who would i invite to the proverbial imaginary dinner

1. Sigmund Freud (for laffs, plus he'd bring mad drugs)
2. Laura Ingalls Wilder (badass bitch)
3. Oscar Wilde (he's probably good at awkward parties)

I just wrote a lovely screed against the useless stupid neandertal sacks of shit that "represent" the state that my personal economic crisis brought about by the national economic crisis has forced me to call "home":  Senators Graham and DeMint.  The thing that makes their idiocy totally reasonable is the fact that people in this state do not go to colleges or universities - they go to football team theme parks with dormatories, frat houses, and ostensibly unused libraries.  They probably don't even know who Keynes is, probably have never read a word of Marx.  And yet there they are, making decisions that only intelligent people should be trusted with.
I'm not posting it though because "small, weak central government" Republicans love to spy on people.  I'll just let Obama say it for me, in sum:  http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/blogs/phlog/OBAMA_IGNORANT.mp3

May both Senators have career-ending gay sex scandals.

transformation is a fair-use principle that may save my ass in the future
think duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q

please kill me if i ever become the kind of person who not only is married but refers to my spouse as my "hubby"
seriously what the fuck is up with that

never go with a hippie to a second location

is lame

 

The GOP Loves the Heartland To Death

 

It tells us something about Sarah Palin's homage to small-town America, delivered to an enthusiastic GOP convention last week, that she chose to fire it up with an unsourced quotation from the all-time champion of fake populism, the belligerent right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler.

"We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity," the vice-presidential candidate said, quoting an anonymous "writer," which is to say, Pegler, who must have penned that mellifluous line when not writing his more controversial stuff. As the New York Times pointed out in its obituary of him in 1969, Pegler once lamented that a would-be assassin "hit the wrong man" when gunning for Franklin Roosevelt.

There's no evidence that Mrs. Palin shares the trademark Pegler bloodlust -- except maybe when it comes to moose and wolves. Nevertheless, the red-state myth that Mrs. Palin reiterated for her adoring audience owes far more to the venomous spirit of Pegler than it does to Norman Rockwell.

 

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-bald chemo kids (they are way too young to understand what the fuck is happening to them)
-parents who try not to cry when talking about their dead children (particularly fathers who are talking about a political or social cause related to their child's death)
-baby animals with their mommies (even if it's not sad)
-thinking about my mom being sad/scared/in danger/alone
-photographs of angry, helpless civilians in war-torn countries (mostly because the injustice is so blatant and yet i can do nothing to change it)
-abused animals
-children who are sad because someone older than them is not treating them well
-old people who cry (for any reason)
-helpless people being taken advantage of by those who should be helping them
-republicans (but i only cry on the inside)