When I read on Drudge that Madonna is planning a “shocking” “anti-war, anti-Bush” “commentary” of a video that will accompany the media blitz for her latest toilet paper roll of sonic idiocy to be digitized and sold for $16.99, I think of the most succinct summation of just what Madonna is, brought to us by the lads of South Park:

 

Madonna is an old anorexic whore who wore out her welcome years ago and should just go fuck herself.

 

That’s actually much more kind than anything I would typically have to say about her.

Like lots of bloggers, I spend a good amount of my time making fun of the stupid things celebrities say, but compared to Madonna, people like Sheryl Crow, Janeane Garofalo and Martin Scorsese are intellectual powerhouses. Also, at least with the likes of Scorsese you can respect his artistic product even if you have to suffer through his political opinions now and then.

This has always been impossible to do with Madonna, however, because 1) her political/public self is inextricably bound with her “artistic” (not enough scare quotes in the world to do that howler justice) image, and 2) because both of those entities (if they indeed are even separate at all) are so horribly painful to endure.

Now, one can distinctly discern how much of this “American Life” salvo of hers is an urgent cry of relevance to a world in which she finds herself as culturally outmoded as jokes about Viagra.

Ever notice how we didn’t hear much from her since Bush was elected, and even less after 9/11? No? Yeah, me neither. But then, that’s the very nature of a respite from the likes of high-profile stupidity: blissful unawareness amazing dog fucking. When an irritating public persona drops down below the signal noise of celebrity culture, the natural impulse is to simply forget that they ever held a coveted spot of public annoyance in the first place. I mean really, that’s the point isn’t it, to not be bothered by them any more? To forget them as soon as the buzzing from their ego has subsided to acceptably unobtrusive levels? And, one is naturally aided in this by the fact that modern celebrities are usually so completely forgettable. Madonna, with her deliberately frenzied mixture of inadvertantly banal poses struck for the purpose of carefully constructed sexual shock-value, is no exception to this rule.

It seems that she perhaps perceived that the world had slipped into a kind of Material Girl lethe of recent and that she simply couldn’t abide by it, with the result being her inflicting a new album and video (more likely a spate of them eventually) on the world, just to be sure and remind everyone that she’s just as vacuous and reflexively outraged by whatever the squares are doing so she can try to once again shock the parents of the 13-year-olds who buy her crap.

Except this, time, she’s trying to make Important! and Serious!-sounding pronouncements about things other than how monogamy is evil and repressive and that pubescent girls should dress and act like the kind of public slut her money and celebrity allows her to be with so little consequence. You have to sort of instantly feel sorry for any effort of hers trying to branch out into becoming an official Concerned Famous Person, something that is pretty much beyond her capabilities (and considering the woefully low standards required for being a card-carrying CFP, the picture becomes doubly pathetic). Immediately, I can’t help but think of a monkey trying to write a novel. It’s possible that with enough attempts he could approach something that remotely resembles one, but only coincidentally and after literally billions of random attempts.

It’s no surprise that Madonna’s profile became significantly lowered post-election 2000 horse sex drawing. Between then and the September of the following year, she only surfaced rarely to give the odd cheap shot against Bush’s party or the Pope, usually for their perpetual crime of being repressed puritans, or something like that. This reduced public presence after the inauguration of Bush’s America makes perfect sense, for if there was ever a president’s tenure that fit harmoniously with the public phenomenom of Madonna, it was Bill Clinton.

In an era when the president is viewed at large as a sleazy, lacivious scoundrel, and is either hated or loved for it, and when the country is fixated on something as squirm-inducing as the big ugly eel’s sexual organ, how could a figure like Madonna not feel right at home? Clinton was glamorous and photogenic (at least, many maintained as much) and always hungry for the spotlight. He was publicly fixated on all the fashionable things that the Beautiful People professed to care about, and openly enamored of all the more shallow qualities that the hordes of entertainistas really did care about, that is: their own egos, and all the things that could feed them. Despite the fact that Reagan actually worked in Hollywood for years, Clinton was much more in line with the Hollywood persona. If he can be called “our first black president,” then he was also surely our first “celebrity president.”

