Hood On Your Blands

Russia-Georgia gives McCain a bounce in the polls? Here's a question: How many innocent lives will be saved in October if McCain is ten points up instead of Obama?

Hah! a rhetorical question. Missiles will be flying - American and/or a proxy's - come October, the number calculated to the level of belligerence necessary to ensure Republican victory. Fewer die if McCain is winning, more die if Obama's winning. Is it complicity to goad Bushco/GOP, who view the military as a propaganda organ AND private security force, to gin up violence against innocent civilians to maintain power?

Some yes but more no, but no only if you understand that if Obama wins despite, the lesson won't be lost, though supposing Obama needs to be taught that lesson is ruby.

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• Can I also point out that Obama had better get the crackers to scream nigger, because if he loses because he's a suckbucket - and Obama, as of this struck ! is a suckbucket, though this is better - think his devoutest won't blame racism? Mofos, if Obama loses because of racism, let's see some racism.
• Saaaaay, this wasn't predictable: David Brooks says it's not John McCain's fault he's running a rovian campaign, he was forced to, the saying of which has the advantage of being both true and dishonest.
• The most willfully stupid and self-serving column Dionne has ever written. Helping the poor. Jeebus.
• Mwa-ha-awfuckit. Though I know a guy who owns twenty-sided dice and used to blog. Oh, and a response to this bullet's catalyst. And another.
• Rightwing bloggers = Italian soccer players?
• Truth in advertising, motherfuckers.
• Advertising? Obama's suckbucketful.
• Russian Bear = The Monkees?
• Mwa-ha-awfuckit.
• More Kafka and porn.
• Realist fiction and propaganda.
• Dan's long rumination on Steven Millhauser. I read Martin Dressler years ago, but he's fallen away. Time to pick up.
• Max's list of novels for vacations. Some John Irving love there.

Updates later. Or not.

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Former lover Jill St John is SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD TODAY:

I was only twelve at the time, mind.

So distraught that I dumped her, she dated Henry Kissinger in self-lacerating despair.

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In my head. Be in yours.