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I am chastised by one of three people on the planet whose chastisement I unconditionally accept as valid:

I don't think Mannion's dark. I think he's spot freakin' on. Detroit is a double for them, in ways Katrina wasn't; they didn't get to ass-ram the unions when they abandoned New Orleans. These fuckers desperately want it to be the 19th century, and walking away from Detroit while serving up gravy to bankers with ladles made from human skin is exactly up their alley.

The real question here is, given an opportunity of this magnitude, why aren't you dark enough?

The first point is this: shame he doesn't blog.

Here's the Mannion post, in full, that I linked to that Landru references:

I'm sure union-busting is a big part of the Congressional Republicans' hostility to a bail-out of the autoindustry.  And some of it is just a general "Not my constituents, so what do I care?" assholery.  And some of---ok, a lot of it---is the reflexive Screw you for not being rich of their tribe.  And there might even be a few who are motivated by honest Free Market conservative principles.

But I can't help thinking that in their hearts a lot of them are looking at the possibility of tens of thousands of people in Michigan losing their jobs and then their homes and seeing the opportunity to do to Detroit what Katrina allowed them to try to do to New Orleans, empty the city of Democrats.

Jokes going to be on them when a million other people around the country, many of them Republicans, many of them their own constituents, lose their jobs along with the UAW workers.

Clearly, my mwhahahappiness at pigheads exploding

has been overindulgent. Time to start angry screaming again, especially considering its inefficacy is as awesome as my overindulgent mwhahahappiness.

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• Your headline of the day, but especially if you're gburgmofo.
• When did Digby become dumb-cousin slow?
• According to this carnival-ride, I'm a mechanic.
• A plug for Gates from Horton.
• Irrelevant, lying, sack of shit.
• Progressives ride the war machine.
• Conservatives and bears.
• The word you're looking for is.....
• The Constitution Strikes Back, or: what kind of geek uses Star Trek allusions?

Oh.

• Mr Fish.
• The bay is dying, and.... More.
• Things that fascinate me.
• New Lucksmiths. Listen to some.
• Billy Joel: "Fuck You" -  hAh!
• Listen to some Mason Proper.
• Band's name is Fucked Up. Listen.
• Gena and the Three-Cock Pile-up is a good band name (I also like Jefferson Slaveship, but I'm old).
• James Wood reviewed again, acutely.
• I am so there.

Updates are highly unlikely, but you never know.

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Dream pop? Fever-dream pop:

To Earthgirl's distress, I found my Dead Can Dance box set the other night and it's in my car. hEh.

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UPDATE!

I'm told:

Although as Whispers (who hangs with me and Sasha and Ilse but doesn't so much get you, and that's okay) would tell us, it's not gonna be a proof.

Whispers? Kananga's fat henchman in Live and Let Die?

Awesome!

I'm sure union-busting is a big part of the Congressional Republicans' hostility to a bail-out of the autoindustry.  And some of it is just a general "Not my constituents, so what do I care?" assholery.  And some of---ok, a lot of it---is the reflexive Screw you for not being rich of their tribe.  And there might even be a few who are motivated by honest Free Market conservative principles.

But I can't help thinking that in their hearts a lot of them are looking at the possibility of tens of thousands of people in Michigan losing their jobs and then their homes and seeing the opportunity to do to Detroit what Katrina allowed them to try to do to New Orleans, empty the city of Democrats.

Jokes going to be on them when a million other people around the country, many of them Republicans, many of them their own constituents, lose their jobs along with the UAW workers.