Here's your quote for today, courtesy of Alan Watts: "A muddle of conflicting opinions united by force of propaganda is the worst possible source of control for a powerful technology."
Hey kids, wanna know who controls the media? Now you can find out!
Dig the scary chart, and think about what you're watching on tv tonight. Or reading, or going to the movies or listening to music or visiting a theme park or surfing the internet. These congolmerates are zaibatsu, giant corporate persons; behemoth octopii with tentacles that extend into almost every aspect of global pop culture.
Into almost every aspect of your life. Think about that.
Interest!Alert has a UPI story about Wouter Bos, the wunderkind of the Dutch Labor Party who seems to have single-handedly revived progressive politics in that country. Not only does it offer an interesting glimpse of progressive politics in Europe, it is also full of great names like "Wouter Bos" and "Wim Kok."
Today is the 30th anniversary of Roe vs Wade, so you're liable to hear a lot of moaning about "saving babies" from people who were calling for war yesterday.
Too bad "saving babies" (i.e., outlawing abortion) is directly incompatible with "individual liberty", that other ephemeral term given so much lip service by diehard conservatives. That conservatives are champions of individual rights is another big lie many people seem to have swallowed whole. The left, and not the right, has been and continues to be more concerned with human rights as a whole. Sure, the freepers love their guns; they'll defend the 2nd amendment until it kills them. And it seems as if conservatives never meet a property right they don't like. If you want to pollute rivers, blacken the air and taint the groundwater, that's just your God-given liberty.
But what about the other, also-not-incidental rights? Where are the conservative defenders of free speech? Sure, they'll defend your right to say "kike" instead of Jewish, or "nigger" instead of black. But aside from a few lone voices, I have to conclude that a conservative is someone who will defend your right to burn a cross, while forbidding you to burn a flag.
I'm itching to write about the antiwar rally. And what's the difference between a protest and a rally, anyway? I know what a march is. And there are protest marches, but you never hear of a protest rally, do you? You know what I need? My handy-dandy dictionary! Lemme see... So, a march is actually a type of rally, which means there are such things as "protest rallies" but we don't call them that.
Yes, we're tackling the important subjects here at Ann Slanders.
About that rally... I want to write about it, but I want to wait for the photos, too. So, I'm waiting.
What do you call Ann Coulter with a yeast infection? A quarter-pounder with cheese.
Yes, I know. Bad blogger. Very bad. No bloggie treats.
Me, I attended an anti-war protest in Las Vegas this weekend. Unofficial estimates come in around 500 people, which is near-frickin' miraculous turnout for a political event in apathy Sin City. The local Fox affiliate interviewed me with a Bartcop.com sticker on my left shoulder, and aired the footage. Just doing my part to raise the TequilaComedyTreehouse hammer a little higher. I haven't seen the footage yet, but I am supposedly lucid and well-spoken. Good thing we didn't have that big, smoky treat beforehand.
Me and my buddy took a hundred photos, as well. Those will be posted as soon as I scan 'em in, and all that.
