Thursday, March 31, 2011

a guttermorality news roundup

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1.  hey, national priorities are national priorities




wondering why the president's war speech was slotted unusually early on monday night?  simple--he and all his downer talk weren't about to be allowed to upstage the night's main event.


2.  and speaking of networks



the fun starts at 00:45.

and screw whatever his biases may be--when you live in a "republic" where the top 1% of families control a third of the nation's wealth, a few banks its financial system and a handful of corporations its mainstream media, a guy like jon stewart isn't a mere comedic frill--he's a fuckin' necessity.



3.  i've told you and told you and told you it was coming

Except for fuel costs, U.S. consumers haven't seen much in the way of inflation for almost a decade, so [the coming] broad-based increase in prices will be unprecedented in recent memory.

and no, noblesavage, this isn't an alarmist quote from one of my wild-eyed conspiracy newsletters [although it coulda been two years ago]--this is the CEO of walmart, who's gently tryin to prepare us.

when autumn rolls around and your dollar is buying noticeably less, if you bought gold and silver like i told you to, feel free to thank me--and if you didn't, thank ben bernanke.


and finally, just because mkf lives for clueless unintentional irony,

4.  quote of the week


It should be harder to be an artist. You shouldn't just be able to put a song on YouTube and go out on tour.

Monday, March 28, 2011

nine days later




so, tanned and rested and fresh from rio, it seems barry's finally ready to let the american people [and that includes you, congress] in on why we suddenly find ourselves embroiled in yet a third middle-eastern bottomless clusterfuck.

as indifferent as i usually am to presidential speeches, i'll be on the edge of my seat for this one, secure in the knowledge that our glorious leader's gonna look me straight in the eye and answer all my burning questions, up to and including
  • how did it feel to launch the first timid invasion in american military history?
  • why was arab and UN approval of this action more important to you than that of congress?
  • are you gonna kill the motherfucker or not?
  • why did you tip your hand to the enemy?
  • do you find it awkward to be fighting against al-qaeda in iraq and afghanistan, and with them in this new war?
  • are you gonna launch wars to protect the saudi, yemeni, syrian, iranian and [insert godforsaken middle-eastern hellhole of your choice here] rebels, too?  and if not, why not?
  • what if the new boss turns out to be worse than the old boss?
lay it on us, mr. president--inquiring minds wanna know.

update:  did any of you buy that bullshit?

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h/t ace for the pic

Sunday, March 27, 2011

the veneer of civilization just got thinner

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you think this was scary, wait'll they're hungry.