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politico
And I Ask Again, “But Why?”
04.15.09 | Permalink | 3 commentsA fucking Billy Collins poem has more intellectual complexity than these people.
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politico
“I’d Prefer Not To.”
01.12.09 | Permalink | 2 commentsTop item my brother and I have learned never to mention in front of my parents: Israel. Top plea I’ve nagged them to heed: abandon any and all network news. Indeed, related. My parents, a mother from Lebanese Christian descent and an Ashkenazi father, appear to think the question of accountability for Israeli violence is [...]
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politico
Emotional Responses
How did we get here? Glenn Greenwald, as always (always, always, always), is a must-read: Any decent, civilized person watching scenes in Mumbai of extremists shooting indiscriminate machine gun fire and launching grenades into civilians crowds — deliberately slaughtering innocent people by the dozens — is going to feel disgust, fury, and a desire for [...]
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politico
The Y Chromasome Is a Hotline To God
Last night I was talking a lot of shit to myself, silently, in the privacy of my living room while everyone else in my house was totally in the bone zone. I had been reading too much theory all day (research) and started sliding into one of my misogynist moods where I check out the [...]
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politico
“The Real America”
I’ve got a hundred things I’m writing at once (exploding brain), but for the moment, consider the role god is playing in this election, what with the almost explicit dichotomy trumpeted by the neocons of America as a divinely exceptional nation bathed in the righteous light of Jesus against the “anti-American” Muslim barbarians who “just [...]
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politico
Nagging Little Bylines
10.21.08 | Permalink | 4 commentsApologies for my slowness in the last few days, what with the crumbling economy, freelancing has suddenly become an unreliable and unsustainable source of GREEN. There is this dig McCain took at Obama during last week’s debate that has been pestering me, especially in light of amplified attacks which use “socialist” as a pejorative. To [...]
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politico
Inversions
10.15.08 | Permalink | 3 commentsIs there some kind of neo-con patois that I just never picked up? Because I defy any of you to make sense out of McCain’s logical flow at the debate tonight. The way he fluttered from point to incohesive point with that sort of slack jawed, cagey terror reminded me of me when I feel [...]
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politico
Baby, You Always Wrote Like a Liberal
The universe is a pretty good poet. Check out this twist of verse it busted out with earlier today: Christopher Buckley is chased with like a hundred million pitchforks and snarky emails into resigning from his column with the National Review following his Obama endorsement. Um, that’s the magazine his dad founded, one mister William [...]
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politico
The Question Of, “Who Is Barack Obama?”
Against all odds, there’s an article in The New Republic about the campaign Obama has been running as this descendant of the Ellisonian “Invisible Man,” and what that implies about who he might become as a leader. It’s a pretty exceptional piece of criticism, and it’s kept me steeped in thought since last night. (I [...]
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politico
The Grapes of Wrath
States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal So, not to be a gloomy gus or anything, but allow me to submit a theory on conspiracy theories for just a second. We’ll start with a little Duh Philosophy 101 and the very simple understanding that civil society is a human construction to protect us from the [...]
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politico
Modern Life Is War
10.08.08 | Permalink | 3 commentsThe mental largesse of whatever bizarre conservative base it is that loves to curl up in the cavernous womb of illogic—they really don’t disappoint. Via the Washington Monthly, we see Mark Steyn of the National Review throw out this comedic gem: Re Senator Obama’s ostentatiously exotic pronunciation of Pakistan, one thing I like about Sarah [...]
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politico
Anticlimax
After tonight’s debate, I’ve got like 15 pages of scribbly nonsense notes and enough talk to make a jaw fall off. But i’ll keep it brief, per the format: In the only question of the night that I liked, after one “practice” round of semi-evasive answers, Obama swept shit up identifying health care as a [...]
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politico
Nihilist WASPs?
WASPs Without the P? Devil WASPs? A plague of WASPs? Endtime’s a comin’, baby! Remember the phrase “compassionate conservatisim”? Wasn’t that a laugh fucking riot. Who are these people? Seriously? I wonder if they watched themselves being caught forever in a moment of unbearable cruelty, would they even feel a single thing? via HuffPo
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feminisms, politico
Just Kidding, Resume Panic
10.07.08 | Permalink | 2 commentsI used to really resent the way racism took shape in America. It was always a subtext but never a headline, an undercurrent of talking points covered by figures like Hannity or O’Reilly, but rarely brazen enough to show its face. Racism was more coded and harder to decipher, having learned the language of liberation [...]
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politico
Fresh Air For the Panicked
The AP reporting that McCain and Palin’s new line of attack is “racially tinged.” This is monumentally important. Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see [...]
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politico
Identity Crisis
Sarah Palin is neither a pundit nor a pitbull; she is potentially the next leader of an entire nation. I think she has trouble keeping this in mind. On her interview with Katie Couric, she remarked, “The Sarah Palin in those interviews was a little bit annoyed,” she said. “It’s like, man, no matter what [...]
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politico
Reflecting On Our Futurism
09.26.08 | Permalink | 2 commentsA commenter in the Gawker post inexplicably linking to my last obsessive over-analysis (thanks, Pareene!!) pointed to the dissolution of fact and fiction in the public sphere as one of the hallmarks of a society in transition to fascism. He links to a post explaining the fascist aesthetic, how it fetishizes war and violence as [...]
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politico
Sarah, Semiotics, & a Sad Future Straight Ahead
09.25.08 | Permalink | 3 commentsWhen even I am crippled by the sympathy pains I had watching Palin’s interview with Katie Couric, you know it’s the sort of carnage you can’t even crack a smile for. Maybe the most grotesque part of this election has been witnessing the consequences of having let the few remaining threads of trust we kept [...]
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