Kevin Philips, the man who coined the term Sunbelt in the late 60s and predicted the rise of the neoConservative Moment, smacks the hell out of that brand of corrupted politics in his new book. A semi-polemic that meticulously outlines what will cause the end of America, as it still vociferously
Although Phillips is scathingly critical of what he considers the dangerous policies of the Bush administration, he does not spend much time examining the ideas and behavior of the president and his advisers. Instead, he identifies three broad and related trends — none of them new to the Bush years but all of them, he believes, exacerbated by this administration's policies — that together threaten the future of the United States and the world. One is the role of oil in defining and, as Phillips sees it, distorting American foreign and domestic policy. The second is the ominous intrusion of radical Christianity into politics and government. And the third is the astonishing levels of debt — current and prospective — that both the government and the American people have been heedlessly accumulating. If there is a single, if implicit, theme running through the three linked essays that form this book, it is the failure of leaders to look beyond their own and the country's immediate ambitions and desires so as to plan prudently for a darkening future.
The American press in the first days of the Iraq war reported extensively on the Pentagon's failure to post American troops in front of the National Museum in Baghdad, which, as a result, was looted of many of its great archaeological treasures. Less widely reported, but to Phillips far more meaningful, was the immediate posting of troops around the Iraqi Oil Ministry, which held the maps and charts that were the key to effective oil production. Phillips fully supports an explanation of the Iraq war that the Bush administration dismisses as conspiracy theory — that its principal purpose was to secure vast oil reserves that would enable the United States to control production and to lower prices. ("Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve underneath," an oil analyst said a couple of years ago. "You can't ask for better than that.") Terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, tyranny, democracy and other public rationales were, Phillips says, simply ruses to disguise the real motivation for the invasion.
There is little in "American Theocracy" that is wholly original to Phillips, as he frankly admits by his frequent reference to the work of other writers and scholars. What makes this book powerful in spite of the familiarity of many of its arguments is his rare gift for looking broadly and structurally at social and political change. By describing a series of major transformations, by demonstrating the relationships among them and by discussing them with passionate restraint, Phillips has created a harrowing picture of national danger that no American reader will welcome, but that none should ignore.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
MOVIE REVIEW - BRICK
everyone has a soft spot for a center film genre, and mine is for film noir. I was bitten by the hard-boiled bug when I was in high school, and American Movie Classics just debuted. I saw a bunch of those 40s flicks, stuff like Murder, My Sweet, The Big Magambo, Out of the Past, Where The Sidewalk Ends, and Laura. I couldn't get over the distinctive dialogue and delivery style of Spade, Marlowe and the others. I loved the twisted motives that circled around the murder and mayhem in that underbelly of society that those films mined so well.
Even when the genre got revivied in the early 80s and then again in the early 90s, that rip-your-head-off dialogue was absent (except in a few notable films). Obviously audiences wouldn't put up the now-cliched dialogue in a now-cliched situations in New York or LA.
Last night however, it was back (not in its glory, but close enough) in a seeminly slieght film called Brick, a film noir set in of all places southern Orange County, CA with high school seniors as our players. The cast is a bunch of nobodies, except for the weird performance by , the luminous key, but bit role by Emilie de Ravin (the best thing going on LOST) and the hot, hot, hot Meagan Goode - you remember her, right?
How can you forget those DSLs? I can't.
Meagan's performance continued make me a big fan, because it was role that showed she has some acting skills -- basically because she's not playing an archetypical Black Girl role; you know what I'm talking about... a hoochie, a golddiggin' slut, a neck-snaking ghetto bitch, or a gangster's moll (surprising, considering this was a film noir).
The Orange County location with its absentee adults and wacked out kids is a perfect setting for a new entry into the genre. Mainly, because you can't go a month without reading in the newspaper about some sad saps in the O.C. doing some bizarre-ass shit, like schoolyard planned & sanctioned gang rapes, E and coke trafficking in the cafeteria or at the local Carl's Jr., and laughable gun violence that these wannabe's emulate from their silly infatuation with the likes of the gangsta rappers they somehow feel kinship with.
The movie does a great job lifting and re-imagining the hardboiled dialogue that made everyone believe Humphery Bogart was a tough guy.
I don't know when it's coming out, and it's probably going to be overshadowed by the wildly overhyped V FOR VENDETTA - could be good, could be bad, the Wachowski Brothers are only batting .125, let's not forget that (how'd I get that number? They've been behind 5 films, so you do the math. Not living up to their potential, I'd say).
Anyway, the only interesting film noir that was out recently was that UK import Layer Cake, I'm reading the novel right now, I'll tell you how it is once I'm done. Good so far. A bit cheeky, but that's the point.
Even when the genre got revivied in the early 80s and then again in the early 90s, that rip-your-head-off dialogue was absent (except in a few notable films). Obviously audiences wouldn't put up the now-cliched dialogue in a now-cliched situations in New York or LA.
Last night however, it was back (not in its glory, but close enough) in a seeminly slieght film called Brick, a film noir set in of all places southern Orange County, CA with high school seniors as our players. The cast is a bunch of nobodies, except for the weird performance by , the luminous key, but bit role by Emilie de Ravin (the best thing going on LOST) and the hot, hot, hot Meagan Goode - you remember her, right?
How can you forget those DSLs? I can't.
Meagan's performance continued make me a big fan, because it was role that showed she has some acting skills -- basically because she's not playing an archetypical Black Girl role; you know what I'm talking about... a hoochie, a golddiggin' slut, a neck-snaking ghetto bitch, or a gangster's moll (surprising, considering this was a film noir).
The Orange County location with its absentee adults and wacked out kids is a perfect setting for a new entry into the genre. Mainly, because you can't go a month without reading in the newspaper about some sad saps in the O.C. doing some bizarre-ass shit, like schoolyard planned & sanctioned gang rapes, E and coke trafficking in the cafeteria or at the local Carl's Jr., and laughable gun violence that these wannabe's emulate from their silly infatuation with the likes of the gangsta rappers they somehow feel kinship with.
The movie does a great job lifting and re-imagining the hardboiled dialogue that made everyone believe Humphery Bogart was a tough guy.
I don't know when it's coming out, and it's probably going to be overshadowed by the wildly overhyped V FOR VENDETTA - could be good, could be bad, the Wachowski Brothers are only batting .125, let's not forget that (how'd I get that number? They've been behind 5 films, so you do the math. Not living up to their potential, I'd say).
Anyway, the only interesting film noir that was out recently was that UK import Layer Cake, I'm reading the novel right now, I'll tell you how it is once I'm done. Good so far. A bit cheeky, but that's the point.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Tit Grabbing And Other Funny Moments
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Make Fun Of The Prophet... And Die!
There's been a lot of hub-bub about the so-called venerable prophet Mohammad getting skewered in European (mainly Danish) political cartoons -- and it has the Arab world up in arms (like that's something new).
From what I can tell, the Europeans have been satirizng Mohammad for quite some time, and it's only now that it's boiled over...
But the fact the Arabs are tripping points to the fact that they are basically perverting one of the tenants of Islam -- which is tolerance. YEAH! You wouldn't know it, by the way the Arabs behave. But you have to look at it this way: Arab culture took claim of Islam and the rulers and reactionary clerics have systematically used it to continue to oppress the people. Everything that hinders so-called progress (in terms of what the Occidental economics would call progress) can be justified by the Arab elite by turning to the Quran or siting something Mohammad said.
And keeping the people down is what the Arabian oligarchs do best -- better than anybody on the planet, maybe in the history of the world...
Check this out -- I was reading an interview with the State Department's press liaison, and she made a remark that tripped me out. When she was in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi women were upset at Bush and the U.S. Government for permitting Oprah to do a show about sexual repression in the Muslim world. Indicating that in the Muslim world the citizenery is so ignorant (and sheltered) as to think that Oprah's show is a government program. They honestly believe that. It's easy to see why... in their frame of reference TV and all its programming is controled by the fat, wealthy as hell rulers, sanctioned by clerics and thus there is no creatively free shows or shows that operates with a license to say what they want without repuercussions (like getting your tongue cut the fuck out!).
In the eyes of the liberal West, Islam and Mohammad are just plump and juicy ripe for satire and comedy. I have to believe that something will pop up on South Park (I never watch the show anymore, but know that scandalize Jesus and the Devil).
Arab culture needs to take the reins off, get sucked up in the maelstrom of conspicuous consumption and abusive capitalism -- then religion can get attacked, questioned, revered, and celebrated the way it is in the West... but will that ever happen?
Nah -- the Arabs have been trippin' since before the time of Caesar, they'll keep trippin' forever if you ask me.
From what I can tell, the Europeans have been satirizng Mohammad for quite some time, and it's only now that it's boiled over...
But the fact the Arabs are tripping points to the fact that they are basically perverting one of the tenants of Islam -- which is tolerance. YEAH! You wouldn't know it, by the way the Arabs behave. But you have to look at it this way: Arab culture took claim of Islam and the rulers and reactionary clerics have systematically used it to continue to oppress the people. Everything that hinders so-called progress (in terms of what the Occidental economics would call progress) can be justified by the Arab elite by turning to the Quran or siting something Mohammad said.
And keeping the people down is what the Arabian oligarchs do best -- better than anybody on the planet, maybe in the history of the world...
Check this out -- I was reading an interview with the State Department's press liaison, and she made a remark that tripped me out. When she was in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi women were upset at Bush and the U.S. Government for permitting Oprah to do a show about sexual repression in the Muslim world. Indicating that in the Muslim world the citizenery is so ignorant (and sheltered) as to think that Oprah's show is a government program. They honestly believe that. It's easy to see why... in their frame of reference TV and all its programming is controled by the fat, wealthy as hell rulers, sanctioned by clerics and thus there is no creatively free shows or shows that operates with a license to say what they want without repuercussions (like getting your tongue cut the fuck out!).
In the eyes of the liberal West, Islam and Mohammad are just plump and juicy ripe for satire and comedy. I have to believe that something will pop up on South Park (I never watch the show anymore, but know that scandalize Jesus and the Devil).
Arab culture needs to take the reins off, get sucked up in the maelstrom of conspicuous consumption and abusive capitalism -- then religion can get attacked, questioned, revered, and celebrated the way it is in the West... but will that ever happen?
Nah -- the Arabs have been trippin' since before the time of Caesar, they'll keep trippin' forever if you ask me.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Natural Born White Trash -- It's All Over And Growing
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Sunday, February 05, 2006
Servey Says... Smack That Booty!
Have you ever been to the website
www.bootyvote.com?
It's exactly what the title purports to be a place where ass photos are rated by the myriad of viewers (4000+) who visit the site on a regular basis.
This shouldn't really cause any comment, least of all from me, but it got me thinking -- entertainment has changed quite considerably since the Internet has infected the culture.
Digital, disposable, solitary entertainment experiences is what the the under 25 set is going to know and love -- group enjoyment is old school, because the effects of letting the computer, VCR and latest gaming console act as the main forms of occupying a growing kids time has pushed the youth, particularly young males, into a more solitary existence. Where interaction with other humans becomes an annoyance or an obligation, not something that is cherished, relished and expected.
The other day I was at the Santa Monica mall and saw these two teenage girls shopping together. Nothing out of the ordinary, except they were both listening to their iPods as they walked around, and only disengaged their headphones to test an item with the other. I thought, this is disturbing because they aren't really together -- they're not socializing the
On a certain level, I don't give a good fuck, because I'm not going to be living in the U.S. that much longer. All of the Baby Boomers are going to suck this country dry once they begin to retire, and need all sorts of social programs to deal with the decaying of their bodies. And who's going to pay for it? All the new immigrants from South and Central America and East Asia that are going to be coming over here. The population growth is going to continue to come from immigration, and the work opportunities are going to be less and less. Thus extending the gap between the haves and the have nots.
So when the average white kid gets displaced 'cause he's been spending too much time in front of his webcam singing to the Web-universe and not learning Spanish, advanced mathematics and Chinese, it's not going to be my problem at all. 'Cause I'll just shake my head from Sydney or Madrid...
If figure Europe will retain it's cultural identity and standard of living better than the US, because they'll pass laws to protect their culture -- as they do with movies and TV.
The US will be a true melting pot of megacities that have humdrum exiistence in cubicles or working shit jobs just get by on credit.
www.bootyvote.com?
It's exactly what the title purports to be a place where ass photos are rated by the myriad of viewers (4000+) who visit the site on a regular basis.
This shouldn't really cause any comment, least of all from me, but it got me thinking -- entertainment has changed quite considerably since the Internet has infected the culture.
