Lie Away: The Fight Isn't Over Until The Struggle Stops

Forcing the poor to pay more for food - because you can afford to - is apparently sexy

Well, it appears everyone in the western world doesn't get away with being an asshat, just Whole Foods supporters:

"MP demoted after suggesting homeopathy use in Ebola fight"

Being out of touch, apparently, connects some whites to each other

It's so weird, how some people have to face the consequences for being wrong, and others - even law professors! - are allowed to spout idiocy and get away clean. To pay no price, either in popularity or credibility, and then can even punish those who point it out, being as cruel and deceitful as any common criminal one could encounter in a dark alley.

"The pursuit of happiness" was invented by a racist, a rapist, and slave trader - go for it!

And what's the punishment for? Well, speaking of course, but also for being enraged at the injustice. That's what those protecting evil see as the real crime - growing angry, or discombobulated, or sad:

"Grief is just so scary. Our grief and rage just terrify us. If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That’s what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn’t get dinner. 

We stuffed scary feelings down, and they made us insane. I think it is pretty universal, all this repression leading to violence and fundamentalism and self-loathing and addiction."

Whites haven't done anything to blacks they didn't do to each other first

As long as the effects are hitting someone else - someone they can claim is being politically correct, or a Democrat, or whatever other totem they need - they don't care. They smile (as they're always smiling) look at their bank accounts, and make the calculation public deception is worth it. 

Being kept outside the law is how it's made

And it just might be. For a while.

Twisting MLK's words, into white's nightmare, was the ultimate betrayal

"In the fight between you and the world, bet on the world."

— Frank Zappa

Things can happen when you least expect it

Sorry, Frankie, but I still ain't betting against myself (or me and mine) over anything - or anyone:

The biggest truth - still to be revealed - is how small the enemy is

We're all existing in blackness,...

America's An Experiment But Lives Aren't Test Subjects

Now that the news cycle has "moved on" (Ooooh, Syria!) I guess I can start blogging again, my thinking being - while we haven't come to any conclusions about black Americans screaming "My Baby! My Baby!" in grief - we might, at least, be capable of talking. 

I could be wrong. 

 Notice I didn't say anything's changed? That's what I hate about the whole "move on" concept - it isn't true. The participants can be in opposite parts of the world and the problem's still there. Lies get dug up, long after people are dead, still available to be found. 

Kinda off-topic, but look at the cacophony over,...Syria:

Anyone paying attention knows - nothing's changed but appearances - and almost everyone's STILL gone bananas. 

I'm scared, too - but mostly for historians. They're gonna look at all this and know we were nuts.  

We used to laugh at the phrase "mistakes were made" but, no more, not past the Bush years. Now we ignore them. 

The Trayvon-related fiascos have backed blacks into a corner, with the president and his stupid "red line".  While "Choom" echoes in the air - from conservatives disgusted by charges of Bush's cocaine use and other liberal behavior flowing from the previous administration - and now with Syrian children dead before them, too. 

That's rubbing it in, but good. 

Irony's not the only thing escaping our gaze during THIS parade. I've actually heard masturbation spoken of with more passion, this week, than empathy for practically anyone. This is our current politics. Neener, neener, neener. I mean, how many times will Glenn Reynolds make his crack about "smart diplomacy" before it occurs to anyone, that's not helping?

I figure, in certain states of mind, there simply is no helping.

Just as - to an artist - we may expect too much,...

Catch Werner Herzog's Murder Expose' Into The Abyss

This whole film may be online, but I wanted to see if this excerpt was out there, because it's a real portrayal of what it's like to live with a grief few others can know ("The film focuses on,...two convicts and various people affected by the crime."). We lock the "happy" bullshit out, see the world different, don't want to be touched, try to get on with it. Cry a lot. I lost 100 lbs. in a month. This lady got rid of her phone altogether. She lost her entire family. 

It's nice to see, after the post-Michael Moore trouncing they've taken lately, Herzog's still giving documentaries a good name,...