Conflict: Resolution

Sometimes Dumb Crimes Blow My mind.
Christopher Hitchens is droppin' some serious science.
Hitchens submits that not just the religious right, but any formal religion, practiced to any degree, is a farce and hell bent on the destruction of non-believers.
Fuckin' yeah.

Spit that shit.

Good Night, Sir.

That American Life

Burnt Wednesday.
Black Sun Glasses.
Guitarmy.
Dadna.
Nutritional-Yeast Infection.
Remembrancer.
Washer/Dryer.
Orange Mango Juice.
Ponycorn.
Wrecord.
Multiple Sclerosis National Broadcasting Company.
Rudimentary Peni.
Auto-Economic Asphyxiation.
Stimulus Pill.
Pope Nazi.
Beijing, China.
Wealth Care.
Postpartom Recession.
Oh-bese.
Contemporary fArt.
Double Dragon.
Spiderwebsite.
WIMP.
Swamp Ass.
Bear Market.
Smellevangelist.
Adventure Tail.
Rage Slave.
S oil.
Law.Suit
Hellevator.
Blorange.
National Snooze/Associated Rest.
Illiteracy.
Whoreganic.
Post-secondary Degradation.
United State of Hysteria.
Hurt.
Southern Accents.
Crayondle.
Roman Polanski.
Grape Nuts.
Section Eight. Housing.
Oil Faint.
Frog Town.
Pleather.
Meat.Wagon.
Crack Heads.
Scruburbia.
Mormons.
Wetbar Exam.
Non-Real-Estate.
Descenting Adults.
Creationism.
Polyamorous Relationshit.
Deadabetic.
Plastic.
tRust.
Conflicts of Interest.
Billionaires.
Endgame.

Second Week of Classes

It's the second week of classes. A new Roommate named Dana Moved into my house yesterday. I am going to see The Wrestler today at two o'clock PM.
William Shatner is fucking crazy.
Rachel Maddow is informative and concise.
Alan Greenspan is fucking serious, bitches.
The Mars Volta has their moments.
Ira Glass makes good use of his funny-sounding voice.
The Chapman brothers are a couple of goofballs.
Marc Bolan LIVES!
China is makin' moves.
America is back-ish.
Alan Colmes finally grabbed his nuts and ditched the sinking FOX "news" ship.
Israel is acting a fool.
Jimmy Carter still has that old southern wit.
Tycho & Gabe never lost it.
Santiago Mostyn published a book. Who knew?
Steph Swainston should compare notes with Ryan Duffy.
Tim & Eric are a class act.

Lots of good things are happening. I ate a healthy breakfast, went to yoga, and returned my overdue library book. Oh snap.

Past Is Prologue

"If you're asking why I'm out there fundraising, why I'm out there manning the barricades, and why I'm willing to do whatever I can to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund...[it's] Because I come from a country without the First Amendment. Because most countries in the world don't have a First Amendment. There are erosions of freedom that occur at the borders of literature. The battles that many people assume were fought and won many years ago are still being fought."
-Neil Gaiman.

"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
-Barack Obama

Fjords are beautiful.
So is the Mojave.
So is the music of Gustav Mahler.
So is this MGMT video.
So is ISO50.
So are these solar-powered aircraft.
So are these photographs by Daniel Shea.
So is America.

Shit. I'm patriotic as fuck now. This is such a strange new feeling. Don't get me wrong, it's a good, I like knowing that America can still walk the walk after all that bullshit. Patriotism is just something I've never experienced in sincerity before.
I guess I'd call it change I can believe in.

What Time Is It?

“I know that invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East and encourage the worst rather than best impulses in the Arab world and strengthen the recruitment arm of al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars, I am opposed to dumb wars.”

— Barack Obama, Speech to Illinois state legislature, Oct. 2002

Wow. A politician ran for president on a platform based on peace, hope, understanding, tolerance, intelligence, kindness, and change. And he won.
USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA.
FUCK YEAH, AMERICA IS COOL AGAIN. FUCK YEAH, THE PRESIDENT IS SMART AGAIN.
YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN.
Now that that is out of my system (no it's not, it has just begun)

"We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive."

-Tupac Amaru Shakur


Barak Obama does have a posse, and it's called America. LET'S DO THIS. Now that America is something we can believe in again, why not be patriotic? Why not be proud of who we are and what we stand for? Why not help people who need it in order to make the world a better place.