07 March 2009

zeitgeist: the movement

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Open your eyes.

precisely

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Cinderella is a ditherer.

most of us should spring forward before we go to bed tonight

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... because tomorrow will be a little psychedelic if we don't....

some shoestring

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fuck yoo, obama

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Utterly unforgivable.

sing it, jesse!

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Shove that apple right down their throat! Jesse Richard tells it. Listen to him.

I'm dying over how puny my unregistering from the Democratic Party was by way of protest of their fucking relentless perfidies. Don't wail at me about how they are better than Republicans! So, the fuck, what? They still suck so badly they should be deported, lose their bogus citizenship and be deported to Pluto.

iranians should take heart that the russians are so smart

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Whether or not it is their impulse to be fair, to be good friends with other countries, over capitalizing on their alliances, they seem to have realized it is the smart course, given the sick and perfidious nature of Israeli-tainted American foreign relations, and so they're just not going to leave Iran twisting in the wind over that stupid "missile shield" crap. If we had one iota of sincerity behind our oceans of bullshit on that stuff, we would have accepted Russia's offers to base our radars and "anti-missile" missiles inside Russia. It would have been cheaper and smarter and 100% within the parameters of our stated goals. They called our bluff and they'll do it again. And they are going to win. Thank goodness.

big dan has the scoop on the latest dictatorship freakout

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Which seems sort of silly at this point. It's as if all these pundits couldn't tell while it was happening.

i'm going to try making rosemary flatbread without the salt

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I'll put in Mrs. Dash or plain potassium salt substitute and see what I get.

I gots me the most fantastically healthy rosemary bush right outside my door.

I have likened shopping for completely nontoxic food to going to the gym, and maybe it's more like boot camp. The key for me to lose so much weight is to nix the fucking chemicals first of all. Then to do the Atkinsish thing of sticking to protein and vegetables and fruits, cutting out the pasta, rice, bread, potatoes, deserts. Usually I try to just eat a banana for breakfast, some boneless/skinless chicken breast baked in olive oil with vegetables, usually string beans, with a lot of saltless seasoning, for late lunch, and a blueberry probiotic smoothie for dinner. This usually covers it, when I drink enough coffee to keep my appetite down and my synapses firing. But sometimes it doesn't, and then I have a couple dollops of lowfat cottage cheese with a bunch of pepper and/or Mrs. Dash, or a small square of Venezuelan bittersweet chocolate... that is 91% cacao and just enough sugar to keep it from shriveling my mouth. Cacao is extremely healthy. The sugar, not so much.

Point is: I can't make myself suffer so severely I'm too disheartened to keep my resolve, and cheese is totally okay for me to eat, but I'd like a little something to put it on and so did extra laps to find something completely nontoxic and at least close to the imperatives of my diet. I came face to face with this certified organic rosemary flatbread they make up in Seattle from an old time Italian recipe, and, wow, do I love the stuff. The cost turns out to be about a dollar per cracker. Fuck that. It's got too much salt anyway.

So very soon I'm going into experimental mode, and if I succeed, that's what I'm going to eat instead of bread even after I've eased up on the regimen.

You should see me. I'm the very portrait of sveltitude and virtue. Three months and over 30 pounds gone... very close to my target now, but not going to blow it by thinking I can just go back to putting any old thing that seems cheap enough to make my grocery money cover the nut. I ain't caving to the "consolation" of cramming crap into my gapingly frustrated maw.

i need to visit che

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06 March 2009

throwing over the tv liar surgeon for the guy who should be president

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Right at the end of Dean's run in 2004, during the Diane Sawyer interview, but before the alleged scream, I had decided he did not actually want to be president, despite his nearly two years of yelling his head off for sense to be brought to the fore in America for a goddam change. For sure his wife was completely not into the prospect of First Lady, anything involving social intercourse at all. That was creepily clear. Then Sawyer asked them some embarrassing question or other and they both answered in such a completely disingenuous fashion that I lost heart right there. After considering, I think it wasn't even their natural mode of dealing with uncomfortable questions. They simply weren't into being subjected to Sawyer's shtick, the whole MSM circus, seemed to be trying to disappear from her presence while in it. Howard Dean can barely stand the bullshit fascist media. That's become more clear over the years. He found a way to talk with them, a no-nonsense-do-not-play-into-their-set-ups-ignore-their-crap way of using their services and getting the hell out. Excellent.

