Day: April 20, 2009

Unwanted: Out of My Mind for 21 April 2009

There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. — Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei

The AP doesn’t care about me! If that’s not an invitation….

Watch this! Amaaazing!!

Awww!

The NSA spies on congresspersons?? WTF? Think about it: an entire government blackmailed??

Obama’s brand new line of shit.

Another crock of shit: the unions destroyed Detroit. Took seventy years. Overlooks minor fact: attractive, well-built product would and could sell at a sufficient premium to make up for any actual union expenses. So, all things being equal, good design does not cost more than crap. So, how does decades of abuse by union effect this? And the owners aren’t compliant in the union’s alleged misdeeds? Maybe I’m missing something….

Stealers of music are the biggest buyers of music too? People scoff, saying the thieves happen to be the people most interested in having music in the first place. Which really isn’t an argument against as an explanation. I still say: buyers needs some access to free music to decide what to buy. Someone steals something they hate, yeah, they won’t buy it. Or if they did, they would deliberately avoid buying more later. Hear something they like, may buy it and the same stuff again and again. Radio used to play that role but station owners’ greed and the recording industry’s ineptitude took care of that. So to hear music free, it’s hanging with friends or stealing.

The e-voting industry gets their whitewash report! It’s a crock, of course. How can it not be?

Off the pigs?

More about that here.

American Justice: Teacher busted on bogus sexting rap. Well, sexting and being a dope…. (Me, I’m still waiting to be sexted.)

If you’ve read this far, you deserve this incredible something of a music viddie!

Whoooaa! I’m just like Big Media, reporting old, known news:

Professor K expands on yesterday’s hatred of the Irish.

iPod Touches go off to war!

Body mod of the day.

Crimes suspected at 20 TARP bailout beneficiaries? Anyone think this’ll actually lead anywhere, accomplish very much? Me neither.

Sad (not): Another shitheaded wingnut smacked in the head by reality. Well, Judge, realize any other mistakes you may want to apologize for> Any bad decisions, maybe, now that the harm’s been done and it’s too late?

Awww, didn’t steal anything from the AP after all 😦

More Piss, More Vinegar; Out of My Mind for 20 April 2009

Stop staring! This is a warning!

You don’t want my morning….

Global warming; a new effect: a proven increase in at least this toxin.

You know tort reform is a complete rightwing crock. Read this and this. We have our own medical malpractice suit and honestly, if we didn’t have an opportunity to sue the responsible party, the only alternative would be to have the responsible person whacked before he fucks up again. On the other hand, I am an Old Testament guy….

Are the P2P networks like Pirate Bay doing the recording industry’s work? By giving us access to free music from all the biggies at the expense of independent artists who need the exposure, are they sort of getting us hooked on the crack of Big Music? Are these sites closing the legal market to the independents, for the benefit of the big guys? Actually, I don’t quite agree with this guy; some sites do have some less common stuff available but still….

TARP and Obama’s pipeline of cash to Wall Street: It’s working. Not! Lending by the beneficiaries is drying up even more.

Douchebag: Meet AIPAC’s lackey congresswoman.

Oooh, Professor K doesn’t want to be Irish! In honor of the AP’s self-destructive idiocy, I’ve been going light on the quotes lately, but this says it all, so simply even Obama might understand it:

And the lesson of Ireland is that you really, really don’t want to put yourself in a position where you have to punish your economy in order to save your banks.

Another Big Journalism shithead. Jesus, the Times’ op-ed page is starting to run some really weird stuff. You know, the stuff that helps chase readers away….

Speaking of the Times, it has discovered that cable news is in fact very light on, well, news, and heavy on the bullshit. (You know, bullshit, like running Judy Miller’s hallucionary water-carrying for the Bushies, let alone on page 1.)