I'm on a strict no-news regimen for one week, doctor's orders.
Starting today.
Before that, I've been a busy little comment-gnome on some dope new blogs I found.
Go forth and knock yourselves out. Tell 'em Radiohumper sent you.
This Hobbit Blogger has a knack for wrapping up newly uncovered Republican financial chicanery in one or two sentences, ending with a call for a specific action.
Best Smart-Ass Name of the Year Award/Most Political Usage of Monty Python Iconography - Fried Green al-Quedas
"A state-of-the-art rehabilitation center opening next year at Walter Reed Army Medical Center seeks to return more amputee soldiers to a place once thought impossible: the battlefield". The true story is even grislier with the title and photo - "Return of the Black Knight".
'Tis but a scratch.
When free speech is the equivalent of taking a soft-shit- (from Struggle in a Bungalow Kitchen )
"I had a brief email exchange with another blogger regarding Pearl S. Buck’s assertion that freedom of speech allows one to postpone action. I wondered if blogging was just a “safety valve” that gives people (myself included) the feeling they are doing something useful, while in fact they are shirking the responsibility of more selfless forms of action."
If this administration does indeed topple before they have a chance to draft us all, it will come about by just this type of combined individual, tenacious, kitchen-table activism.- Rayne Today tells her daughter the facts of life about American war crimes-
"You need to know this, since everything else you hear and see in the news on television and the newspaper, from your friends, might only tell you there was some fighting in Fallujah. This is what it looks like in the end.
"When I was a kid, every night there was a body count on the evening news. They would tell us how many had died, how many had been injured, how many of the enemy had been killed. You might be lucky to hear that any of our troops have been killed, let alone that Iraqis or others had been killed. Never mind hearing the number injured. You simply don't hear this. Things have changed so that you don't hear or see the truth, unless you really go and look for it."
This post makes an excellent response to that assy "Close the Blinds" Glurge clogging up in-boxes.
Would you trust a 'rock' critic named Almond? Yeah, me neither. Guerilla News Network reports Almond White of the New York Press mocked the fact that Eminem's MOSH had no effect among young people other than causing a run on black hoodies in Foot Lockers.
The video's director responds-
"The original version of the video ends with Eminem’s black hoodie mob casting their vote in an act of defiance against a corrupt and illegitimate regime. But voting was only part of the video’s message. It was a larger call to arms for a generation alienated by a system that only sees young people as consumers, criminals or cannon fodder.
In this alternative ending for the video, we remind all those who were inspired by the first version to not give up the fight. In our corporation-controlled duopoly, sometimes you have to take other measures to have your voice heard. So if you are still searching for answers, know that our opinions still matter. Our hope is that it will show our battered teammates and the rest of the world that we are not here to say sorry but instead, the fight continues and we will be heard… "
Eminem's song is even more incredible with the alternate ending. I hate a phony Hollywood resolution myself.
Okay, TRUE, hope this was what you asked for. It's a crappy book report.
The Democratic Order: Such Things In Twenty Years I Understood- by Alice Walker
My father
(back blistered)
beat me
because I
could not
stop crying.
He'd had
enough 'fuss'
he said
for one damn
voting day.
