Happy Pride!

"If [people] want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?"

-Sojourner Truth

It's Our Ground; Stand It

"What if you could join an army to fight global environmental catastrophe? If you could simply enlist and say, give me whatever I will need to fight this thing, give me a cot, teach me how to fight, and I will fight it?
I’ll bet lots of people would join such an army.
But there is no such army to join."

He's wrong, there are armies to join. Unfortunately, most of them are labeled terrorist organizations by various governments beholden to corporate interests. Which says a lot about the state of environmental protection and awareness in our culture. Our future was given a price and it has been bought and sold cheaply by people who have only the next quarter's profits in mind. We never put it up for sale, but the laws say they own it now. Of course, laws mean nothing when they exist to protect stolen property, stolen resources, stolen wealth, stolen time.

But that leaves people with a mind to protect the futures of themselves and their loved ones in an awkward situation...

The Dead Enemies

So you've been the Prez
For a year or two
And you've got to make the call
With baseball cards
Of the ones in charge
Who cares just kill em all!

Like video games
We don't need no names
Got the bombs just let em go
Braggin' that you know
How the Pakis will blow
Up when we rock and roll!

It's time to taste what you most crave
Yes, Sir, you are so brave
Power to kill, power to save~
Power to kill, power to save~

It's a holiday in Waziristan
Tough luck Tariq Aziz!
It's a holiday in Waziristan
To put your mind at ease!

I'm not saying it was Aliens... but it was Aliens.

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.

$60 UI

Diablo III: "How much can we get these suckers to pay for a browser game?"

Mayday

The cops looked tired and scared tonight. It was a beautiful sight.

Pansy Ass Christians Indeed

Oh god yes, look at those faces as they walk away; I could watch this video all day because it's not every day you get to experience schadenfreude of such great quality.

Thank you again Mr. Savage for being truthful and fierce and right.

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?

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...

"If you have to ask, yes."

http://yoisthisracist.com

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.

A Story of Resistance

Stop touching me!

"U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to the United States and Israel launching terrorist attacks inside Iran."

And the Taliban totally wasn't willing to hand over Bin Laden and Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Seriously guise, come on, you gotta believe us.

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

It's a Full Moon

But too late for Halloween.

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!

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...