so this journal is dead.

However, I now have a laptop and suspect that I might get the urge to post and share things on occasion. if this does end up being the case posts will occur here:
http://thispersnsleeps.livejournal.com/

Follow up. Perhaps part of the problem is that people like this get cable news shows with massive followings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSBumvA11M&feature=player_embedded

Let me sum up. Glenn Beck, on TV, says that Obama is spending half a trillion dollars to create a private army for his personal use, which he and his gests compare to naziism ( Read more... )

I'm having a hard tme figuring out how to introduce this. Let's just say these are the people who are screwing it up for the rest of us. Keep in mind as you watch that regardless of what is said it is health care reform being fought against. And keep in mind that the United States is the only Western democracy in existence that has not embraced ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder
If you're mythologizing me
Like I do you

We want our film to be beautiful, not realistic

How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to our nation that they were exempt from market pressures. Some things we just didn't do for money. The United States always defined capitalism, but it didn't used to define us. But now it's becoming ( Read more... )

I had kind of thought he was a douche, but after watching this, I really like Jesse Ventura. I really love Elizabeth Hasselback's "That's an extremist statement!"  What a fucking lollercaust. She doesn't even understand her own position.

Now I have to much self respect to ever allow myself to read Twilight. But after a long conversation with Ashley about Stephanie Meyer's shitting all over the world of literature, and the horrible characters and message in this book (along with absurdly childish portrayal of love, and the glorification of a number of aspects of abusive ( Read more... )

The reading list.

Currently Reading:
Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
god is not great, Christopher Hitchens
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bennet

Future Reading, in random order:
Iron Council, China Mieville
A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
The Terror, Dan Simmons
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Year of Living ( Read more... )

Lot's of strange interactions at work lately ( Read more... )

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You try too hard ( Read more... )