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Tis the season to get back on the river and away from this screen ( mostly). It's all about the money although being back on the Big Hole is it's own reward. I had a great winter, got some good work done on the books, but now it is time to get out under that Montana sun and greet the Montana mosquitos.
I have once again enjoyed many exchanges on this blog. Ducky and Renegade, Lichanos and the occasional Angry Anarchist, thanks for all the input, throughput, and your own output. Pagan, Beak and the posse, I'm not sure what you get out of this but whatever.
I just got back from a three week road trip to California, Oregon and a little Washington, working along one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world. Do I love my country? asks a local interlocutor. Sure. Who couldn't love what we got going on. Stupid question for stupid people.
I saw a lot of old chums, folks I shared time with forty, even fifty years ago. One who was in my kindergarten class! They have aged gracefully and found their own unique ways through the years but, in what I consider a sign of the times, they ( with some exceptions) seemed determinedly non-political. This is the post- post-modern vocation, find personal happiness, let the rest slide.
Not this boy, however. The Zootown Zapatistas will soon be publishing it's first issue of the new zine and it should be provocative. Please stay tuned.
posted by troutsky @ 6:54 AM
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32 Comments:
Me being here is good mental exercise for you. It will help you and Ducky build those 98 pd weakling brain muscles up, although I doubt you'll ever make it up to he-man brain status. If you ever make it halfway that far you will no longer be leftists. Until such time, I will be coming around ever now and then to kick sand in you and Ducky's faces. The Professor, meanwhile, gives a whole new meaning to the term "tree-hugger" as he keeps swinging into these trees so much its painful to watch, but I will persevere.
Please Pagan, I made it through Rhode Island School of Design which has one of the toughest freshman years in the country and i did it while taking math courses at Brown.
Ain't no 98, bro.
But I'm a leftist and I will most likely always be one. The tragedy is that as a people we are willing to go through even more tinkle down economics to widen the income disparity. Keep voting for the Full Ayn Rand, Pagan.
But cheer up, America is living up to it's promise. Just look at Egypt. We told them to close the border with Gaza and cut the crap. We encouraged them to make a deal with the IMF to make sure there's plenty of privatization.
Arab Spring? It will be co-opted.
Did you see the Wiki leaks concerning Haiti or were you paying attention to Sister Sarah's visit to the Old North Church?
Seems we tried to block an oil deal they made with Venezuela and we blocked a minimum wage law to please the sweat shops.
Always on the side of the angels or profit, same thing eh?
The struggle is eternal.
So who you backing? Governor Olympics, L'il Ricky Retardo. Ayn Paul, the guy from Minnesota who's name nobody remembers? I guess Newt is out of it, no loss.
Or are you hoping the pole dancer jumps in the race?
Quite a clown car. Trump plays the Baggers for suckers and we don't drop a beat.
Get ready for 4 more years of Obummer.
Sarah Palin.
Who is little Ricky Retardo? Are you talking about the Senator from Florida, the Cuban? He would make a good running mate for Sarah, as would Allen West.
My second choice after Palin, out of the ones who are likely to run, would be Governor Perry, probably. Thaddeus McCotter would come in a close third, maybe even ahead of Perry. Fourth, the Godfather's Pizza guy. I'm having hell with names tonight for some reason. Oh, Herman Cain. Fifth, Michelle Bachmann. I guess next is Pawlenty, then Santorum, and I guess Gary Johnson, though I'm afraid no one is ever going to take him seriously. Then way down the list would be Mitt.
I guess Rudy is next, but I'm glad he's running, hopefully he'll drain votes from the Romneylan. If hwe didn't have so many negatives I'd put him ahead of Mitt, though barely.
And for the blue millionth time, Ducky, I am NOT in favor of the full "Ayn Rand". Two-thirds Ayn Rand would be sufficient.
Rick Santorum, he's certifiable.
Cannot understand why anyone would think Palin would be a decent president, politics aside...
Here's to non-political, bi & non-partisanship!
http://iamyouasheisme.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/obama-seeks-to-win-back-wall-st-cash/
Ducky: Pawlenty is as wacky as any of them, only he knows when to shut up. I think he is more mean spirited than Bachmann etc. If you don't say anything, nobody knows...
There is an uprising in the teacher's union. The rank and file, don't want to endorse Obama. The leaders want an early endorsement.
The nurse's union is not endorsing him. The leader was in the labor party in the 90s.
Mean spirited? You mean like Obama?
Good Lord
Capo Ren is who worships a secular failed war criminal messiah is calling people wacky. Perhaps he has been doing comedy all his life and hasn't figured it out.
Duncy is going to star in a fikm called the Unemployables. Without the Old Bolshevik club to cover his idiocy he might be qualified to do the displays in a Walmart window.
Where is Prof Tarzan with his witty fusion of noble savage and Marx. At least he is original as opposed to doctrinaire fundamentalist Marxist clowns.
Indeed Ren, Pawlenty is pretty much a clone of Paul Ryan.
Everything except wanting to return to the gold standatd.
