Nailing It (de Tocqueville Came Here - I Went To France)

U.S. culture - everything framed in confrontation.

“In Sparta the freeman is more a freeman than anywhere else in the world, and the slave more a slave.”

Get all warm and fuzzy - Glenn Reynolds is on the case:

"RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Minority Democrat Campaign Staffers Paid Significantly Less Than Whites."

Applause - he sees it:

Democrat racists BAD. 

Republican racists? Haven't seen 'em.

"Kinda" cultish, right? 

"If the GOP is ‘a cult’, what are Obama’s followers?"

At this point - almost practical.

How about that Mitt Romney, huh? Making a comeback. You do know he marched with Martin Luther King, don't you?

  "Romney recently denied a basic Mormon doctrine and historical event that is essential to the foundation of Mormonism.  He stated the last time God spoke to a man directly was to Moses.  He did this to appeal to the Evangelicals.  Mormons understand this tactic as "milk before meat".   It is not lying, in their minds, if such misrepresentation improves the appearance of the Mormon church to the outsider.

Mitt Romney is demonstrating a common trait of Mormon apologists.  They will exaggerate or make wild claims without substantiation.  When caught on these statements, they will comment that the misunderstanding was due to how the information should of been interpreted.   In the case of marching with Martin Luther King, we should understand that he was speaking figuratively."

Fortunately, we despised men don't have to keep our stories straight.

"Temple Of Doom: The Mormon Hoax"

“At 'The Houston Cancer Quack,' Skeptics call on Congress to investigate Stanislaw Burzynski”

“The guru’s journey from healer to alleged predator.”

I hear the laughter:

"Look around you. We're all liars here. And every one of us is better than you."

Where is the Love?

Fraud - certainly does sum up the state of things, doesn't it? But listen to me - another poor soul with a victim mentality:

"In the rush to support [Duck Dynasy's Phil] Robertson for his beliefs about sexuality and sin, most conservative Christians seem to be ignoring [his racism]. Maybe they were too quickly swept up in the culture-war angle that dovetails with the community’s martyr complex. Or perhaps talking about the atrocities of the Jim Crow South reminds them that it was their theological forbears who perpetuated such injustices.

But what is the media’s excuse? Perhaps a civil-rights story doesn’t generate as many clicks as conversations about homosexuality. Regardless, it’s the story that is being overlooked in the Robertson ruckus, and it's the one we can’t afford to miss."

I's the same old story, is it not? The "utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist" tactics used to advance (or hide) a lie? We live under so many now it's merely a distraction to mention it. To mention them. Oh, whatever - I stole the "distraction" bit from somewhere else anyway.

The point is no one's truly free. Never has been. Few even have an appreciation for it. But I do.

"The NewAge Capital Does Not Have It's Priorities Right" 

 - TMR, December 9, 2013

"It is just as obvious as obvious can be. Even a five year-old could see that it's obvious. But that will not stop this line of argument (and our perhaps overly provocative headline) from enraging those who prefer to luxuriate in a bath of warm and fuzzy emotional validation, rather than to think about this simple fact: In a world of scarce resources and limitless need, it's just common sense (and common decency) to direct our charitable resources to those who need it the most. It is not moral to pour charity money into non-life-and-death causes when that money could be used to actually save human lives.

Though it is not considered polite to say it, the fact is that most of the charity money we give to less important causes represents money not given to more important causes, and that means fewer lives saved, simply due to our own whimsical preferences. That's not nice." 

 - Gawker, December 20, 2013

Debt is slavery? 

“African-Americans aren’t any more likely to get evicted or be late on a payment than whites, but you wouldn’t know it by how African-Americans are targeted by debt collectors. According to a new survey, African-Americans are much more likely to be targeted by debt collectors than their white counterparts.”

Shut-up, Crack? No, I don't think so:

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” 

- Aristotle

American culture is my culture:

“Bey-Z needs to up their game - and outlook - to Kanye levels:

That broke-jawed nigga thinks he rules, or should rule, the Pop world.

And American art, today, has had enough of pretenders,...” 

 - TMR, December 18, 2013

Viola!

“Music magazine Rolling Stone has recently named its "20 Best Hip Hop Albums of 2013" and Kanye West is the one who sits at throne with his experimental opus Yeezus.” 

- VladTV, Dec 20, 2013

It seems like a little thing but, I am an artist, looking at you all:

You've lost because culture is more powerful than politics,...