tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-234027032024-03-12T19:21:35.181-07:00nihilixnihilism with a human face</br>nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-28870581243650086952013-02-03T08:28:00.000-08:002013-02-03T08:28:23.895-08:00No posts in 2012. 2013 can be nothing but better!I had someone on Turntable FM look me up and say - hey, you should start writing again. So I looked at my blog, found my password, and decided that there would be more posts in 2013 than there were in 2012.
I like choosing goals that are easy to accomplish. Sometimes. And sometimes I like choosing goals that are hard. Because they are right, and because they are worth it.
nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-90972132161674603862011-08-12T17:02:00.001-07:002011-08-12T18:55:08.901-07:00Bright nights in England
Trying to suss out what's up with England and the riots.
I think about a shop window in one of these neighborhoods. The neighborhood bit run down, folks are poor-ish and work a lot, there's a working class and street sensibility. I see the shops with the finest merchandise in the window - 100 pounds, that's a bunch of money. I see the crowds mounting and building in excitement and then a nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-92197316945731695152011-08-08T20:45:00.001-07:002011-08-08T21:08:31.647-07:00Religion, politics, S and P, race, London Burning!
Gave at talk tonight to the Network of Spiritual Progressives; a group of mostly un-churched lefty religious who wanted to hear about organizing or something.
Was good, but had problems with my computer and freaked myself out. Also there was a fire alarm to start the evening. Also I have an 8 AM morning meeting. Ugh!
A few of the cool things I found around the intertubes today:
Great rantnihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-29968000717817785972011-08-03T18:55:00.000-07:002011-08-03T21:16:36.353-07:00FCKH8 Video rocks, bad article written about video, friend with cancerThe new video from the folks who did the hilarious FCKH8 campaign against California's Prop 8 is for Minnesota's own straights-only marriage amendment, cruising to a heavy loss in 2012.These always make me cry, it's so beautiful the pride and sillyness and anger and positive energy that comes out of here. It's to the point, powerful, makes people stand up and take note.Unfortunately I found out nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-74479392377796527842011-08-01T18:56:00.000-07:002011-08-01T21:31:19.364-07:00New job, checking in.If you know me, I'm somewhat more active on Facebook lately. Just now trying out turntable, off a recommendation from Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon lately.Now, I should toss the links into this but that's what makes blogging harder, more like work.Self-indulgent rumination, however, isn't as fun as real interesting commentary.So - new job, about two months ago. Same thing I was doing before for a nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-69132229144694322132011-05-30T11:39:00.000-07:002011-05-30T11:42:39.158-07:00Memorial Day 2011To all those who are veterans - and to never again creating a new combat vet. Hey, while we're at it, how about the House Republicans start fully funding vet's health (yes, the rich can pay more taxes to take care of a poor kid back from two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan who twitches when he hears fireworks) and how about the Obama Administration start taking on the military-industrial complex nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-73041009304902107362010-12-12T17:19:00.000-08:002010-12-12T17:40:11.113-08:00Banishing the demons of the Bush yearsI've been shifted by Obama's stance on the tax cuts. I've lost some faith that I still had in him. There are those who have told me it was irrational, like my sweetie! (hi hon, sorry!) but dang it, I thought hope was something. That we could clean up some of the Bush mess. That we could get things heading in the right direction. More FDR than JFK...With that in mind, a killer essay on Al Jazeera nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-91525838479192852712010-12-09T23:28:00.000-08:002010-12-09T23:41:47.597-08:00Which Side Are You On?There's an old union song, written in 1931 in the coal strikes. The mine owners had the police and their paramilitaries shooting up the strikers; union politics were being played hard and fast.The question they're asking is simple. Which side of the class war are you on?This is the class war started by the Republicans, the right, and the rich, the one where Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-6662928507574713372010-12-03T20:47:00.000-08:002010-12-03T21:00:45.807-08:00AngerMust... twitch... anger... rising...Blogging unlike facebooking takes more time and thought. Good posts need more commentary and good links.But I'm just fucking fed up with shit! And not in a mood to stop fighting, but I mean for jeeze?So here's what's pissing me off.1) Craven governmental institutions caving to the Republican takeover of the house. The Smithsonian's not letting people see nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-66948044456206084722010-11-21T07:15:00.000-08:002010-11-21T07:19:56.637-08:00Thanks, Google Images!Why the hit counts? Because Google Images has decided in it's infinite wisdom that my posts on the cute gay homecoming kids, and my pundit kitchen repost of Walmart is fatal are top results.So if you come here for that and want to leave a 'hey' please comment. This is far better than the last odd thing that linked to this page, which had to do with people who hate on Obama and things I said in nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-11206462991047629652010-06-20T14:50:00.000-07:002010-06-20T15:06:40.759-07:00Obama VS Clinton: Obama's military actions.Part of the Obama Vs Clinton/From the Left discussion...One of the things I said I'd consider Obama to be a success at was if he had fewer troops in the Middle East - a third was what I was looking for - two years into his administration.He's certainly taken them out of Iraq, but a heck of a lot of them have been heading straight to Afghanistan. According to this one Canadian "Defence Watch" nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-73187816330539082522010-06-19T19:06:00.000-07:002010-06-19T19:12:37.464-07:00Left Analysis: Who is worse, Obama or ClintonA fellow lefty friend of mine and I had this discussion leading up to the Obama election: which would be the biggest sellout to the corporate