tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-234027032009-10-13T13:50:56.303-07:00nihilism with a human face</br>nihilixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15691088452330563478noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23402703.post-46593754162476769532009-09-25T19:05:00.001-07:002009-09-25T19:08:56.325-07:00

This came from the Mariowiki, where it's someone's user ID.Here's the link.

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This is fascinating - the robocop vocals. And the tweetling - is this going to be the audiotrack of the suppression of people's movements?

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Pandagon? 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

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After 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

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I 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

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This is an example of hatemongering propaganda.

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Once 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

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For 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

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BitchPhD, where I've guest posted, has got some good race discussions. The reminded me lately of a blogger - the FIELD NEGRO - from who I ripped the following. Amazing.Monday, May 11, 2009 I will take Rush over the black guy. "Well, if I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd go with Rush Limbaugh, I think,"..." I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn't

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First of May - Outdoor F'ing Starts Today (NSFW) (but cartoony)OK - and for other light news; this comes from Rogers over at Kung Fu Monkey. It also made me laugh.There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an

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I love the floating out of focus Cornyn.

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Off of a comment thread on Bitch PhD - is there any reason to protest against Norm Coleman? Or is it pointless, because it's just a legal case right now?I think there are reasons to protest.First, there's Norm Coleman, who is indeed an actor in the play but by no means the most powerful. He loses with the general public, somewhat, by continuing to twitch. But he gains with his Republican donor

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Good post at the Booman Tribune about poker and politics. Apparently, the Republicans overplay their hands, and in this case they don't have the political chips to back it up.[Obama]... made concessions to the House GOP during the stimulus debate and he got absolutely nothing in return. In essence, he folded a good hand and lost a pot that rightfully belonged to him. The Republicans had been

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Right wing violence will occur and it will be backed by media like Fox and politicans like Bachmann and Perry from Texas.When some nutbar goes off - like they do and have done - we gotta pump up the volume and challenge folks - what do you think about this? These people claim to be pro-life, but they use violence for their cause. As a pro-lifer, do you condone this action? Call them on it.

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Something I caught I don't know where - academic, radical, good sense of history - Labornerd.Something I got there - 1935 newsreel on the split between AFL and CIO.OH - and thanks for the last week's hit counts. I'd been averaging 5 a day (with the lame posting schedule) and this last one was about 10 a day. (I'll ignore the extra hits I generated myself when I plugged in on Mike's router.)

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LOL

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I've had this infection in my brain. A song I've been listint to over an over. It first came to me when I went to Slumdog Millionaire, finally, and I was like - dam, that's some hot soundtrack. Which I score from a friend.So I'm listening to it, and then this cut comes on - I'd heard it somewhere before - comes to me and I'm like - dam, that's the song.It's M.I.A.'s Paper Planes and I've listened

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I use Sitemeter to see who's clicking into this blog. It tells me lots of things, like how many hits, how many page views, etc. etc. Since almost no-one comments here, the hit count is one of the few things that gives me the egoboost that's part of blogging. (Very like doing pirate radio w/o a call-in number - sending words into the void...)So I'm looking at why people came here - what referrals

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People might freak out, and rightly so, about how the American Empire is flexing it's hard brutal muscle in the Middle East. But as Noam Chomsky first pointed out to me, the real game during the long Cold War was two empires putting down revolts inside their spheres - the Warsaw Pact for the Russians, and most of South and Central America for the US.The Monroe Doctrine called it - we're the

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I can't believe this. I guess the right wing is in some way going for it - trying to pull the South back out of the country, or something.The Governor of Texas is telling people to rebel against the Federal government."Where’re you gonna’ stand? With an ever-growing Washington bureaucracy, or are you going to stand with the people of this state who understand the importance of state's rights"Just

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So the pirates and the captain and Obama and stuff... what a load of bullshit. I'm sorry, but a dude in a boat and a destroyer is a distraction, not an issue of world shaking import. I don't care. Seriously, if you want to fix something in Africa you could do something for Darfur.However, it shows that Obama can give the order to kill. It's a blood barrier that's been crossed. He's made, he's no

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The ruling is out - the Minnesota 2008 Senate vote was legitimate, and Al Franken is the elected Senator. You're done, Norm.You're like my bad dream of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. You rose to power on a corporate-fueled shift to the right, and you shifted with it. You grabbed camera time to diss the UN, and you got schooled by George Galloway, and now you've been schooled by the voters in

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Two good postsPandagon and Shakespeare's Sister are two of my long time regular reads. They'rebrilliant, and have lots of brilliance, including the two awesome women who sadly showed that John Edwards wasn't quite ready for prime time. (no! Sheesh, you people.)Anyway - Amanda and Melissa rock. And so do Jesse and Misty (and other folks over there.) Misty put together two things - this video, and

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Dear Mr. Coleman,In a short time, the three-judge panel will make some announcements. They will find that the Minnesota Senate election was sound, and that Al Franken won it.It's time to throw in the towel. You lost the election in Minnesota to Al Franken. You should concede, and cease further legal challenge.You can, of course, continue legal action. You have legal avenues available, and you

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I met Keith Ellison, who (according to my roomie) is now my new homie.It was for work; there's an anti-Somali Muslim campaign going around. We were both at the storefront mosque in Saint Paul that was the second target (after the Minneapolis one). We were both showing solidarity.I hear tell that there was a Katie Couric thing, and the Star Tribune, which has been pretty creepy and right-wing and

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