Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
Marisacat -
"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
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
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.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Marisacat 
Native born San Franciscan.
Inveterate political observer. I was, repeat was, a long time Democratic voter. It has been a long slide downward to where, now, most of the pols on view are cocktail party hors d'oeuvres for the Republicans. And the Republicans are power mad and certifiable… too many freaks in that show.
Oh: last and truly least, fair warning, I have been banned at bigger places than this.
I was banned for having quite a lot of spine. Or starch in my crinolines. Or both.
you were banned for being a STAUNCH charactah!!!!
oh sweetie, thank you… 😉
Where did you find that picture—“white agitator”?
Love this layout.
I have not figured how to hack this theme yet…. 🙂
Marisa, this is a great blog! Definitely one of the morning four (now five) starting today.
ooo Marshall, hello!
hi there,
i came upon your blog from booman. i was hoping you’d check out our community blog about islam and perhaps become amember or share it with your readers.
the site is eteraz.org – we are dedicated to activist islam globally
I want to thank Delaware Dumbass for pointing me to your site! Glad someone is saying the things we can’t say over at that Big Box Blog. So many of those blowhards need deflating. But we get one of their precious frosted donuts if we point out they are blathering tools.
I admit I came over here because of the whole “outing” thing, thinking that maybe DD was being unfair. However, I found something completely different on this site. Incoherence. I can’t understand a damn thing you’ve written. And as for the “big box” sites, if you were a bit more intelligent and didn’t market in character assassination, you would be welcome. But we’ve got enough problems with the Republicans making false claims and ad hominem attacks, we don’t need more. You are no better than Michelle Malkin.
You say you have a spine…post this.
You say you have a spine…post this.
The Squirrel speaks.
well Squirrel baby, e voila.
I cannot think that you thought that your tiny little taunts were of interest.
Hi Squirrel! Orange Kool-Aid does make this site appear “incoherent”. Better go easy on the stuff.
Make sure to let your buddies at the frat know that you ventured over into enemy territory. Maybe at Yearly Kos, you’ll be vouchsafed an opportunity to kiss the hem of Kos’s garment.
Dear Cunt,
Fuck you.
Very truly yours…
Well that rates a chuckle.
Pretty clear that you guys rarely get to talk dirty. Not to a real woman.
Maybe all you can manage is the internet. Who knows.
dave’s post is positive in the sense it at least affords squirrell a comment he can follow. evidently squirrell’s mind doesnt move fast enough to keep up with yours. dave is probably more his speed.
i just hope those same agressive woman-hating sentiments haven’t send his wife to the DV shelter. lord knows men like him have sent far too many.
Love the HIllary poodle.
Congrats on your own blog.
Marie
Wandered by via XicanoPwr. Good stuff, and congrats on the Kos stuff.
You’re so right, Marisacat.
Marisacat, would you do me a huge favor and email me?
Paul, sent you an email.
mcat.
Hello marisacat.
I would like to ask your permission to use a picture of trench warfare from the Iran-Iraq war on Wikipedia. (https://marisacat.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/oh-right-wrong-war-wrong-dead-and-wrong-memorial)
Can you please give me formal permission so they don’t take the picture down from Wikipedia? Thanks alot. Appreciate it.
Noor Khan
Yes of course,
I found it somewhere myself, perhaps I forgot to label the resource.
Marisa,
an fyi re. Darcy Burner. She’s not the same Darcy that is SusanHu’s daughter. SusanHu’s daughter is much younger and looks completely different.
fwiw
Hi Mariascat:
And now from one of the less testosterone poisoned, grateful for your site, and hope that Squirrel and Dave keep looking for that inner child of the past, who I hope they tell to shut the hell up when they find him/her…