7 posts tagged proles

Within this last week, there has been a gross demonstration of contempt for the citizen of The United States of America. We are a good country goddammit….we’ve let it become what it is today!!! We have allowed it…turned a blind eye to it…and clung to the misguided notion that our freedoms were being sacrificed for our own security.

The seminal Beat novel On the Road epitomized the spontaneous, free-flowing road trip. Jack Black’s You Can’t Win chronicles another life on the road, the lonely life of a hobo with few ties and no choice.

Outraged by police inactivity during the investigation of the rape and murder of a little girl, an anti-sex activist superego named Asta Thundersly turns amateur detective. A crusading Kramer-figure, living comfortably without explanation, Asta is the centerpiece of a Seinfeldian underworld featuring a bevy of battered booze-hounds, all with peculiar characteristics, who gather at Bar Bacchus.

The great Chris Dillow has included one of my posts in his "top blogging" list, which is nice. Among his posts you should read are on why he is leaving London, and on why politicians are so thick and/or corrupt they don't realise what fools they look. Among the other posts he nominates are a few that touched a nerve with me.

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No, not my long-awaited response to Andrew's household management meme, but some bits and bobs (no pun intended) that I've been meaning to post about the last week or so 1. I meant to dedicate this post to the late Tom Lantos, a man who was a committed fighter for the kind of cosmopolitan, democratic

Comrade The Red Man has been known to refer to these with scorn as "bourgeois cookies" when I have dared to eat them in his presence. True story!