Digital, disposable, solitary entertainment experiences is what the the under 25 set is going to know and love -- group enjoyment is old school, because the effects of letting the computer, VCR and latest gaming console act as the main forms of occupying a growing kids time has pushed the youth, particularly young males, into a more solitary existence. Where interaction with other humans becomes an annoyance or an obligation, not something that is cherished, relished and expected.
The other day I was at the Santa Monica mall and saw these two teenage girls shopping together. Nothing out of the ordinary, except they were both listening to their iPods as they walked around, and only disengaged their headphones to test an item with the other. I thought, this is disturbing because they aren't really together -- they're not socializing the
On a certain level, I don't give a good fuck, because I'm not going to be living in the U.S. that much longer. All of the Baby Boomers are going to suck this country dry once they begin to retire, and need all sorts of social programs to deal with the decaying of their bodies. And who's going to pay for it? All the new immigrants from South and Central America and East Asia that are going to be coming over here. The population growth is going to continue to come from immigration, and the work opportunities are going to be less and less. Thus extending the gap between the haves and the have nots.
So when the average white kid gets displaced 'cause he's been spending too much time in front of his webcam singing to the Web-universe and not learning Spanish, advanced mathematics and Chinese, it's not going to be my problem at all. 'Cause I'll just shake my head from Sydney or Madrid...
If figure Europe will retain it's cultural identity and standard of living better than the US, because they'll pass laws to protect their culture -- as they do with movies and TV.
The US will be a true melting pot of megacities that have humdrum exiistence in cubicles or working shit jobs just get by on credit.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Return of the King
Did y'all see The Boondocks episode where MLK survived his assassination, was in a coma and then woke up around the time of September 11th?
That was some damn hard core skewering of Black people. You gotta give McGruder some dap for putting Nigga Pop culture on BLAST! 'Cause it sure needs it.
Outside of the Eddie Murphy "Don't Bring Me Down Hymie Town" skit on SNL, I haven't seen the Southern Baptist speach cadence used to such comic effect and such flunking, as McGrudger's scripting of MLK speaking out about "all the ass-whippings" he got weren't worth the current wild'n out behavior that niggas kick all the time now.
When MLK claims BET is the worst thing he's ever seen, that's a complete FADE! and a truism. Considering that Reggie Hudlin is an Exec Producer on the show, pretty much cultivated McGrudger into Hollywood (or at least that's the rumor), but now that Reggie is head of BET, is that a case of biting that hand that feeds you?
I don't know if Reggie is still involved in The Boondocks, even though he receives an Executive Producer credit. But I do know that a certain number of the original writers having nothing good to say about McGrudger.
I don't know the nigga, but he's getting a good handle of what it means to crack on the slummin' nature of pop culture that's influenced by the so-called "urban nature" of American megapolises.
You gotta love that Unkle Ruckus is rejoicing Jim Crow in the flashbacks -- niggas, never know a good thing when they have it and they don't no a damn thing about their past. Modern Niggas that is.
That was some damn hard core skewering of Black people. You gotta give McGruder some dap for putting Nigga Pop culture on BLAST! 'Cause it sure needs it.
Outside of the Eddie Murphy "Don't Bring Me Down Hymie Town" skit on SNL, I haven't seen the Southern Baptist speach cadence used to such comic effect and such flunking, as McGrudger's scripting of MLK speaking out about "all the ass-whippings" he got weren't worth the current wild'n out behavior that niggas kick all the time now.
When MLK claims BET is the worst thing he's ever seen, that's a complete FADE! and a truism. Considering that Reggie Hudlin is an Exec Producer on the show, pretty much cultivated McGrudger into Hollywood (or at least that's the rumor), but now that Reggie is head of BET, is that a case of biting that hand that feeds you?
I don't know if Reggie is still involved in The Boondocks, even though he receives an Executive Producer credit. But I do know that a certain number of the original writers having nothing good to say about McGrudger.
I don't know the nigga, but he's getting a good handle of what it means to crack on the slummin' nature of pop culture that's influenced by the so-called "urban nature" of American megapolises.
You gotta love that Unkle Ruckus is rejoicing Jim Crow in the flashbacks -- niggas, never know a good thing when they have it and they don't no a damn thing about their past. Modern Niggas that is.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Get It Right, Please!
I’m looking at the TIME magazine from two weeks ago (Jan. 16, 2006), and in the “Movies” section there’s a overview of the so-called great performances of 2005. Heading up the list is everyone’s favorite nubile nyphm du jour Scarlett Johansson – the article starts off with “She’s blond, she’s curvaceously configured, and she has those remarkably proportioned lips.” I had to stop reading right fucking there – remarkably proportioned lips?
For a white girl!
Just like Angelina Jolie gets a lot of tabloid ink for having what would have been called in pre-1970s America “Nigger Lips” (just ask Michelle Pfeiffer). Take on-the-rise Black nyphm Megan Goode, for example –
What’s up with her lips? Aren’t they just as luscious as Johansson’s or Jolie’s? Oh, I forgot as a Black woman in Hollywood (or anyplace in the mainstream media) she’s not going to get any comments for having explosive Dick Sucking Lips (that’s what ever single article about Johansson and Jolie wants to say, and can’t). And when you want to talk about “body” – Megan is as bad as they cum.
I am by no way bashing or shitting on Johansson – in fact, I’m happy she was finally in a good role in Woody Allen's new flick. Up to now everything else she’s done – except for Ghost World – has been so-so, either in script or in her performance. I remember seeing her in Ghost World, and saying “magnetic…” But where are the roles? Sure she can be the Lolita that everyone wanted her to be between the ages of 17 and 21, but I could almost careless for her work in, say The Island or A Love Song For Bobby Fisher or American Rhapsody or The Perfect Score. There’s a lot of energy behind her eyes, and I don’t see it in the work. Maybe she just gets chump parts…
In Match Point, she plays the cloying bitch very well. But in her interviews since Lost In Translation, that doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch… I guess she’s filling the shoes that would have gone to Winona Ryder, if she hadn’t screwed her career.
Obviously Kiera Knightley and Natalie Portman are getting the juicest roles for that age range… and anything older Miss DSL herself Angelina is the hottest of the hot.
So when it comes to DSLs, and the way they’re worshiped in the media… the choice is yours.
Or
Truth be told… in the TIME article, the most underrated (and smallest photo) goes to the Number One Stunner – Gong Li.
Hope she doesn’t get treated like shit by Hollywood.
For a white girl!
Just like Angelina Jolie gets a lot of tabloid ink for having what would have been called in pre-1970s America “Nigger Lips” (just ask Michelle Pfeiffer). Take on-the-rise Black nyphm Megan Goode, for example –
What’s up with her lips? Aren’t they just as luscious as Johansson’s or Jolie’s? Oh, I forgot as a Black woman in Hollywood (or anyplace in the mainstream media) she’s not going to get any comments for having explosive Dick Sucking Lips (that’s what ever single article about Johansson and Jolie wants to say, and can’t). And when you want to talk about “body” – Megan is as bad as they cum.
I am by no way bashing or shitting on Johansson – in fact, I’m happy she was finally in a good role in Woody Allen's new flick. Up to now everything else she’s done – except for Ghost World – has been so-so, either in script or in her performance. I remember seeing her in Ghost World, and saying “magnetic…” But where are the roles? Sure she can be the Lolita that everyone wanted her to be between the ages of 17 and 21, but I could almost careless for her work in, say The Island or A Love Song For Bobby Fisher or American Rhapsody or The Perfect Score. There’s a lot of energy behind her eyes, and I don’t see it in the work. Maybe she just gets chump parts…
In Match Point, she plays the cloying bitch very well. But in her interviews since Lost In Translation, that doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch… I guess she’s filling the shoes that would have gone to Winona Ryder, if she hadn’t screwed her career.
Obviously Kiera Knightley and Natalie Portman are getting the juicest roles for that age range… and anything older Miss DSL herself Angelina is the hottest of the hot.
So when it comes to DSLs, and the way they’re worshiped in the media… the choice is yours.
Or
Truth be told… in the TIME article, the most underrated (and smallest photo) goes to the Number One Stunner – Gong Li.
Hope she doesn’t get treated like shit by Hollywood.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Academy Dumps The Nigga Host
So ho, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences chose Jon Stewart to host this years Oscar broadcast.
This is going to be fun, although probably not nearly as barbed and un-PC as Chris Rock's stint last year. I have to say, the Academy got what they expected and didn't expect with C-Rock. I figure the expected Rock to hand the Chump-in-Chief his ass -- which he did, but he also did something else -- put a foot in Hollywood's ass!
In an attempt to shake up their sagging rating C-Rock took the mic and did what America has always hated - having an intelligent Black Man in the middle of the media spotlight, who is smart, articulate and well-versed on the crimes perpetrated by the country and more specifically the industry he's in to have full reign to speak for more than a 20 second sound bite. I'll never forget the barbs C-Rock threw at Jude Law, ultimately claiming that he wasn't even a movie star, nor will I forget how he shoved a shiv in the movie studio execs who continually release shitty Black films with criminally inept titles like Barbershop, The Cook-Out, The Wash, Booty Call, Sprung, and My Baby's Mama. I never understand why nigga flicks have the most banal titles imaginable, do you? Are Black People not cogent enough to have a subtle or slick or inviting title, like Crash or The Constant Gardner or Brokeback Mountain?
Apparently, some Academy members found Mr. Rock, who took as many hard-ass jabs at the overly sanctimoniousness of the industry as he did at President Bush, was insufficiently respectful of the movie industry. My thing is why should Rock have been reverential to Hollywood? It's know for treating Blacks like craven dogs, who are forced to scavenge for meals from the scraps left by their owners.
Mr. Gil Cates, the producer of this year's Oscar broadcast said he wasn't worried that Mr. Stewart might cross the line of taste in matters of politics or Hollywood protocol. "He's hilarious, he's irreverent," said Mr. Cates. "He knows the difference between being irreverent and being over the top. I'm very excited about it."
Now that quote, if you decipher the subterfuge infected text, sounds like this me: "Who does that nigger Chris Rock tried to embarrass the (hairy, hidden) Hand that feeds him, think he is?!? Disparage niggers all you want on your HBO Specials, Chris, but don't you dare take a stanky shit on the high priests of the post-modern Church! When you're given a chance to speak at their pulpit Now we have to cut ya!" This is all said in the upper halls of power that are draped with repurposed white sheets. I'm not saying that Cates or the Academy is racist, that would be too easy -- and too wrong.
I wonder how Rock's script would have been this year -- if he was choosen -- and Aaron McGrudder of Boondocks fame was helping with the writing chores.
Anyway, I'll probably drop a bomb or two after this years Oscars. I'm actually looking forward to seeing Jon Stewart, as I rarely ever watch his show; it must be good though!
This is going to be fun, although probably not nearly as barbed and un-PC as Chris Rock's stint last year. I have to say, the Academy got what they expected and didn't expect with C-Rock. I figure the expected Rock to hand the Chump-in-Chief his ass -- which he did, but he also did something else -- put a foot in Hollywood's ass!
In an attempt to shake up their sagging rating C-Rock took the mic and did what America has always hated - having an intelligent Black Man in the middle of the media spotlight, who is smart, articulate and well-versed on the crimes perpetrated by the country and more specifically the industry he's in to have full reign to speak for more than a 20 second sound bite. I'll never forget the barbs C-Rock threw at Jude Law, ultimately claiming that he wasn't even a movie star, nor will I forget how he shoved a shiv in the movie studio execs who continually release shitty Black films with criminally inept titles like Barbershop, The Cook-Out, The Wash, Booty Call, Sprung, and My Baby's Mama. I never understand why nigga flicks have the most banal titles imaginable, do you? Are Black People not cogent enough to have a subtle or slick or inviting title, like Crash or The Constant Gardner or Brokeback Mountain?
Apparently, some Academy members found Mr. Rock, who took as many hard-ass jabs at the overly sanctimoniousness of the industry as he did at President Bush, was insufficiently respectful of the movie industry. My thing is why should Rock have been reverential to Hollywood? It's know for treating Blacks like craven dogs, who are forced to scavenge for meals from the scraps left by their owners.
Mr. Gil Cates, the producer of this year's Oscar broadcast said he wasn't worried that Mr. Stewart might cross the line of taste in matters of politics or Hollywood protocol. "He's hilarious, he's irreverent," said Mr. Cates. "He knows the difference between being irreverent and being over the top. I'm very excited about it."
