Aphorism #311
In a cynic, the heart is a vestigial organ.
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New Video Game
“Human, All Too Human,” a new mega-multiplayer, role-playing game, was recently released by Nietzsche End Games, LLC. The game is wildly addictive and takes many months, even years, for players to complete. In the end, all players fail to kill anyone or complete any defined mission. Then each player dies. Alone.
Tagged joesmith, thought shardsEND OF 2008 SCREED
BAD NEWS AT THE END OF A DOOMED MISTAKE OF A PRESIDENCY… ISRAEL IS STILL BURNING, WHAT PALESTINIANS?…GAS UP NOW …BUSINESS AS USUAL IN CHICAGO…RUSSIA STILL WANTS AMERICA TO CRUMBLE…GOOD LUCK BARACK… The past year of our absent lord, Two Thousand and Eight, in this sliding American landscape will forever stand as a period of [...]
Tagged John DickThe Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro, 50 Years Later: A Reflection
As a third generation Cuban American, I have mixed emotions on the Cuban Revolution. To see the footage of Fidel Castro parading through the streets of Havana with overwhelming approval on January 1, 1959, is bittersweet. I suspect I, like many Cuban Americans, have a love/hate relationship with Castro and his Revolution. On one side, [...]
Tagged cuba, cuban revolution, jeremy benishekJapanese View of Obama
Not living in the States has been a great antidote for election fever. I woke up and went to work today as I would any other day and found that I was actually the least interested in the results. My coworkers greeted me not with “Good morning!” or “How are you feeling?” (I had been [...]
Tagged Eric SiercksTales from the Front
Just finished the first day of canvassing for Barack and wish I’d started sooner. Worked with a three-person team on several blocks in the area of 30th and Juneau, 30th and Vliet. About 60 percent black, on some blocks literally every house had an Obama sign. Even in the drizzle it was too easy. I [...]
Tagged Kent Mueller, politicsSpock + Shaft = Obama
Since Barack Obama came into the political picture, he has reminded me of somebody I looked up to when I was a little kid. At first, I thought he was a combination of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, both sadly and momentously taken away when I was eight. But, after more reflection, I’ve finally [...]
Tagged humor, politicsPalin – Taste, Travel & Reform
Sarah Palin sure DOES dress nice, but, Jesus, this RNC bill seems a bit much for such a regular person, real American, G droppin’ Hockey Mom, don’t you think? Read the full story. I guess it was the RNC who wanted to spruce her up? I’m sure she wouldn’t ask for such a pricey wardrobe [...]
Tagged politicsMcCain’s Low Road to an Electoral Vote Win?
Yesterday’s report on CNN’s Political Ticker points toward the McCain campaign’s narrowing electoral strategy, with one anonymous source writing off Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado: “‘Gone,’ was the word one top McCain insider used to describe those three states.” Given the state-by-state electoral vote map two weeks before the election, this is a pragmatic approach. [...]
Tagged politicsAMerican Anger
You’ve probably seen, heard or read about the anger at McCain/Palin rallies by now. If not, you should, whatever your political stripe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSYHnVpYbs http:/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100903169.html?hpid=topnews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvCpBvwN0e4 The rage from these crowds shouldn’t come as a surprise. Nor should McCain or even Palin take the blame for agitating these fearful proto-fascists. The number of angry, right white [...]
Tagged politicsBush, Evil & Contemporary Political Conservatism
“Evil is the exercise of power, the imposing of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion…. The core of evil is ego-centricity, whereby others are sacrificed rather than the ego of the individual.” – Dr. M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie According to Peck, ego-centric persons are utterly dedicated to preserving their [...]
Tagged politicsLast arrow left
Ayers is McCain & Palin’s last arrow. There’s nothing left in their quivers but bullshit — and their reputation for bullshit doesn’t resonate as it did back in the 20th century, when it was freely bought and sold and rarely examined. The further negative tilt is in keeping with McCain’s double-down mind think, and with [...]
Don’t believe the polls.
As polls across the country increasingly show Obama leading McCain and solidifying the electoral map, I am skeptical, highly skeptical, maybe paranoid. As such, I have some observations which may hearten the few Cons who might read this and either discourage my fellow Obama backers or encourage them to GET TO WORK. First off, one [...]
Two Americas Will Decide This Election
The 2008 presidential election — especially in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin & battleground states — will be decided by non-white and under-30 voter turnout. A historically high turnout of non-white and young folks in urban areas and universities will have to overcome the number of white, religious, “working class” voters who have found — in [...]
Tagged politicsPakistan – This Year’s October Surprise
OK, so I no longer think an Israeli or American strike on Iran will be the Republicans’ October Surprise. It’s too extreme, even for the Cheney/Bush NeoCon Xpress, Israel will hold their cards until AFTER the election and it’s not as cynically brilliant as this one… “War On Terror” Goes To Pakistan This scenario not [...]
Tagged election prediction, Iran, PakistanOriginal Prediction: October Suprise
I’ve been predicting this for months, so I might as well publicize it so my deep distrust of the American Administration is documented. An “October Surprise” will undoubtedly occur before the presidential election this year and it will take one of forms: Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran In October, sometime between Oct 10th and [...]
A Plaintive Cry, America
Please, PLEASE…. Oh Lord, please… Vote for where we ought to go. Not for where we’ve already been. Please. Think about it. Then decide. Obama / Biden. What we could be. McCain/Palin. What we have been.
Tagged politicsProudly Atheist, Shamefully White
Read this and weep if you are a rational being: http://www.gallup.com/poll/110053/Religion-Remains-Major-Dividing-Factor-Among-White-Voters.aspx I’ve never been more proud to be an atheist. And never more ashamed of being white. America will move forward or even further backward after this election. Simple as that. America will get the president it deserves. Again. I keep thinking we deserve better.
Tagged politicsDefinition #6
A pessimist is just somebody whose worst fears keep coming true.
Tagged joesmithSCREED FROM THE ROAD # 3:
THE RANGER TAKES AN UNHOLY TURN …FUCK YOU BILLINGS & MAY TOP-TECH AUTO BURN DOWN INTO THE INBRED SOIL FROM WHICH IT SPROUTED. A week in an off-the-map ancient ski town, Rossland, B.C., which lies just above the scrawny neck of Idaho, was a great escape from the over-trodden billion dollar-mountains we’d been riding the [...]
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