Tag Archive: Bush


PALIN IS DUMBER THAN BUSH

This is written on the eve of the Biden -Palin debate but whatever sparks fly between them, the fact that this hockey mom is even in the running is some scary shit!

I haven’t troubled to watch an full interview with Sarah Palin until now, relying on second hand reports. I hadn’t fully appreciated the level of ignorance this woman has. A comment on one of the You Tube video put it well, saying that to elect Sarah Palin as vice president is about as safe as letting kids play with explosives.

The clips assembled on this ‘best of’ show she is even dumber than Bush!

THE SPECTACLE OF FEARSOME ACTS

GANGS OF NEW YORK directed by Martin Scorsese (USA, 2002)

While I was eagerly awaiting the chance to see Daniel Day Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ I decided to backtrack to revisit his scary as fuck portrayal of Bill ‘The Butcher’ Cutting in Martin Scorsese’s epic ‘Gangs Of New York’. Continue reading

Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine

‘The Shock Book coverDoctrine – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism’ by Naomi Klein is a must read for anyone who still believes that the economic policies of the free market are concerned to give personal liberty for all.

Klein uses torture as a metaphor to show that the barbaric techniques used in what, in Orwellian language,the CIA call “coercive interrogation” have a parallel with the distorted thinking behind laissez-faire economics which she views as “different manifestations of the same terrifying logic“. Continue reading

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

book coverphilip roth

What began with ‘The Ghost Writer’ in 1979 ends 9 novels on with Roth’s alter ego, Nathan Zucherman, now 71 years old, returning from 11 years self imposed isolation to find an America greatly changed for the worse. He is full of with grumpy old man observations, like viewing cell phones as “the embodiment of everything I want to escape” and also bemoans the waning of his creative powers “I may have accumulated over four decades the prestige of writing book after book but I had reached the end of my effectiveness nonetheless“. Continue reading