things that turn me off from America, part one of many Stuff like this.  Unchecked hysterical bullshit masked as educational material to foster preparedness. 

As they say in my other home: bollocks.
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  oh yes. now it starts. Zippy new computer arrived by surprise today, courtesy of the Mandalay Bay high-limit blackjack tables.  (Mwah ha ha.)  Which means PROPER posting, finally... and also that I really do have to buckle down on the dissertation.  Let's just ignore that for a bit, as I'm preparing to go to Boston in three days for the Democratic National Convention and I have so much to do for it I can't see straight.  Continual posting to come from there, because I'm all tricked out with Verizon wireless.  Oh yes.
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  until further notice, please assume my reaction to everything is, "what the fucking fuck?!" thank you. Whoa.

This, here: http://atrios.blogspot.com/ (posting from a Mac, which won't let me hyperlink.) Second or third item down: Saddam returns to power, just under a different name.

Yeek.

Actually, consider the whole of Atrios bogarted for the day. Truly scary things going on. Check also http://www.thismodernworld.com for more on the election mishegoss.

And all I hear about on the news is Martha! Martha! Martha!  ¶ 5:36 PM 26 Comments

  new fantastic online toy! Go here! Go! And try to find my speech in the new submissions! It's called "may god bless our mass murder." Vote for me! What are you still doing here?! GO!
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  the perpetually evolving list of hits and misses Things I missed:
The Daily Show
Adult Swim
Supermarkets
The Village Voice
Central Park
The L train
Decent iced coffee

Things I didn't know I missed:
sticky summer heat (I'm not being sarcastic. It feels like New York.)
American forthrightness and the ability to look you in the eye and ask for something directly

Things I didn't miss:
The constant, unrelenting onslaught of advertising and its resulting erosion of my soul
Having a new species of insect greet me every time I walk into my kitchen
American "news" "media"

Things I didn't know I didn't miss:
Seeing people I went to college with on Entertainment Weekly's "Must List"



And in its own completely mind-bogglingly appalling category:

Low-carb dog food. (Scroll down a bit.)
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  A 4th of July present to ourselves: exactly 200 days to a Bush-free white house Blatantly stolen from ThisModernWorld.com:


Great thinkers address freedom of speech

"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."


-- Thomas Paine, 1783

"Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free."


-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."


-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."


-- George Orwell, 1945

"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them."


-- Dwight David Eisenhower, 1963

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant."


-- Robert F. Kennedy, 1964

"Go fuck yourself."


-- Dick Cheney, 2004  ¶ 4:09 PM 3 Comments