I find I still think Howard Dean is the best man we have for the job of president... even if he chickened out... maybe even his chickening out makes him better-suited. My friend, Old Uncle Dave and I have long agreed that wanting the job should be immediate disqualification for it. And, he didn't chicken out on the issues. He chickened out on the snake pit of press and politicians, and that makes him a better human than the rest of them. He then went directly to picking the Democratic Party up off the floor and making it possible for them to get back control of Congress and the White House. He is why Obama got far enough to be allowed to be the nominee, allowed to be president. I know I've mentioned before, but it never seems as though anyone has noticed: Obama did almost an exact replay of Dean's campaign, only smoothly. That wasn't an accident and the original helped him. If only the original could make him perform.

So anyway, note how Liar Gupta went from the man to whom Cinderella offered the post within days of stepping out of his pumpkin now to "withdrawing his name from consideration" for the post. Isn't that clever?

I don't know how substantively Dean can help America as Surgeon General, but I know he'll do a great job if he gets it.

[Crikey. It's now 11pm and it just now occurred to me that Dean probably wouldn't make the bargain with the devil, and Kerry agreed to take the dive so Hillary, who'd already made it clear she would make the bargain, could run in '08. I think this because I could feel when Obama made the bargain. He suddenly sounded more confident and as suddenly his wording on his positions started changing. Very soon thereafter he got the nomination, despite Hillary's hellfire. It was perfect. He was wildly more popular than she was, and it was hard to keep us all thinking she was it in the face of all that. Perfect. Let the masses have their man, for all the good it will do them. The idea had been to have Hillary, and they were cheating her numbers in some of the primaries toward getting her, but Obama made the bargain and they got out of his way. McCain was never in the game, never approved. That's why he picked Pig Lips.

Spite.

Howard Dean was way so the frontrunner in 2004. He wouldn't make the bargain.

So dropped like a stone.]

mauritania expels the murderating fucks

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ask yourself why you don't hear these facts on the nightly news

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Fisk speaks for a half hour here, and it will blow your mind... and... well... I don't care what it takes, godfuckingdammit, quit your job or skip your doctor appointment, whatever, just listen to the whole thing. Let actuality sink in. How can you become a courageous and decent human if you can't assimilate reality and act on it?

[Here's another hour-long program that is relevant as heck.]

it took me a long time to figure out what clinton meant by "globalization"

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I was very taken up with the multifarious demands of life with Agent 86. While I am sure I had a better grasp of what was going on in the world than most, because of the sick and sickening system, I was not able to grasp exactly what was going on. And as 86 got worse, my tenuous grasp got looser. By the time a deadbeat fisherman I knew, who'd never turned a profit in his entire experience got a mortgage on some property, to the tune of 200,000, I was at the point of answering my astonishment with the notion that land on the California coast was just so hot that the bank didn't care if he defaulted; they could turn around and get all their money right back at any time. I had no way of knowing what was really at the heart of that action.

"Globalization" means corporations can operate anywhere -- anywhere they figure they can optimize profits by lower labor costs and little or no taxation -- and financial instruments are spread across the globe. This just never was clear. Clinton made it sound so damn humanitarian, but, after the constant distraction of my madman was obviated, I began to be able to think about this stuff a little more carefully. Globalization is supremely humanitarian for those who have a lot of money, and are nasty enough to successfully even rip off each other. It is death to workers, wage-earners, across the globe. So I started screaming about it on radio talk shows, to everyone in comments online, and to everyone I meet in my day to day life.

The natural consequence of globalization is great estates with private armies to keep out the starving and naked hordes, here in the United States and across the planet.

Period.

I have screamed that globalization could be great stuff, if FIRST we put in the proper protections for workers everywhere, ways that local populations don't starve when their factories move to Uzbekistan, and where the Uzbeks don't starve while working their butts off at our old jobs. Do we want a world where you need to get to Azerbaijan to get the job you are qualified for and that pays enough to feed your family?

Wake up.

