Category: Culture wars
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Time for Schoolin’
The Tea Baggers are abandoning national priorities they are uniquely qualified to contribute to in favor of another battle in their ongoing war on the middle class and the American healthcare system. And why? Because they flunked American History, not to mention Civics. The holidays, for me, are the time of year for friends and…
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Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Here’s a quick follow-up on the last post. The Tea-Bagger beat the plagiarist. Apparently Colorado GOP voters are more worried about the U.N. /bicycle conspiracy theory than whether their children receive quality education, or their seniors, health care. But politically, bicycle batallions are the least of their worries. In addition to the third-party Immigration Nazi,…
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Purple Haze
I haven’t commented on politics too much lately, but the GOP Gubernatorial slate aren’t really practicing it, anyway. More like slapstick. Yes, I know the conventional wisdom is that the Dems will suffer losses in the mid-term elections because of Tea-Bagger activism, but you couldn’t prove it here in Colorado. As those who are paying…
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Fascination Street
Boulder is, famously, a weird place, and not just because of its rep as the liberal wack capital of the world. Pound for pound, there are more “Free Tibet” t-shirts and dreadlocks on the mall than anywhere else ( Disclaimer: I have nothing against weirdness and dreads, think they’re attractive enough, and I totally embrace…
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Millions of Monkeys are banging away in the back room on surplus Remington Selectrics, hard at work on the long-awaited Squishtoid Manifesto…well, wait. It appears they’re actually working on the long promised World Cup brackets, actually. Anyway, it appears the monkeys and I have gotten a bit behind. I’ve been getting ready for the Art…
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This Just In…
The US Men’s National Team training camp in Princeton has not provided a lot of news. This is frustrating to fans combing the internets for indications of Coach Bob Bradley’s intentions to fill the many question marks in his line up, and Soccer in the US could probably benefit from a small window of media…
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It Begins
Today, the most significant story in sports will come out of Princeton, NJ, though the sports talk wing of right-wing talk radio will work hard to ignore it. The United States Men’s National Team will gather for the first day of practice in advance of the World Cup. The Mundial is by far the world’s…
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Millions of Monkeys…
…are, as we speak, whompin’ away randomly at millions of surplus, “Front Page”-era Remington typewriters (two or three per simian, typewriters are cheap! free, even) in a warehouse not far from the dark, 70’s chintz of Herb’s Hideout on Larimer, where Jack Kerouac once roamed looking for meaning in Denver’s tenderloin, poetry to match the…
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All in Color for a Crime
My last post was a sort of improvisation on the subject of comics and the culture wars. Since I’m on the subject, here’s a tip for some very interesting reading: a good book has hit what I like to think of as the book lover’s sweet spot- available in remainder as a HC, but newly…
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The World’s a Mess; It’s in My Kiss
The world’s a mess; it’s in my kiss… -X If I don’t see you againFor a long, long whileI’ll try to find youLeft of the dial -Replacements I recently renewed acquaintance with two old friends. Their names are Maggie and Hopey, and like a lot of us, they’ve been through a lot, though they don’t…
