8.17.2009
How bad can it get?
The other day, a friend - in the midst of a discussion about the healthcare/wall street/black president/what the fuck do we do debacle - asked me how bad I thought things could get.
Would some crazy follow the train of incompetent/Socialist/Hitler/(racist) thought all the way to its conclusion and make an attempt on our beloved president's life?
Not unless they want the Other Side to win!
So please, Rush, fire up them crazies and make a martyr out of our first forward-thinking, racially bipartisan, 21st century president, cause we could sure use the motivation.
[More on our imminent doom here.]
And of course, the best thing we can do for the economy is nothing. Cycles, people, cycles.
Would some crazy follow the train of incompetent/Socialist/Hitler/(racist) thought all the way to its conclusion and make an attempt on our beloved president's life?
Not unless they want the Other Side to win!
So please, Rush, fire up them crazies and make a martyr out of our first forward-thinking, racially bipartisan, 21st century president, cause we could sure use the motivation.
[More on our imminent doom here.]
And of course, the best thing we can do for the economy is nothing. Cycles, people, cycles.
8.06.2009
Tell it to the FCC
Today is the first of a series of open workshops hosted by the FCC to gather information from interested consumers on the upcoming Broadband Plan.
"Interested consumers" is us. Now, if we can only get someone to show up that doesn't just represent the telecommunications industry, and those wanting to be sure that people in rural areas are sure to get service.
Both of those interests are certainly valuable, but they are also very well represented. The people who aren't are us - those who spend all day on the computer, have a daily need for fast connection speeds, and who'd benefit immensely in the wealth of ideas and capital that would become available if we as a country had universal, wireless broadband service!
The future is (could be) here now.
"Interested consumers" is us. Now, if we can only get someone to show up that doesn't just represent the telecommunications industry, and those wanting to be sure that people in rural areas are sure to get service.
Both of those interests are certainly valuable, but they are also very well represented. The people who aren't are us - those who spend all day on the computer, have a daily need for fast connection speeds, and who'd benefit immensely in the wealth of ideas and capital that would become available if we as a country had universal, wireless broadband service!
The future is (could be) here now.
7.28.2009
Gears of War movie could be good?!
Or could it?
I mean, when I read what Len Wiseman has to say for himself about leaving the gaming audience behind and devoting himself to actually making a movie, I get kinda excited. And then I look at Len's directorial record, and I think: What do YOU know about making a good film?
Nada.
Chalk this one up to another sucky crossover.
But if you actually put wifey in and she gets to kick ass, I'll give you a little respect for that. Underworld wasn't a total disaster. (But it wasn't good.)
I mean, when I read what Len Wiseman has to say for himself about leaving the gaming audience behind and devoting himself to actually making a movie, I get kinda excited. And then I look at Len's directorial record, and I think: What do YOU know about making a good film?
Nada.
Chalk this one up to another sucky crossover.
But if you actually put wifey in and she gets to kick ass, I'll give you a little respect for that. Underworld wasn't a total disaster. (But it wasn't good.)
Sarah, is it true?
The following quote, which was pulled from a longer breakdown of the current status of Sarah Palin (thanks NPR), doesn't sound to me much like a social conservative:
"But she has also, correct me if I'm wrong, taken on her own party Establishment and been elected as the youngest and first lady Governor of the largest and most beautiful state in the union, raised taxes on oil companies and created a state budget surplus, which she gave back to Alaskans. Her first veto in office was a bill that would deny gay couples health benefits (and you know how those lesbians love Alaskan Cruises. Good call, Sarah!). She appointed a pro choice member of Planned Parenthood to the Alaskan Supreme Court in favor of a bible humping Fundie Blowhard, and she supports funding Head Start. She is, contrary to popular belief, pro-contraception, and has said so many times. She is a Feminist. Her husband is an Eskimo Union man who owns a commercial fisherman business. She is personally socially Conservative, but based on her performance as Governor, does not use her office to inflict those beliefs on her constituents. She has stated that she believes in Science and Evolution. In fact, her father was a Science Teacher and track coach, and her mother was a school librarian, so she likes books too."
Whoever "Littleisis" is, I hope she's right about these things. I'd love to see some rationality strike the actions of the Republicans (who, socially conservative as they might personally be, oughtta get with the times and stop legislating other people's right to choose right out from under them) even if only accidentally.
"But she has also, correct me if I'm wrong, taken on her own party Establishment and been elected as the youngest and first lady Governor of the largest and most beautiful state in the union, raised taxes on oil companies and created a state budget surplus, which she gave back to Alaskans. Her first veto in office was a bill that would deny gay couples health benefits (and you know how those lesbians love Alaskan Cruises. Good call, Sarah!). She appointed a pro choice member of Planned Parenthood to the Alaskan Supreme Court in favor of a bible humping Fundie Blowhard, and she supports funding Head Start. She is, contrary to popular belief, pro-contraception, and has said so many times. She is a Feminist. Her husband is an Eskimo Union man who owns a commercial fisherman business. She is personally socially Conservative, but based on her performance as Governor, does not use her office to inflict those beliefs on her constituents. She has stated that she believes in Science and Evolution. In fact, her father was a Science Teacher and track coach, and her mother was a school librarian, so she likes books too."
Whoever "Littleisis" is, I hope she's right about these things. I'd love to see some rationality strike the actions of the Republicans (who, socially conservative as they might personally be, oughtta get with the times and stop legislating other people's right to choose right out from under them) even if only accidentally.
We act like the rats
Oh, Edward T. Hall, if only you had not been quite so accurate and thorough in your account of rat societies disintegrating under the hormonal stresses of population density!
If you had not, I would not see stories like this one - about the dramatic increase in familicide (that's when good ol' dad comes home, axe murders the whole family, and commits suicide as a response to a desperate financial situation) - and know that this is caused not by the emotional stress of hard times (because hard times are the best times) but due to the disappearance of the barriers between us and others. An undermining of our isolation in these overpopulated cities and suburbs, and the opening of ourselves to the reality of our dependence on one another.
What could be worse?
If you had not, I would not see stories like this one - about the dramatic increase in familicide (that's when good ol' dad comes home, axe murders the whole family, and commits suicide as a response to a desperate financial situation) - and know that this is caused not by the emotional stress of hard times (because hard times are the best times) but due to the disappearance of the barriers between us and others. An undermining of our isolation in these overpopulated cities and suburbs, and the opening of ourselves to the reality of our dependence on one another.
What could be worse?
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