The Crow's Eye: What the Telly Won't Tell You

"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red

"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done

"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ

Mar 25, 2011

What the Telly Won't Tell You

Since it's not about Barack Obama's Jesus bombs or his anti-Qadaffi death rays of superhuman goodness:

Yep. Mass protests in Morocco.

Now back to Charlie, Lindsay and Chuck Todd's smug bewilderment.

See the rest @ one word: Revolution

7 comments:

Randal Graves said...: Another potential target for humanitarian bombs? Sweet!; March 25, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Jack Crow said...: Humanitarian bombs and Jesus rays of double plus good democracy.; March 25, 2011 at 12:39 PM
K. Ron Silkwood said...: For heaven's sake, what do all these brown Muslimists want? They seem to be ungrateful about everything.; March 25, 2011 at 11:44 PM
fwoan said...: Off topic but hilarious and I wanted to share with you:

"... we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for. But we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about Qaddafi taking the bodies of people he's killed and putting them at the sites where we've attacked."
Robert Gates on Face the Nation; March 29, 2011 at 2:06 PM
senecal said...: Crow: how often do you typically post on this site? I'm still looking at the post from 3/25.; March 29, 2011 at 2:10 PM
Jack Crow said...: fwoan,

Today's word is definitely "farce."

Sen,

I post when I'm not being an unconscionable burden on my sons' futures.

I'm the home parent. My wife slogs though the swamp of employment.; March 29, 2011 at 3:13 PM
senecal said...: all dad's are unconscionable burdens on their sons' futures. Enjoy them while you can.

You have a word verification system with a sense of humor. And it's legible.; March 29, 2011 at 4:54 PM

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This one took a while to put into words.

I don't kid myself that I've stumbled upon a unique insight and I have little doubt that someone has already written or said this better than I. Five minutes after I hit the "publish" button, I'll probably regret the choice of words more than I already do now - because it's difficult to get my head outside of English language usage, to comment on a problem with that usage, whilst using the English language to do so.

In the interest of not making more of an ass of myself than necessary, I've pared a very long thesis down to a paragraph:

I find it troubling that, using English, I have very limited choice in expressing how I relate to people with whom I have ongoing interaction. If I want to reference the nature of my relations with the woman who has challenged me to grow in ways I never imagined possible, the woman who howled with a primal, gorgeous, earth shattering, mother bear of a refrain, transcending pain and pleasure in act of creation to which I will never be immediate party, who has with her defiant and proud womanhood still intact forged a family out of disparate parts - I have to write "my wife." I have to reduce her to property. That really pisses me off. I don't own her. I don't fucking want the title or the claim. I don't want to express possession, simply to refer to her (without writing a discursive dissertation). I don't like one bit that the short hand for "association" in English is expressed in the possessive. I don't own my wife or my children. They're not mine.

So, fuck you Latin and Germanic branches of the Indo-European language group.

That is all.