Now that quote, if you decipher the subterfuge infected text, sounds like this me: "Who does that nigger Chris Rock tried to embarrass the (hairy, hidden) Hand that feeds him, think he is?!? Disparage niggers all you want on your HBO Specials, Chris, but don't you dare take a stanky shit on the high priests of the post-modern Church! When you're given a chance to speak at their pulpit Now we have to cut ya!" This is all said in the upper halls of power that are draped with repurposed white sheets. I'm not saying that Cates or the Academy is racist, that would be too easy -- and too wrong.
I wonder how Rock's script would have been this year -- if he was choosen -- and Aaron McGrudder of Boondocks fame was helping with the writing chores.
Anyway, I'll probably drop a bomb or two after this years Oscars. I'm actually looking forward to seeing Jon Stewart, as I rarely ever watch his show; it must be good though!
Home Theatre - Where Popcorn & Soda Are Cheap
Toshiba is lauching their HD-DVD format with a $500 machine in March, and then later this year the Sony Blu-Ray standard will get launched, initially in PS3, and then in home units.
This is interesting, because what I want to see is what HD standard do the computer companies install in their machines. I'd like to see the computer companies adopt Blu-Ray and the consumer for movies latch on to HD-DVD, simply because the BIGGEST mistake Hollywood made with DVDs is employing a technology that was also made available as a stotage medium for PCs. Hence the huge private market.
Xbox 360 doesn't use an optical disc that any other technology platform (or maybe it's only the encoding that is differen) uses, in an effort to cut down on bootleg games.
Hollywood, in its supreme, but expected and historical, shortsightedness on Profits Now, didn't think twice about rolling out all the libraries of films on DVD, not realizing that the hijacking of intellecutal property was on the way up and seen first hand with CDs.
Now Hollywood has a chance to reclaim lost revenue, which should bolster the balance sheet, by carefully watching what happens with the HD DVD market.
Although, I think the both system, much like DATs, won't penetrate the mainstream consumer market. Although that could change once HDTV is in just about every household in America. And when is that again?
Oh yeah, sometime after the end of the Mayan Calender. Just enough time for me to make enough money not to worry about it.
This is interesting, because what I want to see is what HD standard do the computer companies install in their machines. I'd like to see the computer companies adopt Blu-Ray and the consumer for movies latch on to HD-DVD, simply because the BIGGEST mistake Hollywood made with DVDs is employing a technology that was also made available as a stotage medium for PCs. Hence the huge private market.
Xbox 360 doesn't use an optical disc that any other technology platform (or maybe it's only the encoding that is differen) uses, in an effort to cut down on bootleg games.
Hollywood, in its supreme, but expected and historical, shortsightedness on Profits Now, didn't think twice about rolling out all the libraries of films on DVD, not realizing that the hijacking of intellecutal property was on the way up and seen first hand with CDs.
Now Hollywood has a chance to reclaim lost revenue, which should bolster the balance sheet, by carefully watching what happens with the HD DVD market.
Although, I think the both system, much like DATs, won't penetrate the mainstream consumer market. Although that could change once HDTV is in just about every household in America. And when is that again?
Oh yeah, sometime after the end of the Mayan Calender. Just enough time for me to make enough money not to worry about it.
You Stupid Cow!
Scandal Monger Paris Hilton is being sued for $10million for spreading “vicious lies” about a romantic rival in London.
This is TOO FUNNY! I mean, damn, it smacks like something out of a Truman Capote novella or that funny, bizarre time of young woman chat-fighting that characterized the '50s and '60s - remember those movies like A Letter To Three Wives or Indiscreet? Where lies about who's fucking who in so-called high society was all the rage. Making claims like, “I'm going to destroy you.” Who does she think she is? Hedda Hopper?
I'm chortling with glee that Paris is getting embarrassed and exposed as a snarky bitch (like that's a surpise!). As evidence by that tape that came out when she called these Black clothing designers stupid niggers.
Obviously, Paris is out of control. And she had to cool her smoking pussy and soften her hard tits when she sat down and to give a deposition in the Zeta Graff suit. Curiously coincidental, this promoter is seeking a restraining order against Paris - something to do with Paris near-slandering and issuing death threats! Death threats! Like she's Marie Antoinette or something! Maybe her fate should be the same?!
The $10 million hit (if Zeta Graff wins the suit) isn't going to sting Paris that much, her clothing line can pay that fine in a week, but the court of public opinion will be shellacking our favorite cumdumpster for sometime. Although not too long, unfortunately, as she is the Teflon heiress. Which is too bad, because with all her money that she uses to shape her public image, the unearned fame is showing that she's just another spoiled, bratty slut who feels that she can control the world, because in “her World” people bow to her (in awe 'cause of her money, and the potential chance to taste her pussy?). Sadly, if she wanted to have someone killed in a jealous rage or fit of fame/money insanity, she is rich and those muthafuckas can and do get away with just about anything.
This is TOO FUNNY! I mean, damn, it smacks like something out of a Truman Capote novella or that funny, bizarre time of young woman chat-fighting that characterized the '50s and '60s - remember those movies like A Letter To Three Wives or Indiscreet? Where lies about who's fucking who in so-called high society was all the rage. Making claims like, “I'm going to destroy you.” Who does she think she is? Hedda Hopper?
I'm chortling with glee that Paris is getting embarrassed and exposed as a snarky bitch (like that's a surpise!). As evidence by that tape that came out when she called these Black clothing designers stupid niggers.
Obviously, Paris is out of control. And she had to cool her smoking pussy and soften her hard tits when she sat down and to give a deposition in the Zeta Graff suit. Curiously coincidental, this promoter is seeking a restraining order against Paris - something to do with Paris near-slandering and issuing death threats! Death threats! Like she's Marie Antoinette or something! Maybe her fate should be the same?!
The $10 million hit (if Zeta Graff wins the suit) isn't going to sting Paris that much, her clothing line can pay that fine in a week, but the court of public opinion will be shellacking our favorite cumdumpster for sometime. Although not too long, unfortunately, as she is the Teflon heiress. Which is too bad, because with all her money that she uses to shape her public image, the unearned fame is showing that she's just another spoiled, bratty slut who feels that she can control the world, because in “her World” people bow to her (in awe 'cause of her money, and the potential chance to taste her pussy?). Sadly, if she wanted to have someone killed in a jealous rage or fit of fame/money insanity, she is rich and those muthafuckas can and do get away with just about anything.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Alternative Sex… It's the RAGE
Ever since Paris Hilton's fuck/dick suck tape came out and was mass marketed not to her detriment, but as means to boost her fame, pornography and sex has been shedding that media taboo - which is a good thing, but I've always suspected that there are a few styles of sexual exploration that will still cause a rancor, a nose wrinkle, a raised eyebrow. And one of those is BDSM.
I have a friend who is a Dominatrix, and I wanted her to be able to you tell what the lifestyle means, hopefully she's dispelled a lot of misconceptions about this so-called Alternative Lifestyle. I say “so-called” because everyone has their fetish, and a lot of people would enjoy sex with at least a blindfold on… let your other senses control the experience.
Anyway, here's the slim on the smacdown:
BDSM is an acronym of "B&D" (Bondage & Discipline), "D&S" (Dominance & Submission), and "S&M" (sadomasochism). "BDSM" refers to any or all of these things, and a lot of stuff besides.
Tying up your lover is BDSM; so is flogging that person, or bossing that person around, or any of a thousand other things. BDSM is highly erotic, usually (though not always) involves sex or sexual tension; and is highly psychologically charged. One person (the "submissive") agrees to submit to another person (the "dominant"); or, alternately, one person agrees to receive some sort of sensation, such as spanking, from another.
Some people like to be submissive all the time, some people like to be dominant all the time; some people like to switch, being submissive one day and dominant the next.
For the most part, people who are into this kind of thing are remarkably well-adjusted. People involved in BDSM generally are neither abusive nor come from backgrounds where they were abused, because people with that kind of backgrounds aren't likely to be sexually turned on by giving someone else power over them. That doesn't mean that no BDSM relationship is abusive--since people are what they are, no form of human interaction is immune to abuse. But it does mean that the people you'll find in the BDSM community are, for the most part, very stable. (In fact, if you're going to get involved in this kind of stuff, it helps to have a cast-iron ego and a strong sense of self, particularly if you're a submissive.)
Some people think anyone interested in BDSM is suffering from some kind of past abuse. I think that the "BDSM interest=past abuse" assertion is most frequently made by people who don't understand what BDSM is. They see someone being flogged, they say "Oh! People in a BDSM relationship get hit; people in an abusive relationship get hit; ergo, BDSM is like an abusive relationship. QED."
But the fact is, the psychology of a BDSM power exchange is vastly different from the psychology of abuse; and in a BDSM relationship, the psychology is frequently driven by the limitations of the submissive, not the dominant. Typically, it is the submissive who says "This far and no farther"--which is entirely contradictory to the psychology of abuse.
BDSM is not what it looks like from the outside. It's not just tying people up and having sex, and it's not just arbitrarily whipping people. That's very crude, and kind of boring. What it is is a sort of role-playing, where the people involved are acting out a fantasy that involves taking or giving up power. Sex is often involved, but not always.
The Ideal Person for this lifestyle is…
Uh-huh. Sure. The needs of the submissive. Right. The dominant is the one bossing the other person around; you'd have to be some kind of jerk to want to do that.
While that may seem like it makes sense on the surface, the truth is just the opposite. People who are good at dominating or inflicting pain are, in general, LESS likely than many other people to be jerks or assholes.
Why? Because in order to be good at doing it, you need to be highly in-tune with your submissive. People who are self-centered generally make poor dominants, because they lack the empathy required to be able to read and judge their partner's reactions, and bring their partner where that person wants to go. Assholes quickly find that nobody wants to play with them; and people who are empathetic tend not to be assholes. All of the real top-notch dominants I've ever met, without exception, are incredibly cool people.
In tune with your submissive? The dominant is the one calling the shots. What does the dominant care about the submissive?
Believe it or not, the dynamics of a BDSM relationship are often driven by the submissive, not by the dominant. The submissive sets the limits; the submissive decides what places can and can not be explored; the submissive has the ability to call a halt to the scene. The dominant, in many ways, is simply a facilitator. It's the dominant's job to create a setting where the people involved can explore the submissive's fantasies.
Dominating your partners does not mean that you don't want to please them. It is not always, or even usually, true that a dominant is interested in his own gratification rather than his submissive's. In fact, many dominants are driven as much by their desire to please their partner as by anything else; the psychology of a healthy BDSM relationship is driven by the submissive as well as by the dominant, and a dominant can take pleasure from gratifying the needs of the submissive just as easily as the submissive can take pleasure from gratifying the needs of the dominant. This kind of thing is not one-directional.
It's all for the submissive's benefit? Yeah, right. The submissive is the one being bossed around or spanked or whatever. How can you say that isn't abuse?
Simple. Two reasons:
In a BDSM relationship, the submissive sets the limits. A victim of abuse doesn't get a vote; the victim can't tell the abuser what to do, or how much to do it. A submissive sets all the limits--what kinds of things can be (and can't be!) done, how much, and for how long.
And while we're on the subject of limits, there is more than one kind of limit in a BDSM relationship. Everybody has "hard" limits--things that they absolutely will not do, and will not even consider. Some people, for example, like to be tied up but don't like the idea of being whipped; if they won't allow themselves to be whipped, ever, that's a hard limit.
There are also "soft" limits--things that someone won't do under ordinary circumstances, but will allow to be "forced" on him or her in the context of a particular scenario that's being acted out. Between soft limits and hard limits lies an interesting psychological territory to explore.
A submissive gets a way to opt out. This may be a code word, or a sign of some sort; if the submissive uses it, he or she has had enough and the scene is over. An abuse victim doesn't tell the abuser when to stop.
Okay, so that kind of explains the world, the expectations, and why it isn't really all that crazy.
My understanding in terms of the psychological viewpoint by the so-called general public is that physical punishment and giving sexual control (by men that is) is the antithesis of the American ethos…
Friday, December 23, 2005
The Name Of The Rose, Part Deux
I choose this image, because my thougts have to do with the Roman Catholic Church and its strict ass-whipping of peoples minds throughout the centuries that it's been around.
Have you been following the eruption of the Intelligent Design Debate that has poisoning our news outlets since its teaching was being denied in a Pennsylvania school district.
Last night the author of this book DARWIN'S BLACK BOX was yammering on Hannity & Combs about the value of his theory, even though it's nigh impossible to prove.
