her opening act, I became pretty enthusiastic about improving my intellectual life.

Honey, you betray your age and its ingrained, forever sexism with this post. No “wonderful hipster chick” gave you a blow job for free. Out of the goodness of her heart.

When will men get it.

Let me put it another way. Your daughter, Joe? If she had done so, would you feel that you’d raised her real good?

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Removing Clusterfuck

June 29th, 2009 § 0

… arriving on one occasion twenty minutes late in pajamas with some lame excuse about a backache.

Nice. Very nice. People do go in the hospital for bloody nothing, just to annoy you.

Time for Kunstler to STFU. Though there’s been remarkably little meanness in the media, considering. And it would come from someone like JHK, who has a one-note blog and a one-note book to flack. Interesting how the teensiest bit of corruption will out, in someone’s writing. And how easily the sadness of having one idea transmutes into shittiness.

Oh I’ve seen it, in life. I’ve heard it … “some lame excuse”. It’s what middle-aged men say to woman and the weak.

Ooo-kay, time to remove Clusterfuck Nation from the feed-reading list.

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Michael Jackson In Brazil

June 28th, 2009 § 6

The drums … oh, the drums …

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The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

June 26th, 2009 § 0

Farhad Manjoo has an important piece in Slate today on How the Internet helps Iran silence activists.

On Wednesday, a reader alerted the Lede to an Iranian government Web site called Gerdab.ir, where authorities had posted pictures of protesters and were asking citizens for help in identifying the activists. That’s right—the regime is now using crowd-sourcing, one of the most-hyped aspects of Web 2.0 organizing, against its opponents. If you think about it, that’s no surprise. Who said that only the good guys get to use the power of the Web to their advantage?

Looking at #iranelections or any other Iran-related hashtag makes chaos visible. Who do you trust, what do you trust, and my, how easy to befoul the stream of news.

The point? Not to get carried away in the internet wondrousness of it all. Transformation is as transformation does. Read Farhad. We got a long way to go. Still, it was, briefly, hella exciting. Story not over.

Power to the people.

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I’ll Be There

June 26th, 2009 § 7

This was the moment Michael Jackson became the hottest person in the world. This performance exploded. We had never seen anything like it—and will never see his likes again.

After all the work—since childhood—and all the shit, Mr. Jackson, it is my hope you rest, at last, in peace.

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Not Quite Masters of War

June 22nd, 2009 § 0

… if the scrofulous old men who cause wars and declare wars allowed the citizenry to fully comprehend what actually happens–psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually–to the legions of young men they send off to fight their unjust wars, there might be a true anti-war movement, based not on politics but on horror and revulsion against war.

Also from Tom’s interesting, eminently readable comment.    carrot

What occurs to me is, this is exactly what television did for the Viet Nam War, brought it into our living rooms, and usually over dinner—the news was at 6:00, and there was not this over-saturation, this 24-7 dribble … or is it drivel …

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