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  All Your Gitmo Are Belong To US

  06.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  These days, America teeters on the verge of having its dumbest Supreme Court since the Dred Scott jacktards who hastened the Civil War; currently, its four fascist-leaning members hold views that range from “too-Catholic to be believed,” to “I will have my revenge on Black America for calling me Uncle Tom.”
  In fairness, one must also […]

• holydays

  Roll Over, Rick

  04.01.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  His caramel baritone is singular. Like those of us at CM, you probably thought he was black, before you saw the video; not that it mattered, because his being a tiny, tiny, little, elfin Englishman, with a singing voice that dissolves panties on contact, made it even more amusing when he mounted and thrust himself […]

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  Cuckoo

  03.24.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Obama’s pastor, and McCain’s “advisors” pulled back the Veil on the Holy of Holies last week, exposing a brutal truth for those who live within the secular narrative. It is this: religious people believe things that seem strange to outsiders. Those religious folks also believe things that are specifically informed by their subjective experiences, which […]

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  The Winter of Their Discontent

  02.21.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Bill O’Reilly is probably not as big an asshole as he appears to be, but one thing is certain, he does a terrific job playing one on radio and television. For years, Americans have contended with “entertainers-cum-pundits” setting frames around policy debates. O’Reilly’s, Limbaugh’s, Hannity’s and Beck’s characters are most likely amplifications of the personalities […]

• imperial watch, straw polls

  Yea, that’s right! That’s right! We bad!

  01.09.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The assumptions nested in our electoral punditry are astounding. What’s more astounding is that we do not question them, especially when they barely conceal true, noxious racialist thinking. Why, for instance, is Don Imus a pariah, when Dick Morris and Chris Matthews can proceed without pause with lines of questioning based on the assumption that […]

• imperial watch, straw polls

  Omerica

  01.06.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  The media’s pontificating talking heads and some sorry campaign managers trying to pull their candidates from the muck have got it wrong. They’re obsessing over the difference between two abstractions: change and experience, assuming those labels define the persons to whom they’re applied, and the voters enthusiastic about voting for them. True to narrow-casted […]

• homistan

  Free Fouad الحرية لفؤاد

  01.03.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “In Saudi Arabia, there is no guarantee that you won’t be arrested because of your frankness and speaking your mind on your blog.” posted Fouad al-Farhan on his blog. He was correct.
  He has been detained by Saudi authorities for over 24 days.
  There is no power, we bloggers hold over states or royals. […]

• imperial watch

  Franz Ferdinand’s Last Sigh

  01.02.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  The MSM’s take on Bhutto’s murder has inspired much wondering on the pages of Chapati Mystery–can they be talking about Benazir Bhutto? our readers ask. The corrupt thief of a billion American tax dollars meant for Pakistan’s infrastructure and military? The monarchical heir to power in a supposed democracy? The populist who claimed to speak […]

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  The Newest Oldest Story III

  09.03.07 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  [see Part I of III and Part II of III]
  III. A Modest Proposal
  Many historians are reluctant to comment on the present if a question presented to them contains a categorical assumption about the past; it’s a little like suggesting a diagnosis to an MD–no matter what is wrong with you, it’s not going to be […]

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  The Newest Oldest Story II

  08.31.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  [see Part I]
  II. I do not ♥ Baby Boomers
  Aldous Huxley called occult nature worship the “perennial religion,” because it is the default to which man returns when his gods desert him. It makes sense after all to appeal directly to the effects of nature, rather than their causes, when the chips are down.
  Our gods […]

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  The Newest Oldest Story I

  08.30.07 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  [sepoy notes: A tip from a CM reader led me to Stargates in Iraq. Feeling inadequate to the task, I called a few favors and farangi is here to tell us the story.]
  How I Learned to Stop Worrying–about Humanity, Ganesh, Bill Moyers, Foreign Policy, and The Strange Life of Robert Anton Wilson–and Love the Apocalypse.
  Clarke’s […]

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  A Man in His Time

  04.25.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I am vexed by a conversation today on Fresh Air about historian Robert Dallek’s new book Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. I am vexed because I consider my perceptions of Nixon’s memory more positively than I do my present perceptions of 43. I’m a former movement conservative, and a fan of Hunter Thompson, which […]

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  Habeas Corpse

  10.19.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Habeas Corpus, RIP
  1215-2006.
  Habeas Corpus, friend to many, died today in Washington, DC. It was seven hundred ninety one years old. Habeas’ violent demise came after a long, robust and celebrated career as defender of the weakest members of society, during which it freelanced as a bulwark against encroachments on civil liberties. Habeas Corpus is survived […]

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  The Natty Professor

  09.19.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  As an undergraduate student of comparative religion, and a Christian, I was often infuriated by the pronouncements of my professors. One, an imminent historian of religion, refused to write the word ‚ÄúChrist,‚Äù and instead replaced it with the Greek letter Chi, or X. When I asked him about it, he explained that he got tired […]

• holydays, imperial watch

  Truthizing Fictions

  09.11.06 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Fiction is Truer than Fact.
  Attributed to E. Hemingway.
  Like you, few things would please me more than to soak in a hot tub with Clinton, five supermodels, an 8-ball of fine Ecuadorian flake, and a split of Dom. But let’s not kid ourselves: Clinton was a weak leader governing in a sweet spot. It’s his thing, […]