COURAGE, the courage shown by the Argentines in this video, is not just something you get to cheer at the movies. You love Braveheart and Maximus because they are representations of what you love and admire, but are too distracted, witless with stress, and just plain too chicken manifest yourself.

05 March 2009

i love my beautiful poppa

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Did I ever tell you he made parts of the Friendship 7? He did. He machined them by hand. You wouldn't believe the amazing tools he had. He gave them to my brother-in-law, who probably loves them as much as I do, plus having uses for them. My dad never graduated from high school. Had to quit to go to work to support his mom and brother and sister. But when he decided he wanted to be a tool and die maker, he had to go take a bunch of advanced math classes, trig and stuff like that. He aced all his tests, and ended up getting John Glenn into orbit.

He rocks.

going the rest of the way home in a little while

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Again, if you feel you simply must get in trouble, make it good.

they are freedom fighters, goddammit!

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And we would do no less. Anyone who cares to drop the conditioning of the ceaseless propagandistic "framing" of this scene could see it as plainly as the back of their hands. Hamas and Hezbollah are freedom fighters, defending their people from the horrific and inhuman onslaught from the immortal psychosis of Zionism. Iran recognizes the backs of their own hands. To help Hamas and Hezbollah in these times, despite the terrifying consequences, is actually bodhisattva work, actually decent and utterly humane. Yet we insist otherwise. Our new administration taking right up where the last one left off... preying on the hopes of the whole world that they will make sense prevail.

Does Hillary think that a media splashed with her widest grins will convince us this is new diplomacy, a change, something we can believe in? Until they learn to treat reality instead of insanity, I for one will not believe in it.

like i say, conyers should resign

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I know you already know all about this, but I had to mention it. I am gravely disappointed in him, and I don't think any of the three million excuses for his failure to perform are good enough, not even that Pelosi won't let him.

And, truly, this relates to it. It is their duty to deal with all the crimes of the * administration, legally. It's already been made abundantly clear that their defense for everything will be that they were so terrified they would be responsible for another attack happening that they had to do all this completely illegal shit. But, [1] they know 9/11 was not an attack by Islamic terrorists, and [2] even if it had been, that is NO defense for the extent of the criminality of the last eight years.

Obama's expressed willingness to just let it go is appalling. His wishy-washy doublespeak about it all is infuriatingly politic, where politics DO NOT belong. The best possible thing to bring the people together and to win back respect from the rest of the world would be public investigations and prosecutions of all of the perpetrators, all of them, of the multifarious crimes of the * administration... including the bankers who fucked the world. It would restore everyone's faith in our system... in who we are. Over half of the existential stress out there now is not the loss of money itself; it is the disorientation, the inability to rely on our government to do the right things anymore. The economic situation is quite bad enough, but the failure to be America inside it is what really does the damage.

I mean it! Halliburton has to pay back the billions looted. Xe/Blackwater too. All of the cronies and all of the lawyers and all of the office holders, including complicit Democrats, up on the dock in a real justice system, or we quite simply are not who we say we are: We're a goddam banana republic with vicious plutocrats looting every source of wealth and autocratic power with impunity.

04 March 2009

i'd welcome specter's atonement for the million perfidies of his career

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That would probably be the biggest single thing to resurrect the Republican Party in the estimation of Americans and the world, too. If THEY are the ones who initiate and insist upon the prosecution of the whole lot of criminals from the last administration, they could be back in the saddle by next election. Awful as they are, it might be worth it.

I mean, read the damn memos. Nail the bastids.

[If yer too uncomfortable with legalese, Naomi summarizes it for you....]

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Dear 99,

It turns out the Bush years were far worse than we ever imagined - and we were not shy in our imaginings.

Previously classified internal legal memos released by the Obama administration earlier this week demonstrate that the Bush administration acted under the belief that it had virtually unchecked power after 9/11. The combined effect of the memos, which in theory gave the president the power to deploy the military on our soil, ignore Fourth Amendment protections of our privacy, and even proscribe First Amendment freedom of speech protections, led writer Scott Horton to declare that in the post-9/11 era "this country was a dictatorship."

American Freedom Campaign co-founder Naomi Wolf wrote a powerful piece for Huffington Post conveying her initial reaction to the contents of the memos. She concluded, "We need to stare [the memos] in the face and understand them: they are evidence that the groundwork was laid out that gave the president the legal power to effectively subvert the Republic."