right, Obama or Clinton. Actually, we framed it as 'who was worse, Clinton or Obama'. But I realized that just saying it like that would be an invitation for rightwing trolls, wingnuts, and tea-baggers to come boiling out of the woodwork and saying 'BOTH', nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-798171990642045572010-06-19T18:52:00.000-07:002010-06-19T18:57:07.489-07:00Quick recommended link: Juan Cole on BP and IraqJuan Cole is worth reading for a number of reasons - he's a lefty prof who understands the middle east from serious experience (living there many years, extensive reading of sources in their native languages) and every so often he goes off on the right-wing in wonderful, hard-hitting, factual but passionate rants.And so when he draws the correlations between Iraq, an oil-based deadly disaster, nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-26785517544475284762010-06-14T15:18:00.001-07:002010-06-14T15:32:12.871-07:00Two gay kids in New York elected prom king and queenAww... this is so sweet. Look at the pictures! (credit to the Albany Times Union)On June 5, what began as a lark turned into a celebration of their courage to attend high school as openly gay young men. Seniors Charlie Ferrusi and Timmy Howard were crowned Hudson High School's prom king and queen in an open vote of their classmates."It was so cool when they called our names. Kids were nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-54730120730604489932010-06-13T20:31:00.000-07:002010-06-13T20:56:03.613-07:00PseudonymityWell. I started a statement on pseudonymity that looked as arrogant as heck. Even though I have the ability to be a total dickwad (see photo) I still try not to. At the same time that I think - oh, it is all about me. (Well, who doesn't?)I am choosing to blog under nihilix for a couple reasons - journalistic voice and I can just vent more freely. If you have any feedback about this, let me nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-58808214465250264812010-06-11T20:58:00.000-07:002010-06-11T21:14:27.773-07:00Ohhh....There's this one vocal track at the beginning of Irresponsible Hate Anthem from Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar... that's the sound of me coming back to the blog...ohhhh.... ohhhh....Feel like a zombie blogger coming back to the windlass that I used to wind when I was alive...(probably partially a result of listening to Marilyn Manson) (as well as not blogging in like FORever...)Anyway, nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-77199700546067626662009-12-22T20:43:00.001-08:002009-12-22T20:55:43.265-08:00HealthcareMy first thought - fuck, TPM has big headlines - Senate Passes Healthcare, House to Adopt Senate Plan - fuck that!The reason you get good language out of the House is so you can fight for a compromise in committee! This is the most progressive House we've had in quite a while, and their public option was good, and the funding was better, and were it the bill, I'd be thrilled.But all this 'roll nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-46593754162476769532009-09-25T19:05:00.001-07:002009-09-25T19:08:56.325-07:00My amazing new avatarThis came from the Mariowiki, where it's someone's user ID.Here's the link.nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-65627051936949718712009-09-24T20:40:00.000-07:002009-09-24T20:43:03.089-07:00Robocop's Vocals, Super Pain Ray, Pittsburgh G-20This is fascinating - the robocop vocals. And the tweetling - is this going to be the audiotrack of the suppression of people's movements?nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-75525482744192620172009-08-27T20:15:00.000-07:002009-08-27T20:19:42.274-07:00About the radicalizing right wingPandagon? Rocks when it's rocking like nothing. Great writing there. This one - Amanda Marcotte gets this shit backwards.Here's a big clip. Go read the whole thingThe widespread unwillingness, particularly in the mainstream media, to accept that anti-choicers are rather mean-spirited right wing nuts has led to a disturbing unwillingness to label anti-choice terrorism as “terrorism”. It seems nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-87241368955175836772009-08-10T19:44:00.001-07:002009-08-14T20:26:40.914-07:00The New Mob OrderAfter Bill Clinton was re-elected, American conservatives launched the impeachment campaign that tied up government for most of his second term. Now, with the town-hall meeting disruptions and campaigns like the 'birthers', American conservatives are trying to tie up Obama by destabilizing the rule of law.Why is reining in bad practices of the insurance industry and cutting their profit margins nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-9248296122331285792009-07-07T19:13:00.000-07:002009-07-07T20:03:18.301-07:00Win the election for Paul WellstoneI am happy and sad that Al Franken took the oath of office on Paul and Sheila Wellstone's bible.The moment was the Wellstone memorial. The chapter in Frankens Lies and the Lying Liars about that event is perfect. Because the Coleman forces used their dirty tricks to smear the campaign of Senator Wellstone. And thereby they benefited by Wellstone's death.I think that the planecrash was sketchy as nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-20835330719759673232009-06-01T21:07:00.001-07:002009-06-01T21:07:46.500-07:00Icky BillThis is an example of hatemongering propaganda.nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-24229809990105640002009-05-15T20:44:00.000-07:002009-05-17T20:18:57.735-07:00Star Trek 2009 Part TwoOnce again - this is full of spoilers. Beware!CHARACTERSSpock rocked. I think his character was far more the driver than Kirk's, and he got balls. Literally. I LOVE that he's Uhura's lover. His 'mother' moments were ehh, but overall the character who did the most growth and was generally the most compelling.Kirk was fine. The role was pretty amusingly written, and the kid did fine at it. He was nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-69458104976451137362009-05-15T18:59:00.000-07:002009-05-15T20:45:55.908-07:00Star Trek 2009 Part OneFor those of you who get this in RSS - this is full of spoilers. Turn back now!Saw the new Star Trek movie last night, and I wanted to write about it.Dude, that was sooo cool!Also - letter grade bobbing between a B+ and an A-. Definitely in the 'Pay full price for it' category - as a matter of fact, pay an extra buck for the Ultrascreen.So I absolutely loved it, even when it bothered me, and I nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.com0