Consult this, Bushpimps

So more ex-Bushies are starting to stab him in the back? Oooooooo, that's bold, less than a month before we flush him down the toilet of history. Because it's far too late to say you're sorry, shitheads. You are just as complicit. Fuck you for signing up with him from the get-go; fuck you for spending eight years enabling & defending him. The stain isn't going to come out.

Papal bull(shit)

The Pope is obsessed with sugar plum fairies and altar boys.

They can dish it out, but they sure can't take it

It is to laugh. Hedge fund pirates complaining about how bad the SEC‘s oversight was concerning Bernard Madoff? Please! Surely it’s some pointed comedy skit? After all, they’ve fought tooth and nail to gut regulation and they’ve purchased most the politicians to keep us, the people, as represented by the government, from regulating their high-end gambling pits. The Republicans, with plenty of back-up of the Democratic wing of the oligarchy, has spent a generation de-funding and perverting regulation. They put the proverbial foxes in charge of the hen house, and a great majority of the well-off, knowing how they would be further enriched by the organized looting of the American commonwealth that resulted, smiled upon it and said it was good. For a while, anyway. Mammon’s great fires are now consuming the high priests themselves. For a change, the conmen are the suckers. Just desserts.

Incoming!

I really enjoy watching the little shit ducking that Afghan shoe-bomb. Five more weeks until the Big Bush Flush!

Ponzi, ponzi, ponzi!

What has happened to the magic of capitalism? The sub-prime disaster, loan-sharking taken to new heights, virtual bank runs, hedge funds crashing, industry being strangled, and now 50 billion in Bernie’s scam. Where’s your Invisible Hand now? Where is the blessed Market, hallowed be its name?

American Taliban muders again

The Ecuadorian man who was jumped the other night in Bushwick has died. Drunk, he and his brother were walking down the street arm-in-arm, propping each other up. The men who jumped them shouted anti-gay and anti-immigrant slurs and attacked with a bat.

This comes at the same time that I hear that Ruban Diaz, a State Senator in the Bronx, is extorting the Democratic majority in that body to make sure there is no gay marriage law in the state. Diaz is a Christer taliban. What makes him particularly disgusting is that he’s also a member of a minority; racist assholes couldn’t tell the difference between him and an immigrant. Those who voted for Prop 8 in California, the hiphop pigs who pay their bills with homophobia and misogyny, and the perverters of Christianity, all these are co-conspirators in this murder.

Gladwell handling

Purveyor of conventional wisdom Malcolm Gladwell first came to my attention when I read a short piece of his in the New Yorker detailing his lovely lunch with a racist theoretician at a right-wing thinktank. I thought it a rather shameless piece of suck-up, even for the flagship of celebrity culture, and wrote in to the magazine saying that once journalists spoke truth to power, but now they supped with it. My letter was published, but their editing for space, as they like to say, took some of the sting out of it. Pity. Since then I’ve followed Gladwell’s ascension to the ranks of the best-sellers with dismay, but understanding; he tells people what they want to hear. The other week, I was in one of the supermarket book stores, (meeting someone in the rain; they are good for that, and restrooms) and an entire table right inside the door was piled high with his latest, which brings us the fresh news that the very successful had luck and help along the way. Here’s a swift demolition of his pabulum.

It's the fans, stupid

The sports/entertainment celebrity shots himself with an illegal gun. At the hospital, they violate their own protocol and call NFL security instead of the police. (The NFL has its own security force? In fact, private security is the norm now, a true cancer on the body democratic, for it is accountable only to profit.)

Of course, we all know that the rules do not apply to the hyper-rich, to the celebrity class, even boneheaded members of it who shoot themselves. Bread and circuses triumph uber alles in a nation of sheep and zombies.