"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.... The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." -- James Madison
When Fascism comes to America, "wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross," if you even notice it at all... don't say you weren't warned.
Listen here as Bill O'Reilly barely lets Richard Dawkins speak. O'Reilly spews endless bullshit about why Christianity and religion are the only reason morals exist and lists absurd points he claims are facts. My favorite part is when he claims most horrific genocides were committed by Atheists and lists Hitler, Mao, and Stalin as examples. (Some examples of his "facts".) Dawkins "mustache" response was brilliant.
I would give a lot to see this man as commander and chief. I hope to 'science' he at least gets on as VP with someone. An Obama/Kucinich ticket would be music to my disenfranchised ears.
Student: Many schools in Arkansas are failing to teach students about evolution according to the educational standards of our state. Since it is against these standards to teach creationism, how would you go about helping our state educate students more sufficiently for this?
Huckabee: Are you saying some students are not getting exposure to the various theories of creation?
Student (stunned): No, of evol … well, of evolution specifically. It’s a biological study that should be educated [taught], but is generally not.
Moderator: Schools are dodging Darwinism? Is that what you … ?
Student: Yes.
Huckabee: I’m not familiar that they’re dodging it. Maybe they are. But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that’s why it’s called the theory of evolution. And I think that what I’d be concerned with is that it should be taught as one of the views that’s held by people. But it’s not the only view that’s held. And any time you teach one thing as that it’s the only thing, then I think that has a real problem to it.
(http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/rncse_content/vol25/8118_is_evolution_arkansas39s_h_12_30_1899.asp)
"Mike, there is no such thing as "an established scientific fact." A theory is as good as you can get in science. Anyone who wants to be the leader of the free world, better know that or he's too ignorant of science for the job. And if you do know it, you've just proved yourself a liar."
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If there is one thing that terrifies me... it is the possibility of another Republican gaining the White House in 2008. Sure "President Hillary Clinton" sounds quite frightening, however, it sounds ten times better to this blogger than "President Rudi Giuliani." (Sounds far to close to "President Clueless Fuck-tart")
A lot of people seem to be spouting along the lines of "the democrats will definitely win," or "the country is making it clear we are tired of republicans." Of course, all of that talk I'm hearing is coming from either staunch leftists or at least people who spewed the same assuming bullshit in 2004... and Bush actually one that one fair and square.
With a name like "Sean Future" you've gotta hope some sort of prophecy telling abilities are included. Nope, sorry, it is just a stupid name and 2008 is going to be another stupid election. Loads of stupid Americans will go and vote and no matter who wins one thing is always a guarantee; the winner will be someone non-deserving of the presidency, or put more simply, someone fucking stupid.
Regardless, you've gotta be pulling for a democrat if you want anyone in Boston to respect you these days... and I am. Dennis Kucinich is my hero right now although sadly far from a front runner for the democratic nomination.
My main concern is that if one thing is going to quickly and easily rip this election out from under the democrats it has to be the potential splitting of California's electoral votes. California is traditionally a democrat territory with a beautifully large number of electoral votes. If we let this happen we aren't talking about a more fair split. We are talking about the republicans getting to manipulate the system one more time and in a very dramatic way. We are talking about greatly raising the potential for another Bush vs. Gore disaster in which the winner of the election might not be the President elected by the majority of the American people.
If destroying the electoral voting system has ever seemed like a good idea to you, for even a second, this is a dramatically horrific step in the wrong direction. The republicans are trying to force another red-hot coal up the American ass. Make the fucking pain stop!
Celebrate July 4th by being a true American... recognize your dissent, practice civil disobedience, attend a rally, organize a protest, call your congress person, speak out against politicians who think they are above the law, DON'T vote on someone else's rights, DON'T say "god bless america," SIT DOWN during the national anthem, and BURN an American flag.
These things are not only your right, but as an American who loves his or her country and is not yet ready to see it destroyed, these things are your duty.
Our American Democracy was born in violence and our founding father's dissent. Those founding fathers we admire today were "terrorists" to the established order of the time. Lets make them proud... burn a flag in your freedom.
Josh, my man, you are the definition of "overcome."
Josh Blue... an excellent, talented, and disabled stand up comic doesn't even have to try to make you smile. Watch this guy's act and try, just try, not to get this odd feeling like you two are great friends and you couldn't be more proud. Of course... who wouldn't be proud of a guy who not only refuses to let his handicap stop or slow him, but actually uses it to his comic benefit.
