A life at the end of history
Posted in Politics on 8 September 2008
Resembling, as she does, one of those hopped up zombies featured in George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, or Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, Sarah Palin is out to shove those here come the injuns, circle the wagons values of fear and righteousness down the world’s throat.
Yep, with the addition of this square-jawed, gingham-wrapped, [...]
Posted in Politics on 5 September 2008
Move over Family Guy, Umeruhca’s got what it really wants: a sitcom based on the family values of genital erasure (except for the production of fast faith Christians), chuckleheaded creationism, nationalistic hubris, anti-intellectualism, and guns for one and all.
Alaska’s pistol packin’ mama, Sarah “Annie Oakley” Palin’s address to the Repuglycan convention was a winner on [...]
Posted in Politics on 31 August 2008
Courtesy Dan Wasserman, Boston Globe
You have to wonder how Umeruhca got to be the greatest nation in the world with this kind of thinking. McCain, infirm at 72, could easily croak during his presidency, leaving in charge a woman no one has ever heard of. Worse, he’s tacked Sarah Palin on to his ticket in [...]
Posted in Politics on 30 August 2008
“[An upside down flag is] an international distress signal. It means ‘we’re in a whole lot of trouble, so come save our ass b’cause we don’t have a prayer in hell of saving ourselves.’” - Sgt Hank Deerfield, In the Valley of Elah.
Now that Barack Obama has been anointed as the leader to take America [...]
Posted in Politics on 30 July 2008
Today I am tempted to reach for Jean-Paul Sartre’s Le Nausée, the textbook on existential dread. The first time I read it was in high school and the last time I read it was shortly after former Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s re-election in 2004. That a majority of the population was willing to reinstall [...]