n e u f n e u f: this and that

25 August 2007

this and that

Agent BB2 has gone cache-meltingly bonkers on the various incarnations of the acoustic guitar this weekend. You will want to give that one a good week's worth of visits. I don't know if my recent plunge into the unplugged ocean inspired him, or if he was channeling my energy over there in the Central Valley, or what, but if you can't find music that pleases you this weekend, yer hopeless.

Just got done thoroughly disparaging John Pilger's latest, The War on Democracy, over at Ann El Khoury's place on the grounds that his seething hatred, while thoroughly justified, is really only scaring the piss out of people who want excuses to keep their noses out of saving the world, and now am brought face to face with this horrific bit of news about a defense contractor whistle blower being tortured. It is, though, a particularly salient bit of news for any of my attorney friends who would like to qui tam these miserable fucks' asses off. So muster yer spit and take a look, please. You can turn off the goddam yammering ad there and get some ideas. Just don't wuss-out, okay? I can't take much more of this.

Earlier today, I'd answered JoJ about how sane people just don't have violence in their personal equations thusly:

Well, JoJ, I have always maintained that if you completely remove violence from your equation, you are not "nonviolent", you're just a coward with a self-righteous excuse. It is beyond refutation that there are some times where only violence will defend life. The vast majority of criminals will not go peacefully to justice. This is maybe especially so of criminals who are this powerful, and the price of our cowardice has serious, serious, serious global ramifications... already outstripping the 1930s German shame. I'd really like to know if our filthy excuses will ever run out....

So if yer inaction is really about freakin' cuz yer not ready to be tortured, and yer kids and yer job and yer nonviolence won't let you get into this, just relax. Sit back and listen to the gorgeous music. Then get up and start risking yer goddam worthless life every day until these filthy scum are gone.

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