Can you really call it culture if it smells like garbage?
I want to use this space for more thought-provoking analysis of this incredibly strange world we inhabit, but I'm currently short on ideas. Perhaps I need to get out into the frigid Minnesota air, shake my head around a bit, and clear out the cobwebs. Currently I'm just astounded by the fact that Anna Nicole Smith (formerly a big waste of space in American pop culture) gets more play than Darfur. In my time overseas, I missed the sheer levels to which the American media can take the most vapid of subjects. Now that I'm back, I find myself -- eyes popping out of my skull, mouth wide open, and synapses misfiring at record speeds -- glued to things like MTV and E!. It's sad that to get real news, I have to go online and look at overseas' sources. I mean, honestly, why do we care if we have a crazy astronaut who can drive 900 miles in a diaper? A woman scorned is a scary thing (believe me, I know), but without them, whoever would Katie Couric talk about?
posted by KAS at 9:29 PM
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One of the great things about your profile picture is that it was taken in a Russian bar. In Russia, that is.
I think John Stewart is having a blast with this Anna Nicole Smith thing, but he has a point. Do we really need to know what was in her fridge? More inportantly, do nationally sindicated news programs need to parlay that into a segment on "what do the contents of your refridgerator say about you?"
February 14, 2007 10:51 AM
Well do we really expect the Press/Media to really look into the "War on Terror", to ask the tough questions of our Leaders and others, to demand the truth from those that lead our great Country or of those that would like to ?
Today the news went from Bush's suggested ". . . I will do what ever it takes to keep our troops safe . . .", in regard to his news conf today when asked about Iran -to- the Anna Nicole Smith about an hour later . . .
I WISH THAT THE ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE WOULD WAKE-UP ALL FCKING SHEEP OUT THERE... !!!
THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION STOLE AN ELECTION TWICE, ALLOWED SEPT 11 TO HAPPEN AND DEFINITELY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH WOLRD FINANCIAL CENTER BLDGs "IMPLODING" (IT WAS NOT THE PLANES - e.g., BLDG 7 )
Please watch: http://www.loosechange911.com/lc2e.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=loose+change+recut
WE AND THE NEWS ALLOW OUR GOV'T TO TURN A BLIND EYE ON REAL DOMESTIC & FOREIGN ISSUES (thanks FOX NEWS):
NEW ORLEANS, THE POOR, SUDAN/DUFAR, AIDS IN AFRICA, GENOCIDE IN AFRICA & ELSEWHERE, The FIGHT in AFGANISATN/AL QUEDA/BIN LADEN (WE DIDN'T FINISH THE JOB THERE - I WOULD THINK THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN MORE OF PRIORITY THAN SADDAM), THE LIE THAT LED UP TO THE INVASION OF THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC STATE IN THE MIDEAST - A SOVIEGN NATION ENSURING THAT SECULAR VIOLENCE HENCE A CIVIL WAR WOULD DISRUPT WHILE "The WEST" RAPE AND PILLAGE ONE OF THE BIRTHPLACES OF CIVILIZATION.
WHAT ABOUT SAUDIA ARABIA AND IT'S TIES TO TERRORISM ??? I WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE FAR MORE COMPELLING TO SQUASH ISLAMIC FANATICISM AT THE ROOT, NO ... (?)
GREED, GREED, GREED ... !!!
Keep the people starving and uneducated. control their beliefs and religion ...
Welcome to the New World Order People
WAKE THE FCK-UP !!!!!!!
(sorry for the tirade, it's been one of those days)
SIEL :P
February 14, 2007 5:31 PM
So here's my rhetorical question for you: why aren't the enlightened people like us out there fighting for true change?
I ask myself this question on a regular basis. I want to effect change, but I also like to eat (and shop and travel). Isn't that typical American bourgeois thinking? Self-preservation -- or more likely just plain selfishness -- dictates that we talk to like-minded people but don't get out there and organize for change. Sometimes, this makes me sick. I went on a tirade to one of the local senators (who Al Franken will be running against in the next campaign) because his Republican bullshit posted on his website nearly sent me over the edge. But firing off e-mails isn't enough.
We have to do our small part in the next election to ensure another one isn't stolen from the American people. We have to do what we can to prevent another takeover by another terrorist group like the NeoCons ... because, believe me, if anyone is terrorizing this planet, it's people like Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and the rest of their cohorts.
I ultimately didn't go into politics because it disgusted me ... maybe it's that very reason that I should get back into it.
February 14, 2007 10:08 PM
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February 14, 2007 10:21 PM
some people are, we just need more ...
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=4577552&MyToken=6a763040-f5e1-45f5-b298-2a3f112eae11
http://bulletin.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bulletin.read&messageID=2815765341&MyToken=6a763040-f5e1-45f5-b298-2a3f112eae11
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=16569875
February 14, 2007 10:35 PM
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