Nihilism for Dummies!

What is this nonsense?

Nihilism for Dummies is a "weblog" that looks at, in rough and compressed fashion, current events from a decidely pseudo-nihilistic point of view. This is not meant to be "high-minded" or "insightful" - it's mostly just an online journal of thoughts and notes. I don't really pretend to be one of those "bloggers," who are busy pretending to change the online media world. I'm just a guy who writes for the amusement of the occassional visitor.

If you came here looking for good, old-fashioned information on nihilism, you are just plain out of luck. But, you can read this amusing Primer on Nihilism over at blogspot.

Quote of the Day:

(or longer, if I don't change it)

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies."

British MP George Galloway to Senator Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota

Obligatory Stupid Tracker!

Going back to this tracker, temporarily. Still, though, please actually take a minute to mail me if you wander in here and tell me what you think. It can't get better if I do this in a vacuum. Unless, you know, it's one of those Dyson vacs - cause those are sweet. We've got one, you know...

Places I hang:

Asheville Rock Messageboard: be warned, most posters not from Asheville, most discussion not serious. Quiet Zine's Messageboard, for the Sylvawheeans out further west. Good group, odd metal/indie split. This City Can Burn: They will tell you they are not emo.

December 2005!

13 December

Schwarzenegger to Tookie: "You're Terminated."

Governor Arnie woke up yesterday after being Governor of California for two years and tried his hand at doing something gubernatorial. He promptly failed.

Meet Tookie Williams who, by the time you read this, will probably be dead; another victim of this country's continued and bizarre fascination with the notion of revenge. Williams was convicted and sentenced to death in 1981 for the murders of four people in two robberies in 1979. Williams has always maintained his innocence in these killings and many say his arrest and trial was yet another LAPD setup.

In recent days and with the date of his excecution looming, a push was made for Gov. Schwarzenegger to grant Williams clemency in light of his transformation from a founding member of the Crips (or not) in the sixties to a rehabilitated and vocal opponent of gangs and gang violence.

Apparently, The Terminator is a pretty good nickname for Arnold, 'cause he didn't buy this redemption song. In his statement, Mr. Rio wrote:

"Without an apology and atonement for these senseless and brutal killings there can be no redemption. In this case, the one thing that would be the clearest indication of complete remorse and full redemption is the one thing Williams will not do."

Thanks for that Conan the Barbarian-cum-Inquisition style logic there, chief. Let me see if I have this one figured out: The man claims innocence so he should die because he shows no remorse for a crime he claims he didn't commit? In that case, I feel sorry for all kinds of shit I never did! That should get me off the hook for anything, if I read this right...

Anyways, clemency denied, and all appeals apparently exhausted. Still, the issue remains: Should this man be executed in spite of what he has done since being convicted? The answer is pretty clear to me: He shouldn't be executed at all. But, I'm probably not exactly normal in my unwavering opposition to the death penalty.

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