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"a remarkable collection of angels
on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Democrats…
Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Baylor is a right wing conservative as hell BAPTIST University. I mean freakazoid Baptist.
The only reason anyone not batshit dumb goes there is for their medical program.
So the fact that while Paul was attending he openly mocked them makes me more likely to vote for him.
Yeah but Rand strikes me as serial ”stick it in your eye” child. Gets old.
Not that I care who wins. I don’t. Conway is a loser.
another site is floating the idea that the new federal investigation is just a ploy to stop all the state level AG investigations into the mortgages.
I am not a legalist so I am not sure how that works. Would Eric “I stamp out change as it happens” Holder’s investigation put a hold on the states looking into?
Especially when there will be all sorts of different investigations going on after the elections.
What a scream! Clarence Thomas has not asked a question from the bench in god knows how many years… but apparently Ginni Thomas has left a voicemail message on Anita Hill’s phone, telling her (I heard her issue a directive, frankly) to apologise.
To pray on it and come to the right decision.
A local legal reporter for ABC news here, hs been in contact with Anita Hill who says she forwarded the phone message to the Brandeis U police.
jeebus!
fucking loons.
Have you heard it yet? It is really looney. And offensive. Loaded with presumption.
And apparenlty, so I read, the NYT published, on the same day she left the message, a piece on Mrs Thomas and her standing in the Tea Partay mess…
There is an extended quote from Anita Hil in the NYT, longer than what others have.
Went to look at it … I’d completely missed it.
Thomas explained it was a “peacemaking” gesture?!!!
Loon.
A buddy sent me some petition to sign regarding this. Too bad the petition is sponsored by some splinter of Working Assho– er, Working Assets. They of the “Out Of Iraq, Into Darfur” slogan, and similar “lite” Demo-Imperial excursions.
I threw the petition away.
“Clowns to right of me, Jokers further to the right…”
Shit.
oh all of the “petitions” are just a ruse. Meaningless. Just a dodge to either get names and addresses or email addies.
Does Michelle Obama Control the Fashion Industry?
Kind of amazing. Apparenlty very very little to do at Harvard Business Review.
I thought it was pretty funny.
The New Tax Man: Big Banks And Hedge Funds
The country is totally falling apart.
and the pieces are being scooped up and sold off at a profit.
And all sorts of people will get caught in this……..
May I suggest a new drinking game…. Take a shot everytime someone at you know where sez:
“Get this to Keith O/Rachel Maddow now!!!!!!”
They’ll handle it!
I was wondering why Ginny Thomas called up Anita Hill to
threatensuggest prayer and an apology, and couldn’t come up with anything. A commenter at Balloon Juice thinks:She is a strange woman… ti could easily be that. One thing is certain, she meant to do it… right when te NYT carries an article on issues with her PAC or whatever that Liberty thing is she started, and two weeks before election.
She is running an operative play.
I saw a rather awful tape today of Anita Hill trying to drive her car somewhere, perhaps to her home (not a busy street, I noticed), perhaps on a road leading to the entrance to Brandeis… reporters converged on her car, sticking the mic thru the open window and basically impeding her car…
who knows with those people.
Miz Ginni of the Supreme Court Plantation.
ugh
The Grisly, Lie-Filled Personhood Campaign In Colorado
oh that was horrible. I think you can just call politics O V E R.
All we will ever get is these machinations. and fucking chumps, chopped meat candidates. All sides. Both sides.
Too many commenters in that thread are all bent outta shape that Obama’s image is doctored in the vid.
[banging head til bloody]
yup, completely miss the point.
Hello, all! I have absolutely nothing to say, but I missed you! **hugs**
hi brinn..
btw: there is a good post at Cpunch today against Waiting for Superman (and related issues)… I was planning to link to it in case you came around………..
Going to read it now — thanks MCat!
hi brinn!
Hiyya there, madman!
Just finished reading Olorunda’s piece and am feeling a bit sick at my stomach, given what it is that I have been working for the last 9 months to achieve….
here is the link, in case anyone is interested,
http://counterpunch.org/tolu10212010.html
the lead article, when you just go to http://www.counterpunch.org is excellent on [some of] the issues the French are striking over.
the more I read about the fraud the sicker it makes me feel.
I don’t know who in the Tolu Olorunda article pissed me off more, but I think Fryer, a Harvard educated black who wants to chalk up black white achievement gaps to “genetics” is probably it for me.
