I have moved completely autocratically this time and changed the AmSam guiding animus/patron saint to Rachel Corrie. From Lenny Bruce, who followed the original: Bucky Fuller.
I have a great picture of Rachel. Her problem was that she was killed by politically connected thugs...she would be a household name if only an evil swarthy undocumented mexican taliban person had whacked her...
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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Don Durito said...
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Rachel Corrie is a great choice.
- 11:42 AM
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Philip Shropshire said...
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I have a great picture of Rachel. Her problem was that she was killed by politically connected thugs...she would be a household name if only an evil swarthy undocumented mexican taliban person had whacked her...
- 1:57 PM
Post a CommentHopefully once the dust settles a little I'll be able to start posting more again.
Otherwise, Notes From Underground is still working, and every once in a while I get to post something. Been very swamped.