the morning after

the nice benefit about living in the digital age is the instantaneous access to news across the country and worldwide and the global connection to individual events. the invention of phallogocentric writing systems created history and led to the social construction of the patriarchal nation-state. and so, history is written and sometimes, surpasses individual remembering. benedict anderson pointed to newspapers as a key technology constructing the imagination of a national political community though it may be fractured, nevertheless it remains conceptually cohesive via this print medium of national mythos and ethos (and pathos). maybe your morning newspaper delivery (you still get hard copy?) was stolen today and you don't have $500 to shell out on ebay, or maybe you still see value in print media as an artifact--virtual news is after all so very ephemeral. to see how the world (okay corporate & independent media) scribed this moment in history, click on this.

OBAMA WINS

i can't hardly believe it!

my coworker and i (and VL) were just giving a community needs assessment survey design training for seven black and brown youth leaders who are building a center for the young people of West Oakland. the dream they dare to dream is built on hope and the determination to make change, to stop the violence, to unite young people, and envision a positive future. the news came via text message midway thru the training and electrified us with possibility. what blessed company to be in when history was made.

i just read this:
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so Barack could run. Barack is running so our children can fly."

as much as i believe in social change and social justice, i never thought it would happen in my lifetime. shame on me for giving into the culture of fear that dominates used to dominate american politics.

hot damn. i guess my breast pump was right. she called it back in april. voteforbarack-voteforbarack-voteforbarack (blackhope! blackhope! black hope!).

a pig is a pig

so lipstick on a pig is the major presidential campaign concern.

Riiiiight. Because cheating on and then abandoning your crippled-no-longer-hot former model wife after she stood by you & single-handedly raised your three brats for seven years while you were in the hole, with a younger, tighter, and richer woman is somehow NOBLE.

Question: What do you call someone who marries a trust fund baby and gets thrown a $450,000 face-saving bone annually from the father-in-law?

Answer: Apparently, you call him a Feminist.

ain't that some self-serving pork in a barrel? those with lipstick on their... ahem, collar, shouldn't be casting stones. it's like the 21st century and name-calling and out & out lying is really the most important issue in a presidential election? so asinine. can we get back to the real fracking issues?

people are dying under this economy. literally, dying. consumed as pearls before swine. it would behoove us to remember, All Animals are Equal, but Some Are More Equal Than Others.

this little piggy had none, and this little piggy
cried whaaawhaawhaa all the way---
biloxi in 2005. not much has changed.

oh weo, there a bunch of new casinos via where
these homes used to stand built via the eminent domain
of tragic circumstance. where are the people?
working for minimum wage in the casino.
what govt relief has been done for them?
weo, the govt subsidized the casinos. duh.

we've been sold a pig in a poke. the American economy is a house of cards built on trillions and trillions of debt and we've been dealt two ace of spades. it's like [warning stupid power analogize coming up], it's like the higgledy-piggledy house made out of straw; it's like the economy is a HOG being gavage-fattened* with cannabalistic swill comprised of putrefying animal by-products marinated in lard and cardboard filler derived from GMO corn-syrup which is itself over-produced and subsidized by the govt. oh, it turns out that porkbelly of debt has been carved up by the rest of the world. America is bringin' home the GNP bacon for China and like, every Western nation. aw, it so nice to know that my consumer debt is going to such humanitarian uses. i might just go finish up that PhD and contribute more interest points to world congeniality after all.

lament the death of "the true, wise friend called Piggy". with or without lipstick, any presidential candidate who cannot offer some real solutions is leading us down the real Bridge to Nowhere.

I-90 bridge in Mississippi destroyed by Hurricane Katrina (2005)

you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. all the name-calling in the world doesn't change that at all.

*pigs, left to their own innate farrowing nature would prefer to eat acorns & truffles, however a starving pig will eat whatever is in front of it, no matter how unhealthy to their constitution, given no other choice. kinda like american children and processed food. end result is the same too--obesity and imminent death. true story.