DISQUS

I just wish they'd let this simmer and cook until they come up with something fabulous that would actually work.

I think the dialogue could be so much better if we got rid of ideologues on either end...and if total nut cases were not allowed to have cable news shows like Becks, a show that many seem to think is authoritative punditry.

Thank fucking god.

I missed it. I have been settling for the biographies. I'm surE i'VE WATCHED AT LEAST 5.

Yes, not going there would be better. Why people can't just state their case and spend their time bugging the fuck out of media to cover these things with integrity. We cn get as sick of them as we did the Republicans and we can do it even faster.

I had to think about this before posting. I guess all we can do now is listen to the music. Thank god for that at least. I have to admit I never knew the history of Jackson and his mtv debut and how they originally didn't want to play his thriller video, until today while listening to the stories.
I hope his kids can get through this without the world intruding upon them for the rest of their lives.

Yea, the "bu the's really a good man at heart" crap is getting old.

It would be but there really isn't any such thing.

That song is one I'm least familiar with. Like it though.

It does look like it is getting more violent. I wish them well and at this point I have read a lot of the older people saying it reminds them of the 79 revolution so this is a big wait and see. Let's hope we wait and see.

I really think the public would be better off not watching any media coverage as there is very little that is not punditry. The conservatives have to get rid of the dangerous irrational folks if they are ever going to be restored to what some like to think was their former glory. It is a sad sad scene here now. We look quite crazy from afar, and for some time, maybe this will help people see how crazy we really are.

I love the look. The header is awesome.

I found that comment to be quite revealing.

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I love that song...
These things get more difficult each week. lol

Yikes she is good. That is coincidentally a Bill Withers song from one of the CD's I have of his. She does him proud.

I remember finding field negro on "blog explosion" years ago, he was at a different site then, he has gotten quite a readership since that time and is quite famous by now, deservedly so.

I think it is evident, by the defaulting of some from the party, that conservative intellectual thought, in the way of the late William Buckley for instance, is outnumbered in the party by the non reasoning roots which have taken hold of the party since the bushie era.

Intellectualism - as using intellect to reason - is not what we call what Limbaugh and Beck and so forth practice, thus there is no way intellectualism, as I know it ,can be assigned to them - at least logically and therefore can not be assigned to the party they represent.

Conservative intellectuals, Hichens,, Robert Kagan and Judge Posner and so on and so forth really have no party if their party is not based on reason, logic and intellectual discourse, so I can't disagree with him on this.

Being heavily entrenched in stats and analysis this last year for grad school I rarely pay attention to polls now. There is some indication that people my age, the much maligned and sometimes self centered "gen y ", don't take sides on issues as general as that, so polling sometimes has little meaning.. We prefer to have a situtaion set out in front of us and answer that particular situation, making things situational makes it much less likely we can answer polls of the nature of those usually run to ask if someone is pro life or pro abortion.

In the context of high creative photography is par for the course until you look past it, and you only l have to look a smidgen past it to realize that.

I've seen the whole series of photographs at another site, and to me, in a series, they seem more dangerous , less provocative in general and more indicative of a racism the artist had to have been aware of.

Of the several different ways I can interpret these photographs not one of them is non offensive to me and it is because no one is unaware of the history and the discourse which circulates around that history. I haven't posted on these photos anywhere else because I needed some time to think about them, but there are too many times when art and artists do what they do with little care for what they are really saying.

I've never heard of such a thing either. Stay safe Chris.

I saw that one and knew it would be a favorite. It does rock.

I love Pro Publica. For as muxh as the internet helped our fearless leader is will hold him accountable. lol

They suddenly know how it feels to be in a desperate situation and act accordingly.

I am a little disappointed that calling waterboarding torture seems to be enough for him though. I realize the complications he is facing right now but I'd prefer he prosecute those suckers.

did you really think she'd keep her greedy little paws off that? lol

It's also a very interesting shape this graph conjures up.

Go figure.