the sky is a landfill

Thu - December 21, 2006

authentic politics?

is it possible?

i've been away a while i know...got lost in my little black box and a move and life in general...but this little video got me a little choked up (just a little...i'm still hard as nails) and i wanted to notice that in public...i've had a good feeling about john edwards for a long time, and now he looks like he's working a bigger game...shedding the mask a bit...this goes along with my new work, but i think it's best to keep politics as far away from that as possible. and so...you've got chasbaudelaire to kick around once again!

"we're so conditioned. we're conditioned to say the same things, we're conditioned to say what's safe, we're conditioned to be political, and it's hard to shed all that. i can be in the middle of being what feels real and authentic to me and i'll get into a little reel in my head; i can see it happening and i have to pull myself back out."

Posted at 09:35 AM

Sat - October 29, 2005

fiscal conservative, social liberal

the wave of the future

you can do whatever you want to do as long as it doesn't hurt anyone or cause damage to property or nature or cost me anything...

this includes corporations and the military...

Posted at 01:42 AM

Fri - July 29, 2005

political action and forgiveness

the riddle of the finks

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."
-- Alden Nowlan

i guess i'm still a bit of an adolescent myself, not that i've ever doubted that...i certainly still feel like a hobbledehoy a good amount of the time. in reference to political action, this quote reminds me of why i lost interest in al giordano and the rude wing of the left, the ones who want to take it to the right and kick some ass, and sometimes even tire of fraser clark , though in general he is so up! that i can't resist sneaking around back with him to smoke the proverbial cyber-joint. though i don't disagree with them, and long as much as they do for the day that we don't have george bush or any of his little fascist buddies to kick around anymore, there is just an adolescent lack of insight involved in constantly putting someone down and judging their failings. better to just stick to the facts and try to improve on our own failings, and stop blaming the little rich frat boys for our own inability to effect the change that we want to see. perhaps this is why some of the most effective change agents of the century (gandhi , king , leary ) were quite spiritually oriented and focused more on their own work than on the work of their opponents (though leary did admittedly regress from time to time, and was also much less effective when he did so). its time for the left to grow up and, as i've said before, show us what they are for rather than what they are against. and again, it's one thing to be against something, and it's another thing altogether to be known for what you are against. that's just advertising for the enemy. as jesus said, "love your enemy", and as i might add, but don't do his job for him!

Posted at 10:59 AM

Thu - May 5, 2005

ben cohen is a fucking rockstar

how many bb's does it take to wipe out the russians?

$17 billion a year for what?

Posted at 04:24 PM

Tue - March 15, 2005

save the arctic refuge

act fast!

with a grand total of six months worth of oil and a delivery time 10 years away this one doesn't make any sense from a head angle, and as the home to caribou, polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves, golden eagles, snow geese and the Gwich'in people of Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada it doesn't make sense from a heart angle. click the button and sign your name...and if you live in minnesota, oregon, pennsylvania, florida, indiana, or new hampshire, call your senators and encourage them to vote against this ridiculous bill...

Posted at 12:00 PM

Tue - February 22, 2005

gone to the great shark hunt in the sky

He killed the king named “objectivity” and created the model of a journalist as a sniper and sharpshooter, rather than a mere obedient foot-soldier of false norms and decayed politesse.---al giordano

i'm surprised he lasted this long in a way, but hunter s thompson seemed like a given to me...who the fuck else can we trust to speak the truth up here in gringolandia anymore? one more death to add to gw's ever-increasing roll call, perhaps, or more likely just the price of the ticket to a story he just had to cover...

Posted at 10:30 AM

Tue - February 8, 2005

oreos

re-stack the budget your way

yum yum eat 'em up...

Posted at 03:28 PM

Wed - December 8, 2004

let 'em eat bush

what's sauce for the goose...

yep. the dream of a liberal america is over. i'm waving my white flag high. it's time for the coasts and the cities to focus on taking care of their own. and if the heartland is so in love with republican values, well, let's let them live with them for a while. let 'em live with low minimum wage, no unions, lousy health care...all that shit the coasts and the cities have tried to legislate and even pay for...it's easy to see now why the liberals have been taking such a beating for the past twenty years...we've been fighting tooth and nail to give everyone what we want for ourselves, and footing the bill pretty much as well...what incentive have we given the conservatives to think our way when we've been giving it away for free? we are seriously best off pushing to gut the federal government and then using our tax savings to create a liberal paradise right where it belongs...where people are smart enough and big hearted enough to vote liberal. let's lower federal taxes and federal spending and increase state taxes and state spending...and if we live in liberal cities stuck in conservative states, let's cut state taxes and state spending and increase city taxes and city spending...let's get this giant conservative federal monster off our backs and then see, in a controlled experiment, what works and what doesn't. let the conservatives stick to the heartland. let the liberals have the coasts and the cities. and if you are a liberal stuck in consurbia...what the hell are you doing giving your tax dollars to people who hate you? come join your brothers and sisters in the blue lands. think how much we could get done if we focussed on our own neighborhoods instead of theirs. surely we have enough problems of our own, enough poverty of our own, enough pollution of our own...

