Homage to Icarus

God damn, god damn, god damn.
But not all of them are focused on bor­der con­cerns. If you talk to the Minutemen long enough, the sub­ject of immi­gra­tion inevitably floats to the sur­face.
“I see the nation descend­ing into poverty, philo­soph­i­cally, and part of it is ille­gal immi­gra­tion, a big part of it,” says a twen­tysome­thing young man […]

The second-biggest Shia spir­i­tual leader (who, per­fectly enough, I’ve never heard of) was quoted on NPR today from some­thing he said last Friday (2006−09−22) as say­ing that there is no “con­flict of civ­i­liza­tions”, only a “con­flict of igno­rance”.
Which is as near to cor­rect as any state­ment yet on the cur­rent West vs. Mid-East “blow each […]

I started writ­ing this post to point out that the coör­di­nated demands by vir­tu­ally every major nut­case over the New York Times’ reveal­ing the data-mining of bank­ing records via SWIFT — the calls for exe­cu­tion, harass­ment, lynch­ing, etc.  —  was a clear indi­ca­tion that Karl Rove is no longer a tar­get of Fitzgerald’s inves­ti­ga­tion. The much-vaunted “Fitzmas” is over, […]

Saturday I saw V for Vendetta. I loved it.
There is lit­tle I can say about this that I haven’t already heard:
Gay anar­chist ter­ror­ist blows shit up. Fascist gov­ern­ment born of con­ser­v­a­tive Christian death-cultism and a multi­na­tional phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal plot col­lapses. The dis­ap­peared have their day.
The movie is Rorschach, like Team America. What you say about it reveals your­self.
Alan […]