That Pound of Cocaine Sounds Mighty Good

Yesterday was not a good day for Rudy Giuliani. Apart from being exposed as part vampire, A report says he was kicked off the Iraq Study Group for poor attendance and his South Carolina finance chair was caught with a pound of cocaine. Now, call me crazy, but when I’m on a coke binge, the last thing I want to do is be around a bunch of uptight white fucks talking about Iraq. Actually, when I’m on a coke binge, I like to be in the darkness of a strip club backroom with the majority of my torso exposed and a pair of sunglasses put on sideways. But that’s just me.

Anyway, to those who says socialism doesn’t work:

I am sick and tired of reading ignorant people who’ve never read anything Marx or Engels wrote (except possibly the Communist Manifesto) baselessly claim that ’socialism doesn’t work’.

My simple response to people who spout this empty rhetoric is to ask: how do you know?

Ever since the West witnessed the horror that was the Soviet Union and red China, the dream of socialism has been inexorably married in our literature, politics, rhetoric and culture to these perverse manifestations of totalitarianism. The impact of these horrors has struck all sides of the political spectrum from the left to the right. On left, we have seen them seemingly no longer willing to call themselves ’socialists’ so they go by monkiers like “anarco-socialists” which, at least under the original definition of the term, is as redundant a phrase as PIN number, ATM machine, or NDP party.

Updated: Socialism, and this, give me an erection.

Remember Those Missing Emails? Looks Like Staffers Accidentally Sent 500 Emails to georgewbush.org, Not georgewbush.com. Domain Operator? Anti-Bush Activist Who Holds the Evidence:

I’m listening to Greg Palast on Democracy Now! talking about how Karl Rove’s lackeys totally screwed up when they were sending emails about firing US Attorneys for not being Republican Party and Karl Rove friendly. It seems that instead of sending the emails they typed up to georgewbush.com they sent it to georgewbush.org which is a domain that friends of Greg Palast’s own. Greg Palast now has 500 of the Karl Rove emails. What was revealed in the emails reviewed by RFK Jr. had him saying (paraphrasing) that “Rove et al should be in jail, not in office.”

Other things worth a glance: First Potentially Habitable Planet Outside the Solar System, Most People Are Depressed For a Very Good Reason, Hip Hop Isn’t Dying, It Just Sucks, Reality Check: Who’s the bigger terrorist – the USA or Al Qaeda?, and The Problem with the 8-Hour Workday.

Update Number 2: This is one incoherent fucking blog round-up. I’ll be putting up a new one Friday morning.

Hey, Free Lawyer Semen

Quote of the day:

We always find it funny that you can use sex to sell jewelry and cars, but you can’t use sex to sell condoms.

And quote of the day, part 2:

A politically connected lawyer — wearing nothing but glasses, socks and a hands-free headset — masturbated in front of two women at a shopping center, police said.

Coming Anarchy has the latest article by Robert Kaplan called Forgetting the Obvious. It deals with the theme of being able to successfully wage wars in opulant societies that may have lost their will to fight, even in the face of something worthwhile. In his point of view, this is America right now vs the Islamic Jihadist threat. My only problem with this piece is he gets from point A to point B, but there is a lot of inbetween. The Last Two Big Wars have been utter disasters for the United States, and I think the citizenry reflects this. This is not only a case of social stagnation or the misdirection of the moral compass but the fact that recent experience with war has not been positive for America. In fact, each passing day in Iraq reminds me (and others I imagine) of our fantastic end in Vietnam high-tailing it out of there with our tail between our legs.

And since I wrote this piece on Palestine, I wanted to suggest a few others: The World’s Next (and Smallest) Islamist State, Why Martin Indyk Is Director Of The Saban Center for Middle East Policy And You’re Not, Is Palestine heading for a three state solution?, Is Palestine al-Qaeda’s Next Target For Takeover?, How the Media Distorts the Israel/Palestine Conflict, and Gaza – West Bank rift might lead to Peace in Our Time.

Other things worth checking out: Harbinger of War, In hindsight, Powell wouldn’t have supported Iraq war, 56% of Atheists Believe Christianity is Just as Dangerous to America as Islam, and Can I tell you how stupid some right-wing, right-to-life, so-called Christians can be?

Mind the Gap

Things worth checking out, internationally speaking: Coming Anarchy has one of their best posts in a while with On Demographics, Part 3: Why the Gap will conquer the Core. To summarize, it is about the convergence of the third world with the first, and how this will be achieved without the world turning into an over-polluted, under-educated, disease ridden planet. My further comments (serious for once!) can be followed on the post itself.

Joerg at the Atlantic Review talks about the American-rightist cultivated fear of an Islamicized Europe. Largely a product of fear rather than reality, this is the Le Pen’s of America projecting their fear of an increasingly non-white world onto others. You can be assured that the same people sounding the alarms about Europe are the same crying out dey took der jobs (or, no to immigrants, for you non-South Park viewers).

