The Cancer that is Killing America’s Economy

March 25, 2009

America has a malignant tumor eating it away from the inside; and instead of extracting it or treating it, we’re giving it all the delicious nutrients and mutating radiation it could ever hope for. It’s convinced us that we need it to survive in order for the country to survive; that, contrary to reality, it is what nourishes us, and… we, all of us, we’re falling for it. We have decided to help it, we are deciding to help it, and we will continue to decide to help it. Squabbling about the little things, the easily-comprehensible things, we will let it continue to consume us, like a parasite feeding off its host, until it’s too late. Because we only care about the little things; and we’re content to ignore the tumor as long as we’re trying to fix the symptoms.

A new class of people in America have found a way to exploit our innocent little republican democracy, to feed, like parasites, on its idealistic foundations and oblivious public, in order to line their pockets. How? Like street magicians; with smoke and mirrors, imaginary phantoms, mirages–-and, above all, with meaningless words, a convoluted language that only they can speak or understand. The Wall Street elite and their kin are the cancer that is killing America, and they’re desecrating the honest citizens right now.

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Limbaugh: Most Successful Troll Ever?

March 5, 2009

Rush Limbaugh, whose sizable ego is only slightly exceeded by his physical mass, has been spouting nonsense longer than most people can remember without losing faith in humanity. His radio show is older than I am. I remember riding around in my dad’s truck when I was a youngster and listening to the idiocy blast through my young, impressionable brain, infallibly leaving a migraine in its wake as it slowly deteriorated my good sense, confusing me as if blindfolded.  Eventually, years later, I was rescued by something utterly foreign to that radio show, and something which will, without fail, right any wrongs Rush may commit in a person: that is, thinking; and ever since I started doing that, I have miraculously turned out normal.

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Much Ado About the Presidency

February 27, 2009

Now, before I start, let me say that I’m as happy as the next guy that we’ve all put Obama in the White House– actually, wait, scratch that. I’m not nearly as happy as the next guy.

It’s not my fault, it’s just the the next guy is completely fucking raving over it without knowing or apparently caring about what specific part of his life is going to improve over the next four years. The next guy is bubbling with a sense of genuine anticipation not felt since his fourth birthday, but for the life of me, I can’t find the specific source. Maybe my parents just didn’t love me enough, but I’m pretty sure people are making a bigger deal of him than they were of George Washington. Now there was change! In my time, we had REAL change! And we had to walk 15 miles in the snow for it, and we liked it! etc. etc.

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Controlling the Joystick: Nebraska’s Library Woes

February 25, 2009

Introduction: As I’ve mentioned before, I’m working on a series called Controlling the Joystick. In this series, I’ll be looking at some hot-button issues surrounding the video game world and the impact it has on our politics, life, culture, etc. Today, I’ll be looking at a recent controversy surrounding video games in libraries.

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