We Will Fight the Heathens

by on July 24, 2010
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The Taliban claims to have captured two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, while U.S. missiles kill 16 “militants” in Northwest Pakistan. Meanwhile my kids’ school district is cutting over a hundred jobs and consolidating schools. Unemployment remains at about 10 percent (which translate up to 16 percent, at least) when it took Congress 7 weeks to approve job benefits.

Really, I don’t have much analysis or insight into all of this. It all just puts me in this mood.

You want something uplifting?

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A Depressing Binary

by on July 18, 2010
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I don’t dispute Dennis G’s simple take on the mid-term elections:

In November we face a choice between the Confederate Party and modernity.

But sweet baby jeebiz, that’s a downer. If “modernity” is defined as the corporate crony Democrats currently overseeing two wars, Plan Mexico, and a continuation of police state policies created by the previous administration, I can only hope that we are in the late capitalist stage my po-mo professors talked about when I was in college.

Yeah, I know: shut up and ride a bike.

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A Fine Distinction

by on July 12, 2010
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News is coming down that Roman Polanski is off the hook:

The Swiss government this morning announced that it has rejected the U.S.’ request to extradite the director back to Los Angeles so that he could finally face up to the charge he fled the country over back in 1977—namely, having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Um, actually it was rape. He raped a 13-year-old girl. There is a pretty broad distinction between consensual sex and rape. I am stickler for these kinds of details, see, especially in my relations with other people.

Anyhoo, Ruben Bolling captured this denouement presciently last year.

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