yeah, he croaked; cancer sucks, and it was no more fun for him than for
anyone else. there are plenty of people getting all weepy because chris
hitchens died yesterday. many people were entertained for decades by
his definitive antics. the issue, besides his pathetic
transubstantiation into a frothing neocon imperalist boob, was that his
famed erudition was pretty shallow all along. he was well, no
spectacularly well-educated and comparatively well-read, his rhetorical
skills well polished and flaunted with relish. that however, didn't
make him all that intelligent or all that knowledgeable, obviously.
anyone with more than a few ounces of wisdom to go along with their
barrels full of self-satisfied, self-aggrandizing wit would not have
been so lacking in an illuminating historical perspective regarding the
september 11 attacks or the american, and western, imperialist ambitions
in the middle east and the persian gulf that had been in place and
process for far longer than hitchens had been alive. hitchens certainly
enjoyed attention and having his shallow erudition fluffed by his
peers. his attacks on some of the more absurd and disgusting figures on
the world stage were more than slightly entertaining, but those targets
were often incredibly soft and obvious for many people. the catholic
church and organized religion in general, mother teresa, bill clinton,
princess diana, henry kissinger were all pretty easy, and someone with
hitchens's purported talents could, and should, have taken on
higher-value targets. in the end, hitchens was at his best a
lightweight, entertaining, well-spoken clown, while at his worst he was a
raving, imperialist, incoherent fool.
update: here's a weepy old tory losing his shit over mr. hitchens. i'm pretty sure hitchens would have thought cole was a total douchebag.
a shitload, obviously.
it is sickening that a third-world country with an economy the size of
the average saab dealership in 2011 has more political courage and
social decency than the world's most powerful empire.
if this is accurate,
it is quite clever and good fun. if they can do more to interfere with
our spying, and make it expensive enough and embarrassing enough for
us, then maybe just maybe we will back off on some of the bullshit that
we love so dearly. we got bigger fish to fry than some persians and
their faulty nuclear warheads.
is michele looking to replace dr. tom as mittens's jesus-freak
apologete/vice president? very interesting. i don't think she has the
constitution for it, but the woman thing could be a bit of an issue for
obama in the general if bachmann can twist the coverage of her
outrageous positions and all-around bugfuck insanity into charges of
sexism and get some extra women on the mittens express.
i hate to tell these assholes, but made in japan did mean cheap at first.
simple, inexpensive items started the japanese industrial dominance,
but the inexpensive part was very important. japan didn't start
marketing top of the line electronics or charge outrageous prices for
their lowest quality items. if rapha wants to have stuff made by
suicidal slave laborers in china, that's perfectly legal, but not too
sharp if you are going to charge uber-premium prices. good stuff from
china should be really fucking cheap inexpensive. teh same sort of shit made in switzerland should command the premium price. rapha are just the latest in a long proud horrible tradition of british exploitation of foreign labor. wogs, anyone?
the more you know,
the bigger bastard joe pa becomes.
tee vee dipwad dylan ratigan just had up and coming asshat of the year ron wyden on his show to fluff evil twit paul ryan. in the next segment, he put up the asshole that runs this right-wing dump, brainchild of rush limbaugh's patron. we live in a bad place filled with worse people.
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