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i suspect that it is only a faulty translation from the original...russian?..., and that i am being unfair, but if not:
please read this and ask yourself: "what does it mean? what does ANYTHING mean"
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Tom Friedman's Flexible Deadlines
every time an otherwise well-read or informed friend says to me, "that tom friedman is a great writer/thinker/globalist/monkeyeater" i vomit in my mouth, just a little bit.
here's reason #14050503043040 why.
and for those who didn't read it, matt taibbi's demolition of friedman in NY Press was one of the funniest things i've ever read. as he points out, if a wall comes down, how do the windows stay intact?
every time an otherwise well-read or informed friend says to me, "that tom friedman is a great writer/thinker/globalist/monkeyeater" i vomit in my mouth, just a little bit.
here's reason #14050503043040 why.
and for those who didn't read it, matt taibbi's demolition of friedman in NY Press was one of the funniest things i've ever read. as he points out, if a wall comes down, how do the windows stay intact?
Monday, May 15, 2006
Whiskey Bar: Leviathan
billmon's usual brilliance-this time about hobbes, the NSA/TIA (TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS) intelligrab, the police state "we" want (50% of americans basically don't give a flying fuck about the 4th amendment, but as billmon points out, the bill of rights are inalienable, e.g. not the problem of polling numbers. they just are, and should always have been.), the more we will have to give to declare TOTAL VICTORY over our various emphermeral enemies.
it's good stuff.
funny enough, watching "Seven" the other night, i was struck by macguffin, which involves morgan freeman's character having a back door to a guy at the FBI who has...the cross-referenced records of people at the public library's reading habits. the movie is 1995 vintage, but this is treated like...something...they...would...do, or maybe andrew kevin walker knew something, i dunno. still, it is funny how innocent it all looks (hey, they caught the bad guy with it, sort of, after he had chopped off gwyneth's fetching head, but still). now we know--when push comes to shove, this country's citizens will toss aside our "inalienable rights" like they are the remains of a swanson "fat american fuckwad size!" TV dinner after a good five minutes of eating and watching "Access Hollywood". and it doesn't look so innocent anymore, this plot device. it just looks like a way to catch reporters at ABC you don't like.
billmon's usual brilliance-this time about hobbes, the NSA/TIA (TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS) intelligrab, the police state "we" want (50% of americans basically don't give a flying fuck about the 4th amendment, but as billmon points out, the bill of rights are inalienable, e.g. not the problem of polling numbers. they just are, and should always have been.), the more we will have to give to declare TOTAL VICTORY over our various emphermeral enemies.
it's good stuff.
funny enough, watching "Seven" the other night, i was struck by macguffin, which involves morgan freeman's character having a back door to a guy at the FBI who has...the cross-referenced records of people at the public library's reading habits. the movie is 1995 vintage, but this is treated like...something...they...would...do, or maybe andrew kevin walker knew something, i dunno. still, it is funny how innocent it all looks (hey, they caught the bad guy with it, sort of, after he had chopped off gwyneth's fetching head, but still). now we know--when push comes to shove, this country's citizens will toss aside our "inalienable rights" like they are the remains of a swanson "fat american fuckwad size!" TV dinner after a good five minutes of eating and watching "Access Hollywood". and it doesn't look so innocent anymore, this plot device. it just looks like a way to catch reporters at ABC you don't like.
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