My Life in Pink

The “Conservative” Mind

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:57:39 +0000

The “conservative” need never provide evidence to substantiate the rationalizations of his/her irresponsibility for any and all social ills. He does not have to prove that the homeless choose destitution, let alone provide us with the reasons that might provoke such a choice. Because this would entail, first, the real work of investigation and learning, and “conservatives” do not work, but only delegate work; and it would further entail a response to the problem. The “conservative” is not interested in responding to problems, only in dismissing them (unless, of course, he can “respond” to the problem with his “volunteer” army, which is to say, shrug the responsibility onto someone else’s shoulders).

The “conservative” conserves only his own energy, for his own private, selfish, narcissistic purposes. He claims to have “ideas,” but all his thought boils down to one pathetic proposition: “I am not responsible.”

Thought for the Day

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:49:20 +0000

Eh, Jacques! Let’s cut off the King’s head!

Freedom of Speech II

admin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:28:08 +0000

11. God blesses the sexed, not the nice.
12. History exists in the silence.
13. The People are invisible.
14. Predator drones have nothing to do with war or warfare.
15. Only cowards use them.
16. The Truth is on the outside.
17. George Will pimps McDonalds for cold coffee and spare change.
18. Security institutionalizes fear.
19. To understand today, study yesterday. (after Pearl S. Buck)
20. The United States has choices, too.

Why We Are Losing and Will Continue To

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:52:12 +0000

We have learned above all that, in campaigns such as those in Iraq or Afghanistan, the human terrain is the decisive terrain. We have to understand the people, their culture, their social structures and how systems to support them are supposed to work — and how they do work. And our most important tasks have to be to secure and to serve the people, as well as to respect them and to facilitate the provision of basic services, the establishment of local governance and the revival of local economics.

— General David Petraeus

The Crises of Capitalism, by David Harvey

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:34:39 +0000

Religion

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:40:32 +0000

On page 21 of the Bantam mass market paperback edition of Sixty Days and Counting, Kim Stanley Robinson writes: ” . . . in one of those quick leaps that humans were prone to make (although science was not) . . .”

Robinson here refers to an entity, which he calls science, that exists independently of any human agent or agency, and that is superior to human beings, at least in its avoidance of hasty conclusions. Where may I go to see this entity? May I touch it? talk with it? ask it questions, as, say, the Greeks did of the Oracle at Delphi?

This statement is a religious proposition, as assertion of the existence of a superior being of ultimate good.

Some people might refer to it, scornfully, as science fiction.

Interview with Julian Assange of Wikileaks

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:41:35 +0000

NYPD Supports the Troops!

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:37:43 +0000

How to Become White

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:13:09 +0000

1) Steal some land.
2) Murder as much of the indigenous population as possible.
3) Make racist laws that oppress the remainder.
4) Kill some from time to time, to let them know who’s boss.
5) And be sure to mock them, the living and the dead, with crude, even brutal, racist humor!

Just a little white humor from Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the (white) Jerusalem Post.

Freedom of Speech

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:29:58 +0000

Some things you’re not supposed to say . . .

Israelis are Nazis.

The Germans loved Hitler.

Americans are little baby children.

The ruling class is sociopathic.

A job is a cheat and a swindle.

Education teaches nothing.

Experts have more education than anybody.

Freedom is a commodity.

Barack Obama is an Oreo.

God is dead.

This post is for Anne Ostrenko, A. C. Lambeth, Dan Denoon, and Erick Dittus.