We Mocked Their Greatest Poet and When That Had No Effect We Parodied the Way They Dance Which Did Cause Pain, So They, in Turn, Said Our God Was Leprous, Hairless

No, I won't watch tonight's debate. Most winnable election of my lifetime - more than Clinton after Bush 1, Obama after Bush 2, Biden after Trump 1 - and Democrats don't care if you vote for them and don't care if they lose. I'd go even further and say that Democrats not only want to lose, they've been ordered to lose and can't wait to lose and cannot wait to blame the hippie-left for that loss and immediately start fundraising for their loss in 2028 (assuming there's an election in 2028). Shittier Hillary running the Shitty Hillary playbook, my effing left eye


Yes, I'm here less than once upon a time, the compulsion to must-blog is gone, and today was the first day in at least three I actually looked at this shitty blog's stats, the fuck is right with me? I told eyedoc this morning, No, you will not yoink out my cataracts and slice canals into my eyeballs to route the water dammed by glaucoma this November, fine metaphors abound. All my outdoor cats dead now (did I mention Frankie died a month or so ago), I checked on Marley and Ozzy, our next door neighbor's, they had not be eaten by Haitians overnight, my effing right eye

Zionists Are Calling For More War And May Well Get It
"Those populating the vice president’s joy-and-vibes crowd can pretend to celebrate a state of elation while acquiescing to their candidate’s approval of mass murder"
From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide
"If two Palestinian podcasters entertained the idea of pressing a button and eliminating all Israelis or Jews at once, because of the grave danger they pose to Palestinians, how long, in your estimation, would they be allowed to remain online with their platform intact?"
Inside the brutal siege of Jenin
"The World Has Gotten Used to Our Blood"
Israeli torture chambers aren’t new. They are what provoked the violence of Oct 7
Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan
Something monstrous				➡	"What is needed instead is a concrete psychosocial assessment: one that adequately captures how the vilification of migrants and Muslims forms part of a primitive persecutory phantasy, shaped by the UK’s colonial history and by its entrenched material disparities"
"I Feel Like I'm Going Crazy Because The World Has Gone Mad"
On the Frontline of Resistance: The Women of Palestine
The Bizarre State of Western Democracy
⬆	"What is currently happening however is altogether different: public opinion, notwithstanding all the propaganda directed at it, wants policies that are altogether different from those being systematically pursued by the ruling class. The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them."
Leaked footage from Israeli Airforce proves it was the IDF that took out its own citizens with Apache Helicopters on October 7 at the Nova music festival
"America, where we teach third-graders how to use a tourniquet instead of keeping guns away from lunatics"
Rainbow Flag Genocide Vs MAGA Hat Genocide
"Dick Cheney is a Horrible Human Being, and His Endorsement Should Be Seen as a Negative"
On Democrats applauding Dick Cheney for his courage
Official Statement from Kamala Harris on the shooting of American Aysenur Eygi by Israeli forces in the West Bank
"Victoria Nuland says about as clearly as a diplomat can that the U.S. scuttled the peace deal on the table in March 2022 bc it would have required Ukraine to agree to limits on weapons it would purchase"
The Power of News Frames					Sylvia Federici
Giorgio Agamben: Self-Portrait in the Studio
The eugenic foundations of the war on woke
Regime Crisis: The Persistence of Arno J. Mayer
Pharma Charges 80K to cure Hepatitis C. The Manufacturing Cost is $78
Right-wing misfits and grifters at the DNC
When bats were wiped out, more human babies died, a study found. Here's why
Maggie's weekly			Berber, emic vs etic
Untold sums dawning out of darkness
Rike & Pose is stupid, avoid at all cost, let it all go bankrupt
Desert Visions			➡	New Forrest Gander novel poem out October 1!
The Supreme Contradictions of Simone Weil
Glimmers of totality: Fredric Jameson at 90
La realtà		{ feuilleton }			King, emperor
"Literary studies in academia are in crisis. English majors are declining, tenured positions are being eliminated as professors retire, and whole departments are falling under the administrator’s axe. Somewhat more pressingly, the world is on fire, younger generations are worse off than their parents, and various domestic and international conflicts threaten to erupt into even greater violence. So, what is the purpose of literary theory when literary studies are disappearing within the university and various crises—ecological, economic, political—compound without?"
Against Rereading				Fine metaphors abound
Yes, there's new Godspeed You! Black Emperor

THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE

Thomas Lux

hate the people of this village

and would nail our hats

to our heads for refusing in their presence to remove them

or staple our hands to our foreheads

for refusing to salute them

if we did not hurt them first: mail them packages of rats,

mix their flour at night with broken glass.

We do this, they do that.

They peel the larynx from one of our brothers’ throats.

We devein one of their sisters.

The quicksand pits they built were good.

Our amputation teams were better.

We trained some birds to steal their wheat.

They sent to us exploding ambassadors of peace.

They do this, we do that.

We canceled our sheep imports.

They no longer bought our blankets.

We mocked their greatest poet

and when that had no effect

we parodied the way they dance

which did cause pain, so they, in turn, said our God

was leprous, hairless.

We do this, they do that.

Ten thousand (10,000) years, ten thousand

(10,000) brutal, beautiful years hate the people of this village

and would nail our hats

to our heads for refusing in their presence to remove them

or staple our hands to our foreheads

for refusing to salute them

if we did not hurt them first: mail them packages of rats,

mix their flour at night with broken glass.

We do this, they do that.

They peel the larynx from one of our brothers’ throats.

We devein one of their sisters.

The quicksand pits they built were good.

Our amputation teams were better.

We trained some birds to steal their wheat.

They sent to us exploding ambassadors of peace.

They do this, we do that.

We canceled our sheep imports.

They no longer bought our blankets.

We mocked their greatest poet

and when that had no effect

we parodied the way they dance

which did cause pain, so they, in turn, said our God

was leprous, hairless.

We do this, they do that.

Ten thousand (10,000) years, ten thousand

(10,000) brutal, beautiful years.