Beak that was incoherent.
Wal-Mart doesn't do window displays. Most don't even have windows. You ever shopped there?
Michelle Bachmann did good in the debates. Some people are even saying she won. That would be cool if the Republican Party produced the first woman President. I'd rather it was Palin, but I'll take Bachmann. At least I would be able to say "the President of the United States" without rolling my eyes. Or hiding them in shame.
Duncy
I am well aware that Walmart has no display windows. The remark was
sarcastic in tone and well crafted.
More surprising is what a good lefty like yourself is doing anywhere near a Walmart in the first place?
Ren probably borrows the mask from the wrestlers he exploits to buy his underwear there.
@Pagan:
Michelle Bachmann did good in the debates.
This Michele Bachmann?
... who suggested that the news media should:
“…[ investigate] the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America.”
Gee, how would you know? Funny, also, that she thinks the media, that supine tool of the Liberal Elite would do a decent job of digging out the truth.
My eyes are definitely rolling.
http://iamyouasheisme.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/paranoia-strikes-deep/
Gee, how would you know?
Ummmm, did they advocate an invasion of Libya after consulations with the U.N. but w/o consulation of Congress via the War Powers Act?
If so, those members of Congress might be anti-American.
Lichanos-
It wouldn't be hard to figure out which members of Congress are pro or anti-American. All that's necessary is to ask them one question-
Are you a Democrat or a Republican? It's really that simple. Membership in the Democratic Party has been veering in and out of the territory of sedition since the days of its inception, and the vast majority of the time they have either been over that line or straddling it at best.
As for the media that does seem like a funny thing for her to say, but if she did say that, in that way, and in that context, the only thing I can tell you is she was probably merely suggesting they do their fucking jobs.
@Pagan:
Are you a Democrat or a Republican? It's really that simple.
Soo...Democrats win elections, make up the majority of registered voters, and are anti-American. So, the entire nation is dominated by anti-Americans. Seems that being Anti is quite American.
Makes no sense to me, unless you mean that the America YOU want can only exist by getting rid of everyone with whom you disagree. That's not very democratic, now, is it?
lol!
They're anti-American because they want to live in a one-worlder U.N wonderland. Take away THAT dream, and they'd probably be as "American" as the rest of us.
Republicans aren't trying to unite and save the world. All they care about is America. Democrats ARE out to save the world (from America).
Thersites:
For someone who is so unabashedly pro-American, you certainly have a lot of gooey European soft-core art at your campsite. Why not dump that Pre-Raphaelite and Pompier froth for some American Realism, huh?
Or haven't you got your sex/ideology/aesthetic matrix in line yet?
Pre-Raphaelite, generally an indicator of fear of women.
I'm curious how Pagan manages to deny the lefts role in American history. I assume the reply is that nothing they did was of value.
@Ducky
Pre-Raphaelite, generally an indicator of fear of women.
Yep, generally true of all that fin de siecle, decadent stuff. See:
http://iamyouasheisme.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/mal-de-this-mal-de-that/
I don't get the sense that Thersites is too concerned with niceties of fact.
How can you be pro-American when you spend most of your time apologizing or making excuses for everything significant America accomplished or attempted?
Why not dump that Pre-Raphaelite and Pompier froth for some American Realism, huh?
Pre-Raphaelite, generally an indicator of fear of women.
...said some lovers of CIA backed abstract expressionism and the "social & socialist realism" of Stalin and the USSR.
Got any "realistic" homo-erotic photo's hanging over the mantle? I'll bet that even if you don't, you've at least got at least one stash of gay porn under your bed.
I don't get the sense that Thersites is too concerned with niceties of fact.
Both my degree's are in the sciences. As a result, I'd say I live a little closer to FACT than most.
On the wastelands of artistic realism...
THREE metamorphoses of the spirit do I designate to you: how the
spirit becometh a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a
child. - Nietzsche, "Zarathustra"
Reviving the Panhellenic Panathenea...
Madison Avenue, here I come!
Socialism's GREATEST contribution to advanced capitalism and the society of control.
The flaneur. Or is this him?
Forget socialist realism. Destroyed the great modernist movements in early Soviet art.
Ayn Rand was a big fan of Soviet realism.
Hard edge colors, epic realism. She hated any formalism. Fit right in with the limited right wing imagination
Fit right in with the limited right wing imagination
...and the Left-wing Internationalist diaper pissers.
btw - For a great lesson in formalism, read Plato's "Meno".
I think I've fallen in with some bad companions here.
This weeks The Nation features "Reimagining Capitalism" and I'm becoming less and less hopeful. Maybe as much from the belief that nothing constructive can be done politically (witness the current "progressive" in the White House).
I was struck by the news that he refused to mount solar panels at the White House as he stated during the campaign. Massey Energy or BP object?
So is the issues just a matter of finding a political will within the capitalist structure as Will Greider suggests in this week's Nation? I'm less and less convinced. It would be pretty to think so.
...sounds like the Bloomsbury Group may have found a new member...
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