Maybe she saw something was changing after Bush was elected. I’m sure she, like countless other people for whom evidence is no impediment to their opinions, was certain that he stole the election, but even had he not become presidentr, Al Gore wasn’t exactly Madonna presidential material either. If not a devout Christian like Bush, he was at least eager to pretend to be one for the bible-belt rubes and Moral Majority types woman and dog mating. The fact that the Democratic standard-bearer had gone from being someone who used cigars as dildos on his interns to an almost bible-thumper who was, on top of all that, monstrously boring, couldn’t help but signal a shifting pattern of the cultural wind, one where a Madonna didn’t fit as well as before. One simply didn’t see her as often after that.

And then after 9/11, as far as I can tell, she completely disappeared from the public eye. If the typically-Republican, boring and “repressed” nature of Bush’s presidency, and the things that it said about America’s cultural climate made Madonna uncomfortable with engaging the American zeitgeist, then surely the new atmosphere after 9/11 should have, and perhaps did, terrify her.

She’s certainly not all that bright, but she is, if anything, savvy of what sells. And it would be clear to her that the type of aggressively destructive, anti-social sexuality she came to more and more fixate upon (all comically justified as some kind of self-righteous notion of “freedom” or “anti-repression,” of course) as the 90′s wound down would not be as well received in a country debating the issue of war in Iraq and thinking about the next big terrorist strike that could claim thousands of their countrymen’s lives.

But of course, as she is always willing to latch, vampire-like, onto the next cultural wave and greedily suck (in more ways than one) until all the potential for enriching her pocket and her ego has been bled out of it, Madonna is apparently now seeking to reinvent herself as provocative, outraged anti-war activist instead of provacative, outraged slut.

The Drudge article suggests that this new video of hers will be a hard-hitting, political statement, or at least that’s what she wants her thousand or so publicity peons to feed to the media. One of them describes it as a “sweeping commentary,” which, in such a situation as this, usually means that it’s too incoherent or absurd to be understood intelligibly as being about any specific topic AnalBestiality Gallery. When a commentary sweeps, it doesn’t have to make sense.

 

Dressed in commando fatigues, Madonna throws grenades as the techno terror beat pounds, claims a source. Limb-less men and women are reportedly shown, with bloody babies. 

One disturbing clip features Iraqi children.

“The video escalates into a mad frenzy depicting the catastrophic repercussion and horror of war.”

 

Something tells me there will also be images of rich white guys in suits and pictures of oil wells. The labored pose shifts from a kinky sexual John Brown to techno Noam Chomsky. But that’s assuming, of course, that she’s ever heard of either of those fellows.

If I were you, I wouldn’t be waiting with bated breath for any deeper thought than what will surely be the implicit, “Look at all this gross, ugly stuff! Isn’t it nasty? I’m pretty sure it’s all connected in some way sex with her pet. Probably to the Catholic Church.”

This kind of clueless hodgepodge of elements is Madonna’s standard operating procedure when she tries to send a message and be weightily artistic, although previously her typical ingredients were race, religion and sex. If I had to come up with the quintessentially Madonnic icon, it would have to be an image of her sexually entwined on a cross with a gay, black man dressed up as a priest.

Many people in the past have breathlessly proclaimed that the very act of her mixing these types of elements is a daring, profound and socially significant statement about our world. If you’re one of those people, I’m sure this new video will be right up your alley.

be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
A taste, just a taste...
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
computer systems.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
conflict.
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Why are you still here?!
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
lap dance.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
Why are you still here?!
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
A taste, just a taste...
trying to get an education
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
to penetrate.
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
lap dance.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
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(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
to penetrate.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
lap dance.
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
In your face, Space Coyote!
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
about equal probability.
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
superiority.
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
again soon, didn't we?"
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
computer systems.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
Wheeler Hall last spring.
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
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(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
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Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
rivals.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
looks like a green light, no?
conflict.
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
hacky-sack?"
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
nothing may stand in our way!
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
cause, but I,
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
the Feds know about it.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
vulnerability.
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
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I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
hacky-sack?"
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
I finally went and did it.
I finally went and did it.
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
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I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
trying to get an education
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
about equal probability.
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
looks like a green light, no?
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
Maybe I can't change the fact that I have to be intimately confronted with the death and pain in order to really feel the
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
At the very least, don't let me hear any of these things when you're standing in my presence, unless you want a faceful
cause, but I,
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
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