Academic justification for promoting group identity comes home to roost: During the last decade, the League of the South and other “southern heritage” groups have fought to preserve the state flags of Georgia and Mississippi. Some members of the League have demanded that universities hire Southern-born professors. Others have promoted antebellum style dances. Nearly all are quick to champion their “heroes,” including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, against any
July 2004
July 22, 2004
lysergic acid diethylamide post
Blue. Wavy. Tongue tastes thoughtful chicken. Repentance in booming whispers. Now. * update: Gargoyles fear the snow. Thank God.
July 22, 2004
A voice inside my head, 1:23 PM, July 22:
…just throw up one of those ‘voice inside my head’ posts and be done with it already. I wanna watch a Bronson flick. The one where he’s a troubled watermelon farmer.
July 22, 2004
The September 11 Report: like some sort of crazy Rorschach test for the politically motivated
Reuters: “9/11 panel points to Bush and Clinton failings” News24, South Africa: “9/11: Govt not to blame” MSNBC: “Report to slam ‘deep’ failings in government” Chicago Sun-Times: “9/11 report lets Bush off hook” Sydney Morning Herald: “Congress found wanting in terrorism report” SouthLondon.co.uk: “Government ‘not to blame’ over 9/11” …In other news, Sandy Berger is the victim of a “carefully orchestrated leak” / stole shit; and Michael Moore is fat
July 22, 2004
The September 11 Report: like some sort of crazy Rorschach test for the politically motivated
Reuters: “9/11 panel points to Bush and Clinton failings” News24, South Africa: “9/11: Govt not to blame” MSNBC: “Report to slam ‘deep’ failings in government” Chicago Sun-Times: “9/11 report lets Bush off hook” Sydney Morning Herald: “Congress found wanting in terrorism report” SouthLondon.co.uk: “Government ‘not to blame’ over 9/11” …In other news, Sandy Berger is the victim of a “carefully orchestrated leak” / stole shit; and Michael Moore is fat
July 22, 2004
A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (twentieth in a series)
A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Michael Moore eating a corndog. Electric Deepfried green and red tears golden brown tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water. [For his part, Michael Moore looked like a squat dinosaur gnawing the flesh off
July 22, 2004
protein wisdom: the commercial break
If you haven’t already done so, visit newsfeed online. Because the guy who runs it’s going to give me a free t-shirt for sending you over there. Sucker.
July 22, 2004
Ooooh, he’s a little runaway…
The Weekly Standard’s Matt Labash brings the funny. From “The Bon Jovi Advantage,” July 19: Kerry kicked off last week’s concert by mounting the stage with new sidekick John Edwards, who has managed to transform himself into Mr. Electricity since the primaries, when many of us in the vulture class thought the too-smooth-by-half Edwards was less suited to sell us his vision of America, more suited to sell us an