One issue I have yet to cover here is porn – partially because once you unleash the word “porn” on a blog, you’ll start to get thousands of unrelated – and frustrated – searches. The American Book of the Dead begins with a father discovering his daughter doing porn online. I am the [...]
Neither of these are easy to watch, but necessary:
Rage Underground seems like something to watch.
Meanwhile, Palin says,
As far too many in the media, and in various governments, rush to condemn Israel, we must put the recent events off Israel’s coast into the right perspective. This “relief” convoy was not about humanitarian aid, as the [...]
From Is America Yearning for Fascism?
The old political paradigm that serves the interests of the people who put us in this predicament will not be the paradigm that gets us out of this. I am a child of the South. Janet Napolitano tells me I need to be afraid of people who are labeled white [...]
The world is insane. One of the horrible things unleashed by random killers like John Patrick Bedell, Joe Stack, or Amy Bishop is that it defines insanity in terms of “killing people.” Of course these people have all had a psychotic breakdown, but collectively the culture is having a psychotic break , which does not [...]
Another week, another lashing out at the government. Though Bedell is dumbly reported as a right-wing teabagger, citing his manifesto, the manifesto was actually published in 2006, during the Bush presidency. Basically, he’s a Zeitgeister:
This seizure of the United States government by an international criminal conspiracy is a long-established [...]
Philip Heying, who I recently got in touch with again via a Facebook post about 2012, has a great post up on Reality Sandwich about his dispiriting stay in Kansas. I met him via a friend from Paris and we hung out a bit in New York. I remember a pretty strange birthday [...]
Two interesting interviews found recently. One via Futurismic with the founder of Paypal and principle investor in Facebook who has a sci-fi vision of the future.
Wired: What happens if we don’t get the growth everyone expects?
Thiel: If it doesn’t happen, people will go bankrupt in retirement. There are systemic consequences, too. If we don’t have [...]
More on this later:
Joe Stack’s Suicide Note – http://embeddedart.com/