Intelligent Design sounds like an updated version of Creationism which is the bete noir for Darwin's Theory of Evolution/Natural Selection Concept. A friend of mine recommended that I read DARWIN'S BLACK BOX a couple year ago, but I never got around to it -- perhaps I should haven, although I might have thrown the book across the room (incidently, I decided to read GUNS, GERMS & STEEL instead, which is more than fascinating and captivating).
Anyway, as I listened to this guy Behe stridently argue with those provacateurs on Fox News this whole argument/debate began to remind me of something. And that something is Umberto Eco's novel THE NAME OF THE ROSE (which everyone should read, if they interested in understanding the absurdity of the Catholic Church). At the crux of the novel, behind the murder mystery and the denial of knowledge is this Church Debate between the Papacy and the Franciscian and Dominician monks in regards to whether or not Christ owned his clothes (as that would determine if the Church should take a vow of poverty).
Eco uses this damn-fool theological battleground to indicate the complete idiocy that people get concerned with when it comes to how did life as we know it come to exist on this planet.
You have to take into account their MUST be intelligent energy fields throughout the universe, otherwise how could you explain why we are here?
In THE NAME OF THE ROSE, no one seems to ask "why the fuck do we care if Christ owned his clothes or not, because there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to prove it." Yet these people (based off of real life shit) were actually calling each other heretics and getting people fucked over by the Inquisition and burned at the stake all in the name of some jackass principal.
I'm not one to say that you shouldn't fight long and hard for yout beliefs (otherwise you're a supreme bitch-ass), but what true consequence to the world that you inhabit occurs is Christ owned his clothers or to the point I'm addressing, if life evolved from Creationism, Intelligent Design or Natural Selection? On a certain level, natural selection requires a intelligence. You have to learn how to spot what is a fucked-up trait and what isn't?
WIll the world be better off if Intelligent Design taught in school? Fuck no. Will it be better off if Creationism is taught in school? Fuck no. Will it be better of is Evolution is taught in school? Fuck no.
See there is no gain from this course of perversion of study... why does it seem that this type of shit is always being fought over in the US Courts? 'Cause a high percentage of the US public (something 25%) are Evangelical Christians, and they not only want to have their beliefs, they want YOU to have their beliefs too! Whether you like it or not!
It's all still a Church v. State argument, and that should be curtailed to private study. Don't waste tax dollars on this field. If you belief in any of the possibilities, then go to college (or the library) and learn about this shit on your own AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE.
Have you been following the eruption of the Intelligent Design Debate that has poisoning our news outlets since its teaching was being denied in a Pennsylvania school district.
Last night the author of this book DARWIN'S BLACK BOX was yammering on Hannity & Combs about the value of his theory, even though it's nigh impossible to prove.
Intelligent Design sounds like an updated version of Creationism which is the bete noir for Darwin's Theory of Evolution/Natural Selection Concept. A friend of mine recommended that I read DARWIN'S BLACK BOX a couple year ago, but I never got around to it -- perhaps I should haven, although I might have thrown the book across the room (incidently, I decided to read GUNS, GERMS & STEEL instead, which is more than fascinating and captivating).
Anyway, as I listened to this guy Behe stridently argue with those provacateurs on Fox News this whole argument/debate began to remind me of something. And that something is Umberto Eco's novel THE NAME OF THE ROSE (which everyone should read, if they interested in understanding the absurdity of the Catholic Church). At the crux of the novel, behind the murder mystery and the denial of knowledge is this Church Debate between the Papacy and the Franciscian and Dominician monks in regards to whether or not Christ owned his clothes (as that would determine if the Church should take a vow of poverty).
Eco uses this damn-fool theological battleground to indicate the complete idiocy that people get concerned with when it comes to how did life as we know it come to exist on this planet.
You have to take into account their MUST be intelligent energy fields throughout the universe, otherwise how could you explain why we are here?
In THE NAME OF THE ROSE, no one seems to ask "why the fuck do we care if Christ owned his clothes or not, because there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to prove it." Yet these people (based off of real life shit) were actually calling each other heretics and getting people fucked over by the Inquisition and burned at the stake all in the name of some jackass principal.
I'm not one to say that you shouldn't fight long and hard for yout beliefs (otherwise you're a supreme bitch-ass), but what true consequence to the world that you inhabit occurs is Christ owned his clothers or to the point I'm addressing, if life evolved from Creationism, Intelligent Design or Natural Selection? On a certain level, natural selection requires a intelligence. You have to learn how to spot what is a fucked-up trait and what isn't?
WIll the world be better off if Intelligent Design taught in school? Fuck no. Will it be better off if Creationism is taught in school? Fuck no. Will it be better of is Evolution is taught in school? Fuck no.
See there is no gain from this course of perversion of study... why does it seem that this type of shit is always being fought over in the US Courts? 'Cause a high percentage of the US public (something 25%) are Evangelical Christians, and they not only want to have their beliefs, they want YOU to have their beliefs too! Whether you like it or not!
It's all still a Church v. State argument, and that should be curtailed to private study. Don't waste tax dollars on this field. If you belief in any of the possibilities, then go to college (or the library) and learn about this shit on your own AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE.
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Get Your Head Out Of Your Oil-Stained Ass
In the wake of the release of the George Clooney star vehicle SYRIANA, Entertainment Weekly is running an article about "hot button" films.
First off, Syriana is easily one of the top five films to come out this year, perhaps in the past 3 years -- why? Because it is designed to make us examine the shit-ass politics and activity that Americans (and the Western/Modern world in general) need to re-examine, as in what the fuck are we doing to control to world's oil supply, and why are we doing anything to tackle the problem of the coming age -- renewable energy.
As a film, Syriana is complex, complicated, marvelous, startling, engaging, interesting, curiousity invoking, provacative, and entertaining (it better be that or the audiences THAT NEED TO SEE THIS movie, just won't come).
But the movie is coming under attack from the likes of Bill O'Reilly on his sham of show, claiming that George Clooney's two December films are flops. I think if the audience isn't going to see those films, it's because the audience that is under the age of 30 is damn dumb when it comes to world affairs and the history of the US before 1980... I mean, I has hanging out with this fool who just graduated from UCLA with a history degree and we were watching part of Oliver Stone's JFK, and this fool was lost as the story began to unfold, he kept asking questions about things that should have been obvious, should have been part of the study course for our youth. However, that wasn't the case... for this fool.
A movie like SYRIANA isn't about to cause public outrage, unless people are truly feeling guility about something. And maybe 'cause of the demand for cheap-as-fuck oil is making people feel like they shouldn't be chastised by some "rich-ass liberal" like Clooney (I happen to agree with his politics, though).
First off, Syriana is easily one of the top five films to come out this year, perhaps in the past 3 years -- why? Because it is designed to make us examine the shit-ass politics and activity that Americans (and the Western/Modern world in general) need to re-examine, as in what the fuck are we doing to control to world's oil supply, and why are we doing anything to tackle the problem of the coming age -- renewable energy.
As a film, Syriana is complex, complicated, marvelous, startling, engaging, interesting, curiousity invoking, provacative, and entertaining (it better be that or the audiences THAT NEED TO SEE THIS movie, just won't come).
But the movie is coming under attack from the likes of Bill O'Reilly on his sham of show, claiming that George Clooney's two December films are flops. I think if the audience isn't going to see those films, it's because the audience that is under the age of 30 is damn dumb when it comes to world affairs and the history of the US before 1980... I mean, I has hanging out with this fool who just graduated from UCLA with a history degree and we were watching part of Oliver Stone's JFK, and this fool was lost as the story began to unfold, he kept asking questions about things that should have been obvious, should have been part of the study course for our youth. However, that wasn't the case... for this fool.
A movie like SYRIANA isn't about to cause public outrage, unless people are truly feeling guility about something. And maybe 'cause of the demand for cheap-as-fuck oil is making people feel like they shouldn't be chastised by some "rich-ass liberal" like Clooney (I happen to agree with his politics, though).
Monday, December 19, 2005
All This Talk About "The Enemy". uh which enemy are we talking about?
Today the Chump-in-Chief Prescott's Grandson who has the dubious distinction of being the 43rd president answered questions today about the potentially illegal wiretapping that the NSA has been doing on American citizens on US soil.
Shrub's main reason for actively flaunting the law -- this time -- is the al-Qaeda is THE ENEMY, and this Enemy adapts to the rigors of war (what combatant doesn't? A dead one!).
Bush be up here throwin' 'round the term THE ENEMY like it's coded word to increase the level of paranoia amongst the citizenery, and is shown a glimpse into the mind of a man who's out of touch with the people he's governing (whether they wanted him or not).
Also it smacks of a binary intrepretation of the world stage -- you're either with us, or against us!
I wonder if there is going to be any kind of repercussions for Bush? Probably nothing like what Clinton suffered through just 'cause he stuck a cigar in an interns dickslot! I mean the man authorized the transgression of a mainstay of American governmental standards (even if those standards deal with clandestine operations) -- we don't spy on our people, unless we get a court order. How hard is it to get a court order? It can even been hush-hush so the vigilant press corps can't blabber the info to the world and technosphere...
I'm not one to say that the terrorist threat isn't real, and needs it's just focus, but I know that the government uses this so-called ENEMY THREAT as a means to fuck with our general wellbeing and stress levels.
No wonder people call 43 and his team THE DEVIL.
Shrub's main reason for actively flaunting the law -- this time -- is the al-Qaeda is THE ENEMY, and this Enemy adapts to the rigors of war (what combatant doesn't? A dead one!).
Bush be up here throwin' 'round the term THE ENEMY like it's coded word to increase the level of paranoia amongst the citizenery, and is shown a glimpse into the mind of a man who's out of touch with the people he's governing (whether they wanted him or not).
Also it smacks of a binary intrepretation of the world stage -- you're either with us, or against us!
I wonder if there is going to be any kind of repercussions for Bush? Probably nothing like what Clinton suffered through just 'cause he stuck a cigar in an interns dickslot! I mean the man authorized the transgression of a mainstay of American governmental standards (even if those standards deal with clandestine operations) -- we don't spy on our people, unless we get a court order. How hard is it to get a court order? It can even been hush-hush so the vigilant press corps can't blabber the info to the world and technosphere...
I'm not one to say that the terrorist threat isn't real, and needs it's just focus, but I know that the government uses this so-called ENEMY THREAT as a means to fuck with our general wellbeing and stress levels.
No wonder people call 43 and his team THE DEVIL.
A High-tech lynching for upity Blacks.
I was reminded of Clarence Thomas' retort to Anita HIll this morning as a shuffld through CNN.COM... they ran a story on phrases that quickly became part of the every day lexicon, stuff like "if the glove doesn't fit, then you must aquit" and "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky."
Thomas decried Anita Hill by claiming she was seduced (money or otherwise) to step forward and that her testimony was character assassination/public lynching for an upity "nigga." (my quotes)...
Honestly, I don't even understand this man's thought processes, and how he can in good conscience continue to serve as a Supremor. It still rattles the hell out of me, and it's probably what? 15 years old at this point. But damn, the man just has no sense of leadership, no sense of being a trailblazer and he's stridently anti-"can a brotha get a hand-out" in a time when Niggaz are getting beat-up by society in a way that they have never had in the past.
It's worse now that even for the so-called African-American because the insidiuous pressures of the popular age have sliced the black man's Achilles' tendon, and he's up here bleeding and no one's even thinking he's hurt 'cause he's sporting some gold jewels.
Bitch ass nigga doing bitch moves... Clarence's epitaph
Thomas decried Anita Hill by claiming she was seduced (money or otherwise) to step forward and that her testimony was character assassination/public lynching for an upity "nigga." (my quotes)...
Honestly, I don't even understand this man's thought processes, and how he can in good conscience continue to serve as a Supremor. It still rattles the hell out of me, and it's probably what? 15 years old at this point. But damn, the man just has no sense of leadership, no sense of being a trailblazer and he's stridently anti-"can a brotha get a hand-out" in a time when Niggaz are getting beat-up by society in a way that they have never had in the past.
It's worse now that even for the so-called African-American because the insidiuous pressures of the popular age have sliced the black man's Achilles' tendon, and he's up here bleeding and no one's even thinking he's hurt 'cause he's sporting some gold jewels.
Bitch ass nigga doing bitch moves... Clarence's epitaph
Friday, December 16, 2005
Words!?!? Never touch the stuff!
Remember what I said a couple months ago? That America is going to lose its higher standard of living and everything that made up the American Century, because of the ignorances that permeates the children of the future?
Today a literarcy study came out for college grads, and the results were downright appalling. The kind of stuff that makes you wonder, "will my children hear that high pitched Punjabi voice as his boss in a wage slave job?"