In the international irony scene, a Russian who spent some serious time in the Gulag for criticizing Stalin was recently given an award by none other than Putin himself! Putin then had him shot.

Continuing on this theme in the good ol’ US of A, Marginal Revolution has a post on Norman Finkelstein being denied tenure at Depaul. Somehow, the fact that Crazed Plagarist / Zionist Crusader Alan Dershowitz spent his time since being called out by Finkelstein trying to ruin him eludes everyone there. And also, somehow a majority of Americans believe in creationism AND evolution? It’s like choosing between Sunjaya and some other androgynous male to impregnate my teenage daughter! I just don’t know which one I want.

Tiny Revolution also has a great post about Bernie Aronson, one of the figures in a documentary about unions titled Harlan County USA. He was actually a union laborer around these times. And now? He’s on the board of trustees for Freedom House and writes op-eds on how much he hates Hugo Chavez. Quel dommage.

Other things that make me go ooooooooh: There are 586 days until the election. 586 mother fucking days. Seth Godin asks the important question: how can someone be in favor of the impeachment of Bill Clinton but not of George Bush? A U.S. soldier was beaten and tased at McCarran Airport. And for your wonderful governmentsponsored action of the day: “The Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste.” (what, they couldn’t apparently your family gets sweet coloring books! Sign me up!

Internet Irony

In one of the weirdest internet twists I can think of, the dad of delicious internet celebrity Allison Stokke is ironically a real misogynistic asshole. And no, it’s not because he keeps shutting the blinds to his daughters room when I’m about to climax:

Stokke’s father is the same guy who earlier this year defended a cop who jerked off on a stripper during a routine traffic stop. “She got what she wanted,” Al Stokke said, of the stripper. “She’s an overtly sexual person.”…

The hits they keep on comin’. Stokke also defended a sheriff’s son who was convicted of participating in a videotaped gang-rape. From the OC Weekly’s account of the sentencing hearing:

The defense niceties vanished immediately. Defense lawyer Al Stokke, who replaced lead trial attorney Joseph G. Cavallo, questioned any link between the rape and the victim’s claim of mental anguish. Stokke also mocked the girl’s physical injuries, finally conceding she was unconscious but then trying to use that against her. “There’s [no pain] that is felt,” he said, “because she was unconscious.”

Talk about justice. You excuse perverted and unconscionable acts against females, and then your daughter becomes an unwitting internet celebrity with millions of boys wacking off to her pictures. Mmm mmm mmm, smells like that used condom I found on the sidewalk.

More important info that should keep you up naked and shivering: 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Also, 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college and 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year. Seriously.

In international bloggery, Albania cheers President Bush (then an American loving Albanian steals his watch) and NATO Accuses Iran of Arming the Taliban. And with best title of the blog week, there’s Tiny Revolution with Can’t Our Foreign Policy Elite Come Up With Higher-Quality Lies?.

Also worthwhile to check out: 7 Insane Soviet Projects, Colin Powell’s top aide says Neocon almost provoked nuclear war with China, Web Sites like Wikipedia are Promoting a “Dictatorship of Idiots”, check out this map of the USA where states are renamed with countries with similar GDP levels, and in the obvious world, Republicans and Democrats are both corrupt.

Sarkozy Hearts Deportations

Continuing on the tradition of brown people and where they deserve to be, apparently Sarkozy wants to get rid of 125,000 immigrants, right off the bat! I wonder if they can just stick a big needle in the banlieues and suck out all the Muslims? Then they could stick them right in Darfur, and hey, free fun!

In more asinine news, McCain comes out against Net Neutrality; Says would hire Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Steve fucking Ballmer. Not only that, but McCain has a good case of the Ted Stevens TUBES: “McCain said he did not think government regulation of internet service providers to stop them from censoring, slowing down, or otherwise disrupting consumer’s access to the internet in order to stifle competitors or undesirable content was an appropriate solution. In fact, McCain even seemed at one point to be open to ISPs censoring consumer’s internet experience to block access to competitors’ services, saying at one point “When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.”

I could be wrong but, it’s pretty hard to respect some B&T chick who comes out to spend the night at my place even though she’s seeing someone else in New jersey and winds up tongue-bathing the taint of anyone who decides 30 minutes of droning commentary on Colin Farrell’s new haircut is worth putting up with for a hand job in the men’s room.

Other things that make you say hmmmmm: You can use condoms to make a fire, you can use the internet to see pictures of Hiroshima after the bombing, you can wonder what the architect smoked, you can attend your frat wedding, you can get a million dollars for offering your tid bits on political sex scandals, or you can just have a delicious diet water.