Open Thread

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of a group which you would prefer didn’t come up in your confirmation hearings?

Actually, I was a member of the Federalist Society. No kidding. I left after the President asked me to slaughter the younglings.

morcy: i thought all you had were kareena kapoor vidcaps?

The other hit on google incidently is tips on a good immigration interview.

I dunno about no K4r33n4 vidcaps, but I finally decided to do that billion horny boys’ work and try to find said smut. desitorrents.com was the first google hit, and, ding ding ding, all the R1y4 S3n action a body could ask for, or something like that. Are the boys afraid of registering at dt?

Since this is an open thread, I’m going to say that Lizano brand salsa is stupendously good and reminds me of the “chili sauce” we used to put on burgers in .au. That “chili sauce” is popular in .au is one of the charming quirks of empire.

morcy: gonna have make some burritos with that sauce. looks good.
needles: i still haven’t decided on the citizenship. might just renew my green card. can’t lie to the federal govt. about my state of inebriation, really.

Good thing I am on a “hiatus” or this and that have enough steam to keep CM chugging for a week.

I vote King’s based on absolutely no information. King’s. Try it like, “Yes, I did my LLM at King’s. What about you?” See?

Public Announcement: Moving from an office in which one has sat for seven years breaks my face, my spirit and my back. Should I take the Think Different MLK Jr and Muhammad Ali posters? What about the various concert posters? What about my wall of white man’s shame? No. I leave all behind. New beginnings, and all.

Leave it all behind. Pass artifacts along to those who you deem worthy. You will acquire new ones – although that white man’s wall of shame sounds REALLY tempting.

how’s the hiatus coming?

could this jar you back into action?

Granted, it’s not pet cats, but still.

Dear Sepoy,

Can you send the United States of my imagination back to me (I think I left it in the waiting room of the train station at about 3 p.m. on Thursday)? I fear I have misplaced it–it’s red, white, and blue, but is also nice to poor people and doesn’t believe in constant structural discrimination for the benefit of a narrow economic elite! If you should happen to come across a country where you’re allowed to talk about national health care without being called a socialist because there are actual socialists who would be offended by the confusion, please let me know. Thanks!

Hopefully you’ll return to illuminate us further on this.

do the ideals we’ve been given come at the cost o other, better, more fruitful ideas. Ah, but thar’s the rub. I stood guilty of not critiquing enlightenment. Perhaps correctly. As I grow older, I grow wary of revolutions, revolutionaries. They grow wary of systems that say you can choose any color as long as it is black.
Ideals and realities are, indeed, not that far away. Idealists and realists, on the other hand….

A real revolutionary (I know some!–well, one anyway) understands that the key to any kind of social change in a system like this is to convince people (whoever those people are) of something even if it might imply other means or other tactics at particular points in time for particular purposes. i.e. they’re in it for the long haul, not some kind of Bernadine Dohrn school of scoial change. Vanguardism is a horrible way to go about things unless you’re more interested in what you want, rather than what’s best.

In any case, regardless of whether you choose to be a pragmatist or an idealist, there are always intellectual options available to you that are more creative than the status quo (in ideals or policy choices). It’s really only when you put yourself in a position to be politically constrained by power relationships (i.e. you might lose your job) that you have something to lose by being creative about what you think and how you think it should be implemented.