Too much work, constant deadlines, and a general disgust with the state of geopolitics has made me reduce my reading of the media to a bare minimum. It's too easy to get stressed out and crazy from the barrage of propaganda, lies, and distorted truths in the mediasphere. Blogs are no better, in general, but I still find myself drawn back to Orcinus regularly. In a post about the legislators who walked out to protest a prayer by a Muslim cleric, Neiwert articulates something he calls "The Orcinus Principium":
Those who foment war against Islam are objectively furthering the agenda of Osama bin Laden, and are thus an effective Al Qaeda 'fifth column.'
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Is the academic world ready for the awesome power of a fully operational mothership? Scot Hacker reports that an article he wrote on Parliament-Funkadelic for a book by Pagan Kennedy has inspired a master's thesis on P-Funk and Transcendentalism. Now maybe Scot's seminal writings on Liberace will finally get the attention they deserve in the ivory towers of our fine universities.
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3:17:59 PM say what []
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Happy Mardi Gras! The beadcam shows a pretty tame daytime scene at this moment, but it may get more interesting this evening.
UPDATE: I fixed the bad link. Thanks, Rayne. The crowds are getting thicker already. (1:05 PM Pacific time)
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