Category: Culture

Find the cost…

…of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down Stephen Stills, 1970 Robert Fisk: Oceans of blood and profits for the mongers of war Saturday, 27 November 2010 … Since there are now three conflicts in the greater Middle East; Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel/”Palestine” and maybe another Lebanese war in …

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Vive la Révolution!

Friday, March 30, 1906 … Three days ago a neighbor brought the celebrated Russian revolutionist, Schaykoffsky, to call upon me.  He is grizzled, and shows age — as to exteriors — but he has a Vesuvius, inside, which is a strong and active volcano yet.  He is so full of belief in the ultimate and …

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Today’s YB! award…

From:  Monsieur d’Nalgar To:  Sam Stein Subject: Today’s award… Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:51:44 -0700 It’s been a while since I awarded a “You Bastard!” prize for overt nincompoopery by one of the morning-show bobble-heads, one of the screeching castrati remnants of our once-vaunted Fourth Estate. Your comments this morning about the efficiency and …

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Breaking news

Monday, March 12, 1906 Mr. Clemens comments on the killing of six hundred Moros — Men, women and children — In a crater bowl near Jolo in the Philippines — Our troops commanded by General Wood — Contrasts this “battle” with various other details of our military history — The newspapers’ attitude toward the announcements …

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Take Me to the River

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali, posted at HuffingtonPost.com September 3, 2010. … Hasn’t the whole notion of shariah in America gotten a bit out of control? No, it hasn’t — it’s gotten hugely, obscenely, ignorantly out of control. How many of those anti-Islam protesters holding “NO SHARIA LAW” signs (as if anyone were advocating shariah law in the …

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Be afraid!

Well, dear friends, it’s a lot worse than we thought…  I was blissfully ignorant about the threat to America until today, when an angry reader of my recent “Gristle” post challenged anyone who is not fearful of Muslims to read (cue drumroll) “Shariah, The Threat to America, Report of Team B II.”  Apparently, we too can share in the paranoia that is sweeping …

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More Moore

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBGQhJDlys0[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAe9SEH9SQ[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1RHn1WAkbk[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGPIlQn3NYs[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSv5k7XmxQE[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI86SteM2FE[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQSRGHJxcg[/tube] …and that’s about the sum total I can find of my songs on YouTube.  There’s probably more from Mary Black and Maura O’Connell etc., but I can’t be bothered.

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