Last edited by Coolidge (2008-04-14 17:16:18)

Hmm, the interviewer is a Bill O'Reilly favorite and the new face of facism; female, pretty, and unassailably non-white but no less tight fisted along the lines of everyone should be chewing glass. O'Reilly fawns over her as he does several other attractive females. I cant fault him for that but I am very disappointed with a man who used to break great stories until he became too intoxicated by his stardom and became product.


People spend a lot of time analyzing the things that bother them or they find problematic and examine the local causes but not the global ones. For example, I saw a news show with these stuffy, no fun fuddy duddies all declaiming under age drinking in college as a massive problem. they condemned teenage behavior as deplorable without examining the top end causes for it, including but not limited to not providing jobs for them and using them shamelessly which one would think begets a desire to escape. How dare you want to escape your lousy life/world/future? Not one of the talking heads brought up possible causes, they just assumed that youth was bad and out of control. I suppose that's typical news fear factor froth but I couldnt fault anyone seeing these hypocritically stupid people on the program from wanting to intoxicate themselves for days on end.

Wonderful thread. In fat times people have the luxury of not graduating to 'grown-ups' - the lewd, tradition-buggering mass market culture considers the kind of sober individualism associated with adulthood to be anathama. And so it sustains a cadre of heroes with its own characteristics: vapid, callow, witless, airbrushed adbots, squeaking along in a perpetual post-adolescent twilight. A big sitcom of a civilisation, where shirt-tails are little capes, the news is theatre, and the real American president is indistinguishable from his SNL counterpart.

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