While we are outraged by these memos, we do want to highlight one positive note. The American Freedom Campaign, led by members like you, helped to reverse one of the most objectionable policies - a memo declaring that the president had the power to deploy the military on our soil, a practice long prohibited under federal law. At the end of September 2008, a couple of small media outlets reported that President Bush had assigned the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team to be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army component of Northern Command (NorthCom). In response, AFC helped raise awareness about the potential dangers involved and encouraged members to take action. Just days later, the administration drafted a memo [pdf] repudiating the earlier memo's authorization of far-reaching domestic military operations.

But certainly the news is not all positive. If you continue to be outraged and disgusted by the actions of Bush administration officials, including John Yoo, who wrote a number of the administration's most notorious memos, such as those authorizing torture, you can take action through existing actions on the AFC Web site. Here are two options:

Send an E-mail to Attorney General Eric Holder, urging him to launch a full criminal investigation of Bush administration activities -- from torture to warrantless wiretapping and beyond -- with prosecutions where it is found that the laws of the United States have been violated. Click here to take action:


http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2165/t/1027/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26685


Send a strongly worded E-mail to Christopher Edley, Jr, Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, urging the dismissal of John Yoo. While the pre-written E-mail on the site is torture-specific, the sentiment remains the same. Here is the link to that action:


http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2165/t/1027/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24188


We do not intend to let Bush administration officials ride off into the sunset after their widespread assault on our laws and our Constitution. We hope that you will join us as we continue to push for serious accountability.

Naomi Wolf, and her compatriots, among whom I want to be counted, are doing their best to sound the alarms and push for the America we all grew up believing... knowing... we were born in. Not only should we be signing all these things they put out for us, but as noted here at my blog before and now, even at P U L S E, we need to take this to a level that cannot be outright ignored or dismissed as a circus easily crushed by nasty "riot police".

this is gravely demoralizing to me


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Clinton speaks up for Abbas, and aid for Gaza
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH – 2 hours ago

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton promised personal involvement in stalled Mideast peace efforts Wednesday and expressed concern about the supply of humanitarian aid to a recovering Gaza.

On her first Mideast visit as secretary of state, Clinton also displayed strong support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Standing next to him, she told a news conference the Palestinian Authority is the "only legitimate government of the Palestinian people."

Abbas has steadily lost support at home, particularly after a year of inconclusive peace talks with Israel. His Islamic militant Hamas rivals, who seized Gaza from him in 2007, are widely seen as emerging stronger from Israel's recent military offensive against them.

In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Taher Nunu said Clinton's statement "was a slap in the face of those who were expecting changes in America foreign policy. She did not bring anything new. Instead, her statements show bias to the Zionist enemy."

In violence Wednesday, two Islamic Jihad militants were killed in an Israeli airstrike after sundown in northern Gaza, Palestinian security and health officials said. The Israeli military said the target was a senior Islamic Jihad militant who was involved in firing rockets at the Israeli city of Ashkelon.

Gaza has been under a blockade since the Hamas takeover, but both Abbas and international aid officials say its borders need to reopen to make reconstruction possible after Israel's offensive ended in January.

"We want humanitarian aid to get into Gaza in sufficient amounts to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza," Clinton said, but she stopped short of calling for a full opening of the border crossings.

Israel allows in several dozen truckloads of aid every day, but bars the entry of concrete, pipes and other materials that it fears Hamas could seize.

Talking to reporters after meeting Clinton, Abbas criticized Iran, one of the main Hamas supporters, for trying to deepen the Palestinian divide. "Iran needs to take care of its own issues and stay away from intervening in Palestinian affairs," he said.

Clinton signaled that she'd be heavily involved in the region, and said her special envoy, George Mitchell, would return soon.

"The Obama administration will be vigorously engaged in efforts to forge a lasting peace between Israel, Palestinians and all of the Arab neighbors," she said.

On Tuesday, Clinton met with Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

But Clinton said Tuesday that working toward the creation of a Palestinian state as part of a peace agreement with Israel "seems inescapable."

