I honestly don't give two shits about the personality of my rulers. You know who has a far more effective racist assholey impact on the world? Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. Tim Geithner. Robert Gates. Eric Holder. The Supreme Court. Sodexho-Marriott and their for-profit prisons. Halliburton. Blackwater. Should I go on?
I can pinpoint when I really lost interest in following the liberal blogosphere. It was 2006, the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Libloggers were all refusing to comment, or saying they had nothing to say.
I'm nothing in this online writing world, but I wrote this post at the time. In that article, I linked to a quintessential Atrios post, in which he seconds another liblogger that they were not writing about Lebanon, because they wanted to focus their time on writing about stuff they could affect. As though libloggers don't write about a ton of important things they have no effect on, as well as meaningless bullshit they also can't effect. I guess The Editors time is better spent posting Airwolf clips. Keep in mind, this was just a few months putting together a timeline of the all important Cheney hunting incident.
These people will always write about trivial bullshit, it's part of the blogform.
Wow, thanks for the link, Justin--that essay is great. As for the Atrios post, it's amazing how breathtaking the level of ignorance in such a short post can be.
I don't know if I'd go quite as far as you with the "always write about trivial bullshit"--digby, for example, does genuinely valuable work documenting the increasing use of devices like tasers to keep the rabble in line--but overall, yeah. Ugh.
Ethan's working through his music collection in alphabetical order
The next five artists he'll be listening to:
The Clash The Clientele Jimmy Cliff Patsy Cline Clinic
(Project began May 29, 2010. Finished through the letter B on April 1, 2011 with 460 items catalogued on Rate Your Music.)
Ethan's reading
Samuel R. Delany Triton aka Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
Thoughts that aren't getting whole posts
- I just caught my cat licking one of my dirty shirts. When he saw I was watching, he pretended he'd been cleaning himself all along. -ethan 9/23/11
- I didn't know The Pixies covered "I've Been Waiting for You"! So on Heathen, David Bowie covered The Pixies AND a song they covered? Weird. -ethan 9/21/11
- Dangerous Visions is so goddamn macho. And like half the writers are military or "intelligence" or government or advertising dudes. It largely bites. -ethan 9/10/11
- I wish people would figure out that "HD" is not even close to "like you're actually there"--it's completely different from how we really see things. If they figured that out, maybe it would occasionally be used interestingly. -ethan 9/9/11
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars has its major problems, but it looks like a series of living Nicholas Roerich paintings. -ethan 9/3/11
- I just plain don't like Brian Aldiss. -ethan 8/31/11
- Here, at least, it was a good hurricane. I'm embarrassed by how happy I was when the electricity came back on. -ethan 8/28/11
- Is it my imagination or is IOZ way more open about genuinely caring about things since his return? -ethan 8/26/11
- Does Firefox constantly tell British people that they're spelling labour and programme and theatre wrong? -ethan 8/25/11
- There is a huge (and hugely important) difference between knowing that events a, b, and c happened between years x and y, and understanding that they were happening at the same time. -ethan 8/24/11
- Among the many things bugging me about the crappy novel I'm reading is that it keeps referring to a woman whose "late teens" were "forty years ago" as a "little old lady." Come on now, she's 59 at the oldest. -ethan 8/22/11
- Spending a day in the woods is the best thing in the world. -ethan 8/21/11
- Maria Mies: "Powerless groups, particularly if they are totally integrated within a system of power and exploitation, find it difficult to define reality differently from the powerful." -ethan 8/20/11
- The funniest sentence in Frankenstein: "I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition." -ethan 8/18/11
- Chumbawamba: "Nothing ever burned down by itself/Every fire needs a little bit of help." -ethan 8/18/11
- We'll see if I use this. Idea stolen from Davidly. -ethan 8/18/11
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I agree,but admit it: he's kind of a racist asshole.
I honestly don't give two shits about the personality of my rulers. You know who has a far more effective racist assholey impact on the world? Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. Tim Geithner. Robert Gates. Eric Holder. The Supreme Court. Sodexho-Marriott and their for-profit prisons. Halliburton. Blackwater. Should I go on?
I admit my examples kind of fell apart and trailed off there towards the end. I'm tired and have a headache. You get my point, though?
I can pinpoint when I really lost interest in following the liberal blogosphere. It was 2006, the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Libloggers were all refusing to comment, or saying they had nothing to say.
I'm nothing in this online writing world, but I wrote this post at the time. In that article, I linked to a quintessential Atrios post, in which he seconds another liblogger that they were not writing about Lebanon, because they wanted to focus their time on writing about stuff they could affect. As though libloggers don't write about a ton of important things they have no effect on, as well as meaningless bullshit they also can't effect. I guess The Editors time is better spent posting Airwolf clips. Keep in mind, this was just a few months putting together a timeline of the all important Cheney hunting incident.
These people will always write about trivial bullshit, it's part of the blogform.
Wow, thanks for the link, Justin--that essay is great. As for the Atrios post, it's amazing how breathtaking the level of ignorance in such a short post can be.
I don't know if I'd go quite as far as you with the "always write about trivial bullshit"--digby, for example, does genuinely valuable work documenting the increasing use of devices like tasers to keep the rabble in line--but overall, yeah. Ugh.
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