Try to imagine this: The President uses hysteria and the fear of terrorism as an excuse to suspend the constitution and cripple the legal system, creating an atmosphere in which he can operate with impunity, spying and wiretapping not only without a warrant* but without any documentation, and arresting and imprisoning anyone he wants without the interference of lawyers and judges. I know, I’m not stretching your imagination much. Between the PATRIOT Act and the Military Commissions Act, Bush has managed a lot of that. Under the current state of affairs, even America citizens can be arrested and detained without charge and without access to a lawyer for an indefinite period of time. Other parts of the US Constitution have simply been rendered moot by the laziness and/or cowardice of the press. Unlike Pervez Musharraf, however, Bush didn’t have to fire the head of the Supreme Court--he already owns Chief Justice John Roberts. The results are the same, except for the t...
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Documenting Tragedy From: redzilla.blogspot.com Post Date: 2008-05-06 02:51:00
On viewing the first film footage of it, no one could agree on where the fire started. The film crew with the best view had stopped filming and didn’t restart until the back quarter of the zeppelin was engulfed in flames. No one ever knows when tragedy is about to strike, and often no one is watching when it does. As W.H. Auden observed: ... even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the to... more
The prairie dress: it’s the new burqa. Here we are in the 21st Century, surrounded by amazing technological advances, access to knowledge beyond our wildest dreams, and opportunities that transcend race, class, and seemingly gender. Yet men are still using the bodies of women as political objects. Covered, uncovered, altered, mutilated, all for the political purposes of men. Certainly, women have used their bodies for politics, but almost always personal politi... more
I’ve never been a sports fan. Don’t have much interest in any particular team. Don’t really know the rules of any sport. Don’t watch them, don’t read about them, don’t talk about them. To be honest, sports bore me. Having grown up in a sports intensive house--if there’s nothing else available, my dad will go and watch middle school girls volleyball--I always assumed my lack of interest in sports was a knee-jerk counter-reaction. My born against att... more
Really Lost From: redzilla.blogspot.com Post Date: 2008-04-04 03:22:00
Their plane went down on October 13, 1972. It was a Friday. 12 of them died in the crash, another three during the first night they spent on the mountain. They assumed they would be rescued and laid out a cross of suitcases in the snow. In the distance, they heard planes flying overhead. On the tenth day, the little radio they’d salvaged from the wreckage informed them that the rescue mission had been called off. They waited. They explored. They planned. Injuries, the cold, hunger... more
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