And of course Guggenheim, the Waiting for Superman guy is just a fucking propagandist.
but that won’t stop fuckers from their agenda, ..from implying that they have a grander plan than those who are actually concerned and actually, desperately trying to do something of value….
…pondering what to write on an 8 ¼” by 11” sign re ‘Oaktown’ California, and the Oscar Grant, DEADLY, final, SHOT WITH CUFFS ON, on Saturday, October 23rd, any suggestions?
ms. xeno? (ever since the “go you chicken fat go” comment you made at peeder’s, I’ve felt familiar …and don’t ever move to Cali hon, it in fact is, all about the ALPHA, and a diseased, twisted and unbalanced devotion to testosterone, ……………rhymes with DRONE …….(despite all those Fee Male REPS and Senatresses) )
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take your time hon, and other contibuting hons,
haste does make WASTE
take time over what?
pondering what to write on an 8 ¼” by 11” sign re …. Oscar Grant, … SHOT WITH CUFFS ON … any suggestions?
(take time on the suggestions)
I’m glad the port unions are trying… but ………. I don’t expect much.
but ………. I don’t expect much.
wish I didn’t agree with those sentiments.
well I have nothing at all better to do on that day, than to voice my outrage with the like-minded so I’m going to make a go of it anyway, come what may.
yes, be careful…
Yes Marisa, I’ll be as careful as I can, thank you honey.
Thank you for the Good Luck wish Madman!
(FUckEm, I can’t be Beaten much more than I’m already feeling inside, can I?)
A picture of a cop’s badge with the words “License to kill?”
That’s a good one, thanks!
Good luck!
Try not to get maced, beaten or shot.
Toxic substance forces closure of Grijalva office
Grijalva reported on Countdown that the package had swastikas decorating it.
I Have Seen the Future of US Politics & Its Name is Prop 19
I have to poke around, Nate Silver posted today that the Yes on 19 is falling behind.
It lagged thru the summer, but then seemed to move ahead. And I had thought when Obby and Holder started pushing against it, that it firmed up a bit more. People got irritated, some felt DC was telling us how to vote.
it certainly firmed up my desire to make sure to vote for it.
hmm I see what Giordano is pushing. That aspect of it, that it will draw voters out and help the Dems, is being discussed out here, but I am unsure about it.
I fascinated by how freaked out pollsters are by the increasing number of cellphone only people … I heard an interview the other day with one of them who basically said that there are big arguments going on about how to model them, and all the major pollsters are making very different assumptions and statistical models.
Well.. but. The Democrats always pull this out (or have since 2004) when it seems they may do badly.
My own opinion is that less and less “cell phone only” people will be voting, much less registering.
So many toys today, who needs failed democracy.
I’ve heard the donks bring it up before, but now it’s pollsters … who knows, hard to tell who’s tied into whom, what line everyone is playing.
Prop 19 – whether it wins or loses – is now Senator Boxer’s only hope of reelection. Because she sure ain’t motivating this emerging force in US politics we’ll call cell phone voters, even if most of those that do vote will hold their noses and pull a lever for her.
ugh. I’d be a lot more impressed if Carly were raising gangbusters money and BB were not. But money has beena big stuggle fr Carly.
AND I’d be more impressed if Barbara had, in the past, done badly outisde the Bay Area or urban centers… but she has pulled in the votes (she got more votes than DiFi in 2004) from INLAND and Agricultural counties. Over and over, county after county.
It can only mean Barbara has delivered what they wanted.
and this kind of leaves me speechless….
The good news is, that Organizing for America – the 2010 version of the 2008 Obama field organization – does have a GOTV army and will also be pulling the California cell phone voters by the ear, tantalizing them with Prop 19 on the ballot, no matter what the Attorney General or “drug czar” say from Washington. Cabinet members do not now, and never will, rule the ground. ¡Olé!
I realise it is of no interest to Al Giordano, but there is a very interesting question in the Boxer Fiorina match. The R had NO PROBLEM at all with Carly sticking with her hard core anti abortion stance. No problem at all.
Meg pulled the old “I am pro choice” with the caveat that she is for “limiting abortion” and for “parental consent”…. and she did give BB 10K in 2002 (bet she wishes she had not).
I say they are testing the ground with the Carly run…. what can they pull with a hard core supposedy (seh says) faith based anti abortion stance. Even tho she has no current religion and attends no church.
gonna be interesting to see how it goes …
be interesting to parse thru the afterbirth.
Gah. ga ga. And then some:
Oh, can I just shoot myself in the head now and not watch that.
LOL… yeah really!
