Author: cecil

  • Yikes

    That’s all. Just:

  • The Mainstreaming of Vice

    I’ve been puzzling for a couple of years now about the pornification of America. Take a step back and, at least to me, it’s really quite remarkable and a bit unnerving how casually pop culture 2005 assumes everyone’s comfortable with hardcore pornography. This is especially true in sitcom-land, where porn-related jokes are a dime a…

  • Kerry/Cantwell petition against drilling in Alaska

    Kerry is collecting names of citizens opposed to drilling in Alaska. I signed up. If you’re interested in joining this effort, spearheaded by Kerry and Senator Cantwell of Washington State, here’s the link.

  • RIP Hunter S. Thompson

    desiunion has posted what he believes was HST’s last Rolling Stone article up on dailykos.

  • Proverbs for Paranoids, 3

    Hit this quote today in Pynchon’s amazing Gravity’s Rainbow that summed up our current political situation way too perfectly: Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. Which leads back to the query my brain just can’t shake: Prince Charles and his flowering…

  • Can anyone explain to me…

    …without diving into conspiracy (already got that covered — thanks…) why it might be that the election results in Iraq are getting close to zero media attention? A week ago this was the election of the century. Anybody remember purple fingers? I get that they must still be counting the votes, but in this 24-hour…