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Archive | June, 2011
How to Make Half a Million
I learn from Rachel Maddow’s show that Larry Flynt has a standing offer of a million dollar reward (well, actually “up to” one million) to anyone who will “provide documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent officeholder.”
So the obvious thing to do is to call the officeholder you most fancy and suggest having an affair, spilling the beans to Flynt, and then splitting the reward.
Dead and Alive
New Doctor Who and Torchwood promos:
Three Science Fiction News Items
1. David Tennant is almost unrecognisable here taking the Roddy McDowell role of ham-horror-actor-turned-real-life-vampire-hunter Peter Vincent in the upcoming Fright Night remake:
He looks a tad sleazier than the original ….
2. Rumours are flying about the possibility of another Torchwood/Doctor Who crossover for next year.
3. Back in the days before he found neoconservatism and lost his talent, Frank Miller famously reinvented both Batman and Daredevil in a way that has shaped the treatment of those characters ever since. Miller’s take was a strong influence on the Burton and Nolan Batman movies and on the 2003 Daredevil movie. Yet despite even photographically imitating Miller’s exact panels, the Daredevil movie never quite caught the spirit of the material it was drawing on.
The good news is that Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One are due to be released as animated films, while a rebooted live-action Daredevil will also be adapting Miller’s material.
Why Neither “Libertarian” Nor “Left” Values Can Be Achieved By Working Within the Political Establishment
Anna Morgenstern writes:
Let’s first examine the favorite whipping boy of many people, “libertarianism.” The problem, as some of the more clever leftoids have argued, is that the ruling class will look through this laundry list and throw their weight behind the parts of it that strengthen their position, and discard the rest, thus making libertarianism into a less aggressively socially conservative form of conservatism.
“Lower taxes?”
Sure, let’s lower taxes for the rich.“Less regulation?”
Well, let’s remove the regulations that counteract corporate power, but not the other ones (see: Enron).“Legalize drugs?”
No friggin’ way, chief.But what’s not clearly understood is that this is also true for “liberalism” and so-called “social democracy” or “democratic socialism” or what have you. Modern American “liberalism” is simply Mass Corporatism on steroids.
(Read the celý piroh.)
Why Context Matters
“The true life, the life eternal has been found – it is not merely promised, it is here, it is in you …. Everyone is the child of God …. As the child of God each man is the equal of every other man.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
“There is no God. … Yea, there is no God.” – Isaiah 44:6-8