Maybe the war on Iraq is actually a clever Bush administration plan to save Social Security.
If they kill off enough of America’s young people, Social Security will remain solvent forever!
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Ah, to be a columnist. There’s a fucking gig. Every week, you are required to provide your news publication with x number of words about… whatever. True, some columnists have categorical boundaries– politics, sports, I knew one guy who wrote solely about his area of expertise, America-Asia relations. But some number of columnists really seem to be allowed to write about whatever they damn well please, no matter how trivial, poorly researched, or full of shit. Frequently leading to the painfully bad “trend” columns, where a columnist discovers a new societal happening and gives us the scoop on this new thread in the tapestry that is our world (or in the world of upper class white folks living in NYC or DC. Whatever). Sometimes these articles are researched by asking leading questions of as many as four people who the columnist knows personally. Why would you write such crap? Idiocy? Laziness? Tight deadlines? Self-importance?
But a good antidote to trend column nausea is this new article by a snarker over at The Onion, 5 Trends I Just Made Up Looking Around The Office.
It’s mostly a savage takedown of a disease of a column which discovers/invents the “Urbane Tomboy” trend (a metrosexual except female except not. Kinda). My favorite line from the takedown: “I didn’t know that not being a lesbian while not wearing a dress is a trend, but that’s why I read: to learn.”
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- Iraq: a nightmare, wrapped in a tragedy, wrapped in a farce
- neocons: even more batshit crazy than you guessed
- recommendations: The Power of Nightmares documentary, DMZ the book, It’s a Jungle Out There the book
- Obama Muslim rumor: it’s not a smear, it’s bigotry
- Music by Manu Chao, Santogold, and DJ Doc Rok
Had the epiphany earlier today that I could do radio shows in much less time if I gritted my teeth and left out my beloved background music. I look forward to the day when I have more spare time and can do my show in what I consider a proper fashion, but till then, maybe I can produce some of these short, stripped-down shows on a regular basis.
Also: I really need to stop doing “Iraq is so bad that…” posts and shows. It’s fucking bad. You know that. Do you need to know how bad?
The Power of Nightmares available for watching online here, transcripts here: Part I, Part II, andPart III.
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To keep it solvent you’ll have to kill off the recepients, the old Or raise the age so everyone will be dead before they can collect.
Comment by John Gladkowski — December 18, 2004 @ 8:19 am