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And I Ask Again, “But Why?”
04.15.09 | Permalink | 3 comments

A fucking Billy Collins poem has more intellectual complexity than these people.
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“I’d Prefer Not To.”
01.12.09 | Permalink | 2 comments

Top 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 outrageous, [...]
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Emotional Responses
11.29.08 | Permalink | comment?

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 vengeance against [...]
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The Y Chromasome Is a Hotline To God
11.24.08 | Permalink | comment?

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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“The Real America”
10.24.08 | Permalink | 1 comment

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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Nagging Little Bylines
10.21.08 | Permalink | 4 comments

Apologies 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 conclude [...]
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Inversions
10.15.08 | Permalink | 3 comments

Is 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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Baby, You Always Wrote Like a Liberal
10.15.08 | Permalink | comment?

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 F. [...]
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The Question Of, “Who Is Barack Obama?”
10.11.08 | Permalink | comment?

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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The Grapes of Wrath
10.09.08 | Permalink | comment?

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 chaos [...]
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Modern Life Is War
10.08.08 | Permalink | 3 comments

The 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 [...]
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Anticlimax
10.08.08 | Permalink | 1 comment

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 right. [...]
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Nihilist WASPs?
10.07.08 | Permalink | comment?

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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Just Kidding, Resume Panic
10.07.08 | Permalink | 2 comments

I 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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Fresh Air For the Panicked
10.05.08 | Permalink | comment?

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 their [...]
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Identity Crisis
10.03.08 | Permalink | comment?

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 you say, [...]
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Reflecting On Our Futurism
09.26.08 | Permalink | 2 comments

A 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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Sarah, Semiotics, & a Sad Future Straight Ahead
09.25.08 | Permalink | 3 comments

When 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 in [...]

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