Katrina “Works Out Well” For the Poor.

Is there no end to the pig-ignorance and sheer venality of the people in the Ruling Class these days? Marie Antoinette would certainly have had enough class to be appalled at Barbara Bush’s assessment of the situation in New Orleans:
In a segment [on American Marketplace] on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara [...]

Being Poor

I’m not going to try to improve on this. Just read it
From Whatever: Being Poor
Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and [...]

Readin’ and Writin’

I just finished The Long Goodbye. Amazing book. I’m now moving on to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Slaughterhouse Five. I think there’s a consistent theme in the books I’m choosing right now: they all have to do with reactions to a society that’s breaking down in both the moral and material sense, [...]

When You Think People Can’t Sink Any Lower….

I’ll admit to being pretty cynical about the “damned human race,” as Mark Twain called it, but sometimes people just strive to outdo themselves. I’m not surprised so much by the petty greed and venality of this story, but I am amazed at the level of chutzpah it takes to be so naked about [...]

You Knew It Was Coming….

It took mere hours for the American Taliban to crawl out of the woodwork and claim definitively that the grotesque tragedy of New Orleans was caused not by differentials in air pressure, or global warming, or gross bureaucratic, negligence, but fags. Yes, that’s right. If you’re a man, putting a penis in your mouth [...]