Been over three years since last post

I haven't put anything up here in sometime. I haven't been writing much at deskpoet.com, either.

The traditional problem of having something meaningful to say has something to do with it, but I think the collapse thing has been even more of a weight than the quest for content. It's easy to say things, but when you start thinking or talking about how our civilization is winding down, there's not much further you can go. Yes, you can make jokes about Cassandra, and point up sign-posts on the way down, but there's really not to much to add after The End.

Of course, one can talk/write about what comes after, and that's where I'm at these days: trying to identify/discern the patterns (my/our) life will have in the coming years. I think that's where the writing will go as I'm frankly tired of looking at the end of the road.

The original deskpoet is back, baby

I brought the original back.

I'll still do stuff here--indeed, this might be the primary Deskpoet site, given the one IP-hanging-off-a-DSL-link configuration of deskpoet.com. As noted there, I plan on lots of cross-talk between the two.

Just THINK of all the hits these things will generate.

Hillary's descent; Huffington Post Leninists

Normally, I don't go to over to the Huffington Post, but I was curious if the story of Hillary's recent, er, slip, had found any traction there. (Yes, I'm well behind the first shouts of the echo chamber, so I was playing catch up trying to get a feel how the Billary Dems were handling it.) Instead, I find the story of Hillary's popularity plummeting (actually, they link to an NBC page here.) Looks like the stink of Sinbad just won't wash out, even with premium Memory Hole being applied....

So, while I was there, I looked around the site. Classic Leninist slant. Rich "progressives" have as much hate for The Rabble as their buddies in Conservative Cuckoo Land. You don't have to go too far to find just how stupid the Average Joe is at the HP; they literally plaster it all over the front page of the site. Of course, they know the score, and if we only follow them, they'll lead us to that promised Liberal Heaven they seem to bleat on so much about. If that doesn't sound Leninist, I don't know what does.

What's that, you say? The HPs are dyed-in-the-wool freedom capitalists who wouldn't accept a Commie into their midst if their portfolios depended on it? Well, yes, you're right, but that doesn't mean they don't follow in the footsteps of Uncle Vladimir. Lenin was about power, not communism, and as the "vanguard", he knew better than everyone else around him just how things should be run, commie or not. And the HPs are filthy with self-appointed vanguards. In general, Leninism is like a weed in the US political arena; it's in all threads of intellectuals who spend their time justifying the State, right or left of the dial. In the case of the HPs, self-deluded and self-important "progressives" that they are, the strain runs particularly deep. I don't relish the idea of those keyboard leaders ever taking over--"meet the new boss, same as the old boss" indeed.

Besides, who really knows, maybe HPs have posters of Lenin hanging in their closets (taped over and on top of the Che and reefer leaf ones.) And, yes, that's deliberate Commie-bating; I'm feeling quite retro today.

Another ice shelf collapses....

CNN posted a report about a large part of the Wilkins ice sheet in western Antartica collapsing a little while ago. Apparently, there's a great deal more of it at risk of doing the same. In the article, the scientists claim it's more evidence of the acceleration of global warming (which I prefer to call "global climate change" these days as it is more inclusive.) That seems obvious enough; the question that needs to be answered is "What are we going to do about it?"

I'm doing my part--no breeding and no eating of animal flesh. Come on, people, who's with me?

The fooling of all the people all of the time ending?

Gee, the never-ending consumerist hunger for crap might be taking a coffee break. Apparently, March 2008 has some pretty negative indicators, including a "bad feeling" not seen since Nixon was president.

Maybe, just maybe, this country of sleepwalkers will be stirred to activity beyond changing the channel. Hunger and deprivation tends to be a bit jolting, after all.....

Piling on Hillary (not with YOUR ten foot .....)

Ok, I'm not the only one who sees Hillary for what she is--check out Jeffrey St. Clair's article over at Counterpunch. Again, I'm not an Obama boy, but anyone who wants that thing in the White House deserves the fruit of those Halliburton concentration camps being cooked up to keep undesirables (the pinko commies that believe the meaning of the word freedom doesn't include words such as "torture", "decapitation" and "preventive intervention" in its etymology) out of sight and mind.

I've wondered at the pitiful neo-liberals the Clintons have created and their Bushian ability to deny the reality of their actions/policies. The 90s was not Camelot (Camelot was not Camelot, for that matter), so I guess giving to Amnesty International and admonishing the ELF really is the modern indulgences for these pathetic boobs: a few bucks here and there to a fashionable NGO, and you can sleep well on your hemp sheets in your McMansion knowing the Good Fight is being fought (never to be won, but that's a secondary concern, right; it's the journey, not the destination, etc. etc. ZZZZZZZZZ.) Now, if we can only get that equity value back up.....

Hillary Clinton: Maniacal Maggie Thatcher retread

I was thinking of calling this post "Billary is a bitch", but that somehow legitimizes Hillary Clinton's martyrdom as put-upon female politico. You know, all that "breaking the glass ceiling" horseshit Hillary's run to the roses supposedly symbolizes, as if she was Joan of Arc or something.

Well, Hillary ain't no Joan; she's just another political whore, seemingly cut from the same cloth as Bob Dole, a tired old fart who "deserved" to be president because he'd hung around long enough, paid his dues, served his time, etc. She has nothing to offer anyone (least of all the people of the US) other than her own conviction that she should be the first woman president. You can see it in every speech she manages to focus group into the Echo Chamber: "I'm important. I'm breaking down barriers. Look at me!" That pitiful, ugly high school Republican zealot is all grown up into a Democratic sellout. At least being ugly doesn't hurt anymore: the DNC pays too well for even a corporate lawyer like Hillary to dwell her lack of natural beauty.

Imagine: Hillary's greatest claim to fame was working for Nixon. She has been an uninformed (if we take her word about Iraq) failure at everything else, including health care, which apparently is really Slick Willie's fault if believing so will garner her any more votes. Like Dubya, she has managed to fail upward since her Prez waved goodbye 34 years ago. Yes, she is smarter than the Idiot Boy King, but how much an achievement is that? Most kids shoveling bags of burgers and fries out drive-through windows can make that claim.

From a historical perspective, Hillary is--and could be more so--like Maggie Thatcher. She'll likely serve the same function here that Maggie served in the UK: grind down the natives, weed out the immigrants, and generally make things crappier and meaner than they were before her (which, given Dubya's legacy, will be quite an achievement in itself.) Only with more nukes. LOTS more nukes. (I can almost hear the little devil on Hillary's shoulder now: "The most powerful woman in the world! You HAVE to nuke Iran. You can't be seen to be a pussy like Maggie. No one remembers the Falklands, but they'll sure as hell remember Iran!")

Kudos to Hillary, though: a vile person, who happens to be a woman, just might get the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Only in America could such a gothic horror tale come to life....