The Book Of Pleasures, Raoul Vaneigem: Revolution no longer lies in refusing to acquiesce and survive but in taking a delight in oneself.

Well now, it does and it doesn’t. If you’re reading this with deconstructive eyes, you already know that for the worker bees to stop and consider their own pleasure would bollux up the works something terrible. Read the rest of this entry »

Jane Mayer: The Risks Of A Remote-Controlled War … my personal sense is you can’t really go around the globe killing people as the United States government without igniting some kind of retaliation. I think you—once you start killing people on the other side of the world, you are going to, first of all, kill some of the wrong people, which this program has done.

Oh, that. Pish tosh. Nada. Our nada who art in nada.
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reformation21.org You know, too, the grievousness of affliction. After all, who enjoys suffering? Yet you also know that all affliction is sent by a wise, fatherly God.

Not me. Wise and fatherly? There are damn few women, believers or not, who would rest comfortably in that out-dated image. Read the rest of this entry »

Mackenzie Phillips Opens Up About Her Father: He taught me to roll joints when I was 10. He took out some pot from a shoebox and showed me … and I became the official joint roller.

Sigh. The Sixties. The last time the male ethos ran free … and wasn’t it all Peace and Love. I can imagine that John Phillips rationalized that he was sharing a beautiful thing with his daughter. Both the dope and the sex. Because it was All Beautiful, man. Read the rest of this entry »