Archive for June, 2009
you are what you do (version#2)
Friday, June 26th, 2009detail note
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009All images can be enlarged by clicking on image. Further detail, very close, can be had by clicking on + icon.
fences
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009to no avail
Monday, June 15th, 2009hyper-link
Monday, June 15th, 2009consistancy of compulsion
Saturday, June 13th, 2009lurking
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009occupation – occupation
Monday, June 8th, 2009mcchrystal meth
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009I saw some of General McChrystal’s testimony before the Senate today on the television. And every time I see one of these spectacles, it just further confirms my sense that what we’re living in is some sort of twisted and endless Dickens novel. What, with a name like McChrystal, what more could you expect from a new commander on Capital Hill, but more meth for sale to sooth the disenfranchised and war weary. But here he is.
And he obviously doesn’t need any Cialis, unless he’s been eating the stuff by the fistful with every meal, because the man’s body (if facial expressions are any guide) looks like he’s literally made of some kind of hard mineral. So while it’s to be expected, it’s probably a good thing he’s in the army and doesn’t need to telegraph with any kind flexibility, the feelings and emotions we usually find indispensable to our all too human lives – because surely, if he were to say, cracked a smile or lower a brow, he would explode into a million little obsidian sharp edged shards, and maybe hurt someone.
I don’t know why they keep parading these stone faced bejeweled uniforms up in front of the congress and the American people. They always look the same (and in this case more so), act the same (always in their best robot, or is John Wayne, imitation), and say the same thing (the next up coming period will be critical). You’d think that after 8 years of this rowing backwards in Afghanistan and Iraq that this vaudeville act would have jumped the shark by now. Or more importantly, it would have become painfully obvious that this clever plan to assign these occupation wars to the commanders and away from the civilian government, is innately flawed, and by its essential nature, destined to fail. Because to expect a general to solve delicate cultural, social and political problems is like hiring a drug dealer to do marriage counseling. Where the problems are instigated, perpetuated, and inflamed by the remedy.