I said it before, and I'll say it again. American kids would rather be "cool" than no how to analyze the works of Marcel Proust or even Jonathan Frazen for that matter.
The test found steep declines in the English literacy of Hispanics in the United States, and significant increases among blacks and Asians. Which is really no surprise -- niggas can't get ahead no matter how hard they try -- if they continue to do it they way they have been doing it since the end of slavery (has it really ended though?)
When the literarcy test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation's college graduates scored at the proficient level, meaning that they were able to read lengthy, complex English texts and draw complicated inferences. But on the 2003 test, only 31 percent of the graduates demonstrated those high-level skills. There were 26.4 million college graduates. What that's like 7.9 million kids have no business getting their diploma, let alone the fact that the money they spent on so-called higher education was wasted, worse then if they burnt it with naplam, 'cause these idiots thought they were learning something.
The college graduates who in 2003 failed to demonstrate proficiency included 53 percent who scored at the intermediate level and 14 percent who scored at the basic level, meaning they could read and understand short, commonplace prose texts.
Three percent of college graduates who took the test in 2003, representing some 800,000 Americans, demonstrated "below basic" literacy, meaning that they could not perform more than the simplest skills, like locating easily identifiable information in short prose.
Short prose? Oh, you mean like the dumbass paragraphs in MAXIM or PC GAMER or PEOPLE or COSMO or US WEEKLY... the kind of shite I'be been claiming is designed to make people more and more dumb, as in unedjumacated.
I'm Kanye West is saying, should've been a college drop-out, then you wouldn't have to worry about your literacy ability... you'd have an excuse! To be so dumb, and confident.
Today a literarcy study came out for college grads, and the results were downright appalling. The kind of stuff that makes you wonder, "will my children hear that high pitched Punjabi voice as his boss in a wage slave job?"
I said it before, and I'll say it again. American kids would rather be "cool" than no how to analyze the works of Marcel Proust or even Jonathan Frazen for that matter.
The test found steep declines in the English literacy of Hispanics in the United States, and significant increases among blacks and Asians. Which is really no surprise -- niggas can't get ahead no matter how hard they try -- if they continue to do it they way they have been doing it since the end of slavery (has it really ended though?)
When the literarcy test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation's college graduates scored at the proficient level, meaning that they were able to read lengthy, complex English texts and draw complicated inferences. But on the 2003 test, only 31 percent of the graduates demonstrated those high-level skills. There were 26.4 million college graduates. What that's like 7.9 million kids have no business getting their diploma, let alone the fact that the money they spent on so-called higher education was wasted, worse then if they burnt it with naplam, 'cause these idiots thought they were learning something.
The college graduates who in 2003 failed to demonstrate proficiency included 53 percent who scored at the intermediate level and 14 percent who scored at the basic level, meaning they could read and understand short, commonplace prose texts.
Three percent of college graduates who took the test in 2003, representing some 800,000 Americans, demonstrated "below basic" literacy, meaning that they could not perform more than the simplest skills, like locating easily identifiable information in short prose.
Short prose? Oh, you mean like the dumbass paragraphs in MAXIM or PC GAMER or PEOPLE or COSMO or US WEEKLY... the kind of shite I'be been claiming is designed to make people more and more dumb, as in unedjumacated.
I'm Kanye West is saying, should've been a college drop-out, then you wouldn't have to worry about your literacy ability... you'd have an excuse! To be so dumb, and confident.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Down With Niggas... Again!
So it seems that Tookie Williams was denied clemency by the notorious Arnold Schwarzeneggar.
After nearly thiry years in jail, and being nomiated for a Noble Peace Prize, the O.G. is about to face the electric chair in about 6 hours from now!
Notorious Arnie Schwarzenegger could have commuted Tookie's death sentence to life in prison without parole, but he opted to say "fuck you, nigger" and thumb his nose at the huge amount of Blacks and anti-gang activists and keep the lynching going ahead as scheduled.
Can you imagine of death sentences were carried out like lynchings? Cutting off dicks and skinning and dipping fools in tar?! That would be some wild-ass shit.
The California National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it was saddened by the governor's decision. "We believe this is a serious blow to our effort to fight gangs," its president, Alice Huffman, said.
Obivously, Infamous Schwarzeneggar doesn't give a fuck about people trying to rehabilitate themselves. I mean think about it, the California state pens must be some of the foulest, dangerous, scariest places on the face of the planet, and for Tookie to rise to the level of nearly winning a Nobel Prize in that scabarous environment is a true testament to the strength of the Black man's spirit.
Tookie easier could have become a murderous monster in prison, ruling over the cellblocks like Wilson Fisk.
Sadly, we see another Black man getting killed by the State... a state run by a non-American, who has adopted the race-hating ways of this so-called great nation (hogwash if you ask me).
I wonder what the gang-bangers are gonna do? Riot? Let's hope so!
After nearly thiry years in jail, and being nomiated for a Noble Peace Prize, the O.G. is about to face the electric chair in about 6 hours from now!
Notorious Arnie Schwarzenegger could have commuted Tookie's death sentence to life in prison without parole, but he opted to say "fuck you, nigger" and thumb his nose at the huge amount of Blacks and anti-gang activists and keep the lynching going ahead as scheduled.
Can you imagine of death sentences were carried out like lynchings? Cutting off dicks and skinning and dipping fools in tar?! That would be some wild-ass shit.
The California National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it was saddened by the governor's decision. "We believe this is a serious blow to our effort to fight gangs," its president, Alice Huffman, said.
Obivously, Infamous Schwarzeneggar doesn't give a fuck about people trying to rehabilitate themselves. I mean think about it, the California state pens must be some of the foulest, dangerous, scariest places on the face of the planet, and for Tookie to rise to the level of nearly winning a Nobel Prize in that scabarous environment is a true testament to the strength of the Black man's spirit.
Tookie easier could have become a murderous monster in prison, ruling over the cellblocks like Wilson Fisk.
Sadly, we see another Black man getting killed by the State... a state run by a non-American, who has adopted the race-hating ways of this so-called great nation (hogwash if you ask me).
I wonder what the gang-bangers are gonna do? Riot? Let's hope so!
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Oh she must be angry, even with hard nipples
Apparently the reports about Brad Pitt adopting Angelina Jolie's kids is true.
If that's not a smack in the mouf of dick-stiffenign Jennifer Ansiton, then I don't know what is. But like I said yesterday, she's a beautiful woman that some man was obviously tired of fucking.
See beauty, money & power is a lethal combination for a woman, especially if she is still relatively young. Because if a man, who basically defines the woman's sexuality, decides to say "peace, bitch! I'm fucking someone else (all things being equal in this case)" it HAS to wreck havoc with the woman's esteem. Has to.
Aniston is basically equal to Jolie -- looks, fame, money, power (well, obviously not pussy power, but that's something only Pitt can answer), and she was thrown over. I wonder if she was sucking enough dick? There is always the rumor that married women slowly, but steadily and surely cut-off any kind of dick sucking as the marriage continues (true there are some exceptions, and in reality all women should take a cue from a former porn star Marilyn Chambers; she said in an interview that she and her husband made a deal: twice a week she sucks his dick, but for only 5 minutes -- if he cums, he cums. If he doesn't, she stops anyway. At least that way, a guy can get a quickie without all the other bullshit).
You know what? I don't know why I wrote this piece of gossipy tripe. Maybe I'll delete it next time I'm on line.
If that's not a smack in the mouf of dick-stiffenign Jennifer Ansiton, then I don't know what is. But like I said yesterday, she's a beautiful woman that some man was obviously tired of fucking.
See beauty, money & power is a lethal combination for a woman, especially if she is still relatively young. Because if a man, who basically defines the woman's sexuality, decides to say "peace, bitch! I'm fucking someone else (all things being equal in this case)" it HAS to wreck havoc with the woman's esteem. Has to.
Aniston is basically equal to Jolie -- looks, fame, money, power (well, obviously not pussy power, but that's something only Pitt can answer), and she was thrown over. I wonder if she was sucking enough dick? There is always the rumor that married women slowly, but steadily and surely cut-off any kind of dick sucking as the marriage continues (true there are some exceptions, and in reality all women should take a cue from a former porn star Marilyn Chambers; she said in an interview that she and her husband made a deal: twice a week she sucks his dick, but for only 5 minutes -- if he cums, he cums. If he doesn't, she stops anyway. At least that way, a guy can get a quickie without all the other bullshit).
You know what? I don't know why I wrote this piece of gossipy tripe. Maybe I'll delete it next time I'm on line.
Friday, December 02, 2005
Eyes Without A Face
Ever seen this French film? It's an oddball thriller/horror film from the 50s or 60s, about a mad scientist bent on trying to find a way to do a face transplant on his disfigured daughter. Sound familiar, it should cause strikingly similar events were announced today -- in France of all places.
It seems that a team of doctors surgically reconstructed a woman's face (her dog ripped the fuck out of this woman's mug, tore off her lips and cheek). The results won't fully be known until the wounds heal and this woman allows a "before and after" photo to be published.
What does this mean for plastic surgery? Will Hollywood starlets cut themselves to look like movie stars of the past (remember that storyline in James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential?)?
The future looks more and more like a bad sci-fi novel as we live it.
It seems that a team of doctors surgically reconstructed a woman's face (her dog ripped the fuck out of this woman's mug, tore off her lips and cheek). The results won't fully be known until the wounds heal and this woman allows a "before and after" photo to be published.
What does this mean for plastic surgery? Will Hollywood starlets cut themselves to look like movie stars of the past (remember that storyline in James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential?)?
The future looks more and more like a bad sci-fi novel as we live it.
The Trouble With Girls
I was just looking at the DVD release of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, laughing at Angelina Jolie, but wondering why did Brad Pitt kick Jennifer Aniston to the curb -- have you SEEN her body? It's fucking tight, and by the I mean FUCKING tight.
Then I remembered what someone once told me, "show me the most beautiful girl you've seen, and I'll show you a guy who is tired of fucking her."
I guess that's it, isn't it?
Yet just look at Alley Baggett over there (yeah to the right!) I don't know when I'd get tired of fingering, facefucking, dogstyle fucking (and the rest of the straight in & out positions), sodomizing, and 69ing this girl. I ran into her one time about 5 year ago at the San Diego ComicCon (I didn't understand why she down there, doing a sign I guess), and she was even more captivating in person than any photo. Short, petite and sweet. Makes me wonder if she's a spinner or not?
I bet someone can tell the truth on that one.
Then I remembered what someone once told me, "show me the most beautiful girl you've seen, and I'll show you a guy who is tired of fucking her."
I guess that's it, isn't it?
Yet just look at Alley Baggett over there (yeah to the right!) I don't know when I'd get tired of fingering, facefucking, dogstyle fucking (and the rest of the straight in & out positions), sodomizing, and 69ing this girl. I ran into her one time about 5 year ago at the San Diego ComicCon (I didn't understand why she down there, doing a sign I guess), and she was even more captivating in person than any photo. Short, petite and sweet. Makes me wonder if she's a spinner or not?
I bet someone can tell the truth on that one.
Monday, November 28, 2005
The Iraqi Strongman - Fighting For His Life
The Trial of the Iraqi Dictator resumed today, and just barely. Apparently most of the defense team has either been assassinated or fled the country in fear of being assassinated.
I guess that means Old Saddam can't get a fair trial, but what did the US and its cheap-ass coalition of the willing expect? The U.N., as feebly as it currently is, wouldn't get involved because the case has a potential death-penalty outcome; something the U.N. doesn't get down with.
The one thing that really irks me is that Quasay and Uday Hussein weren't taken a live. I wanted to see those sick, sadisitic fuckers face a jury (of their peers or not), and let them try to justify the litenay of their crimes against humanity.
Crimes against humanity-- that's a pretty strong statement to be leveled against an inidividual, sure a government, but a single person.
Whatever the appalling and egregious nature of the Butcher of Baghdad's crimes, this trial is a complete farce. In fact, any kind of trial of a head of state is a mockery of so-called justice, because as a head of state, you have unprecedented powers -- and if it was such a muthafucking problem then
I mentioned the U.N. early, and I was doing some historical research on the now-feeble body, and apparently there was a time when it put troops in the field with a "shoot-first" mandate. Yeah, the Blue Hats bucking people down! I didn't get to finish up my research, but I believe it had to do with the formation of Zaire after the Belgium colonial masters were kicked out, and the CIA had lost control of the situation -- albeit momentarily. In any event, the U.N. sent in troops with guns blazing. I don't know the exact outcome, but I have to assume it wasn't pleasant, because soon after the U.N. passed some new bylaws that pretty much damn near prevent the global body from being anything more than an international debating society. And it was so much more.