Netanyahu also supports the expansion of Israeli settlements on war-won land claimed by the Palestinians, including the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

In recent days, Israel has issued orders for the demolition of dozens of Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem, saying the homes were built illegally.

Palestinians say they cannot receive proper building permits from Israeli authorities, and the planned demolitions are means to assert Israel's control.

Clinton said the demolitions are "unhelpful" to peace efforts.

Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed the area. But the annexation is not internationally recognized, and the Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as capital of a future independent state.

Despite unbiased and credible sources insisting that Hamas was duly elected in an impeccable exercise in real democracy, plus reports of their increasing probity with respect to rule of law and other matters of good governance, we vicious puppets of the Holocaust Industry insist on elevating that good-only-for-betraying-Palestine fucker: Abu Mazen. And Hillary is clearly enjoying it.

We don't seem to be able to stop being gleefully filthy disrespecters of human rights no matter what we do, or whom we elect.

most of it just made me cry

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Global Banks. No "Protectionism". Plus, a really, really nice speech... that doesn't mean at all what it seems to, but makes you blubber anyway. Good job, Gordon.

[If you have the time, perhaps compare and contrast....]

03 March 2009

betcha we can all pass the finals without even going to class

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Especially Big Dan....

globalized new deal?

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Gordon Brown will be speaking to a joint session of Congress tomorrow. Sounds to me as though it ought to be worth a listen. Truly. Somebody's got to come up with something to raise the prospects for our planet and all living things.

ungainly "diplomacy"

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About as ham-fisted as certain others we could too darn readily name. I hope Medvedev tells him to back off the war shit against Iran, and back off the fucking bogus missile shield crap, and then Russia will help make sure Iran doesn't do anything as awful as only psychopaths imagine they will.

How about that?

would that we treated our oligarchs like this

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No, really. The injunction not to interfere with the government is a perfectly righteous thing to expect. It's only here in fascist media land where people could be expected to read this load of crap and fall for it. Wake up!

Plus, my parents' tv is blasting out the nightly news and just now some bitch, reporting from Jerusalem, reporting from JERUSALEM, was wringing her hands over the Iranian-American journalist who was arrested in Iran for buying wine, after waxing terrified over Iranian nukes. Fuck! Granted, it's ABC, but fuck! The murderating fucks are beating the drums again! Big as heck! Outrageous!

ZERO, ZERO, ZERO MORALS.

purity: like hugging smoke

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another thing they don't seem inclined to look back on

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I'm on the road now, again, until later today.

02 March 2009

raining cats and dogs

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Since about midnight last night it has been mostly pouring... with some short breaks. Trisha turns on the tv in the kitchen first thing in the morning to catch the news and traffic reports. Waaaaaaay too depressing for persons without coffee in them yet! Between the fatalities on the way to work, there were reports of football players lost at sea, and the odd murder and other items along those lines. All delivered by damnably chipper persons for being dressed and out in that mess, and, of course, for that mess. This rain is supposed to keep up through tomorrow... when I'm wanting to be on the road. I wish Der Governator would have held off declaring this drought emergency until next week so the road wouldn't be such a death trap while I'm on it!

My friend Old Uncle Dave calls this "having the power"... Ahnuld's got it.

I swear, it's as if none of these people had Coach Shepherd teach them to drive in high school. You don't drive like a pinhead in the rain! You reserve that for when you're drunk and no one else is on the road. Harebrained SUV drivers acting like they are in Porsches, and pea-brained Porsche drivers acting like they are in space shuttles. It's really quite as though they have no grasp whatever of the most basic laws of physics... except this weird faith in gravity... and... man... it doesn't apply like they think it does, I can tell you that much for dead certain.

dreadful decay of dharma

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You do not burn yourself alive over not being allowed to perform a stupid ceremony. You do not give your life for religion. You give yourself in defense of life, to ease the suffering of sentient beings. That was just stupid, and the whole bit about Buddhism being made into a religion is just stupid. The dharma is there to impart a specific message, it's the key to understanding reality, NOT a fucking religion. Motherfucking stupid willfully ignorant fountains of false piety drove that poor kid to martyr himself for NOTHING, for zero, zilch, nada, bukes!

Fuck!

