Good Old Neon

Note to self: take up marlin fishing

I believe it was Michael Jackson, the newly deceased King of Pop® whose presence Kim had originally requested (demanded). Unfortunately, he was unable to attend…for obvious reasons, well, obvious to us, but not so obvious to the population of North Korea, accustomed as they are to great leaders who, like Kim, can pretty much forgo death – look it in the eye and say, 아니 다른 단어 (not another word). Clinton volunteered because he was looking to score some “strange”, strange in this case being more than just an unfamiliar woman’s vagina, but also strange in the sense that, let’s just cut the bulls

You know, Crow, your posts of late have been a little cry for help/attention-ish, is everything ok with you?

Some pretty serious allegations are being thrown around by former Black Water employees, murder, sex with children, Christian crusades type shit, weapons smuggling, juicing and wearing white past labor day, you name it, these guys have pretty much had their hands - among other things - in it. The charges: A new insight into the mindset behind Blackwater comes from whistle-bowers in the Bush-Cheney military-industrial-mercenary complex. Among the charges, reported by Scott Horton: Both men requested anonymity to avoid mortal threats. “It appears that Mr. Prince or his employees murdered,

I cannot listen to this at work, and I’m sure it’s clever, but do people still buy his stuff? And if they do, how often can you listen to a nasally inflected Weird Al version of a song before the joke wears thin? Once? Twice?

My dad died in a nursing home, and hospice was not involved until the very end, but in all my contacts with them, they were wonderful. I think Peter Singer was expressing a similar view of end of life care in his article, just a bit more business like. I completely and thoroughly understand the desire to extend the lives of loved ones, but in those cases where death is inevitable, despite the use of monstrously expensive measures that will, ultimately, grant a few more days, weeks or months at best, time often spent in pain and misery, or, in some cases, alive only in the sense that one has

You’re right, this board could use a few tokens.

Brilliant blog post regarding the Entertainment’s entertainment value vis a vis video games, IJ’s Buddhist tendencies and some other stuff from Mathew Baldwin of Infinite Summer fame. That's Entertainment At some point in Infinite Jest, around page 73, I abandoned my highlighter. There was simply too much to absorb on the first read, I decided, and I would save the markup for the second pass. But last week, on page 389, Old Yeller rode again: ‘You burn to have your photograph in a magazine.’ ‘I’m afraid so.’ … ‘You feel these men with their photographs in magazines care deeply about hav

Though I don’t disagree with you, I thought of your reply while reading the following article on end of life care. It’s really pretty excellent. Money quote - Own the way you die. And die as you lived, surrounded by family and friends. We could save billions in healthcare if we could accept death and say goodbye outside the hospital http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/08/04/dying/

Nice - and this one. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-29-2009/so-you-think-you-can-douche

Orly Taitz, the leader of the Birther movement speaks - scroll down for video - sweet fucking christ. http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/03/msnbc_taitz/

I think you might be right.

Just when you thought it was already dumb enough, the American Thinker (great, ironic name that) responds to critics who dared point out the ridiculousness of their original post. Here: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/letter_of_complaint.html and here: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/media_matters_desperate_to_dis.html I think we've passed dumb, and are now entering into totally fucking retarded territory.

Or, and maybe I’m just being overly cynical, is it possible that they planned who would assist Gates down the stairs ahead of time? If the message of the meeting was conciliation, what better way to illustrate that than have Crowley help Gates descend the stairs? With Obama walking ahead, saying, essentially, this is not about me, it’s about them. And that the author of this articles response says more about him, is more indicative of his true feelings, than Obama’s? Anyways, money quote: “Then, the non-apology apology revealed an arrogant man who cannot do what honest people do: admit i

I don’t want to overstate the degree to which Wallace thought TPK was/is publishable. Only 200 or so pages exist, along with lots of notes and character bios, etc – and it was nowhere near completion. Given the degree to which Wallace obsessed over his writing, if he were alive, there’s not a Trial-Sized Dove Bar’s chance in hell he would have ever allowed it to be published as is. Perhaps, facing death, he sort of just capitulated to the inevitable, and, suspecting that at some point in the future, it would see publication, did what he could to make it at least somewhat presentable before tak

I feel the same way, however, for better or worse, my excitement related to the discovery/release of TPK remains undiminished. Karen Green, Wallace’s widow, has stated that the manuscript for TPK was placed, all tidied up, on Wallace’s writing desk. From D.T. Max’s New Yorker article: Green returned home at nine-thirty, and found her husband. In the garage, bathed in light from his many lamps, sat a pile of nearly two hundred pages. He had made some changes in the months since he considered sending them to Little, Brown. The story of “David Wallace” was now first. In his final hours, he h

Further evidence that the right is becoming, or has become, unhinged. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obamas_revealing_body_language.html

The following (really fucking exciting, at least from where I’m sitting) information regarding the release of Wallace’s final, unfinished novel, The Pale King was posted on the Wallace-1 message board: Mary Clemmey, Wallace's UK agent. She begins the extract by explaining how she sold the book at London Book Fair: Because the pages of THE PALE KING are only now being edited we were only able to show 120 pages to editors at the Book Fair but on the basis of this the response was more powerful than any editorial response that I can remember for a work of fiction - "This is one of the greates

6th grade was junior high, by high school, the jocks had moved on to blunt-handle sodomy and ritual sacrifice. The Locke Junior High School was not a pleasant place. Once, upon entering the bathroom, I watched in horror as Ron Gardener was grabbed by the shoulders, and then sort of rocket launched up into and through the easily perforated drop ceiling – I quickly excused myself and sought bladder relief elsewhere. This was the sort of school that when it was determined that so and so was going to fight so and so behind the school at such and such time, the fucking teachers would pencil it i

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/07/saving-michael.html

I think I was in 6th grade when I first realized that jocks, those future football players, etc, were maybe not the best role models. I think it occurred to me while witnessing some hapless victim being suspended by his Fruit of the Looms, while another asshat repeatedly hit him in the sack with a polystyrene bataka. What brought about this punishment? The simple fact that he existed.

Prior to this whole dog-fighting thing, I was unaware that Michael Vick existed. The entire situation is sickening, very much so – with that said, he served his time, and like anyone else, should be entitled to further employment – whether that be inside or outside the NFL. With the exception of running a dog sitting service, or maybe even working in a pet store.

The government would not be acting as your mommy, no more so than when it provides for your defense. It’s not as if it, the government, is offering or supplying you with something you haven’t earned and/or paid for - the insurance would be provided using OUR tax dollars. The government is simply administering the plan. Now, you could claim that the private sector always does a better job with such things, but I would counter that they’ve done a pretty good job of fucking it up. And, as far as I’m concerned, the very near collapse of our economic system has done little to bolster my confidence

For many people, I would think not – for the uninsured, I suspect there is quite a disparity. Peter Singer recently wrote an article in which he defends health care rationing – it’s an interesting read, regardless of your feelings on the matter. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all Excerpt: When a Washington Post journalist asked Daniel Zemel, a Washington rabbi, what he thought about federal agencies putting a dollar value on human life, the rabbi cited a Jewish teaching explaining that if you put one human life on o

Because of nonsense like this, from Andrew Sullivan’s blog: Krauthammer continues to pretend that all Palin needs to do is hit the books: I repeat again and again, and I know it sounds condescending—she needs the discipline to study up on stuff if she is going to be a major presidential candidate. She has her constituency. It will be there, but it isn't enough. And it is not a matter of becoming a philosopher or speaking like Obama in all kinds of complexity. It is simply studying the major issues. If she could do it, she really could be a strong candidate. Because she could be controlle