I bring this up, because if the world was so fucking aghast at what Hussein was up to they could have stopped his ass. Yeah, it would have meant fucking with a soverign nation (as if there are any true puppet nations), and apparently that should have been okay considering that crimes against humanity were being committed I think it would have been acceptible to go in and control Iraq; not just have no-fly zones, but establish actual areas where Hussein and his Republican Guard couldn't exert control.
I mean the US was already spending money with the no-fly zones, why not installing outside forces to control the Iraqi population, and then gradually ease Hussein the fuck out of power. I'm mean how different would that be compared to what's going on now?
Although we wouldn't have this comical trial.
I guess that means Old Saddam can't get a fair trial, but what did the US and its cheap-ass coalition of the willing expect? The U.N., as feebly as it currently is, wouldn't get involved because the case has a potential death-penalty outcome; something the U.N. doesn't get down with.
The one thing that really irks me is that Quasay and Uday Hussein weren't taken a live. I wanted to see those sick, sadisitic fuckers face a jury (of their peers or not), and let them try to justify the litenay of their crimes against humanity.
Crimes against humanity-- that's a pretty strong statement to be leveled against an inidividual, sure a government, but a single person.
Whatever the appalling and egregious nature of the Butcher of Baghdad's crimes, this trial is a complete farce. In fact, any kind of trial of a head of state is a mockery of so-called justice, because as a head of state, you have unprecedented powers -- and if it was such a muthafucking problem then
I mentioned the U.N. early, and I was doing some historical research on the now-feeble body, and apparently there was a time when it put troops in the field with a "shoot-first" mandate. Yeah, the Blue Hats bucking people down! I didn't get to finish up my research, but I believe it had to do with the formation of Zaire after the Belgium colonial masters were kicked out, and the CIA had lost control of the situation -- albeit momentarily. In any event, the U.N. sent in troops with guns blazing. I don't know the exact outcome, but I have to assume it wasn't pleasant, because soon after the U.N. passed some new bylaws that pretty much damn near prevent the global body from being anything more than an international debating society. And it was so much more.
I bring this up, because if the world was so fucking aghast at what Hussein was up to they could have stopped his ass. Yeah, it would have meant fucking with a soverign nation (as if there are any true puppet nations), and apparently that should have been okay considering that crimes against humanity were being committed I think it would have been acceptible to go in and control Iraq; not just have no-fly zones, but establish actual areas where Hussein and his Republican Guard couldn't exert control.
I mean the US was already spending money with the no-fly zones, why not installing outside forces to control the Iraqi population, and then gradually ease Hussein the fuck out of power. I'm mean how different would that be compared to what's going on now?
Although we wouldn't have this comical trial.
Monday, November 21, 2005
GM's Pension Plans -- putting people out of work
GM cut 30,000 jobs today - 30 muthafucking thousand!!! jesus christ on the cross, is that even thinkable for one company to beat the economy's ass like that? That's like an entire township just getting the axe, 'cause the blowhards in Detroit can't make attractive, cost-effective cars.
I knew GM was fucking itself with a 12-inch dildo when I read this book called HIGH AND MIGHTY, a polemic and cautionary book about the travesties that dominate the roadways - SUVs. In the book, the author claimed that GM looses money on each and every car they manufacture; its profits come from SUV sales.
So I said to myself today, why the fuck is GM even in the car manufacturing business, they can't fucking make a car that anyone in their right mind would buy, and even if they do design dope-as-fuck ones, they drain money out of the company.
Sure, GM has got boatloads of cash sitting around, billions and billions. But it's all being drained away in bloated pension funds and shitass cars. The pension funds can't and shouldn't be slashed, the problem is that actual ability of the company to compete.
Truth be told GM is a microeconomic example of America in general, it's past its prime and is having dramatically difficult times battling the Japanese on the economic warzone.
The media isn't covering it for some reason (it's a forgone conclusion), but Japan has won the auto wars. Chrysler only works because they German designers retooling its output (which used to be the shittiest, remember the Chrysler K Car? What the fuck was that? Why was that introduced at a time when the Big 3 needed to be handing Japan's Big 3 their collective asses?), to the detriment of the Mercedes brand, but so what? Luxury cars will always be around, and the Benz always signifiies quality. GM hasn't had a reputation that is unsulliable in decades.
Hence it's rapid decline. I knew I should have bought Put Options on the company about 3 months ago. I'd have a fortune right now, as the stock has hit a 14-year low, it's bonds beneath junk status (shitstain, bootlicker status is what I call it).
And the people who worked for the company are going to be reeling. Just imagine when the company goes belly-up and all the people who worked there over the past 50 years, aren't going to get their medical benefits or the pension checks. Just when all those people are getting old as dirt, and want to retire or are forced the fuck out of the workplace to make way for those ignorant fuckers that make up Generation Y.
Okay, enough vitriol for one day.
I knew GM was fucking itself with a 12-inch dildo when I read this book called HIGH AND MIGHTY, a polemic and cautionary book about the travesties that dominate the roadways - SUVs. In the book, the author claimed that GM looses money on each and every car they manufacture; its profits come from SUV sales.
So I said to myself today, why the fuck is GM even in the car manufacturing business, they can't fucking make a car that anyone in their right mind would buy, and even if they do design dope-as-fuck ones, they drain money out of the company.
Sure, GM has got boatloads of cash sitting around, billions and billions. But it's all being drained away in bloated pension funds and shitass cars. The pension funds can't and shouldn't be slashed, the problem is that actual ability of the company to compete.
Truth be told GM is a microeconomic example of America in general, it's past its prime and is having dramatically difficult times battling the Japanese on the economic warzone.
The media isn't covering it for some reason (it's a forgone conclusion), but Japan has won the auto wars. Chrysler only works because they German designers retooling its output (which used to be the shittiest, remember the Chrysler K Car? What the fuck was that? Why was that introduced at a time when the Big 3 needed to be handing Japan's Big 3 their collective asses?), to the detriment of the Mercedes brand, but so what? Luxury cars will always be around, and the Benz always signifiies quality. GM hasn't had a reputation that is unsulliable in decades.
Hence it's rapid decline. I knew I should have bought Put Options on the company about 3 months ago. I'd have a fortune right now, as the stock has hit a 14-year low, it's bonds beneath junk status (shitstain, bootlicker status is what I call it).
And the people who worked for the company are going to be reeling. Just imagine when the company goes belly-up and all the people who worked there over the past 50 years, aren't going to get their medical benefits or the pension checks. Just when all those people are getting old as dirt, and want to retire or are forced the fuck out of the workplace to make way for those ignorant fuckers that make up Generation Y.
Okay, enough vitriol for one day.
Monday, November 14, 2005
For Each His Or Her Own Poison
The one thing I feel I need to express as someone who writes blogs on Blogger, and noticed that there is a "flagging" feature for when one reads an objectionable blog is that there should still be a discussion place for people who smoke weed and drink hard liquour and take illegal and legal drugs and fuck inadvisable people regardless of how pretty or ugly they are, and listen to bitter noise which some might call music.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Anatomy of Black Women Tripping?!?
The other day I was just flipping through the internet trying to find something juicy about the funny-ass shit taking place in the suburbs of Paris, when I stumbled across this message borad called AALBC.com's Thumer's Corner, are you familar with it? I wasn't until now, and I ran across this one message thread about how rising actor Terrence Howard is betraying the Black Race because he doesn't want to have Black Offspring.
Here's THE LINK to the message thread hosted by this woman named Kola Boof that details the ignorant thougth processes by maligned Black Women, undoutedly under the age of 35, castigating a Black Man for marrying a white woman (I know Taye Diggs goes through the same shit, and his wife if FINE).
Anyway, this so-called moderated Kola Boof dropped this bomb as her opening salvo:Black women are publicly called "Whores", "Bitches", "Evil Shrews" by BLACK MEN and Black Men's MEDIA.....BLACK MEN who have never protected black women or shown them love in this country
...yet these same Black men can CATER TO, PROTECT and UPHOLD THE HONOR...of the White Man's mother.
And then the Black Woman is BLAMED for this betrayal.
The other day I was talking with my brother and he mentioned one of the reasons that he likes white women is that they are "happy." He went on to elaborate that most young white girls just want to have fun, and if they even choose to entertain a Black man talking to them, then all they really want to do is have fun with a male (black, white, latin, asian) and his dick that has been expressly forbidden to them since the white race began to interact with the Black race in North America.
Here's THE LINK to the message thread hosted by this woman named Kola Boof that details the ignorant thougth processes by maligned Black Women, undoutedly under the age of 35, castigating a Black Man for marrying a white woman (I know Taye Diggs goes through the same shit, and his wife if FINE).
Anyway, this so-called moderated Kola Boof dropped this bomb as her opening salvo:Black women are publicly called "Whores", "Bitches", "Evil Shrews" by BLACK MEN and Black Men's MEDIA.....BLACK MEN who have never protected black women or shown them love in this country
...yet these same Black men can CATER TO, PROTECT and UPHOLD THE HONOR...of the White Man's mother.
And then the Black Woman is BLAMED for this betrayal.
The other day I was talking with my brother and he mentioned one of the reasons that he likes white women is that they are "happy." He went on to elaborate that most young white girls just want to have fun, and if they even choose to entertain a Black man talking to them, then all they really want to do is have fun with a male (black, white, latin, asian) and his dick that has been expressly forbidden to them since the white race began to interact with the Black race in North America.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Is Paris Burning?
Wow! The Parisian suburbs are looking like Watts from 40 years ago!
It's not surprising, because the French don't like anyone, particularly immigrants from their former colonies, who has high Muslin backgrounds or are niggas from Africa.
There was a movie about ten years ago called La Haine, it's French for "the hate" and it's a Boyz In The Hood style of film set in these Parisian suburb ghetto housing projects that would remind you a Cabrini Green in Chicago. It's the story of an African, an Arab and a Jew who fuck around, form a bond and deal with death that's all based on the fact that mainstream society doesn't want to deal with them.
Truth be told in all societies around the globe, as much as people claim they are open-minded, they're not.
This explosive backlash outside of Paris isn't going to change anything. People of color -- particularly with Islam as their religion -- get treated like SHIT in the Occidental Worlds.
I'm very interested in seeing what Jacques Chirac and these other people do to alleviate this kind of bullshit.
It's not surprising, because the French don't like anyone, particularly immigrants from their former colonies, who has high Muslin backgrounds or are niggas from Africa.
There was a movie about ten years ago called La Haine, it's French for "the hate" and it's a Boyz In The Hood style of film set in these Parisian suburb ghetto housing projects that would remind you a Cabrini Green in Chicago. It's the story of an African, an Arab and a Jew who fuck around, form a bond and deal with death that's all based on the fact that mainstream society doesn't want to deal with them.
Truth be told in all societies around the globe, as much as people claim they are open-minded, they're not.
This explosive backlash outside of Paris isn't going to change anything. People of color -- particularly with Islam as their religion -- get treated like SHIT in the Occidental Worlds.
I'm very interested in seeing what Jacques Chirac and these other people do to alleviate this kind of bullshit.
Monday, October 31, 2005
You Ain't Who You Think You Is
As always I'm fascinated by the racial question that dominates the undercurrent in America's socio-politics.
A few years back when my paternal grandmother died, my younger brother was looking to get a sample of her mitocondrialDNA, said there was some test at Howard University (and a few other places) that enable one to determine the global-regional genetic make-up of an individual (my brother wanted my paternal grandmother because everything after her can be accounted for).
My dad wasn't going to allow his mom to be used in a science experiment, so my brother hoped to get some tissue samples from our grandmother's sister (who one recently passed) -- alas that never came to happen.
However, I ran across this article in today's NYTimes
Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think
By BRENT STAPLES
Published: October 31, 2005
People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a "white" name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as "an anchorman's name" and accused me of making it up. For the record, it's a British name - and the one my parents gave me. "Staples" probably arrived in my family's ancestral home in Virginia four centuries ago with the British settlers.
The earliest person with that name we've found - Richard Staples - was hacked to death by Powhatan Indians not far from Jamestown in 1622. The name moved into the 18th century with Virginians like John Staples, a white surveyor who worked in Thomas Jefferson's home county, Albemarle, not far from the area where my family was enslaved.
