For me it's just accepting the fact that these movies will never be as good (or just plain coherent) as they could be if just a little more effort/thought/slapping down of the directors stupid fucking ideas, no George, shut up, that's fucking idiotic, you don't get to make films anymore/planning/research went into them and just take them as they are.
And I don't know if I can set 15 bucks aside for every decent movie that could have been good had it just had a little more work...
Triumph of the Kill
This film is surely going to be a clear-eyed objective view on the decision to assassinate bin Laden and a somber reflection on the death of a complicated, contentious, indeed evil human being.
Good thing Congress is pressing to allow production of domestic propaganda.
Good thing Congress is pressing to allow production of domestic propaganda.
The Misleading Statement of Fact Dollar
Are people really influenced by marketers putting labels on things that say something like "20% MORE THAN 18oz. BOTTLE!" or "40% MORE THAN COMPETITORS 24oz. SIZE!"? They're just stating the quantity of stuff in the bottle, they're making no other claim, but it's presented like it's something people should take into consideration when buying that brand.
Don't Worry
I can guarantee a Romney Presidency will be better than a second term of Obama, because under Romney, certain people will once again pretend to care about the horrible shit America does and will at least talk about trying to do something about it.
Well that's sort of better, right?
Well that's sort of better, right?
Seriously, fuck that guy.
In other news, Dick Cheney ripped the still-beating heart of a newborn from its chest, the first wail of its life the last, as he opened the yawning black chasm in his abdomen and forced it beside the dozens of other tormented, ichor dripping organs in another undeserved attempt to extend his horrid life...
Remind Them Afghans
I agree wholeheartedly with the author here; it is unspeakably insensitive to spend a decade invading, bombing, and terrorizing a nation, murdering and torturing thousands of men women and children, and driving tens of thousands more into homelessness and starvation, without at least having the good graces to be aware of their religious and cultural mores. They are absolutely right; there can be no justification for violent rampages, no matter what the injury.
Cowardice
Where will you be, what will you do tomorrow?
Do you have work, school, all those lovely obligations keeping people from joining in with this worldwide howl of rage and love? Do you care? Do you know what's at stake?
Sure, this is important, but we have to pay rent, eat, and keep up our grades. If we're too visible or outspoken, we could lose our jobs you know! Our responsibilities to keep ourselves safe within this system come before making it better. Certainly before even thinking of dismantling it, god forbid!
Where will I be tomorrow? I have to be at work in 3 hours. Do we want to be the gears or the bodies upon them?
I know what I want. But knowing is always a far cry from doing.
[edit.] WAH WAH WAH
I know what I want. But knowing is always a far cry from doing.
[edit.] WAH WAH WAH
Godwin is Dead, Long Live Godwin
After World War 2, Allied Command forced some homosexual prisoners of concentration camps, survivors of the goddamned Holocaust, to serve out their time for their "crimes" after the war, no matter how long they had been in the camps or how they had suffered, some of them into the 1960s.
WIP Air and Water are Nice
I want you all to be environmentalists in your own right.
I want you to think about how we all treat our home.
So I want you to join me in a little exercise:
The Earth is our home. Now, we don't treat it too well despite this, cause its rather large, and we can't picture what we collectively as a species are doing to it.
So imagine your home. Whether you live in an apartment or on a couple of acres of land, this will work either way. But because this is an analogy for the Earth, I want you all to go one step further. Imagine all the water you use in a year and imagine only having enough air to surround your home in half a cube whose base is equal to the square footage of wherever you live.
Got that in your mind? Good.
Now imagine every single thing you use in a year.
Everything you throw out.
All the packaging you toss.
All the food you scrape into the garbage can.
All the bodily waste you produce.
All the cleaning chemicals you spray.
All the gas you burn to go somewhere.
And everything else you don't think about when you buy it, use it, and forget it the moment you lose interest.
Now imagine all that trapped with you in your home.
All the liquid waste goes into your water.
