tactical complaints instead of radical analysis

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I object, man. I make the rounds of various sites every day, and as I'm sure you've noticed, Antiwar is unerringly my first stop. I love that site because they have everyone who is antiwar, no matter what political stripe, brought together from all over the place right there, but this piece just pisses me off because he's avoiding saying real things by positing that Obama isn't smart enough when it's blaringly obvious that Obama ISN'T IN CHARGE. Still, this won't put me off going there to find wonderful pieces by all kinds of people, and I'm stupid for that Scott Horton kid who does their radio interviews.

He ROCKS.

I think he has his head up his ass about economics, failures of insight here and there, and suspect him of making the egregious tactical mistake of ignoring some salient facts about 9/11, but, whoa, the interviews are good stuff, Maynard.

I do like you do. I mostly just read headlines. I skip a lot of them altogether, skim a lot of them, and every once in a while I am sucked in and really read the stuff. Everywhere, not just Antiwar. This is, obviously, the way everyone has to go about being an aware person in the world nowadays. The downside is that we tend to miss stuff we just don't want to know about, miss stuff from people whose attitudes we think suck, miss stuff because we're punishing someone for pissing us off by not visiting their site anymore, miss stuff because we think we are going to die of needing a break from depression if we look at one more terrifying item on the tubes, miss stuff because we decide to try to get a life, get out in it instead of keep reading about it.

Before I forget, Joely, bless his pointed head, has given us the gift of READABILITY. Bookmark that page and put it up on your toolbar. Whenever you get to a page so full of ads it threatens to throw you into an epileptic seizure before you can finish the piece, just hit that bookmark and it turns whatever item you're trying to read into something you can read. Muy importante.

Old Uncle Dave, bless his pointed head, sent me a link yesterday to Chris Floyd's piece about this presidents assassinating citizens thing, which he does betimes, when he wants to make sure I haven't missed something important. In this case, I hadn't missed it. I'd tried to ignore it, for reasons I've already stated here, but shall reiterate. This was my response:

See, I condensed all that down to "Obama is an ASSASSIN" on my blog and felt that should suffice. I love Chris Floyd, but I'm sick of him working out his eloquence thing on this stuff... from England. I'm sick of the gasbags' ceaseless flatulence as it all gets visibly worse and worse and worse. The Tea Party people have more love and more guts, if not more brains... and RIGHT THERE is one way they are SPOT ON with that anti-intellectualism thing that we all scream about.

Intellectuals are snide and USELESS pussies.

America would never have gotten away from Britain if we had to rely on our vaunted cognoscenti for a better world.

FUCK!

Otherwise, and if he were not married, I'd beg him to marry me.

I didn't REALLY mean that Chris is necessarily a snide and useless pussy, just mostly that such eloquence needs to be put to use on the streets, OUR streets. Come home, Chris... and... you should go back to that piece because Chris updated it with new stuff from David Swanson... another guy who needs to be out on the streets full time.

We all need to get out on the streets. If you can't bring yourself to join the Tea Parties, do it with your local dedicated hippies, or do it alone, but do it.

THE PEN IS NO LONGER MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!

Don't just let Paul Craig Roberts' farewell warning be subsumed into the great ocean of dead pixels in the cyber-cosmos. Pull yourself up from out that sea, and SEE. Remember. Look. Move. Whatever penmanship there needed to be done is done and again—you just can't deny that—and it only might regain its power AFTER we have put down the lethal threats, but ain't cutting it now. It ain't cutting it in time. Trillions of pixels have gone into this already and things still get steadily—inexorably—worse.

Isn't that plain to you YET?

This isn't a drill. This is your LIFE.

The way to maintain some vitality and some clarity is to take this stuff in, but don't let it pile on. You can keep it from mounding up on top of your mindscape like an avalanche of shit by doing a special kind of ignoring. [WHUT?] You NOTE it. You LOOK at it and NOTE it, but you don't let it block your insight, your movement, your protest. You KNOW what's right, and you MUST stop being a coward. It in FACT is not easier to stay out of it now. It is a thousand times harder to stay here in front of your monitor, tearing out hanks of hair, than it is to get yer ass into town and start bellowing at the top of your lungs.

READING FOR JUSTICE IS LIKE FUCKING FOR VIRGINITY!
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