The black John Staples who married my paternal great-great-grandmother just after Emancipation - and became the stepfather of her children - could easily have been a Staples family slave. The transplanted Britons who had owned both sides of my family had given us more than a preference for British names. They had also given us their DNA. In what was an almost everyday occurrence at the time, my great-great-grandmothers on both sides gave birth to children fathered by white slave masters.
I've known all this for a long time, and was not surprised by the results of a genetic screening performed by DNAPrint Genomics, a company that traces ancestral origins to far-flung parts of the globe. A little more than half of my genetic material came from sub-Saharan Africa - common for people who regard themselves as black - with slightly more than a quarter from Europe.
The result that knocked me off my chair showed that one-fifth of my ancestry is Asian. Poring over the charts and statistics, I said out loud, "This has got to be a mistake."
That's a common response among people who are tested. Ostensibly white people who always thought of themselves as 100 percent European find they have substantial African ancestry. People who regard themselves as black sometimes discover that the African ancestry is a minority portion of their DNA.
These results are forcing people to re-examine the arbitrary calculations our culture uses to decide who is "white" and who is "black."
As with many things racial, this story begins in the slave-era South, where sex among slaves, masters and mistresses got started as soon as the first slave ship sailed into Jamestown Harbor in 1619. By the time of the American Revolution, there was a visible class of light-skinned black people who no longer looked or sounded African. Free mulattos, emancipated by guilt-ridden fathers, may have accounted for up to three-quarters of the tiny free-black population before the Revolution.
By the eve of the Civil War, the swarming numbers of mixed-race slaves on Southern plantations had become a source of constant anguish to planters' wives, who knew quite well where those racially ambiguous children were coming from. This is what I want to know more about. What these so-called Women of the Master Race thought about the power of Negro koochie that had some uncontrolable magnetism. What does the slave master say to his white wife? That it's nothing to worry about, because it's just like fucking a farm animal (don't put this past white people, as indicated in the fantastic book GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL most of our infectious diseases came from white people in Europe living too close to animals and/or having sexual relations with the livestock)! Wouldn't that irreparably shatter the white women's sexual confidence? Or force them to be that much more sexually active? What ever the case, white woman no doubt made up all the lies about black female sexuality
Faced with widespread fear that racial distinctions were losing significance, the South decided to define the problem away. People with any ascertainable black ancestry at all were defined as black under the law and stripped of basic rights. The "one drop" laws defined as black even people who were blond and blue-eyed and appeared white.
Black people snickered among themselves and worked to subvert segregation at every turn. Thanks to white ancestry spread throughout the black community, nearly every family knew of someone born black who successfully passed as white to get access to jobs, housing and public accommodations that were reserved for white people only. Black people who were not quite light enough to slip undetected into white society billed themselves as Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, South Asian, Native American - you name it. Any thing that avoid a social damnation that is attributed with being called "black." These defectors often married into ostensibly white families at a time when interracial marriage was either illegal or socially stigmatized.
Those of us who grew up in the 1950's and 60's read black-owned magazines and newspapers that praised the racial defectors as pioneers while mocking white society for failing to detect them. A comic newspaper column by the poet Langston Hughes - titled "Why Not Fool Our White Folks?" - typified the black community's sense of smugness about knowing the real racial score. In keeping with this history, many black people I know find it funny when supposedly white Americans profess shock at the emergence of blackness in the family tree. But genetic testing holds plenty of surprises for black folks, too.
Which brings me back to my Asian ancestry. It comes as a surprise, given that my family's oral histories contain not a single person who is described as Asian. More testing on other family members should clarify the issue, but for now, I can only guess. This ancestry could well have come through a 19th-century ancestor who was incorrectly described as Indian, often a catchall category at the time.
The test results underscore what anthropologists have said for eons: racial distinctions as applied in this country are social categories and not scientific concepts. In addition, those categories draw hard, sharp distinctions among groups of people who are more alike than they are different. The ultimate point is that none of us really know who we are, ancestrally speaking. All we ever really know is what our parents and grandparents have told us.
A few years back when my paternal grandmother died, my younger brother was looking to get a sample of her mitocondrialDNA, said there was some test at Howard University (and a few other places) that enable one to determine the global-regional genetic make-up of an individual (my brother wanted my paternal grandmother because everything after her can be accounted for).
My dad wasn't going to allow his mom to be used in a science experiment, so my brother hoped to get some tissue samples from our grandmother's sister (who one recently passed) -- alas that never came to happen.
However, I ran across this article in today's NYTimes
Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think
By BRENT STAPLES
Published: October 31, 2005
People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a "white" name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as "an anchorman's name" and accused me of making it up. For the record, it's a British name - and the one my parents gave me. "Staples" probably arrived in my family's ancestral home in Virginia four centuries ago with the British settlers.
The earliest person with that name we've found - Richard Staples - was hacked to death by Powhatan Indians not far from Jamestown in 1622. The name moved into the 18th century with Virginians like John Staples, a white surveyor who worked in Thomas Jefferson's home county, Albemarle, not far from the area where my family was enslaved.
The black John Staples who married my paternal great-great-grandmother just after Emancipation - and became the stepfather of her children - could easily have been a Staples family slave. The transplanted Britons who had owned both sides of my family had given us more than a preference for British names. They had also given us their DNA. In what was an almost everyday occurrence at the time, my great-great-grandmothers on both sides gave birth to children fathered by white slave masters.
I've known all this for a long time, and was not surprised by the results of a genetic screening performed by DNAPrint Genomics, a company that traces ancestral origins to far-flung parts of the globe. A little more than half of my genetic material came from sub-Saharan Africa - common for people who regard themselves as black - with slightly more than a quarter from Europe.
The result that knocked me off my chair showed that one-fifth of my ancestry is Asian. Poring over the charts and statistics, I said out loud, "This has got to be a mistake."
That's a common response among people who are tested. Ostensibly white people who always thought of themselves as 100 percent European find they have substantial African ancestry. People who regard themselves as black sometimes discover that the African ancestry is a minority portion of their DNA.
These results are forcing people to re-examine the arbitrary calculations our culture uses to decide who is "white" and who is "black."
As with many things racial, this story begins in the slave-era South, where sex among slaves, masters and mistresses got started as soon as the first slave ship sailed into Jamestown Harbor in 1619. By the time of the American Revolution, there was a visible class of light-skinned black people who no longer looked or sounded African. Free mulattos, emancipated by guilt-ridden fathers, may have accounted for up to three-quarters of the tiny free-black population before the Revolution.
By the eve of the Civil War, the swarming numbers of mixed-race slaves on Southern plantations had become a source of constant anguish to planters' wives, who knew quite well where those racially ambiguous children were coming from. This is what I want to know more about. What these so-called Women of the Master Race thought about the power of Negro koochie that had some uncontrolable magnetism. What does the slave master say to his white wife? That it's nothing to worry about, because it's just like fucking a farm animal (don't put this past white people, as indicated in the fantastic book GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL most of our infectious diseases came from white people in Europe living too close to animals and/or having sexual relations with the livestock)! Wouldn't that irreparably shatter the white women's sexual confidence? Or force them to be that much more sexually active? What ever the case, white woman no doubt made up all the lies about black female sexuality
Faced with widespread fear that racial distinctions were losing significance, the South decided to define the problem away. People with any ascertainable black ancestry at all were defined as black under the law and stripped of basic rights. The "one drop" laws defined as black even people who were blond and blue-eyed and appeared white.
Black people snickered among themselves and worked to subvert segregation at every turn. Thanks to white ancestry spread throughout the black community, nearly every family knew of someone born black who successfully passed as white to get access to jobs, housing and public accommodations that were reserved for white people only. Black people who were not quite light enough to slip undetected into white society billed themselves as Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, South Asian, Native American - you name it. Any thing that avoid a social damnation that is attributed with being called "black." These defectors often married into ostensibly white families at a time when interracial marriage was either illegal or socially stigmatized.
Those of us who grew up in the 1950's and 60's read black-owned magazines and newspapers that praised the racial defectors as pioneers while mocking white society for failing to detect them. A comic newspaper column by the poet Langston Hughes - titled "Why Not Fool Our White Folks?" - typified the black community's sense of smugness about knowing the real racial score. In keeping with this history, many black people I know find it funny when supposedly white Americans profess shock at the emergence of blackness in the family tree. But genetic testing holds plenty of surprises for black folks, too.
Which brings me back to my Asian ancestry. It comes as a surprise, given that my family's oral histories contain not a single person who is described as Asian. More testing on other family members should clarify the issue, but for now, I can only guess. This ancestry could well have come through a 19th-century ancestor who was incorrectly described as Indian, often a catchall category at the time.
The test results underscore what anthropologists have said for eons: racial distinctions as applied in this country are social categories and not scientific concepts. In addition, those categories draw hard, sharp distinctions among groups of people who are more alike than they are different. The ultimate point is that none of us really know who we are, ancestrally speaking. All we ever really know is what our parents and grandparents have told us.
Idiot & Fascist
The Chump-in-Chief has spoken again, and once again the worst kind of diarehha has come out.
Prescott's grandson has nominated Judge Sammy Alito to replace Sandra O'Connor. Alito is the kind of backwards thinking Republican thug who, while born '50s, believes that's the best decade of recent American history and that the nation should strive to recaputre those halcyon days.
For some reason the White House press conference today brought back memories of this unholy union:
I hope the Democrats fillibuster this nomination. The big thing is, will the GOP attempt to destroy the right to fillibuster the way they almost did early in the year.
Saturday, October 22, 2005
The Olsen Twins of the White Supremacist Set
I gotta tell ya, these girls are living life to the fullest as members of the Paris Hilton generation.
Hitler is being celebrated by some chump-ass white girls, most likely in middle America somewhere; girls who are waiting to get old enough to suck down crystal meth and get dicked down by white dudes (while they secret yearn for the rabid nature of Black dick as it is championed in the music videos) in the backseat of poorly-designed an uncompetitive cars from the Detroit Two.
I feel like vomitting -- on these girls sandaled feet after eating White Castle and Taco Bell.
In November's AMERICAN PHOTO there is an article about photojournalism stories that haven't been shown to America for being too sensitive. One of those stories is about the Klu Ku Klan, and how they are on the rise. In someplaces tripling in size since 9/11.
America's heartland is a joke, the wool has been pulled over their eyes and they don't even know that their way of life, is about to be under attack from peoples that they hate the most - brown and yellow skinned immigrants, who don't know a lick of southern drawl English.
Hitler is being celebrated by some chump-ass white girls, most likely in middle America somewhere; girls who are waiting to get old enough to suck down crystal meth and get dicked down by white dudes (while they secret yearn for the rabid nature of Black dick as it is championed in the music videos) in the backseat of poorly-designed an uncompetitive cars from the Detroit Two.
I feel like vomitting -- on these girls sandaled feet after eating White Castle and Taco Bell.
In November's AMERICAN PHOTO there is an article about photojournalism stories that haven't been shown to America for being too sensitive. One of those stories is about the Klu Ku Klan, and how they are on the rise. In someplaces tripling in size since 9/11.
America's heartland is a joke, the wool has been pulled over their eyes and they don't even know that their way of life, is about to be under attack from peoples that they hate the most - brown and yellow skinned immigrants, who don't know a lick of southern drawl English.
The Original King of Cronyism
Yeah, I swiped this entry's title from a goof name on last night's REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER (his guests were Spike Lee, Tucker Carlson, Michel Michaels, Chris Webber and Arianna Huffington).
Much to my delight ramrod Tom Delay was fingerprinted and photographer like the common criminals he hates this week. Unfortunatley he was released on bond (I wonder how much that was?), so he wouldn't have to suffer any more indiginity and share jail cell with some Mexicans and Blacks -- waiting to bend him over and fuck his ass, the way he's been doing it to the ever-dwindling middle class and poor since he was in short pants.
There is this claim by Delay's people that the venue of his embarrassment needs to be changed, because the overseeing judge is a sympathizer with MoveOn.org, that watchdog group that sticks it to the ass of each and every Right Wing Fuck that gets some shady soft money behind him.
What's really crazy is that the GOP changed the rules of conduct and perhaps the definition of "breaking the law" when it comes to their jack-booted, stuffed shirts up on Capital Hill and in the White House. Must I recall that fact that Bill Clinton was villified like he sold state secrets just for squirting nut on an LA dilletante's dress and face, and stimulating her labia with a Monte Cristo cigar.
