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Week of October 12, 2008 - October 18, 2008

Fascist America in Ten Easy Steps


From the Guardian U.K.

 

The recipe for creating a military dictatorship is quite well known to students of history. Naomi Wolf revisits this recipe in the context of our current civic predicament.

 

I don't know--some people, particularly those who are averse to 'thinking things through' take to fascism quite easily. If  you are someone who instinctively reaches for your revolver every time someone mentions the word 'culture', then you would probably thrive in the 'new order'.

 

But the rest of us, accustomed to freedom of thought, and the right to petition the authorities over grieviences, well, who knows, maybe we are an endangered species.

Born on the Planet Krypton


Marc Ambinder tells some of Obama's jokes from the Al Smith Memorial Dinner.

I saw Obama and McCain deliver their speeches on Rachel, tonite. There was one interesting moment of body language. Obama looked at McCain and said it deserved to be repeated, that McCain had distinguished himself with honor in the service of his country--or something to that effect--and McCain visibly swelled. He was clearly having an emotional reaction. Obama was very gracious, and when he left the lectern, having finished on a note about walking together in the sunshine, McCain rose to his feet and tried to hug Obama with the limited range of motion he has in his arms. You can only imagine the panopoly of emotions he must have felt to be publicly honored by the man whose character he has devoted himself to assassinating.

It was a very interesting moment that came on the heels of a speech where Obama once again appealed to the better Angels of our Nature. It is remarkable to hear a politician deliver a speech that he wrote himself--but to hear a speech that is articulate and eloquent, and high minded without being maudlin, is very rare, these days. You can't help but get the feeling that he is the real thing, the American 'archetype', what Will Rogers used to call, the Real Bird.

Gag Reflex?


Or acid reflux. We report, you decide:

 

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The photo is getting a lot of attention today. It was not photoshopped. It seems Iconic of the whole electoral process.

It's also a magic picture, like the picture of Dorian Gray. It reveals the dream behind the reality.

 

ACORN Out to Destroy the Fabric of Democracy!


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I was raised by a kindly old gentleman in the wilderness near the Rio Branco. He died of natural causes when I was 16, and I drifted down river in a bark canoe not knowing what I would find and eventually arrived at a settlement of Franciscan missionaries.It was then I discovered that we had not been the only white men left after the Nuclear Holocaust, that in fact, there had never been a Nuclear Holocaust, and there was no need to forge our own bronze and iron and live off the bounty of the rain forest. I was probably kidnapped as a small child. I have dim memories of someone called Mae and Pai. I wandered the Pan American highway till I settled for a time in Zipolite, Mexico, where I worked as a silversmith. Eventually I met a beautiful young woman who was independently wealthy and she married me and took me to live in N Ca where we live on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. I have my own forge, and do blacksmithing for the local horses, in addition to my silver and bronze work. Adaptation to modern civilization has been a challenge for me ever since I realized I was deprived of my natural family and raised by someone who, though kind, must have been something of a lunatic. He did teach me many practical survival skills, however so I guess he wasn't all bad. I have ambivalent feelings about my whole childhood.

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