Year: 2011

MInd Freedom International

Boycott “normal”:

Occupy Normal! MindFreedom International calls on you to join our campaign to “Boycott Normal.” This is a peaceful public education effort, in response to the DSM-V. We aim to help humanity get beyond behavior that is mistakenly called “normal,” a disorder that is even causing a climate crisis. MFI calls on you to be creative, embrace diversity, and boycott normal!

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign

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John Boehner's Cheese

As in “who stole it”?–the conventional wisdom’s question, with the predictable answer, “the Frosh Tea Partiers”. Yet few in broadcast or print journalism have bothered to ask precisely what kind of cheese Boehner is reputed to have possessed in the first place. It helps to know what’s supposedly missing. The man’s former fromage is a slogan, one that the people of Cincinnati have heard for years: “I’ve always believed, the bigger government, the smaller the people.” We know that Boehner’s cheese has been laced with tea for over twenty years.

In the Buckeye state Boehner’s cheese is regional. The speaker couldn’t get elected if he lived in Columbus (Ohio’s largest city, look it up) or Cleveland (the state’s poorest city). Boehner’s electorate is an evangelical, neo-Babbitt crowd that looks up the road at prosperous, liberal Columbus with it’s big Commie state U and gets so enraged they don’t notice Boehner is calling them Lilliputians. That’s the dramatic irony of the tea party and it’s the tragic irony of John Boehner, for he’s utterly lazy, he’s read even fewer books than George W. Bush, and over time he allowed himself to believe his locally expeditious campaign slogan.

Boehner couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Columbus. But there he was, two years ago, in ascendancy like Caesar Augustus (who, by the way, also read more books than Boehner) and La! the Frosh was eager to eat Boehner’s cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Washington is a scotch and sirloin kind of town, a matter that the speaker knows all too well.

Boehner was always a small fry regionalist pettifogging hypocrite and suddenly he had to share his entirely ersatz cheddar with rabid people who thought he was the real Wizard of Fromage.

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Paul's story changes on racial comments

The real Ron Paul:

Check out this article that I saw in USA TODAY’s iPhone application.

Paul’s story changes on racial comments

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Holmes and Watson, together again, in The House of Silk

“Where,” Sherlock Holmes is fond of asking Dr Watson, when inviting him along on a case, “would I be without my Boswell?”  It’s a question Anthony Horowitz doesn’t answer, or even ask, in his new Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk. (Illustration by Sidney Paget from The Blue Carbuncle.)

via lancemannion.typepad.com

Lance Mannion's review of the Anthony Horowitz version of Sherlock Holmes is first rate. Even if you're not a Baker Street urchin it's worth a read…

People with Disabilities and the Voter ID Crisis

I watched Al Sharpton's show on MSNBC last night with considerable interest because I am blind, have just moved, and my passport has expired and my Social Security Card has gone to Valhalla along with my 1966 Beatles lunch box. In order for me to get a NY State non-driver ID card I must have my social security card and a valid picture ID. Since my expired passport is no good, and since the federal building where I must go to get a new social security card is not within walking distance you can imagine the boot camp logistics I will have to go through to get both the social security card and the state non-driver ID. This will take other people who can drive me, and of course, it will take time away from my work. It could conceivably take at least two days to do this. I am a blind person who has allowed his identity materials to become outdated, a mistake to be sure, but a mistake that millions of Americans must also have collectively made. If you're not a driver, if you're not mobile, if you're challenged by the nature of your circumstances in these United States, then guess what? You're not going to vote in the next election. I will get this straightened out, but it's a steep path that's been created by racist and ableist forces. The messae is clear: your kind should just stay home. And we will make it next to impossible for you to clear the bureaucratic red tape so you will just want to stay home. There, there. Be a good cripple. Watch some more "I Love Lucy" kiddo. Thanks Rev. Sharpton for spotlighting the subborning of voter rights.