What the GOP leadership and Presidential advisors are being accused of should have them all drummed out of Washington in leg irons; ranging from Karl Rove's bitch-ass activities to Trent Lott's impunging Blacks to Prescott's Grandson sitting on his ass as he cuts taxes so he can accelerate the spiraling federal deficit -- when these guys ride off into the sunset like some banditos in a Sergio Leone western in January of 2009, the country will be slip-sliding into complete debasement. Yet all these supremem fucks will have fatter than fat bank accounts (chock full of Euros, Yen and Chinese Yuan in overseas banks), while the rest of you wonder why the heartland is being consumed by crystal meth.
I'll be watching from afar, shaking my head in disgust.
Much to my delight ramrod Tom Delay was fingerprinted and photographer like the common criminals he hates this week. Unfortunatley he was released on bond (I wonder how much that was?), so he wouldn't have to suffer any more indiginity and share jail cell with some Mexicans and Blacks -- waiting to bend him over and fuck his ass, the way he's been doing it to the ever-dwindling middle class and poor since he was in short pants.
There is this claim by Delay's people that the venue of his embarrassment needs to be changed, because the overseeing judge is a sympathizer with MoveOn.org, that watchdog group that sticks it to the ass of each and every Right Wing Fuck that gets some shady soft money behind him.
What's really crazy is that the GOP changed the rules of conduct and perhaps the definition of "breaking the law" when it comes to their jack-booted, stuffed shirts up on Capital Hill and in the White House. Must I recall that fact that Bill Clinton was villified like he sold state secrets just for squirting nut on an LA dilletante's dress and face, and stimulating her labia with a Monte Cristo cigar.
What the GOP leadership and Presidential advisors are being accused of should have them all drummed out of Washington in leg irons; ranging from Karl Rove's bitch-ass activities to Trent Lott's impunging Blacks to Prescott's Grandson sitting on his ass as he cuts taxes so he can accelerate the spiraling federal deficit -- when these guys ride off into the sunset like some banditos in a Sergio Leone western in January of 2009, the country will be slip-sliding into complete debasement. Yet all these supremem fucks will have fatter than fat bank accounts (chock full of Euros, Yen and Chinese Yuan in overseas banks), while the rest of you wonder why the heartland is being consumed by crystal meth.
I'll be watching from afar, shaking my head in disgust.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
The Supremors
Apparently Harriet Miers' written questions to the Senate Judiciary Committee were handed back because the answers were insulting, insufficient and all-together bitch-ass.
I hope this woman gets recalled the way Bork did, just to give Prescott's grandson a slap in the face. He sure needs someone or something to kick him while he's down.
I hope this woman gets recalled the way Bork did, just to give Prescott's grandson a slap in the face. He sure needs someone or something to kick him while he's down.
Strongman gets the Strong Arm!
Our favorite dictator Saddam Hussein started his FIRST of many trials today. He was his defiant self, glad to see that year of captivity hasn't diminished his spirits -- otherwise the trails wouldn't be that much fun (look at Slobodan Milosevic's boring shit in The Hague... can't have that with your boy!).
Saddam was shoving his guards away when they escorted him from the court, and damn near punked the judge.
Meanwhile, in Mr. Hussein's home town of Tikrit crowds gathered to show support for their former leader, chanting such slogans as "You are still the son of Iraq." They appeared to be in a frenzy, waving Iraqi flags and photos of Mr. Hussein. Iraqi police officers, wearing blue uniforms and carrying Kalashnikovs, walked through the crowds but did not appear anxious to break up the demonstration.
No that's the reason why Iraq just needs to disintegrate and we can forget about it. The oil field regions need to be autonomous zones controlled by the G8, so they can get their oil and refuse to make the drastic changes necessary to wean the Western economies off of oil for energy (it's gotta be saved for all the consumer products that eat the fuck up, since plastic is quite difficult to recycle -- which should be the number R&D Dollar Get'er).
I guess is Saddam gets all these accolades and plaudits from his hometown, then he still much loved. I wonder if Hitler was much-loved after the War or Stalin or Pol Pot or Pinochet? Or George H.W. Bush? I know Reagan was - for crying out loud.
Saddam was shoving his guards away when they escorted him from the court, and damn near punked the judge.
Meanwhile, in Mr. Hussein's home town of Tikrit crowds gathered to show support for their former leader, chanting such slogans as "You are still the son of Iraq." They appeared to be in a frenzy, waving Iraqi flags and photos of Mr. Hussein. Iraqi police officers, wearing blue uniforms and carrying Kalashnikovs, walked through the crowds but did not appear anxious to break up the demonstration.
No that's the reason why Iraq just needs to disintegrate and we can forget about it. The oil field regions need to be autonomous zones controlled by the G8, so they can get their oil and refuse to make the drastic changes necessary to wean the Western economies off of oil for energy (it's gotta be saved for all the consumer products that eat the fuck up, since plastic is quite difficult to recycle -- which should be the number R&D Dollar Get'er).
I guess is Saddam gets all these accolades and plaudits from his hometown, then he still much loved. I wonder if Hitler was much-loved after the War or Stalin or Pol Pot or Pinochet? Or George H.W. Bush? I know Reagan was - for crying out loud.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
State become Church
Wow, the chump-in-chief is really looking to push this country into something we haven't seen in a quite awhile a fundamentalist Christian state with the ability to shape the world.
This woman Harriet Mier is a scary person to even consider to have a Supremor, because her views don't reflect what the country was founded on a strict seperation of Church and State. She was baptized at the Valley View Christian Church. And apparantly, it was a pivotal personal transformation for the woman now named for a seat on the United States Supreme Court, not entirely unlike that experienced by President Chump and others in the Texas political and business establishment of that time.
Ms. Miers, born Roman Catholic, became an evangelical Christian and began identifying more with Republicans than with the Democrats who had long held sway over Texas politics. She joined the missions committee of her church, which is against legalized abortion, and friends and colleagues say she rarely looked back at her past as a Democrat.
That's because being a Democrat, for some strange reason, means that you can't have belief in God, that you fuck children in the ass and squirt nut in the eyes of women, or twist mens balls when your having sex.
yeah, that's how the GOP really see Democrats.
And there's really nothing the public can do about preventing someone so polarizing from doing what the GOP complains about the most - legislating from the bench!
Damn, we're fucked. We you're fucked, I'm getting out.
This woman Harriet Mier is a scary person to even consider to have a Supremor, because her views don't reflect what the country was founded on a strict seperation of Church and State. She was baptized at the Valley View Christian Church. And apparantly, it was a pivotal personal transformation for the woman now named for a seat on the United States Supreme Court, not entirely unlike that experienced by President Chump and others in the Texas political and business establishment of that time.
Ms. Miers, born Roman Catholic, became an evangelical Christian and began identifying more with Republicans than with the Democrats who had long held sway over Texas politics. She joined the missions committee of her church, which is against legalized abortion, and friends and colleagues say she rarely looked back at her past as a Democrat.
That's because being a Democrat, for some strange reason, means that you can't have belief in God, that you fuck children in the ass and squirt nut in the eyes of women, or twist mens balls when your having sex.
yeah, that's how the GOP really see Democrats.
And there's really nothing the public can do about preventing someone so polarizing from doing what the GOP complains about the most - legislating from the bench!
Damn, we're fucked. We you're fucked, I'm getting out.
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Bush with Clean Hands
L.A. is perhaps the most geographically segerated city in the US, if not the world.
The city planners knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they errected the freeway systems and said (under their breath) put all the niggers and spics on the OUTSIDE boundaries of the freeways.
I was just listening to an interview of David LaChappelle about his film RISE, and his trip down to the oppresive neighborhood that is ignored by the entire establishment and community.
It's like 45 minutes from central Hollywood, but it's another world.
You can't even really get a healthy meal in South Central, 'cause only liquor stores and 7-11s and shitbag fast food joints litter the landscape which is fucked up...
All these people who are going to Southeast Asia or Africa to see "another part of the world" go check out South Central L.A.
And what's crazy is, South Central is probably where the most life and vibrancy in the entire city. Whereas in Beverly Hills and the Westside is a movie set for a story on childhood alienation...
South Central isn't even the kind of ghetto that is depicted in the media. It's not the burned out buildings of Detroit, Cleveland or New York... all the blue skies trick the fuck out of you.
But what seeps in is the vacant nature of the entire environment. The worst thing is that there IS NOTHING for the Blacks down in South Central, no after school programs, nothing but desolation. I wonder if this another varient of the Mad Max scenario that I see on the rise.
Of course, our chump-in-chief ain't doing shit about shit. I heard that the fool doesn't even read newspapers or watch TV or eventhing that gives a potential unadulterated image.
The city planners knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they errected the freeway systems and said (under their breath) put all the niggers and spics on the OUTSIDE boundaries of the freeways.
I was just listening to an interview of David LaChappelle about his film RISE, and his trip down to the oppresive neighborhood that is ignored by the entire establishment and community.
It's like 45 minutes from central Hollywood, but it's another world.
You can't even really get a healthy meal in South Central, 'cause only liquor stores and 7-11s and shitbag fast food joints litter the landscape which is fucked up...
All these people who are going to Southeast Asia or Africa to see "another part of the world" go check out South Central L.A.
And what's crazy is, South Central is probably where the most life and vibrancy in the entire city. Whereas in Beverly Hills and the Westside is a movie set for a story on childhood alienation...
South Central isn't even the kind of ghetto that is depicted in the media. It's not the burned out buildings of Detroit, Cleveland or New York... all the blue skies trick the fuck out of you.
But what seeps in is the vacant nature of the entire environment. The worst thing is that there IS NOTHING for the Blacks down in South Central, no after school programs, nothing but desolation. I wonder if this another varient of the Mad Max scenario that I see on the rise.
Of course, our chump-in-chief ain't doing shit about shit. I heard that the fool doesn't even read newspapers or watch TV or eventhing that gives a potential unadulterated image.
Slop Words For What We Love
Ever notice how there are uncomfortable words for things that we just LOVE. Take vagina for example, I'm reading this comic book today (Ex Machina #13) and at the end of the book a guy takes an old woman hostage, pulls a knife and tells the mayor, "back off, or I cut this bag from her dentures to her dick-slot!"
Dick-slot? I had never heard of that. You all know my favorite, "cumdumpter," but I
Dick-slot? I had never heard of that. You all know my favorite, "cumdumpter," but I
Take What You Can When You Can
I never knew how much Black people twist in the wind in this country. The more I think about it, the more I look at the Katrina Disaster and wonder what's going to happen to Blacks when the economies really begin to crumble?
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Fuck that Black Gold, Find An Alternative. NOW PLEASE!
Gas prices keep creeping up,
Today in CNN.com, there is an article about
On Why People Shouldn't Buy Hybrid Cars written by obviously the most-short sighted, in-the-pocket-of-big-oil dumb-ass that I can think of. The so-called reporter Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN/Money staff writer is up here asking you as Americans (or anybody on the planet) to save your hard-earned money and find some sort of alternative.
You know what? Fuck your money! 'Cause if we as a PLANET don't wean ourselves off of petroleum as an energy source and means of transportation, we're fucked in the short-run (in the long run chaos on the order of The Road Warrior will ensue).
Shit-for-brains Valdes-Dapena would have you believe that you need to save you dollars on the vehicle that you intend to purchase. He's not factoring in higher prices for food, energy, and ALL THINGS PLASTIC (which is just about every goddamn thing in your house) because as the price of oil rises, what ever uses oil -- not just gasoline prices -- begins to increase.
It's far easier to get people off of gasoline than it is of plastic (incidently: the Feds need to pass a law that incurs jail time and heavy fines for anyone not recycling glass and plastic).
Don't be fooled, get a hyrbid car. And then petition your government representatives -- at all levels (state, local and federal) to dump more money into alternative energy Research & Development. As it stands now, each year only about US$65million is spent on alternative fuel/energy R&D. Guess how much on oil R&D? US$2billion!!! That money is being thrown away -- the resource is limited and dwindling.
FIND SOMETHING NEW AMERICA! EUROPEAN UNION! CHINA! INDIA! You muthafuckas claim that you have top-notch scientists (especially India and China), come up with something new. The socio-geo-political upheveals from a rude severing from oil dependance is unthinkable -- imagine the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE (in the 1st World Economies, the 3rd World knows how to exisit with limited resources).
I was reading an article in Esquire (the one with super-fucking hot Keira Knightley on the cover
) about the end of oil, and the Saudi Energy Minister made this statement, "My father rode a camel, I ride a car, my son rides a jetplane, his son will ride a camel."
THINK ABOUT THAT. SERIOUSLY.
I'm out.
Ramses (email me at obfusc8@hotmail.com if you got something to smart to say, or even if you don't, but have something to say. Isn't the internet all about two-way communication?).
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