Nihilism for Dummies!

We used to call it "building a website." Now, it's "blogging."

29 October 2003

First, let me apologize - profusely - for that very short entry two days ago. Of course, what else can you say about the "revelation" that Saddam H. Hussein was more or less installed, trained, funded, coached, encouraged and more or less totally supported and accepted by the United States Government for more than a decade? That's why this most recent incursion into Iraq had nothing to do with regional stability, or oil, or terrorism. It had nothing to do with Weapons of Mass Destruction, or a plot to kill Dubya Sr. It had everything to do with a puppet out-of-control. Unfortunately, it took the United States Government 15 years to finally realize that their man in the Middle East just wasn't working out.

And that's what it was. After cutting him off in the 80's and then watching him invade (if it was an invasion) Kuwait and then ruining the whole country through sanctions, someone finally decided to just go after him. Great, fine. Just be honest about it, ok?

27 October 2003

Duh.

This link is dead, because the Internet sucks dick and no one leaves shit on their server longer than a week. Fuck you very much, MSNBC

26 October 2003

OK, kids, time for the history lesson. Go and read this entry of the encyclopedia. Then, replace all the info in it with info from our current little escapade in the desert. Get the idea? Does anyone else think that American Troops are just about Fucked over there?

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It must be sad to be one of those NeoCons and think that things like these are "clever" and/or "dead-on..."

• Conservative T-shirts
• Only Conservative Entertainers should Speak Up.
• It's a CafePress Store, no need to say more.

Note that last one, kids. Way down at the bottom you'll find some of that Search Engine Tomfoolery (repeating the same text over and over to boost hits or something, I forget how it works - or even if it does anymore). Anyways, it's hard to be amused about these people. They don't seem to understand some pretty basic facts. One, the people they love so much (The Bush Admin and/or other RightWingWackjobs) are, in fact, in charge of the country. Shut up already about the "liberal this and that." You can tell these people know that they are a minority, can't you? Second, and this just floors me, these people seem to have no notion that supporting the Far Right is just about as far away from their own Self Interest as supporting the Far Left. At least, the Authoritarian ends of those two sides.

Oh, well.

20 October 2003

The Holy War Shell Game and Other Party Favors!

Let me see if I've got this right. 'Cause, you know, I'm confused - the news is never real clear on these points and maybe I need my hand held to figure this out. A while back, the United States invaded a small Middle Eastern country to locate, root out, eradicate, and otherwise destroy the local government (The Taliban, right?) and their Buddies in the Hills (Al-Quaeda or Kida or Adidas or Whatever) and we won, OK? And we got old What's His Name! No, we didn't? Okay. So, then we moved over to another Middle East country (EyeRack!) and we beat the Mortal Shit out of them for the second time in a decade or so. And we took out their leader! Or, did we? And, for the last two years, we've been doing all this overseas while our ever-vigilant and protective Homeland Government does Protective and Nurturing things, such as making sure that a bunch of wild eyed fanatics (or deep cover CIA Thugs, depending on whom you ask) can't gain control of three or four 747s again and blow up another "symbol of our greatness." Oh, wait. They haven't done that either?
So, my general question is: What the Fuck have "our" goverment, military, and others actually been doing these past few years?

You see, I haven't got the slightest problem anymore with the things that are done In My Name by My Government. It is simply less stressful to let the Fed do its thing than it is to be bothered constantly by wanting to go to this protest or that movement. Remember, though, nihilism is neither apathetic nor ignorant. It is a strong reaction to hypocrisy and, what's worse, their continued predilection to pretend that we are all really stupid. Which brings us back to the point:
What in hell are we doing? I know that there's a lot of caves in Afghanistan and a lot of holes in Kabul - a lot of open desert in Iraq and a lot of resistance in Tikrit. There also a lot of Federal Agents crawling around airports. So, why can we not manage to locate two guys that we supposedly knew everything about less than two years ago while also managing to keep a 20-year old from sneaking weapons and fake bombs onto jets?

This goes way beyond The General Incompetence of the Man to keep a secret for longer than ten minutes anymore. Lots of people knew that Bush and The NeoCon-trollers of Our Destiny were Lying Like Mad when they started the War. But now, it's just sad. We still can't find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and probably because the poor troops over there can't manage to go five minutes without getting their asses shot at. Meanwhile, the news media have no problem walking right up to an old munitions dump, but apparently we used up all our bombs on the Shock and Awe Routine (coming soon to a Syrian or Iranian city near you!) and we've got nothing left to take out some pressing threats to the security of Americans Overseas. Namely, the underpaid schmucks in uniform who were too brainwashed to realize that the Army is not, no matter what they say, an Adventure.
And yea, if you haven't guessed, I've gone badly astray on this one. I lost whatever point I had when I started. Which is an annoying and stressful point as well. There's just too much going on in this garbage to make one coherent point. Drat. I guess that will wait.

17 October 2003

Six days since the last update?!? Where the hell have I been? Oh, that's right...unlike other bloggers, living off their ill-gotten dot-com funds, I have to work for a living. OK, that and the fact that I haven't really felt the need to comment on very much in the past week. After all, there's not much to say about Current Affairs. The court case that got everyone talking this week is just silly. Who cares if the Pledge is "Constitutional" or not? The question really comes down to, "Why does the supposedly-freest-nation-on-earth even have a Pledge of Allegiance?" Answer that one, Flag-Waving Morons!

