Miscellanea


Hi folks. My current excuse for a lack of regular posting is as follows. Fucking American news sucks. If it was any more purile, the shit would literally roll up the walls for lack fo vescocity, like mercury when it approaches absolute zero. Who needs the Ministry of Truth when you've got likes Bonnie Prince William, Archduke of Dildos, here using what has become a pretty standard formula to bait, switch, obfuscate, and exhaust America's righteous indignation,


couple that with a perpetual barrage of nonstories ranging from pretty young white things going missing, to necrophiliac snuff films of dead bodies in natural disaster areas and decapitations, to Cindy Sheehan squatting, to nada-indictments of Rove, DeLay, et al. I just wonder sometimes, "Why bother?"

Actually, come to think of it, I seem to blog about like a woman cycles: Every 28 days. Maybe this place is just Sam Kinison's proverbial "Emotional Tampon" for me. You know, the place I come to 4, 5 days out of the month when no one will take my fucking bullshit. Thanks for being there, skinny dippers :-D

America's New Secret Weapon in Iraq: OJ Simpson Trial redux



You mock, but watch them roadside bombings go down in direct corrolation to this thing getting going.

Breitbart (whatever the hell that is) reports that,

The moment Saddam Hussein appeared, a Shiite housewife spat on the screen and then sat gnawing her fingers, seething, as her family crowded around the
television. When the judge addressed the ousted dictator as "Mr. Saddam," she burst: "The beast Saddam, you mean!"... Across the Tigris River in the mostly Sunni Arab district of Azamiyah, some Iraqis were also riveted to their sets. Namir Sharif, a 46-year- old former army officer, was on the verge of tears of pride as a defiant Saddam argued with the judge.... In northern Iraq, Kurds also were captivated by the trial, which focused on a massacre Saddam is accused of ordering against a Shiite village. Many Kurds were eager for cases of atrocities against their community come to trial, particularly the Anfal campaign of the late when Saddam's military razed Kurdish villages and killed some 180,000 people.

Haha, ah, our benevolent overlords have finally hit the nail over the head in their quest to pacify the Balkans of the Gulf. Come on, as if you weren't hooked to the first thousand days of the OJ trial like crack-cocaine. These people have had reruns of "Uncle Saddam knows Best" and "Leave it to Uday" for the last 30 years. This shit has got to be more entertaining to these people than an illegal copy of an underaged Kerry Russell, Christina Aguilera, and Brittany Spears lapping each other's peach-pits in "Mousketeers Gone Wild"... Well, almost anyhow.

But my point remains sound. Human nature seems to prevail across cultural divides. Globalization has its latest victim and yet another culture is in the process of having their minds rotted by sugar from the boob-tube. Ain't it grand?

Forecast calls for Sunshine: Severin Style

Hey, it's not often that we get our panties wet around the Slue, even though this is a body of water, or something...

But the Boston Glob and other sources tell us that Infinity is doing something to better the marketplace of ideas by making this man nationwide like ZZ Top, as of 2K5.

His usual haunt, WTKK, is in negotiations to try and keep Jay around. Which is good, because 96.9 FMTALK without Jay is like Harry Melvin without Bluenotes: it'll never go platinum...

But this is also a bad thing in the meantime. Because without Jay there really isn't a breath of fresh-air on the air right now. I congratulate him for what will hopefully be a Colonel Sanders-level career second wind for the sixty-something year old Severin.

For now it'll just be small doses of Rush (in tablet form, of course) ...

Prostitution Tollerance Zone: The New Media's whoredom

I pick up the Neal Boortz Fair Tax book occasionaly during saunters into the book store. I start to get excited at the premise, but then I just remember shit like this is just political bread and circus brandished by neo cons and their New Media colluders to distract and buy time. Buy time towards what? Dunno, probably an '08 race in which Bush is finally marginalized as a force in American politics, and regime change will be an inevitable reality. Rome's a'burnin and the New Media are fiddlin' for their lives. Even Joseph Farah has apologized for his about-face on Georgie-boy. Ann Coulter gave the audiance of Spawn Hannity the noetic equivelant of a gut-wrenchingly good fuckathon via her excoriation of Miers. Rush has lately couched his criticisms of the Bush choice of Miers in the abstract, suggesting a peculiar reluctance of association usually seen during the pangs of cognitive dissonance that one experiences before the epiphany of a grave mistake. It's an issue I've touched on before, but I still think it's one that recieves far too little attention. But just how responsible are they for the inequity they've fostered through their lemming's alleigance to Bush? After all, these aren't prophets crying out in the wilderness, they are buisiness men and women making a living off Republican advertisers and party donors. Right? Well, this gets into the little explored and potentially terra nova world of the right-wing media's responsibility to the right-wing.

Neal Boortz has stated for many moons that his show and his public persona, per se, are for entertainment purposes only. He mixes ideas and analysis with irreverence and makes money at it. Good for him. But his use of the appellation "libertarian" is frankly as big a misnomer as Bill Maher calling himself a "libertarian". He accords Bush the same kind of unconditional support one would give unto a child or loved one, not one gives to an elected leader who has frankly gone back on the entire vision and platform he ran on, initially. I'm not sure what the animus for this support is. Maybe it's genuinely pure sense of patriotism and solidarity with your leader, a la Roosevelt/Churchill era politics. Perhaps it's a Manichean, knee-jerk reaction to the left’s opposition to the war, instead of taking a more rational look at their response, and realizing it's just a case of a broken clock being right twice in a day. But more I believe the fundamental reasons are a lot more mercenary than that. The simple truth is that the new media are there to to cater to Republican advertisers and party donors only. To seriously call into question their leader, and put principle over practicality, would be to debauch their base. Yes, the new media give slap-on-the-wrist critiques of Bush, often angled as him being too relenting and not looking hard enough for a fight. But that isn't the case.

The fact is that Bush is a Nixonian corporatist-conservative, of the neo-Keynesian slant, who thinks there's a calculable balance to be struck between statist objectives and personal liberty. This narrow-sighted pursuit of an obtuse goal has resulted in all the contradictions and wrong directions taken under the Bush aegis. Bush is a far worse President than Clinton. For while both suffer from nigh-luciferian arrogance, Clinton was far more shrewd than Bush. Do not presume however that I hold Bush to be stupid. I used the term Nixonian advisedly, because Bush is actually quite visionary in the same manner Nixon was, and even Clinton. This condition is not one endured by the artless. However, all three men's vision was and is heavily burdened by the misconception that a positivist program of political and social architecture happens within a vacuum devoid all but the most remote of variables. It is the classic case of the fallacy of calculation presumed by command-economies. The disconnect between power/knowledge prevents direct implementation of a plan by all but the most draconian of measures. Hence the topsy-turvy diduction between Bush's rhetoric and planning and the effects they achieve.

It is in defending the President, each to respective and differing degrees of the three aforementioned reasons, the New Media has effectually sold its soul and integrity to defend Bush in much of the same manner the Legacy Media sold its soul and integrity to defend Clinton.

In regards to trying to implement a national sales tax, I'm all for it in principle, but hold no hope of any good coming out of it. But don't mistake my cynicism for complacency. The Potomac Playpen is a very loaded playing field. And so long as it is on that field and by their rules that a potential piece of tax-reform legislation must abide and adhere to before it can see the light of the Oval Office, it'll resemble the chimera that Boorts regales his readers with about as closely as the word "liberal" in modern parlance does to its text-book definition thereof.