And A Lot Of Other Craziness
Sometimes there is more fucking news than I can digest. Maybe just more than I want to. The endless details, and especially the endless commentators dissecting it, just make me want to puke sometimes. Whatever happened to the Age of Journalism? Now almost all journalists have an ax to grind--Fox Network isn't subtle at all, but neither are the rest of them in danger of being anyone's hero. There are no lanterns or TV lights bright enough to find that "honest man" that Diogenes talked of finding. I can't even think of many women or men who want to search for one! There's too many pretty boys and pretty girls, with all their teeth fixed, and all their attitudes adjusted to the network or publisher they work for. Journalism doesn't seem to exist in the old sense, so you never know if the news is true or false, real or fake, genuine or slanted. You have to trudge through mud among all the lying bastards and just choose one when the sludge gets too deep to go on.
All the heroes too seem spoiled or soiled. Senator Craig's experience in the men's room is as entertaining as some unknown version of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues", but it doesn't sound truthful, and you can't dance to it. Bush may look like some muppet garbage can denizen on TV, but he's a murdering bastard, and no one will say so! Why don't they impeach the bastard, whether it sticks or not?
Ask Clinton if it didn't cost him brain cells and attention span to be impeached even when not convicted! Wouldn't it be worth a few million to do that to Bush?! But it seems that in this day and age of ultra-communications where we see everything constantly and repeatedly, we are all still unwilling to declare when The Emperor Has No Clothes!
Anyway, Bush has himself covered with a little war that's making Blackwater and Halliburton (and many others) millions while the rest of us can't find our ass or our brains. The official Democrats are as suckass as the worst Republicans you ever met, or they'd DO something. All of them cater to the same fat cats, rich corporations, and powerful lobbies/special interests.
There is no "we the people". If all the "regular people" that are talked about were to band together and believe in one thing and put all their money behind it, there would still be more money among the fat cats and the dirty rats and all the soulless wretches of American culture. It makes me want to spit.
In passing, still, I notice Al Gore (another imperfect man) will share the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on bringing attention to Global Warming, which is not a bad thing. I hope he doesn't decide to suddenly run for President again, as his position is now a good one for publicizing his cause. If he gets into the muck with the other sold-out political candidates, his cause will be the loser and he'll just be another "pragmatic" whore lusting after the Presidency and a glorious Legacy afterwards! Jesus, Bush and his legacy--how nice it'd be to think I'd never hear of it again after he's gone, but his whorehounds will continue to work overtime to polish his image, even if it's never any better than this work of thinly gilded graven gold it is now. I guess the blood will all wash off; it has washed off of others in this world.
...Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters
Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles
partial lyrics, Bob Dylan
Copyright © 1965; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music
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I guess I should mention that this blog turned 20 years old last month.
It’s true that I haven’t been writing much for the past few years, but then
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I have to agree about the pundits, and presenters. Who can one trust?
ReplyDeleteEven the internet is fairly treacherous, just when it seems a writer is trustworthy telling it as it is, you're apt to find his axe being well and truly ground.
I disagree about Al Gore though - I want him to run (am fast losing hope of it though). Nothing big enough will get done to address climate change without him in charge, and any lesser position than Prez may not be enough (depending on who IS Prez, I guess).
Kucinich is the one I trust most, but he's ignored by all and sundry.
At least Gore's prize has given the people of the USA something and someone they can be truly proud of. I'm proud of him.
Boy, that was quick! I may be wrong about Gore, but I'd like to see one politician decide to stay out of the shit. The rest of them play so well together and all look/sound alike.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Gore will run but he's playing the tease because it helps him get attention for his cause.
ReplyDeleteThe only way I see him diving in is if Hillary, Obama & Edwards all self-destruct between now & the convention.
Living just 30 miles south of Kuicinich's home town, I love the guy. Though some of his ideas are a little crazy, you can believe everything he says. This is a politician that was nearly assasinated while mayor of Cleveland and had the balls to never ever back down. Still does. That's why he'll never go anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI like Gore but the last time he ran for president his spending programs that he proposed were larger than all the government spending for the previous twenty years. I'm against tax and spend. Sorry. He did deserve the Nobel Prize, good for him, but he needs to stay off the private jets.
And I won't beat the dead horse of the Cable News pundits, etc. Everyone has an agenda. Our media is controlled by those interests and anyone who doesn't think so is living with blinders.
Debbie: I think that's right.
ReplyDeleteNobius: You might be right about Kucinich's qualities, but I think you're just as right that he doesn't have the backing or popularity that might get him through the perverted process.
When people talk about an "attractive" candidate, I think that explains why Hillary was showing us her cleavage, though it was only once that I know of. I'm of an age to look hard and to be ready to see more, but I'm pretty damn certain that the most moneyed candidates are not "the best" candidates.
I think it was Jefferson he proposed we overthrow the government every so often just to keep them honest. Golding's premise that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely seems to be the rule of thumb when it comes to politicians. The days of great statesmen is past so why are we looking for one in pot full of snakes?
ReplyDeleteSnakes? I hate snakes!
ReplyDeleteI'm crap on American politics, but I loved the Dylan lyrics..
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