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Saturday, Dec 11, 2004
back of the hand
" What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach, so you get what we had here last week which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it any more than you men."
it only hurts when i gaffe
ouch.
Friday, Dec 10, 2004
weak need
im glad to see that the new york times has such high standards for their intrepid reporters. i saw bullmillers name on a list of reporters that lynne cheney invited to the vice presidents residence after the 2000 election, at which point i regarded anything she wrote as tainted. little did i know the extent of her whoredom.
"BUMILLER: I think we were very deferential because in the East Room press conference it’s live. It’s very intense. It’s frightening to stand up there. Think about it. You’re standing up on prime-time live TV asking the president of the United States a question when the country’s about to go to war. There was a very serious, somber tone that evening, and no one wanted to get into an argument with the president at this very serious time."
Thursday, Dec 09, 2004
its ok, jesus luvs you
"The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. They know the lies the victors often do not acknowledge, the lies covered up in stately war memorials and mythic war narratives, filled with stories of courage and comradeship. They know the lies that permeate the thick, self-important memoirs by amoral statesmen who make wars but do not know war. The vanquished know the essence of war—death. They grasp that war is necrophilia. They see that war is a state of almost pure sin with its goals of hatred and destruction. They know how war fosters alienation, leads inevitably to nihilism, and is a turning away from the sanctity and preservation of life. All other narratives about war too easily fall prey to the allure and seductiveness of violence, as well as the attraction of the godlike power that comes with the license to kill with impunity."
Wednesday, Dec 08, 2004
latke gravitas
"This drove the religiously faithful--the “fundamentalists,” as the Hellenizers would have called them if they had spoken modern American English--to revolt. Pitting Jew against Jew, the resulting civil war was led by the Maccabee brothers, who whupped the forces of “liberal polytheism,” as Green puts it. The conservatives, he continues, “were stronger, and more numerous, and the more passionate in their beliefs: they stood firm in the face of odds, and were prepared to make sacrifices, indeed to die, for what they held most dear.” Shades of the 2004 presidential election? Maybe so. And this conservative victory is what Jews for 2000 years have celebrated at Hanukkah."
Tuesday, Dec 07, 2004
flank stake
anybody keeping up with the leftwing blog smackdown? i knew i needed to be purged, just not ideologically.
Monday, Nov 29, 2004
pain management
im not going to pretend to know about scalias positions but its widely held that he is part of the "states rights" posse on the court, except, that is, when it inconvenient. if the newshour was correct in their interpretation of one of his statements, he couldnt look more the political hack. in the medical marijuana case curently being heard, scalia embraced his inner liberal activist judge when he considered that the act of growing pot for personal consumption for, in this case, medical purposes was actionable by congress under the guise of interstate commerce because not purchasing it was impacting commerce. id say youd have to be pretty high to buy that argument. interesting to see which way it will go.
Sunday, Nov 28, 2004
stocking up
i was just thinking the other day that since much of advertising isnt about the product so much as about branding that there almost needs to be a collection put together of advertising cliches that are no longer viable. adhacks sees my post modern assessment and raises me thirty. theyve turned the concept into a business plan as well as a public "service."guess i was stingy with the irony. the entire site is a joke. just another adventure into brand management.
Friday, Nov 26, 2004
virus goes a branding
the partys over; the pr people have arrived.
pvart
as a card carrying citizen of "tivo nation" you have to love matt haugheys pvrblog.