Well I'm reading this poem and it's so profound and I like its rhythm and I like its sound it's by a very famous poet no critic can criticise and then I pause a moment and I start to realize he's tellin' lies lies lies on the motel TV. I dig the evangelist he'll tell you all about that and then he tell you all about this he's preachin' up a storm by the sea of Galilee he's mixin' up the truth with something funny I start to see he's tellin' lies lies lies I never had this problem with nobody in the government I guess I always figured they never mean what they meant and GOD help us all not to be so stone surprised when we wake up in the stars with the skies in our eyes if we keep tellin' lies lies lies
A New Magazine's Rebellious Credo: Void the Warranty!
Topic: Current Events
1:21 pm EDT, Jun 12, 2005
Acidus gives Elonka a run for the money. Way to go Acidus!
How scary. And how refreshing.
Make, a new quarterly put out by O'Reilly Media, is a throwback to an earlier time, before personal computers, to the prehistory of geekiness - the age of how-to manuals for clever boys, from the 1920's to the 50's.
The technology has changed, but not the creative impulse. Make's first issue, out in February, explained how to take aerial photographs with a kite, a disposable camera and a rig of Popsicle sticks, rubber bands and Silly Putty. It also showed how to build a video-camera stabilizer - a Steadicam, basically - with $14 worth of steel pipes, bolts and washers; how to boost a laptop computer's Wi-Fi signal with foil from an Indian take-out restaurant; and how to read credit card magnetic stripes with a device made with mail-order parts and a glue gun.
Congratulations to Acidus on being the first MemeStreams user to make the New York Times op-ed page. And on a Sunday, no less! (14:59, 14:58, 14:57, ...)
] At one level this election was about nothing. None of the ] real problems facing the nation were really discussed. ] But at another level, without warning, it actually became ] about everything. ] ] We don't just disagree on what America should be doing; ] we disagree on what America is. ] ] If the Democrats make a comeback, it ] must not be by default, because the country has lapsed ] into a total mess, but because they have nominated a ] candidate who can win with a positive message that ] connects with America's heartland.
Hearing this sentiment a lot and it seems very hollow and dishonest. How can you say that Middle America is opposed to everything you believe in and then talk about how you want to create a positive message that connects with them? You don't want to connect with them! You want to play them! You want to connect with their votes!
The Dems are going to be out for a long time if they can't be honest with themselves.
We have been told repeatedly that "Ohio will decide the election!" and the responsibility is nerve-racking.
At first I tried to be civic-minded, and worked constructively to register college students. But by late September I was regularly overdosing on blogs, frequently whipped into a froth of outraged ranting.
I was not alone.
"It's like being asked out on a date by someone who secretly thinks you're stupid and ugly."
