2006 March | buzz twang

The art of failure

March 31, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

He just gave a promotion to the guy in charge of our $9 trillion dollar debt. You know what? I really think if you walked into a cabinet meeting and started hurling your feces at the wall, Bush would name a state after you. – Jon Stewart on Bush’s appointment of Josh Bolten as Chief [...]

Eatin’ Crow with Red (State) Sauce

March 29, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Skippy has the final word on the Ben Domenech train wreck. Yours truly prefers to glance peripherally at such displays of tropistic arrogance and watch the thought slackers explain away and spin the mistakes and nonsense as heroic followed immediately by a main course of ad homenem attacks on the evil librul messengers. Of course, [...]

Light blogging

March 29, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

…due to being selected for jury duty. It’s interesting… when we get that official looking (and bathed in fire alarm red to alert us to its officalness) notice, our hearts sink. “How do I get out of this?” And, I’ve realized something: It’s not the actual time spent away from work or whatever it is [...]

Time for some beauty….

March 18, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

There are few people who simply command attention when they perform. Nina Simone was such a person. My world just stops when I hear her sing… For a while Lost in day to day,Turned another wayWith a laugh, a kind helloAnd some small talk with friends I knowI forget that I’m not over you for [...]

Don’t be a Sucker

March 16, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Interesting propaganda film, especially considering where we are now. Not much has changed. Actually, since 9/11, such attitudes have gotten worse. Except now the enemy is anyone who doesn’t support the right-wing agenda. Most especially Liberals. Always remember, those who would wage war on their fellow Americans, calling them unpatriotic, are seeking neither democracy nor [...]

Always sleep with a flashing Ah….

March 16, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

This is for Mike and Schmuel. A spoof of Immigrant Song by Led Zep. Funny. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Creating a movement of hatred

March 16, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Followed the “cartoon” controversy quietly. A few things worth noting… The entire “movement” was most definitely created and supported by right-wing Islamic radical elements. This article from Truthdig spells it all out nicely. …when you take a closer look at the social and political contexts of these collective expressions of rage, certain patterns emerge that [...]

More on the Iran situation….

March 15, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Related to this earlier post, Juan Cole presents some very interesting points regarding the Iranian situation in Fishing for a Pretext in Iran, which I wasn’t aware of… This story gets more and more interesting and frightening day by day. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Does anyone remember laughter anthrax?

March 15, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Avedon Carol at The Sideshow makes an interesting point: Yeah, I’ve always wondered myself about whatever happened to those tons of explosives that disappeared because, “Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.” And, it reminded me that the investigation as to who mailed lethal doses of anthrax to [...]

Michelle Malkin asks….

March 15, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

… with no sense of irony: The oh-so-compassionate Left is snickering at the possibility that Floyd Allen may have been responsible for the crimes with which Claude Allen has now been charged. [...] I don’t see why this is funny. If it turns out that Claude Allen, a father of three who reportedly has bailed [...]

CIA altered ending of "Animal Farm"…

March 15, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

From Think Progress: [The original] ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans, leaving only the nasty pigs. … The C.I.A., it seems, was worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell’s pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs. So after his death in 1950, agents were [...]

Propaganda Lemmings

March 15, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Right-wing propagandist Ralph Peters offers swill and the lemmings drink it down like sweet sweet Kool-Aid. Back in Iraq goes over “The Big Lie”, and says from Baghdad: “No civil war here, though. Nope. Just a slaughter.” buzz-twang : news and views : blog