Eastern Europeans and Passive-Aggressive Rock Boys
So it seems that Bush and co. are now furiously backpedaling on the No-Powell-In-2004 issue, since it appears that the leaking of Mr. My Lai's departure in the event of a Bush re-election went over like a fart in church with the general population. There's no way they could be surprised by this, since most people, even those of a Republican bent, seem to regard Colin Powell as the closest thing to a sane person in the cabinet. Therefore, I can only assume heads are busily rolling somewhere in the White House. You can read the Times' piece here. Is it just me, or is it totally impossible for the New York Times to cover Bush without mentioning at least once what a "good-natured" fella he is? Damn liberal media.
Proving once again that emigres have a much clearer vision of our country than we do, Slavov Zizek's book Welcome To the Desert of the Real! nails us on everything that's happened in the past two years:
"In being asked to choose between 'democracy' and 'fundamentalism', is not the real problem one of democracy itself - as if the only alternative to 'fundamentalism' is the political system of American-style liberal democracy?"
Buy it here.
The intellectual in me is very amped about Freddy Vs. Jason. Talk about a Freudian clash of ids. Come on, be nerdily excited about it, you know you want to.
Why do I love The Postal Service?