FWIW, Bob Perry answers John Halle’s letter to him about his column disparaging third party, left side efforts.
Gah.
The thread goes over the old Nader Gore 2000 issues (becasue it still sticks in Perry’s craw I think).
But geesh. I never voted for Nader, never wanted to, but what the fuck is wrong with TELLING GORE TO DO BETTER. .. to have done better… (not saying he would have been any better than Bush…)
He couldn’t win his nominal home state. He was too afraid to even field Bill C to Arkansas. Etc. Had he won those, FL gets inconsequential….
It’s always reassuring to be reminded that no matter how much assholery and bullying Democrats engage in, we’ll always have the Parrys to remind us that if we were just a little nicer and kept the plates warmer at dinnertime and gave them more blow jobs while wearing nothing but Saran Wrap™, they wouldn’t beat the shit out of us so often after a hard day at the office with the mean ol’ Republican “bosses.”
Fuck off and die, Parry. You and Alterman and Moore and Ehrenreich and Sirota and Pollit and all the other little toadies and suck-ups and “big successes” on the left. For once in your pathetic lives, just shut up and FOAD.
I noticed the nice, little, very, very subtle “love the Big Dog” thread over at corrente…. (and your comments).
Again, I think John Halle was right, it is being prepped for an “access blog”, should their preferred pedigree dog get the nod.
What a shame that would be. Still, nothing that doesn’t happen a million times every day all over Internetland.
It’s a good thing I went to the comic shop today. We also checked out the local food carts. Treated myself to some excellent Guam shrimp fritters, a small green salad w/Gorgonzola, and some excellent mushroom soup. (The salad place threw in a soft drink as part of the special.)
I’m still getting over last week’s cold, so the chili sauce on the fritters was a big help.
oh taht all sounds so delicious!
The BOregonian was apparently worried last week that the locals aren’t eating enough overpriced, shitty chain food. They ran some incredibly stupid puff piece about chain restaurants in which the writer whined about “foodies.” The pathetic factor only increased when one of the paper’s editors showed up to try and explain why it’s so important to kiss the ass of one’s corporate advertisers in a puff piece at a time when so many good local restaurants can’t survive the crap economy.
What a dipshit. It did my heart good to see so many of the online readers call the paper out on this pandering crap, though.
Yeah, I better eat at the Spaghetti Factory more often or else I’m a mean ol’ elitist. :p
OOO, what did you buy?
I must admit I’m curious what comics you enjoy.
My current vices are Legion of Superheroes, The Stuff of Legend, and a single issue of Mouse Guard that comes highly recommended, but that I haven’t yet had time to do more than glance at.
Also, I almost cried when I saw that James Sturm has a new book out, but it’s way too steep for me to buy at the moment. Later, maybe. I’ve loved him since his Cereal Killings days. [dreamy sigh]
I keep meaning to pick up Mouse Guard.
Have you checked out Scarlet yet?
Obama Prepares to triangulate Himself
Wed, 10/20/2010 – 11:03 — Glen Ford
Thanks for the link, D!
Ford gives a succinct description of things as they are and have been my entire politically cognizant life:
…but the result is always the same: the fundamental interests of corporations are protected at the beginning of the process, which can only end with the people in worse shape than before it started.
In the immortal words of David Byrne:
same as it ever was
same as it ever was
Hope all ya’ll are about to have a most excellent weekend! 8)
Roasting some pumpkin for the Halloween party at our friends’ place tomorrow. It was a big hit last year.
We also have tons of orange sweet peppers coming in, which means lotsa’ stir fry next week, I hope.
[waves]
kiss the kitties! Kiss the pumpkin!
You’re welcome hon, and I hope you’re in the midst of a most excellent weekend yourself.
did you go yesterday? If so, how was it?
Yeah, I was glad I went, there were quite a few peeps there. Petitions to the presiding judge passed around, it was well organized. No problems (elections soon, likely helped a great deal) it rained quite a bit but there is a beautiful live oak in front of the City hall, has to be close to 100 feet in diameter, which lovingly sheltered quite a few of us who didn’t want to bring umbrellas.
To be continued on November 5th, at noon, same place (Oakland City hall on Clay, between 14th and 15th Streets). Also on the 5th, A Day To Honor Oscar Grant, at 14th and Broadway (close by) with a request for flowers or other items to place on an altar for Oscar Grant.
Additionally (coat stuffed with flyers), a mass community meeting announced, and on October 30-31st, a mobilizing conference In Defense of Public Education and Public Services – 9:00 AM, at San Francisco State University (Sat. Cesar Chavez Student Center, Sun. McKenna theater), 1600 Holloway Ave.