But the fact is that they cannot answer it. Just like they can't answer to the weirdness that is in all that they do. The proliferation of flag-waving nonsense over the past two years is (almost) understandable, but the ignorance involved is not. A true American Patriot should know that it is not, according to Law, cool to wear the flag as clothing. Yet, there it is, all over that local Fat Bastards Belly. And what about those car antenna flags? Old Glory never looked so ragged! You, too, can look like you just got back from the Firefight with the flag you've let fade out in the sun and get tattered from too many miles travelled on the Interstate to and from the office! Yay! Show the world you are definitely an American!

Which, I suppose, brings us to the tangentially related issue of religion in general - or, at least, the Outspoken Religious. The types that want the Ten Commandments not only in courtrooms and classrooms, but on Public Structures and Street Signs. Have you people actually bothered reading the New Testament? I mean, not just the parts fudged by the "Apostle Paul?" Have you people actually read the dozen or so verses that fall before the Lord's Prayer? Probably not. It amazes me, though.

Well that was a hell of a lot of not much to say. Sorry. And yea, this little site has moved one directory back in my webspace. What's going up in the main site? I haven't a clue. Stay tuned!

11 October 2003:

Return of the Nerd Clones Striking Back!

Shit. Now that sounds like some lame-ass game geek site. Oh well. So, in brief, I read somewhere that Pat Robertson mumbled something about wanting to nuke the State Department. Wow. Kooky. And the First Lady of Maryland (what a stressful fucking life that just must be) is in deep shit for saying she "could just shoot Britney Spears!" Now, I'd love to shoot Britney myself (although with something more along the lines of The Love Gun!), so maybe I'm not the best person to speak out here - but, hey, isn't this still America? Can we not have a little discivil discourse now and again?

After all, good old Bill O'Reilly - the same O'Reilly who can't let his guests say three words in series without interrupting to belittle them - got pissy with Terry Gross on Fresh Air this week and walked out on his interview. Um, hello? Bill? Perhaps you and Rush need to get together and trade prescriptions. Seriously. Calm the hell down.

The problem here is that the whole country, left and right (whatever that means anymore), has been completely Politically Corrected. This is not to say that the above folks aren't absolute loons, Robertson has always struck me as just one book shy of the Full Word and O'Reilly isn't even worth discussing (although we will one day discuss him, trust me). As for the First Lady of Maryland, who gives a flying fuck about Maryland or its First Lady?

Which brings us to Rush Limbaugh. I must confess that I watch a good deal of the Fox News Channel. It's fun. Really, you should try it one afternoon. Anyway, today on their News Watch show, they talked for some time about the media's response to the latest Rush Limbaugh "story," being reported in - get this - in the National Enquirer. Ahem. So, the pundits on Fox News Watch went on and on about how the Liberal Media were treating Rush and yada yada yada and, then, out of nowhere came the notion that Rush, if its all true, deserves some sympathy. Pause. I'm sorry. Are you the same people that used to advocate kicking pregnant women off of welfare? What the fuck is wrong with this country?

11 October 2003

Quick blasts and upcoming goodies:
Pat Robertson is Fucking Nuts!
Reality Television Versus Makeover Shows. Which is worse? Have we reached the end of the rope? Are we now just a crude imitation of all the worst imaginings of sci-fi/futurist writers?
Why it's difficult to have "odd" political views.

9 October 2003

...some say the end is near...
It's hard to make anything of the California recall. I know I'm glad I don't live there, and not just because this recent spate of political goofiness seals the Golden State's reputation as a haven for loonies. For whatever it's worth, at least The Governator can't go much further in politics.
...some say we'll see Armageddon soon...
Here's another Great Big Yawn: Take a religious group, let them vote to put an openly gay man in a position of respect and authority, stir in the conservative faction and, presto! You got yourself a news story that I could not care less about. Face it, kids, being concerned about the state of your Favorite Religious Cult is pointless. Organized religion is a relic, just as much as getting uptight about queers is.
...I certainly hope we will...
Also high on the Yawn list: the latest of the Series of Democratic Debates! Watch in awe as the jockey for position! Listen in disbelief as they all claim to have been "suspicious" of our motives for War in Iraq! Snicker into your sleeves as they decry the leak of CIA Spook Plame's identity! Cry out in pain as these mostly-moderates all appear to be as left as they can, while still retaining a good notion of where the Center of the Party is! Shake yr head in sadness as you realize that none of these gimps is going to be a Progressive Choice to change the condition of humanity as you come to realize that our continued willingness to follow leaders is getting us nowhere.

5 October 2003

The page grows ever long! About a week ago, I realized I had no good "spillover" plan for this page. What to do when it gets long enough to be obnoxious? Who knows?
So, I've got nothing really new today. I would have, but there's just no time anymore to sit down and think about anything long enough to get a coherent thought out. On top of all that, I'm going away for a few days.

1 October 2003

LL Cool J has become the latest in a long string of Industry Beholdens to appear before Congress and speak out to "protect" copyright. Hey, thanks to the dead ski bum, copyright is will beyond safe. Shame on you, LL, both for appearing before Congress - but also to comparing file sharers to house squatters. That's what I call a bad analogy.
Furthermore, it's always a bad idea for the government to attempt to legislate behavior on the Internet. I have a good idea for the music industry to help boost sales: Stop selling crap.
On the other hand, and oddly not reported on my local newscast, Chuck D also spoke today. I don't need to tell you that Chuck is still, without doubt, one of the smartest men in hip-hop. No, scratch that, in Music.
In other news, someone in the White House is a fink! Film at eleven! Yawn.