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And, well, ya know, I have to get up from this cussedly inferior machine betimes, missing out on a lot of my usual rounds, and went off in service to the ever-demanding rulers of this roost... the cats. Doors must be opened, and cans of food. The punishment is dire and unrelenting if you don't perform. So I was out with a cigarette just behind the eaves drips, the cutoff between dry and very wet, thinking about the documentary I watched years ago with the stupid and pathetic Tibetan nuns telling of being outcast and worthless and as good as dead from having been raped by Chinese soldiers in their efforts to obliterate the Tibetan religion. You can't obliterate the dharma. You can rape it ceaselessly and it doesn't lose its adamantine incandescence. If a Buddhist nun could be stripped of her nuntude for having been raped, she was never a Buddhist nun, or those who conferred this distinction on her weren't Buddhists, just bald guys in dresses.

Then my mind traced over what I was trying to say to Trish about homosexuality, about sexuality in general, in America, and never seem to be able to find the right words to express what I mean. I am for human rights and for anyone who wants to get married being able to get married, but I don't exactly approve either. It isn't just homosexuality, it's sexuality in some of the forms it takes. Many homosexuals insist they are only able to emotionally bond with a member of their own sex, and I doubt that is true for some and believe it is true for many. Whatever. It's their right in any case, but I have had too many gay men tell me they chose to be gay because women are just too much work, too demanding of the kind of attention they are unwilling to give. Too many lesbian couples have very frankly confessed to me they are together because men are too brutal or unfeeling and too much work, whereas they can have a fulfilling relationship with each other and just forget all that trouble over men.

And guess what? Lots of heterosexual encounters, of whatever duration, are as bereft of emotional or spiritual attachment as these homosexual unions of convenience. They are all about on a par with rape... minus maybe the hatred and violence of intent.

I say you never have sex with someone you're not willing to be there for until you die... and not the kind where you only think that because you are besotted, but the kind where you know that because you know who you are. This horrifies people. I'm not even talking getting married, before or after. Real love-making is itself marriage. And I'm not even saying it has to be only with one person. But they are still horrified. They think I must not like sex, or I've turned into a censorious old prude. "It's natural. It's a basic animal instinct. It's as much a necessity of living as eating and pooping and breathing. It's beautiful." Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Then when I tell them there is intimacy far more gratifying than sex and more naked without ever disrobing, they really go batshit on me.

I have to say, too, that if you have been raped, get over it. It is one of the most horrible experiences there are on earth. It fills you with shame that seems to bubble up relentlessly from the center of the earth. The nightmares are unspeakably cruel. There really is so little worse than rape, but... GET. OVER. IT. The truth is: nothing has been harmed that you are unable to repair. Do the work. Repair. You hold on to that horrific victimization, all you are doing is violence to everyone in your life by that means... making everyone in your life feel the pain of your rape, and feel the oppression and frustration of dealing with all your excuses based on it. Get over it.

I'm pointing to a world far more lovely and lovable than the one we live in and one where people don't go around raping, with or without mutual concent, each other in the name of natural instincts, a world where young people are not misled to think that the mere means of preparing their minds for an important realization is so sacred in itself that they burn themselves alive, or get shot to death for trying to.

Still... fuck.

[You think my language is coarse? I think your world is coarse.]

going down

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The unconstitutional amendment is going down.

01 March 2009

this very radically rocks

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I might not be able to hang with some of the stuff the ayatollahs come up with, but I admire them hugely for standing up for the Palestinians, for decency, for law and order and even democracy. My teacher warned me not to listen to what people say when I want to see into someone, but to watch what they do. A sane person tries to get murderating fucks arrested.... Just in case that basic bit of sense slipped your mind in this kaleidoscopically psychotic atmosphere we call our society these days.

please go vote for brad

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He needs the money, and he's honestly darn entertaining as well as very informative.

Truly, I'd appreciate it if you'd spread this around to all your friends and fiends. He deserves a paying gig.

finally got to see the motorcycle diaries last night

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It was subtitled, which ruins everything, and entirely too boring, while extra beautiful, for much of the movie. Still, I spent half the time weeping over Che, my heart burning in my chest like a chunk from a cosmic volcano. And I dreamed and dreamed and dreamed all night about writing beautiful books about Che, turning readers into true humans.

That might be something I ought to work on.