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Now that the latest Republican front-runner for President is a Komodo Dragon, Obamabots everywhere will immediately demand our votes because “Komodo Dragon is worse than Obama,” but this particular Komodo Dragon is actually a very handsome fellow, for a Komodo Dragon, just like Ob… Read full post »

At the end of a decade in which the United States killed more than 1,000,000 people in Iraq, for nothing, and destroyed its own economy, who better to sum us up than the idiot/monster Jerome Isaac, who burned an old lady to death in an elevator and then accidentally set… Read full post »

 

New York City, Elliot Erwitt, 1955

"We were all in our early twenties. John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and I, being poets, divided our time between the literary bar, the San Remo, and the artists’ bar, the Cedar Tavern. In the San Remo we argued and gossipped: in the… Read full post »

Poor old Christopher "Hooch" Hitchens is dead at the unripe age of... whatever.

"No God but beer," as he used to say.

They should pickle that clown and prop him up outside a liquor store./

George Whitman owned the famous bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris for 60 years before he died last week at the age of 98. His daughter Sylvia will continue the business of selling books and hosting indigent writers at the same location, just across the Seine from Notre/…

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Photocredit: Ali Reza Parsi

Kashan is a sprawling oasis in north central Iran. The remains of an enormous ziggurat constructed by the Elamites more than 7000 years ago are still visible on a nearby hill. Read full post »

 

 

This is Sobakasu (Freckles), an appropriate theme-song for the twinkie-consciousness of US liberals, who should be singing songs about freckles instead of shooting off their mouths about economics and foreign policy on Daily Kos.

“I stroke the freckles I once hated
and let/… Read full post »

A graduate student in cognitive psychology at UC Berkeley, Mr. Bryan Alvarez has recently posted an article about OWS on HuffPo with a very edifying title…

“Forgive the 1%.”

The 1% is a meme for a type of behavior, not a fixed group of people. 1% behaviors promote short-t

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I just now learned that Yoko Ono organized a concert for the survivors of Fukushima way back in April, and after some initial puzzlement…

Yoko Ono? Isn’t she the heroin groupie who turned John Lennon’s money into a billion-dollar real estate fortune? And now she puts on CO

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Obama-Dahmer

In the wake of charges that US drones slaughtered six young children in Afghanistan last week, President Barack Obama announced that he had eaten all six of the little bodies, in a gesture that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls “a sign of respect,”/… Read full post »

In the year of our Lord 2000
I lived with a family of Greek farmers
on the island of Crete.
There are no gentler people
on the face of the earth.

One night my hostess explained an
antique shotgun that hung above the fireplace.
On one side there was a picture… Read full post »

This photo appeared without caption or title in a Daily Telegraph report from the Zoom Photo Festival in Chicoutimi, Quebec.

Striking, isn’t it?

Bag of laundry with eyeballs? Penguin in a hijab? Muslim woman reduced to nothing by a hack photographer?

(This thing is attributed to Andrew… Read full post »

So what if the Democrats burn you at the stake?

Republicans would have also cut off your noses and poked out your eyes!

VOTE FOR THE LIBERAL WING OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

“As a measure of the pettiness of crowds, he imagined a time when even the craziest sluts reformed, condemned pleasure, and rejected everything except money.”

-Walter Benjamin, Über einige Motive bei Baudelaire Read full post »

Thanks to the miracle of Facebook, I was able to register again on the Huffington Post, where I was previously banned for nasty radicalism, and better still, I immediately acquired no less than 101 “fans,” in the form of my 101 Facebook friends who also post there, but it wasn&rsq… Read full post »

Bradley Manning was arrested 560 days ago, on May 26, 2010.

The Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial is applied to military jurisprudence through two separate and distinct provisions– Rule for Court-Martial (R.C.M.) 707 and Article 10 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) (10 U.S

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“…the current system has lost its self-evidence, its automatic legitimacy, and now the field is open.”

The field is open, says Zizek, with the almost unnoticeable assumption that some such field exists. The current system goes up in smoke, and can’t we just slip some… Read full post »

Not much progress, and every day they roll the dice against a longer and longer slate of catastrophic possibilities, each one of them very unlikely in itself, but all and any of them could go wrong today, and the dice have been rolling for 240 days already.

 Nothing is really under… Read full post »