note: this is not a black and white proposal...we must of course protect our own self-interest vis a vis the environment, foreign wars, etc. i am talking about an economic agenda; namely...let's stop giving our tax dollars to people who are fighting against us, let's govern ourselves the way that we choose, and let them govern themselves the way that they choose...and let's let them pay for their their choices as we pay for ours. in this manner we will gain much clarity as to what causes have what effects.

for more inspiration visit fuck the south , fuck the suburbs , and the urban archipeligo .

Posted at 12:31 PM

Tue - November 23, 2004

why do people follow fascists?

wilhelm reich explains in the mass psychology of fascism ; the surveillance camera players summarize

Posted at 12:19 AM

Thu - November 18, 2004

election fraud

is kerry in the house?

it looks like he's letting nader handle the fight in new hampshire, relatively cheap at $2000, in order to establish a precedent for a nationwide recount of electronic voting machines, with david cobb of the greens and michael badnarik the libertarian taking on the ohio front, quite a bit more expensive at $110,000 or more...not to mention the work of moveon.org and black box voting , the first folks to get out the word on the inevitable election fraud of 2004. meanwhile, according to the moderate independant , kerry's brother cam has sent out an email promising to stay on the job until the votes are all properly counted, all under the radar of the vast right wing media ...

Posted at 01:12 PM

Fri - November 5, 2004

good news from election day

cynthia mckinney returns to congress.

two years after 40,000 republican voters crossed over to vote her out in the democratic (ha!) primary, cynthia mckinney is returning to congress. this is the woman who stood up in congress and asked the question that still hasn't been answered: "What did the Administration know and when did it know it about the events of September 11th?"

every cloud has a silver lining they say. well, cynthia is back.

Posted at 01:52 PM

free press

response to bill conroy over at the narcosphere

well, it has been said that freedom of the press only belongs to those who own a press, which is quite a lot of us these days, and i'd like to add that the only 'free press' is the press that is free...such as narco news and the millions of other internet news sites and blogs put out by human beings who are not beholden to some sort of monied interest, be it subscribers or advertisers ar whatever. thank you bill for freely offering up your time to get the word out, and for giving us a peek at how the major publishers are thinking these days.

here's the thing, though: major publishers are never on the cutting edge...as robert anton wilson has said:" It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. In an evolving universe, who stands still moves backwards."

it will always be the small mobile mammals eating the dinosaur eggs and bringing about a change in the times. why complain about the dino's? if we are fast enough and courageous enough and clever enough, if we base our actions on love rather than fear, then all we have to do is stay out from under their feet and eat their eggs for breakfast! as my friends from billy goat used to say, "fuck more, bitch less!" or in more polite terms...living well is the best revenge.

the fearful always lose. the control freaks, being motivated by fear, always lose. that includes the fascists, of course.

Posted at 10:43 AM

Wed - November 3, 2004

the morning after

it never changes

i always feel like a dupe the morning after. i know that politicians don't change the world, altho the world quite often changes politicians...and trying to beat the bullies at their own game is futile, to say the least...it's time to engage our artistic and healing selves and heal this world one person at a time...and not let ourselves be distracted by the loud look at me of the poli's.

Posted at 03:17 PM

Tue - November 2, 2004

hunter s. thompson speaks

"I endorsed John Kerry a long time ago," he said, "and I will do everything in my power, short of roaming the streets with a meat hammer, to help him be the next President of the United States."

The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government but if the American people want it that way. That is what this election is all about. We are down to nut-cutting time, and millions of people are angry. They want a Regime Change.

Some people say that George Bush should be run down and sacrificed to the Rat gods. But not me. No. I say it would be a lot easier to just vote the bastard out of office on November 2nd.

Posted at 01:05 PM

Sun - October 3, 2004

sick shit

is there anything sicker than this?

is there anything sicker than this? commemorative coins from silver salvaged from ground zero?

i mean...what the fuck? charlie manson couldn't come up with this shit...

Posted at 11:54 PM

Sun - September 26, 2004

nazis and not-sees

prescott bush had his, and george w has his...

fresh off the i-presses from fraser , here's a bit from an article in the guardian which deliniates the role gw's grand dad had in war profiteering back in ww2, to the benefit of the nazi's no less...runs in the family i guess, as gw is certainly working the war profit angle today, this time with the help of the not-sees!

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Posted at 11:28 PM