I am basically incapable of giving Obama a fair hearing. That's because I never trusted that he was anything beyond a Chicago machine pol. These days I'm beginning to believe that we are getting what we deserve.
After five minutes of sitting down in my hotel room with the TV on, I have heard four mentions of 'adult programming'. Porn. And when they mention children, these video sales-voices on the Marriott cable channel, it is to remind parents that they can turn off the porn. Suddenly I want to be in a place where the very idea of making porn easy to turn on and easy to turn off is not discussed so casually.
HEY, YOU! THERE'S PORN HERE. BUT HEY, YOU CAN TURN IT OFF IF YOU LIKE.
I know I'm not just old and crabby. Our society is just nasty, and I'm noticing it all over the place.
There used to be a black bookstore called Eso Wan in Inglewood just south of Centinela on La Brea. The last time I was there was back when The Bell Curve was in the news. I tend to remember the exasperation of the proprietor who found that every day black folks walked in off the street to ask about the book, jawbone it. It was his best selling book. His customers wanted to buy it 'to see what white people think'. He couldn't stand it. Just then, a woman came and interrupted our conversation. She wanted to talk about The Bell Curve.
Eso Wan is there no longer. What was once a bastion in the 'hood, with serious books from serious authors now sells dolls, fraternity swag, blackified Lladro, children's books and the latest bodice rippers from E. Lynn Harris.
Meanwhile over in San Bernardino, the latest ACORN sting has been posted to YouTube. This episode even outdoes the previous ones. A woman who brags about shooting her ex-husband dead is giving advice about how to run a child prostitution ring to the undercover reporters. They days of Clark Kent and Peter Parker are over. This is the new journalism.
'Jackass' is the word I hear that Obama has used to describe Kanye West, the airhead often defended as the most intelligent hiphop artist on the planet. Myself, I think West is a bullshit artist but not one quite as accomplished as Obama. After all, West's demographic is only marginally cultured and educated, whereas Obama has people as intelligent as Andrew Sullivan licking his behind. There's not much to say here. West is a crashing boor and Obama threw him under the bus.
Speaking of other affronts to civilization. I hear that those detainees that have been moved from GTMO to Bagram AFB in Afghanistan have lost several of their 'rights', such as a right to counsel. Now if you were a Neocon like me and you took the research of Gonzales seriously, as I did, you would have been plenty satisfied that 'enemy combattants' had no such 'rights'. If, on the other hand, you were a bleeding heart with no sense of propriety about who is trying to kill whom, you are now faced with the fact that your current President has gone one step further in the 'wrong' direction than your prior President. If any of you has the courage of your convictions, mail me the YouTube of you eating your heart out. Sucker!
Speaking of suckers. I should mention that my old nemesis Craig Nulan should, by all rights, be putting a FAIL sign on the banner of his conspiratorial blog. You may recall his predictions.
cnulan said...
1. Total reorganization of the world financial system to begin in December 2008 at the Bretton-Woods II conference and to be completed by no later than the martial law stimulating crisis loose lipped by Joe Biden the other day. Let's say summer 2009.
2. Incremental replacement of U.S. greenbacks with "redbacks" or some alternative that penalizes cash hoarding - no later than October 2009.
3. Declaration of martial law in selected municipalities and possibly states/regions when some of your plaid flannel shirt minions who drank too much Black Helicopter kool-aid during the 90's go buckwild with some of their 250 million privately owned firearms and explosives when they can't get at their "cash - no later than August 2009.
Old fool should have tied his predictions to some unemployment figures. It take 20% I figure. Then again you can always go into child prostitution, and as you can see, plenty of those peasant underlings live just fine in Sherwood Forest.
On fine summer days like today, yes we have Indian Summer out here in California, I take to dreaming that there are fine corn-growing communities in our nation that are deeply distant to the social corruption of this despicably retarded mainstream. Somewhere back in Kansas, people don't know who Lady Gaga is and don't ever find out what people I am too electronically close to are trying to find out.
Meanwhile I'm trying very hard to do some intelligent, disciplined hard work in the software business and scrape together enough coinage so that I can escape.
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