This Just In.....

There are too many goddamn people in this city. Only five of them give a shit about Dan Rather.

Fun With Flag-Waving Right-Wing Cheerleader Columnists!

Well, i found myself reading this article, and began pondering...if this hack can get published, i just might have a bright future in journalism myself.

Few things wrong here. Number one, it sends a shiver up my spine to see mainstream media give space to the idea that questioning or criticizing our "leaders" undermines them, and makes their jobs harder. If that's not McCarthyism, i don't know what is. I have been seeing more and more examples of this argument in various media outlets, and it amounts to nothing more than "get-in-line" scare tactics. No one wants to be unpatriotic. (not even me).

Secondly, i love when "The Coalition" is brought up, because i like things that make me laugh hysterically. Except in this case, it's not really funny. For everyone's perusing pleasure, here is a list of the Coalition member countries, which i compiled myself from the White House Website

Italy
Japan
Denmark
Afghanistan
Albania
Austrailia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Columbia
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Georgia
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Mongolia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Portuagal
Romania
Rwanda
Singapore
Slovakia
South Korea
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan


*Spain was actually still quoted as being a member.

So yes, most of those countries elicit a chuckle, rather than a feeling of worldwide co-operation. Except again, it's not funny. Of course, Michael Moore mentions a few of these members in F9/11, but we all know he's a lying sack of shit.

The White House Website is actually rather useless, but what do you expect. Check out Connie Rice's insightful, decisive and in-depth description of The Coalition. Also amusing is that the link to Who are the Coalition Members is dead. It was easy enough to make the list from Statements of Support From Coalition Members ...but still... that's a rather important page to keep maintained...no?

SO IN CONCLUSION, that op-ed peice that set me off was a total pile of garbage that could have been written by a peice of software programmed to think like a statistically average republican. kudos on that.

until next time, fook off. (for my scottish homies)

You Can Ride Your Goddamn Peace Train Right Outta Here!

Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...except for you over there, Cat Stevens. We don't appreciate your leaving us back in the 70's. Not only did you write some cheesy peace songs, you then had the audacity to give up a good, solid Christian career as an American Pop Singer. Yeah, we're kickin you out of the clubhouse, and you can't come back in. Britain can deal with your wild-eyed rants about peace and non-violence. After all the work we've done demonizing your kind, we'll have none of that kinda talk from a Muslim in THIS country.

"A law enforcement official who asked not to be identified said the United States had information that Islam, who visited the United States in May, had donated money to the militant Islamic group Hamas.
Islam was denied entry to Israel in 2000 after the authorities there accused him of supporting Hamas. The former pop star denied the charges and said his charitable donations were for humanitarian causes.
Among the charities he has supported are children affected by the wars in Bosnia and in Iraq as well as victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against America, which he condemned."

-Reuters

Seriously tho, i haven't seen any reports proving the allegations he gave money to Hamas, and it sounds like bullshit to me, anyway. Treat a celebrity Muslim, who is a proponent of non-violence, like shit. Brilliant.

Vile, Foul, Wrong and Hillarious..

grab this while it's up, it's a short preveiw of a new take on an old joke...done by the South Park freaks. (penn jillette produced for an upcoming feature film.)

The Aristocrats

Is Kara Walker Beating a Dead Horse While Regurgitating Negative Dogma?

I recently had a chance to get a good close up look at a peice done by visual artist Kara Walker. If you're not familliar with her work, here... http://www.broadartfoundation.org/collection/walker.html

Anyway, after much to-do and a ticket to the top of the art world, Kara Walker is gonna get criticized by me, and i plan on going off on somewhat of a tirade. For the sake of full disclosure, i'm an artist myself, so there is a very real chance that envy is part of my motivation here. But i really don't think so.

As an artist, and knowing many people who are "artistic" in some sense, i have a confident notion that we are an enlightened bunch. Judging by the many indepenent openings, events, shows, or whathaveyou that i have attended, organized, thrown or crashed....well you get the idea...we seem to be a pretty progressive group within the larger society. There is, however, an important distinction to make between these grassroots artists and the more established gallery system, offcially know as "The Art World." The most pronounced trait of this distinction is the difference in the accessability of the two spheres. Even if she functioned in the Romanticized sense of "the independent artist," Walker would in effect be preaching to the choir.

In a larger, more realist sense; if one chooses to champion an issue, and venture to speak of the history of injustice in America, i cannot fathom why it would be done in such a bougoise forum as the "established art gallery", unless the true motivation is profit (gained by exploiting the issue).

It's a matter of fact that Kara Walker paintings are being/have been sold by Sotheby's, and are widely collected by people who can afford to own important works of art. I don't think that most people who get fucked over by racism really spend much time browsing the latest Sotheby's catalog. Hell, statistics show that a good portion of minorities and people near the poverty line have a hard time even getting internet access to read this article. How's that for some perspective? This is what i have in common with people who get fucked over by racism, and this is where im coming from on this topic....A major symptom of racism is denial of access, which is also a major symptom of an unjust and discriminatory class system. The two are nearly inseperable.

By focusing solely on the negativity generated by injustice such as this, Walker's art only serves to reinforce and give creedence to that negative idea, and fails to look forward to solutions. It's obvious Walker is passionate about the truth, but the problem is compounded by addressing one social ill from within the confines of another (economic bigotry). In the end, nothing is truly accomplished, and i have to question the clarity of her concept.

Confronting the social sins of the past is an important task, to ensure it doesn't happen again, but if you do it in a forum that is inherently isolated and entrenched, set out of reach by social mores and economics, then you're just wasting everyone's fucking time.

until next time, fucking fuck off.

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