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Pay For What You Get

“The turbulence of the music predicts the steadiness of the market,” Maymin explained. And Beyoncé’s chart dominance? Well, it may not mean good things for your pension.

Beyonce’s New Single Spells Economic Doom

Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter

Jon Stewart teases out the bullshit and calls out Clinton’s campaign for what it’s actually become: hilarious and dangerous.

Here’s my point: my friend, a grad student at OSU’s political science college, and Clinton regional activist, recently responded to the PA primary by saying, “if someone tells you you ought to quit, it’s because they’re afraid you won’t and if someone tells you you can’t win – it’s because they know you can.”  I think that’s pretty much the sentiment Bush attaches to our Iraq ‘strategy’ these days.

Rush Limbaugh can see through the shit, too:

“We’re the only ones in charge of our affairs…We don’t farm out our defense, unless we elect Democrats. We don’t farm out our protection against attack and national security, unless we elect Democrats. We don’t farm out our economy and tear it up in the name of a hoax called global warming, unless we elect Democrats. Riots in Denver at the Democrat convention would see to it we don’t elect Democrats – and that’s the best damn thing could happen for this country as far as anything I can think: Don’t elect Democrats!”

So why are there so many Hillary-Democratic-Machinists steadfastly promoting a person who can’t even balance the budget of her own campaign, and supports the fucked-up oligarchic investment conglomeration mentality toward our economy which got us in the mess we’re in now.

Jesus Walks

Just in case anyone missed the cover of Rolling Stone this week, I’ll bring you up to speed: Barack Obama is the second coming. He is the Cristo Redento, the latest incarnation of Horus, will probably give birth to the next Dalai Lama, and clearly, the Big Cheese. Even the homosexualites want to lick his pretty face (wait, what was the question again, Sullivan?).

‘Salvation’ and ‘redemption’ both reflect really dangerous rhetoric in political spheres where discursive complexity is minimal (blogosphere aside–generally speaking, we have three candidates, and about two or three mass media outlets). Although Obama has done surprisingly well at resisting the temptation to slide into populism, the discourses of redemption that orbit his campaign are not helping to envision solutions to our fucked up postmodern imperialism, or our current financial meltdown. A frenzied populace, who fear decisions and critical assessment of the America in which we live, would rather double-down on ‘hope’? That’s called externalizing democracy. There’s an incredible amount of political agency we abandon when, for starters, the economy overruns both the government and its constituents… If Obama wants to be a leader, he needs to earn that now through action, and not just give us a poetic IOU.

Saying that, the one *ahem* redeeming aspect of Rolling Stone’s Obamagasm was Bob Boynton’s interview with Cornel West. Asking about “handing the reins of power” to someone inexperienced, West replied:

There is a certain freshness and newness that people confuse with inexperience. I don’t think Obama is actually inexperienced when it comes to governing as president. He’s going to choose a high-quality team, and he has shown he is capable of excellent political judgment… I told Obama that when he wins–which I think he will–I will celebrate for one day. I’ll break-dance in the morning and party in the afternoon. But the next day, I’ll become one of his biggest critics.

Also, suck my balls Hilary Clinton. Suck ‘em.