thi is just after I forced myself to read today's NYT (I know, I know...don't yell), which featured a long piece on MTG, co-starring the truly astonishing--and I mean ASTONISHING--stupidity of Kevin McCarthy, who can't decide whether it's better to shun her or (gag!) fuck her (I meant metaphorically...or something). this was followed by…
thi is just after I forced myself to read today's NYT (I know, I know...don't yell), which featured a long piece on MTG, co-starring the truly astonishing--and I mean ASTONISHING--stupidity of Kevin McCarthy, who can't decide whether it's better to shun her or (gag!) fuck her (I meant metaphorically...or something). this was followed by one of their swell new "focus groups" on the back page of the Opinion section. the people who are doing the focusing have, since the very first time this (gag again) "feature" began, been uniformly extremely ill-informed when they haven't been downright stupid. this week it was Hispanic voters who said they might be "open" to voting for a Republican. I refuse to summarize...it's already depressing enough (obviously, anyone interested can find this crap online).
I've been saying for years that there was what felt like an actual conspiracy to create a generation that doesn't know any history, because for as long as I worked in the NYC public school system, any kind of actual knowledge (or the ability to critically take in such knowledge as there was) was eschewed in favor of the NCLB agenda (Tom has talked about this approximately as much as I have). well, the conspiracy has borne fruit. and this is it. the sequelae of these efforts include historical memory that sunsets at about three weeks.
on the on hand (the hand I usually rely on, at least thus far), I care about all of this profoundly, as everyone here does (or they--we--wouldn't be here, right?). the other hand is the more nihilistic one (remember Robert Mitchum's tattoos in "The Night of the Hunter" which is --alas!--the only movie Charles Laughton got to direct?), and sometimes, every now and then, I find myself thinking insupportable things. you know, like, "if they want to wreck it so badly and no one gives a fuck...." I won't go on.
Charles Laughton. ***sigh***. I actually wrote the other day that if Dr. Oz and Hershall Walker win, we deserve what we get. But no, I don’t deserve this.
the only ones who DO deserve them would be the ones who voted for them. and I'd probably, at this point in my life, be fine with that. but that's not how it works over here. and that's MY sigh...'
The ones who vote for them will be the ones that suffer the most, as most red states (except possibly for Texas) are essentially welfare wards of the US government, and when the Repubs heedlessly strip out Medicare and Social Security, it's the red states that will go bankrupt the fastest.....but then in the general depression that will certainly follow, they will be joined by many other entities.....
thi is just after I forced myself to read today's NYT (I know, I know...don't yell), which featured a long piece on MTG, co-starring the truly astonishing--and I mean ASTONISHING--stupidity of Kevin McCarthy, who can't decide whether it's better to shun her or (gag!) fuck her (I meant metaphorically...or something). this was followed by one of their swell new "focus groups" on the back page of the Opinion section. the people who are doing the focusing have, since the very first time this (gag again) "feature" began, been uniformly extremely ill-informed when they haven't been downright stupid. this week it was Hispanic voters who said they might be "open" to voting for a Republican. I refuse to summarize...it's already depressing enough (obviously, anyone interested can find this crap online).
I've been saying for years that there was what felt like an actual conspiracy to create a generation that doesn't know any history, because for as long as I worked in the NYC public school system, any kind of actual knowledge (or the ability to critically take in such knowledge as there was) was eschewed in favor of the NCLB agenda (Tom has talked about this approximately as much as I have). well, the conspiracy has borne fruit. and this is it. the sequelae of these efforts include historical memory that sunsets at about three weeks.
on the on hand (the hand I usually rely on, at least thus far), I care about all of this profoundly, as everyone here does (or they--we--wouldn't be here, right?). the other hand is the more nihilistic one (remember Robert Mitchum's tattoos in "The Night of the Hunter" which is --alas!--the only movie Charles Laughton got to direct?), and sometimes, every now and then, I find myself thinking insupportable things. you know, like, "if they want to wreck it so badly and no one gives a fuck...." I won't go on.
and I have a sick dog....
Charles Laughton. ***sigh***. I actually wrote the other day that if Dr. Oz and Hershall Walker win, we deserve what we get. But no, I don’t deserve this.
the only ones who DO deserve them would be the ones who voted for them. and I'd probably, at this point in my life, be fine with that. but that's not how it works over here. and that's MY sigh...'
The ones who vote for them will be the ones that suffer the most, as most red states (except possibly for Texas) are essentially welfare wards of the US government, and when the Repubs heedlessly strip out Medicare and Social Security, it's the red states that will go bankrupt the fastest.....but then in the general depression that will certainly follow, they will be joined by many other entities.....