Nothing makes me happy. Last week I complained because mainstream news outlets were not covering the Wall Street protests. Yahoo blocked email messages about the event. Searching "Wall Street protest" on the New York Times web site turns up four entries in the newspaper's City Room blog. Rupert Murdoch's NY Post dismissed the first day of the rally as a "fizzle," then followed up with a small photo gallery.
Today, I'm annoyed because the NY Times is finally covering the protest. The article emphasizes the protester's lack of knowledge about the system they oppose. The demonstrators are better at street theater than history or economics. And, that's why I'm pissed off. The article is, I suspect, correct. I was hoping for Abbie Hoffman or Tom Hadyn; lower Manhattan, instead, got Wavy Gravy.
Too bad that Ms. Ballafante didn't make the obvious connection: the protesters despite their shortcomings all sound like fucking geniuses compared with the participants in last week's Republican presidential debate.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Let 'em die
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Bin Laden Determine to Strike in US
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
The British government has learned that
Saddam Hussein recently sought
significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
Aluminum tubes.
Mobile biological warfare labs.
Stuff happens.
We don't do torture, we never have.
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
They are, if you will, just a bunch of dead enders.
Pain accompanying serious physical injury,
such as organ failure,
impairment of bodily function,
or even death.
Bin Laden will be taken dead or alive.
I truly am not that concerned about him.
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
Bring 'em on.
I don't remember.
I forget.
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
The British government has learned that
Saddam Hussein recently sought
significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
Aluminum tubes.
Mobile biological warfare labs.
Stuff happens.
We don't do torture, we never have.
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
They are, if you will, just a bunch of dead enders.
Pain accompanying serious physical injury,
such as organ failure,
impairment of bodily function,
or even death.
Bin Laden will be taken dead or alive.
I truly am not that concerned about him.
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
Bring 'em on.
I don't remember.
I forget.
Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
Vindication and Vindictiveness
Yesterday, Ed Schultz did his MSNBC show from Toledo, Ohio.
Toledo lost 39% of its manufacturing jobs in the last decade. I assume that's on top of a gizzillion blue-collar jobs lost prior to 2000. Although Ed's guests included the head of the steelworkers' union, it seemed, that most of the crowd were not factory workers (or ex-factory workers), but were teachers, cops, firefighters, and other unionized government employees targeted for impoverishment by Ohio's Tea Partying guv, John Kasich.
I, too, despise the third world trajectory plotted by Kasich and his fellow members of the Koch Brotherhood. I support the unions. But, I also want an apology. I want all those macho schmucks and angry women to admit their role in bringing America to this awful point. All of them -- who voted for Reagan then shrugged off his firing of the air traffic controllers, who voted for W (probably twice) and waved oversized Old Glories when we invaded Iraq and raged at "traitors" criticizing that absurd war, who claim a moral high ground but are silent on torture, who have been suckered by anti-gay and anti-immigrant dog whistle distractions -- owe the rest of us a big apology.
Admit it; the liberals were right, and you were wrong. You should follow the AA example by making amends to the millions of people you harmed during your forty year conservatism binge. Admit that the broken furniture, smashed windows, and depleted checking account are your goddamn fault. Your fault; the booze and the coke and the Republican whores are not to blame. You are.
Toledo lost 39% of its manufacturing jobs in the last decade. I assume that's on top of a gizzillion blue-collar jobs lost prior to 2000. Although Ed's guests included the head of the steelworkers' union, it seemed, that most of the crowd were not factory workers (or ex-factory workers), but were teachers, cops, firefighters, and other unionized government employees targeted for impoverishment by Ohio's Tea Partying guv, John Kasich.
I, too, despise the third world trajectory plotted by Kasich and his fellow members of the Koch Brotherhood. I support the unions. But, I also want an apology. I want all those macho schmucks and angry women to admit their role in bringing America to this awful point. All of them -- who voted for Reagan then shrugged off his firing of the air traffic controllers, who voted for W (probably twice) and waved oversized Old Glories when we invaded Iraq and raged at "traitors" criticizing that absurd war, who claim a moral high ground but are silent on torture, who have been suckered by anti-gay and anti-immigrant dog whistle distractions -- owe the rest of us a big apology.
Admit it; the liberals were right, and you were wrong. You should follow the AA example by making amends to the millions of people you harmed during your forty year conservatism binge. Admit that the broken furniture, smashed windows, and depleted checking account are your goddamn fault. Your fault; the booze and the coke and the Republican whores are not to blame. You are.
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