Plentiful as cheap organisms Undeveloped in the bosom of a nation……you’re one of us–My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, On This Rack According to police a heartwarmingly diverse duo in Seattle aspired to be a duskier, dumber Leopold and Loeb: Sometime before 6 a.m. on Oct. 12, two men forced their way into a house inContinue reading “Sorrows of Diversity”
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Poking Fun
The Smoking Gun gets the vapors. This is a curious thing. Two anonymous fellows engage in offensive behavior–dressing as Trayvon Martin (complete with blackface and gunshot wound) and George Zimmerman. They are neither celebrities nor public officials. Yet here they are, outed and putatively shamed by the diligent right-thinkers at The Smoking Gun. One could say they’reContinue reading “Poking Fun”
Portlandiduh
Welcome to Portland, home of the “equity emergency”.
New National Motto
We have nothing to be ashamed of but shame itself.
For the "Citizen of the World"
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath ne’er with him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned,From wandering on a foreign strand!If such there breathe, go, mark him well;For him no minstrel raptures swell;High though his titles, proud his name,BoundlessContinue reading “For the "Citizen of the World"”
Colossus 2013
Revising the monument: Not like the noble works of Western fame, Of conquering race astride from land to land, Here at bloodied,graffitied gates now stands,A twerking harlot, some father’s shame, to proclaim: U S for Sale! Comprehensive Plan!“Yo World; may your spawn slander,reprimand, My breed, whose bequest, nonetheless, they’ll have,Keep,” mumble her collagened lips, “your fit. Pour: Your benighted, needy, your just plain bored! Your aggrieved, those eager to settle scores,Bloodied hands fleeing their criminalContinue reading “Colossus 2013”
The Carrot and the Stick All of these fatigued and serious faces showed no evidence of despair…they made their way with the resigned expression of those who are condemned to hope forever.–Charles Baudelaire, To Each His Own Chimera Human beings are, necessarily, actors who…can be divided…into the sane who know they are acting and theContinue reading
A Moment of Silence, Attended by Fanfare
Derangement meets cynicism. From Politico, President Obama and the politics of kitsch: Tuesday morning, a peculiar announcement trickled out of the White House press office: President Barack Obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings. At the White House. By himself.No press or other intruders allowed. Except theContinue reading “A Moment of Silence, Attended by Fanfare”
Operation Embrace in Effect, Operation Dry Hump Standing By
According to USA Today, the mosque attended by the terrorist Tsarnaev brothers is a tad less liberal than its Boston surroundings: Several people who attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., have been investigated for Islamic terrorism, including a conviction of the mosque’s first president, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, in connection with an assassinationContinue reading “Operation Embrace in Effect, Operation Dry Hump Standing By”
Observation
Our zeitgeist: everything is revealed and nothing is known.
untethered 