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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Some People, They're Stupid On Purpose
(Oliver Willis blog)
Willis: "I don't write about race nearly as much as I should on this blog, and its something of a conscious decision because I have never wanted the rep of being 'the black blogger who writes about race.'"

(LOL! The only thing I don't like about Oliver Willis is that he's a Redskins fan. Everything else... cool with me. Someday, though, he might realize that he never has to write about race explicitly, in this country, nor should he even worry about it. The fact that he's black means that most everything he writes about will first be taken as a black perspective by the so-called mainstream (aka white people), no matter what subject he chooses to skewer. Sure, he doesn't want to be the black blogger that writes about race ... but seriously, does he not think that he isn't seen as a black blogger? Why sweat it? This is the pattern of this culture, of which blacks certainly do not dominate. Those are the rules, here, in the good ol' U.S.A. Just write about what you're into, let the rest take care of itself, for better or worse. Ephemeral words in cyberspace are meaningless, so why worry about negative critiques ... and why take positive ones too seriously, either? (b/w negrophile.))

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Election 2004: Freedom, Liberty, Freedom
(AlterNet)
Over the first three nights, the Republican Convention speakers carefully crafted a tri-partite frame for George W. Bush's Thursday acceptance speech:
Night 1: The Global War on Terror defines our lives and our generation.
Night 2: With enough discipline, all Americans can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become prosperous. Those girly men have only themselves to blame.
Night 3: Kerry is weak, unpatriotic, antimilitary, against national security, without resolve, soft-hearted, confused, and totally unfit to be commander-in-chief.

(This is their gameplan. Let me try some simpleton responses, based on my simplified grokking of politics, statecraft, and moving the crowd. In response to:
1) The war on terror defines the Bush administration's failure to build coalitions with our allies and to find ways to negotiate with our enemies through diplomacy and economics;
2) With enough discipline the Bush Administration could balance our budget and fix our gargantuan trade deficit in about a decade, instead of spending us and our children into a dystopian, banana republic economic future;
3) George W. Bush shirked duty to his country, when called, and relied on family connections to hide his head in the sand like an ostrich. Questions? )

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Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours
(New Scientist)
Cannabis extracts may shrink brain tumours and other cancers by blocking the growth of the blood vessels which feed them, suggests a new study.

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4/3/2005; 3:35:01 AM - Lawrence Green


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