All the gaseous waste goes into the air.
And all the solid waste, stuffed into a corner and desperately hoped to be forgotten.
Actually, nix that, a good bit of the solid waste goes into your water too.
How long do you think you would last in that environment?
Got it?
Good.
Now imagine you and 7 billion other people doing the exact same thing.
How long do you think we will last in that environment?
It's not an idle question. We're living it right now. Think about it!
And now think what we can do about it!
I want you to think about how we all treat our home.
So I want you to join me in a little exercise:
The Earth is our home. Now, we don't treat it too well despite this, cause its rather large, and we can't picture what we collectively as a species are doing to it.
So imagine your home. Whether you live in an apartment or on a couple of acres of land, this will work either way. But because this is an analogy for the Earth, I want you all to go one step further. Imagine all the water you use in a year and imagine only having enough air to surround your home in half a cube whose base is equal to the square footage of wherever you live.
Got that in your mind? Good.
Now imagine every single thing you use in a year.
Everything you throw out.
All the packaging you toss.
All the food you scrape into the garbage can.
All the bodily waste you produce.
All the cleaning chemicals you spray.
All the gas you burn to go somewhere.
And everything else you don't think about when you buy it, use it, and forget it the moment you lose interest.
Now imagine all that trapped with you in your home.
All the liquid waste goes into your water.
All the gaseous waste goes into the air.
And all the solid waste, stuffed into a corner and desperately hoped to be forgotten.
Actually, nix that, a good bit of the solid waste goes into your water too.
How long do you think you would last in that environment?
Got it?
Good.
Now imagine you and 7 billion other people doing the exact same thing.
How long do you think we will last in that environment?
It's not an idle question. We're living it right now. Think about it!
And now think what we can do about it!
Troy Davis Must Die
I learned that policemen are my friends
I learned that justice never ends
I learned that murderers die for their crimes
Even if we make a mistake sometimes
That's what I learned in school...
Doin' What I Think I Should...
Troy Davis yesterday, Occupy Wall St. today.
But not every day for the next few months. Not even most of today. For the usual reasons. So it goes.
We're all part-time bodies upon the gears.
But not every day for the next few months. Not even most of today. For the usual reasons. So it goes.
We're all part-time bodies upon the gears.
Freedom is Slavery.
The professor handed out the Catechism of the Knights of Labor and asked us for our reactions.
Gladys, an older woman, an immigrant from Latin America recounted her first experience with employment in the United States: she worked in a factory in Midtown Manhattan, she was obviously scared to give the exact location and name when pressed by our professor, but she had been exploited, paid less than minimum wage, told to work for 6 days a week, her employers had taken advantage of the fact that she had little grasp of the language at the time and that she knew even less about her rights within this system. She was nearly in tears with the whole class turning in their seats to listen to her in the corner as she described what she went through as slavery.
"But could you quit that job? You did get paid, correct?" The professor pressed.
"Slaves could not quit, they did not have that choice, you were free to leave, right? You could take another job if you found it?"
Gladys responded that yes, she did eventually escape that place, once she had learned enough and could find an employer that could use her language as an asset, rather than a shackle. She was clearly shaken by our teacher's seeming dismissal of her experience to prove what seemed like a semantic point.
"Ah, so you were not a slave then, strictly speaking. See, that's the difference, slaves could not choose to stop working, if they did, they would be beaten. Freedom, free labor means you work or you starve. That is the definition of freedom, in a capitalist system at least."
What a fucking asshole. But good point.
*Update*
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/britain-may-contain-up-to-60-million-slaves-201109134294/
I love these people.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/britain-may-contain-up-to-60-million-slaves-201109134294/
I love these people.
Thinking Back
I don't put much stock in the conspiracy theories, but for everything else progressives and dissenters who don't subscribe to them put at Bush's feet, you'd think they'd be a little more inclined to believe them once the death count in the war on terror reached 2,977 people.
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