Happy new year

- posted from iPhone

Location:Oaxaca City

Desayuno en Oaxaca

- posted from iPhone

Location:Macedonio Alcala,Oaxaca,Mexico

Pimp

Al Giordano is a whore that's in love with his pimp.

Al pretends that he's the progeny of Abbie Hoffman, and that he and his Fieldhands brought health insurance to millions.

Hey "fieldhands", this bum is playing you for a sucker. You guys had NOTHING to do with HCR passing. Al's just a low rent hustler/guru. He ain't no yippie. When the revolution comes, he's gonna be strung up next to AIG executives...he's a liar and a phony.

UPDATE: Hey now...this was a drunk post...but I kinda like it!

UPDATE TWO: I felt kind of guilty about this post after seeing a pic of Abbie and Al on a plane back from Nicaragua in the '80s.  I guess Al was for real.  But I still think Abbie would be more skeptical of Obama.  And btw, I still like Obama.  But he's a politician, and politicians are compromised (so are PI lawyers come to think of it).

Dead baby hearts

If Obama killed a baby and ate its heart, Al Giordano would be there defending him. When sensible people reacted in horror to the vicious killing, Al would accuse them of being in the "poutrage" club.

And then Al's commenters would wipe the Kool Aid from their lips and cry out in unison: "thank you so much, Al. I was so confused without your guidance. I knew what you were going to say before you even said it, but I needed to hear it from you. I would be such a 'chicken little' without you!"

UPDATE:   Al is a fucking asshole.  Today he says:

The bill killers are essentially the 2009 version of the 2008 PUMAs, that whacky species of supporters of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign who, once Barack Obama won the nomination, shouted “Party Unity, My Ass,” and engaged in a summer-fall effort to convince Democratic Clinton voters to stay home in November or vote for the McCain-Palin ticket. They of course failed miserably, as the exit polls and hard results demonstrated on election night. Then, as now, both groups deny there is a racial component to their attack. Others of us can spot it a mile away. But there ain’t much use arguing about that because you either see it or you don’t.

There's something wrong with that guy.  I'm going to email Dennis Perrin and ask him to comment on Al.

UPDATE: Dennis didn't give me permission to share this (forgive me), but here is the result:

Johnny S December 22, 2009 at 3:40pm

I don't know if you respond to requests, but I'd love to read your take on Al Giordano on your blog. My parents were TM cultists in the '70s and '80s, and he is worse than them in his guru worship of Obama. He can rationalize ANYTHING Obama does.

Anyway, if you ever get around to writing about it, I'd love reading it.

Cheers.

Dennis Perrin December 29, 2009 at 12:55am

Johnny -- While don't take requests, given how my mind spins, I do at times consider suggestions, subject matter, etc. However, I have no interest in Giordano. True Believers like him are largely a waste of time. Like arguing with lunatic born agains. Besides, I'm moving into a broader cultural direction, if my nerves will allow it.

Best,

Dennis

Seattle!

Why I am not a feminist: Part Two

Exhibit B: Melissa McEwan is horribly offended by a passage in the Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers that reads:

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

Ms. McEwan was so upset by the second sentence that she re-wrote it to no longer be so exclusionary and marginalizing. Her "improved" sentence reads:

"Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing worth celebrating."

You see, her sentence doesn't marginalize unmarried people or gays or lesbians or the differently abled or people with their loved ones in Iraq or people that have loved ones but aren't in a relationship relationship.   Don't you all feel better now?

I want her to re-write ALL the books I read! Doesn't that sound FUN?!  What a fun and free and beautiful world it would be if she took over! 

(Seriously though: she is a MONSTER).

UPDATE: Oh god.  The comments on her post read like satire.  Some of my favorites:

It also assumes one's wife is cool with being randomly grabbed and danced at. Maybe she is, maybe she isn't...

I also have a problem with the construction of, "Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning."  Hard work is also a prison sentence if you are sentenced to prison. In which case you have probably been stripped of your rights, and forced to work for someone else's profit.

It's possible that he was only referring to dancing a jig with his own wife. Scholarly writers in the English language at least are trained against using subjective language. (this commenter actually seems semi-sane).

(but of course the sane comment had to be followed by this) What is the point of writing a book intended for all audiences if the writer doesn't consider everyone to be his audience? Might as well write "FOR STRAIGHT MEN ONLY" on the cover and call it a day.

Actually, to be really offended keep in mind "the exception that proves the rule", i.e., that the work a typical "wife" (child-rearing, laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc.) is not "work". to which one would conceive of as meaningful, and, thus, jig-inducing

(and from the Queen Bee McEwan) It's possible that he was only referring to dancing a jig with his own wife.

OFFS. Except that's not what's on the page. And if it were, I wouldn't have written this post.

OFFS. Heh. OFFS. OFFS. OFFS I SAID!

lol.

A special guest blogger is coming

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

The Law vs. The Law

Which side is going to win? I haven't been this fascinated with a story since Sarah Palin first came on the scene.  And I was obsessed with the Palin LSD clown show.