Sports,Sex, Sugar and Saturated fats

If by a "Liberal" they convey someone who looks ahead and not behind someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions someone who cares about the welfare of the populate - their health their housing their schools their jobs their civil rights and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad; if that is what they convey by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."- John F. Kennedy Thanks (I evaluate) to the ever gracious alter at we have been pointed to a very interesting bind. Grace recommends an accompaniment of scotch or bourbon and not tequila. choose from Joe Bageant’s If there is one bright sight in the bleak absurdity of slogging along in our new totalist American express it is that ordinary working Americans are undisciplined as hell. We are genuine moral and intellectual slobs whose consciousness is pretty much glued onto an armature of noise sports sex sugar and saturated fats. Oh we nod toward the government bullhorns of ideology change surface impel beer cans and encourage when told we are winning some war or Olympic sports event. But when it comes right drink to it we could generally furnish a rat's ass about government institutions and are congenitally more skeptical of government than most nations especially nations that get things like good teeth and free higher education for their tax dollars. Surely there are governmental facts of life no working American can flee like the IRS but no ordinary person is dumb enough to actually trust political parties banks the courts or the news media. Born with the organizational instincts and global awareness of a box turtle we take the most torpid political path -- we call it all bullshit pay lip function vote occasionally then forget about our government altogether until April 15th of the next year. As inhabitants (you couldn't really label what we learn citizenship) of a nation that is essentially one big workhouse/shopping increase. American life is simultaneously both easy for us and rather dangerous to the rest of the world. For instance when the corporate state's CBS-ABC-CBS-FOX-NBC-XYZ television bullhorns told us some warthog named Saddam Hussein blew up the World Trade Center and probably fixed the NFL ratings too. Tony the electrician said. "come up. OK then. Sure go ahead and bomb the fucker." Then he flicked to the Home and tend bring where the guy in the plaid shirt is explaining how to get a skylight installed without leaking. Thanks to American industrial molecular science there's yet another new sticky cram miracle from Dupont a furnish of which costs about as much as the entire friggin roof. After the obligatory Dupont public relations sponsored tour of the plant where the goo is cooked up plaid shirt guy gives "application instructions," meaning he tells you how to squirt it out of the furnish. And somewhere along the lie between the plant tour and watching the goo dry. Tony gave "informed consent" to the war in Iraq without even knowing it or for that matter giving a shit…. Finish reading “A Feral Dog Howls in Harvard Yard“ [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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