I know my last blog post was definitively titled “The End of Capitalism… for Beginners,” and, in a summary effort, it included ideas I’ve been blogging about for years, but, alas, I find I am still not done blogging on the matter. Before I get back to blogging about kombucha, education and poison ivy, I [...]
There are a large number of US citizens, traditionally referred to as “Middle Americans,” who are engaged in small, private industry-jobs that have an uncertain future and that live and die on the prospects of a marketplace that is unhindered by taxes and government regulation. Even if they live in a rental unit, they live [...]
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The US is entitled to all of the resources it can score. The US is entitled to live wastefully, by dint of its hard work. The US can shut out its neighbors, walling their millenniums-old migration away by virtue of exclusive nationalism. The purity of goodness in our nation [...]
New Yorker staff writer, Jane Mayer, stated on this week’s edition of On the Media (see “Motormanmark’s Best Free Podcasts,”) that, there have been “persistent rumors” that the Guantanamo photographs the Obama administration seeks to suppress may contain images of cruelty to children and sexual abuse of women in addition to images of torture.
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Another scoop for the blogosphere! Here, Motormanmark.com presents a web exclusive: what is alleged to be the first draft of President-Elect Barack Obama’s planned inaugural address, to be delivered at the White House on January 20, 2009. This document was secretly appropriated from the office of Roy G. Biv, Chairman for the Obama Transition Team.
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There’s a guy where I work, a train operator, who gets all bent out of shape when he hears anyone talking about immigrants. “I’m from Coney Island!” he rants. “My parents were from Coney Island. They came here legally. These people aren’t from Coney Island, but they all come up here and hang around like they belong here. I want them out! They have no legal right to be here! They’re breaking the law!”
In order for us to avoid the nasty topic of male sexuality, we’ve got to be able to sum things up quickly like there’s nothing to discuss. Representations are consequently limited to the primal Rhett Butler-type seizing and spewing. At least that’s all I know of, whether the source be fishing trip car talk between guys, feminist treatise, mainstream movie action, or the wisdom imparted by the free-speaking fiftyish psychologist-hippie who lives in the apartment below mine. The male sexual urge is seen simply– as a glandularly motivated need to ejaculate, an undesirable agitation that can lead to frustration unless defused by a generous, understanding woman (Scarlett O’Hara’s character was flawed in this area,) or by masturbation. And we men, feeling the strength of our urges and used to inhibiting them, are quick to accept this view. We are cretins. We accept it. Let’s not talk about it.
These letters were discovered in a pile of refuse outside Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. The author is believed to have been a gentleman known as Jasper–or John Doe #124587-49C (Phila. County Coroner’s Office)–who died of heart failure this past March and has not been identified.
