Stop the Presses

courtesy Lalo Lopez Alcaraz www.pocho.com

There are so many images to be had these days...it's no wonder that Susan Sontag has say in everything that's going on. I wanted to place a link here so you could read her essay "Regarding the Torture of Others." But NYTimes is only available free for seven days (coincidentally the time span allegedly all that was necessary for God to create the Earth). I wanted to remind you that I'm so tired of so-called left-of-center bohemian downtown writers (yes, i saw her eating dinner at Hazaki with that Rolling Stone photographer) referring to "others" and "us," as in "the photographs are us" 'cause this tired use of "other" as academic slanguage for "second-class citizen" has really gotta go. And please, those photographs are U.S., not us.
I'm feeling full of myself because yes, I paid the rent, and it's a half-moon, and this is Gemini moon and that means two moons maybe and the longest day of the year. This Bush speech today was particularly irritating. every speech he seems to make lately is with some massive military-guy backdrop. One thing that seems inescapable: spontaneously, GWB is really friggin stupid, but he has some good speechwriters that put together these very cogent arguments that are based on a fantasy that most mainstream Americans want to believe. That's what's scary about him. Given the lack of information and intelligence available to most Americans, his speeches might actually come off as somewhat reasonable.
This is the problem Democrats face: Mainstream America has very little information about the reality of 9-11. They basically believe that New York, which they scarcely care about, was attacked unjustly, in a historical vacuum, where there is no explicable reason for it except wide-eyed anti-U.S. fanaticism. In a detached way, they believe retribution is necessary, and the invasion of Iraq was somehow parallel to the avergage white male's desire to show assertion in the face of a deluded encroachment of feminist/gender alternative-ism, represented by Friends and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (both coincidentally on GE's NBC).
Then Kerry is laying back like the Washington Generals waiting for the Globetrotters to bring the ball upcourt and considering his Skull-and-Bones pedigree, you wonder if anything is going to happen here. It's kind of like the Detroit-Indiana series where everyone is missing their shots, and the whole country is tuning out to whatever American Idol mierda is available.