I Even Amaze Myself

Code Pink, effervescent activists that they are, have a great plan. Organize the masses to head for Havana on New Years in open defiance of the ridiculous travel ban imposed by this administration of No-Fun People. Drinking rum and dancing the night away in solidarity with our Cuban comrades sounded like such a great idea that I knew I had heard it before and lo, checking my blog archives I find my very own suggestion for a Great American Boat Lift back in May. I know, if only I were in charge of the entire planet...

While we are on the subject of the Bush Regime, what a flaming ball of shit. I don't want to get my hopes up to high but who could have guessed they could self-destruct in such grandoise fashion? Republicans might want to get rid of the Nixon Guide to Covert Governance. Dems neednt gloat to long, this is all cyclical.

I occasionally succumb to the urge for snarkiness ( such as here) and interject a comment or two over at neo-neocons group masturbation seminars. One such jerker sends me this little reply: "Better dead than red, boy" The "boy" part has a nice Deliverance-like touch to it. Thats the level of discourse in general, love it or leave it, my country right or wrong, marriage = one woman+ one man, etc.. They find pacifists almost as pathetic as commies.

Ill leave you with this, again, from Hobsbawm: "Both traditionalism and socialism concurred in detecting the empty moral space at the center of triumphant economic-and political-capitalist liberalism, as it destroyed all bonds between individuals except those based on Adam Smith's ' propensity to barter' and to pursue their personal satisfactions and interests." As a moral system.., a way of recognizing what and how much 'development' and 'progress' destroyed, the pre- or non-capitalist ideologies and value -systems were often superior to the beliefs that gunboats, merchants, missionaries and colonial administrators brought with them."