December 2009
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My Hot New TV Show Idea
A former Spy is forced to wander the earth with a bunch of helium balloons tied to his back in search of the man who did this to him.
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Comment Here: Weagel Show ST #025 – Not Many
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could...
– Bukowski (via plainoljane) (via doriansky)
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We want times that relate to experiences, not to abstractions. We’ve always had...
– BOSTON GLOBE unREAL TIME
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A True Vision
A small candle burning hot in a cold skull.
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Surrounded by Experts
Not a spoon among them.
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I'm Getting My Doctorate In
“The Strategic Placement of Trap Doors”
…No matter what my parents say.
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Blogging and so on are forms of immaterial labor that complement the mass media...
– Shit.
Rob Horning - Marginal Utility Annex
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DORIAN SKYMAKER paints a Blue Kitty.
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Detroit Today evolves into Craig Fahle Show
Detroit NPR station WDET has rechristened its local talk show Detroit Today, The Craig Fahle Show and moved it back to the morning lineup.
I heartily approve.
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The Goal is to Keep You Powerless
As millions of families are struggling just to hang onto their homes and get through the next month’s bills, shareholders from companies that were not struggling financially in 2009—including Wal-Mart, Aetna, IBM, Verizon and Microsoft—made bigger bank by firing workers. The idea of a company that’s earning money, not losing it, enacting cutbacks so they can earn another...
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Who to Hate More?
The older generation for causing this mess?
Or the members of the younger generation who unquestioningly accepted the assumptions of the older generation?
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Helpful Tips
Understand your situation and Know Your Enemy.
For just about everyone reading this, your Enemy - and mine - remain the Super Rich. The Capitalists created this mess and laugh at us as we try to clean it up.
Hate the wealthy. Never trust them. Don’t trust Management. Their goal is your enslavement.
Fight them at every turn. Steal from large corporations. Mouth off at Clergy. Hate...
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I've Seen This in Person
In Mt. Clemens there were baby tigers being offered as props for children’s photography. Apparently in Michigan this is legal, but I don’t want to support a place that advocates cruelty toward any animal. I did a google search and found out that a man at the same flea market had, in the 80s or 90s been arrested for the same thing but with bears. Apparently the Gibraltar Trade Center...
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Terrible, Terrible Truth in this Light
The big man swung an Axe.
I saw him there, against the rock face. His was long work, yes. But not without Pleasure.
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The Only Option Left
Is to get physically ill in public.
Who would’ve guessed?
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Chomsky on American Democracy.
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Gotta Turn Now, Little Cat...
…your left side’s cold.
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As the fire glows...
…remember you’re luckier than most in this system. You’ve got it better than many due to the work of unseen millions. Enjoy yourself, but don’t forget reality.
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Howdy!
Merry Christmas!
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In a masterpiece of clarity brevity, one reader...
Hell, I dunno. Clear liquids?
But the most soul wrenching for me are those that ask: “When I look at what my country has become, I get so depressed that I could cry. Joe, do you think it’s hopeless?”
Most days I do. But one thing I know is that while America may be a hopeless cause, the world is not. I am sustained every day by its joy and mystery.
- from Joe Bageant’s...
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How Much is the Salad Bar?
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"I Make His Home Life Comfortable"
“I need to be invited to all work-related events”
-Heard on the Radio.
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