(wonderful pizza and peepsies at Pizza Man, 1422 Broadway)
I adore this comment on Glen’s post:
Words Have Power
Afroseer – 10/23/2010 – 14:33
LOL Bloombeg endorsed Meg today…………. Flew out special, walked around some factory with her………………
so much for that “centrism” he’s always claiming.
oh but Meggie claims to be a Center Fold Girl.
Money sniffs out money.
hmm Looking around out here, MJ iniative likely to go down to defeat (DC will be happy!) and Barbara, if she wishes to win, needs to pull up fast.
It could be Hello Senator Fiorina!
Word is Obby comes yet again for her, on the eve of
destructionelection.Rah! ……..
“Should Be Legalized” Eminem – Love The Way You Lie parody
Blame Alan Smithee for this. He’s the one with the permanent link to Digby the Dull as Dishwater Democrat Dimbulb:
link to her typical sorry-ass bullshit thread
But damn! I was laughing so hard by the time those three comments at the end showed up, I needed another bag of coughdrops!
ooo I like soulite!!
{sorry this sat stuck in moderation, I was sound asleep)
How can you sleep during the MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER OF OUR TIME EVERRRR!!??!!
Tsk.
Hannity is saying that too, you know. (I heard him yesterday)
Universal talking points! …
Just tell them that you couldn’t participate because you had a roast in the oven.
Preferably pork roast, for the symbolic value.
oh, I was busy cooking! I couldn’t answer the phone for the survey! Really! I would have! But for the roast!
It may ramp up in the next few days OR they may think we are tied down and already bought off, but unlike most elections, my phone is not ringing off the hook for polling… nor robo calls.
unlike most elections, my phone is not ringing off the hook for polling… nor robo calls.
Did you skip voting in ’08? If so, you’ve probably dropped off of LV lists. OTOH, you’re just the type of “marginal woman voter” the Dems are relying on for victory! Stay tuned to The View.
ugh we vote almost constantly out here… 9 or 10 times (maybe more I lose track) in 5 or 6 years.
It gets old. I am pretty sure i voted on a few ballot measures in ’08…. but skipped candidates.
Same as I plan to do this go round.
Hah. Somebody knocked on our door right after I read your post! It was about one of the ballot measures, though, not a particular candidate.
The last political call I got was last month from NARAL. It was tempting as hell to bite the head off the hapless wage-slave on the other end, but I thought better of it.
We are blessed. And loved. It must b so, they tell us it is….
Bizarre:
Randy Quaid seeks refugee status in Canada
New phrase: “star whackers”.
I don’t know if they were unhinged before, but ever since the twins were born and the medical issues happened with the massive overdose of a medicine given in the hospital, they seem very very out of touch with reality.
FWIW
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press“: RNC Chairman Michael Steele; roundtable with New York Times columnist David Brooks, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, DLC Chairman and former Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN), MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNBC’s Rick Santelli
–ABC’s “This Week“: DNC Chairman and former Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA); former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton (Ret.); roundtable with ABC’s George Will, Republican strategist Ed Gillespie, former Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and ABC’s Amy Walter
–CBS’s “Face the Nation“: Former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove; DCCC Chairman Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
–”Fox News Sunday“: U.S. Senate candidate and former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA); U.S. Senate candidate Gov. Joe Manchin (D-WV); roundtable with Fox News’ Brit Hume, Fortune’s Nina Easton, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and Fox News’ Juan Williams; “Power Player of the Week” with Monumental Sports & Entertainment Founder and CEO Ted Leonsis
–CNN’s “State of the Union“: Live U.S. Senate candidate debate with Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL), Gov. Charlie Crist (I-FL) and former Speaker Marco Rubio (R-FL)
–C-SPAN: “Newsmakers“: (10am ET / 6pm ET Sunday): Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Chairman Phil Angelides, questioned by the Washington Post’s Zachary Goldfarb and AP’s Dan Wagner … “The Communicators” (6:30pm ET Saturday): Verisign CEO Mark McLaughlin, questioned by Government Computer News’ Bill Jackson … ‘Q&A’ (8pm ET & 11pm ET Sunday): William McKay and Charles Johnson (co-authors, “Parliament & Congress: Representation & Scrutiny in the Twenty-First Century”)
–Univision’s “Al Punto“: Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA); Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL); Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA); U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R-CA); Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and U.S. House candidate Ruth McClung (R-AZ)
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