OCT 27, 2007POINT DEFERENCE, WA (UNS*) — Civil rights leaders in this Seattle suburb are up in arms over what they say is the latest incident in a nation-wide trend of hate crimes involving the public display of nooses, a symbol of lynching in the Jim Crow south. A noose was discovered hanging from aContinue reading “Racial Incident in Seattle”
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“What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?”“The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.”“I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows does well; but how does it well? It does well to those that do ill: now, thou dost ill to say the gallowsContinue reading
West Coast Toast*
Well the universe is shaped exactly like the earthif you go straight long enough you end up where you were(…)and that’s how the world beganand that’s how the world will end–Modest Mouse, Third Planet Drove home, doused everything inthe house, torched it.Parked across the street laughing,watching it burn, all Halloweenorange and chimney red.Frank put onContinue reading “West Coast Toast*”
“Why are you destroying everything?”“What this? A little creative destruction, that’s all. It’s not really destruction, but creation. Destructive creation, if you will”“Oh. Has all the appearance of a man burning a whole lot of work. The warmth from the fire seems a paltry pay-out.”“Work? Work produces something; work has an effect. Energetic vanity doesContinue reading
Weapons of Crass Distraction
Lesser among the unfortunate results of the rise of the Fox News/talk-radio complex of Republican media emplacements (as I write Fox succeeds at terrifying me with its weekend war propaganda, Iran, The Ticking Bomb, though it’s the spectacle of power’s hand so carelessly, almost contemptuously, disguised, and not wily Persians, alarming me), is that itContinue reading “Weapons of Crass Distraction”
We are the music makers…
More on lucid dreaming. I regaled you with a tale of lucid dreaming here. The Wikipedia article on the subject is here.Thanks to J Orlin Grabbe (see links).
Alternative America Phrasebook
“Your Guide to the Idiom of Mass Delusion.” Political Terminologyspeaker: “We don’t have the votes.”definition: “We don’t want the votes.”alternatively: “Thank God we don’t have the votes.”sometimes, implied: “Careful, or we may find we have the votes.” Cultural TermsLiberal, n.One who suffers from the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happier than someone elseContinue reading “Alternative America Phrasebook”
Sunday Sermon
Triumph of the Shill“There are times of famine and poverty coming, for all the nation as well as for each one of us…for no matter what you say, it is upon the soul that the body depends. How then, without heeding it, can one expect to have everything go right?”(…)“The point is the time hasContinue reading “Sunday Sermon”
Bathrobe Wisdom
Here Sara Silverman steals an old National Lampoon bit for use as a promo (I don’t know if that makes it better or worse) for her show. I refer of course to the classic 1973 “If you don’t buy this magazine we’ll kill this dog” cover. In Silverman’s version, she is wearing a princess costume,Continue reading “Bathrobe Wisdom”
INTERIOR, AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, TWILIGHTA room of dark leather and mahogany, sectioned by odd angles and shadow. Bright sunlight and the dim echoes of a large celebration leak in around the edges of the drawn blinds. TENET is standing, hat in hand, in front of the VICE PRESIDENT, who is seated behind his desk, toyingContinue reading
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