Watch, enjoy, and don't feel guilty for laughing at him... he thinks his disease is funnier than even you do:
Note that the first minute or so of this video is borderline irritating as it seems John Safran is just driving the point to total redundancy oblivion. Fortunately humor is saved in the second half, he decides to give these fundamentalist nut-jobs a taste of their own medicine. Enjoy... and lets start seeing some comments people:
While doing some Flickr surfing I ran accross a beautiful example of hipster meets urban trash. It's been a pretty common style of the past 10 to 15 months... not big enough that it has an official name but judging from where titles like 'punk,' 'emo,' and 'other title of the year here' have come from and than gone too... my guess is that a year or three from now "everyone and their mother" will be saying hipster and this is what they will be talking about:
Many "friends" of mine over the past year have treated me like something closely resembling "shit," or really anything that belongs in a sewage container of sorts. At the very least, some have treated me as something that would not go in an apartment or any kind of home... especially if it belongs to them.
Truthfully I could write a decent sized list of what I have endured. I'll keep it short, however, and say that I have been lied to, ignored, stolen from, backstabbed and generally interacted with as if I were an actual shit. This was all done by "friends" who are greater in number than most realize. The treatment continues but thankfully a fair amount of you didn't receive the "make Sean hate life" memo.
Those of you who have remained close and good to me and helped me through the past year... I'm grateful. I'm not able to repay you with a single act. Just please remember that I am also a good friend to have and will continue to be so for as long as I know you.
Those who I've describe as "friends" with those fun little quotation marks, I'm not going to dwell and let you live in my head rent free. Just know that you are pathetic and sad. We are no longer friends and that was your choice. Go fuck yourselves and die.
I've rewritten this about four times. It was meant to let out my anger and frustration but this version I chose to post. I guess, it was the least anger filled and vulgar and just downright most comprehendible of the few thousand words I shot out. Much better than stabbing someone to within an inch of their life but not killing them
... not that I believe in angels of course.
What is also obvious is that I rarely watch Fox News, at least I hope that's clear. Sometimes while channel surfing I'll pause there in hopes to be amused by something either obnoxiously republican, racist, or just plain stupid.
With that, I actually watched part of this interview live, but I didn't catch the gem of a comment at the end from Christopher Hitchens. A friend recently brought it to my attention and I couldn't help but spread it.
Sounds like he hates people like Jerry as much as me or Richard Dawkins.
I know what I'd be thinking; no post for this long and he comes at me with a classified? Fucker! But I'll be straight, this has been a very "challenging" six months or so for yours truly... it has sucked ass and been great at the same time. Cut me some slack and I'll have great content in the near future I promise.
Mean time, need a place to live in Boston for the summer? Check out my deal:
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The apartment is beautiful having been redone last year. New wood floors, incredible looking exposed brick walls (that was my favorite part), all new kitchen appliances including a full size fridge, oven, stove, and dishwasher. The bathroom has a shower/tub and a separate stand up shower, ceiling to floor mirror on one wall, tile otherwise, and all the 'fixings' are new in there too including both showers, the sink, and the toilet. Every room has built in lights which are controlled by dim switches and the skylight in the hall/stair area can light up most of the apartment including the bathroom which has glazed windows near the ceiling.
The available bedroom has a full size closet, one gorgeous brick wall, and a large skylight with crank so it can be opened. I don't have measurements off hand, but for an idea, the room previously fit one full size bed, a large desk, and a bureau with enough space for additional furniture.
Contact me, Sean, via email at "seanboston (the @ symbol) gmail (dot) com" with your cellphone # or I'll send you mine.
Every now and then I let the "geek" take over my brain and become the biggest nerd known to man. You ever watch that original Enterprise show on the Sci Fi channel? The one that supposedly took place right after the space station was built and way before all the totally far fetched Star Trek shit came about? WOW they make it so believable... the introduction even has a flight technology montage starting with the Wright brothers up to present day which supposedly gives way to *BLAMO* the Enterprise, all the technology you see in Star Trek, and, most importantly, a Vulcan played by some chick with a great tan and the hottest tits this side of the galaxy.
Have I freaked you out with my nerd attack yet? Well I just spent a few hours contemplating far fetched "future" technologies like Warp Drive... traveling faster than the speed of like, worm holes, time travel. Look I'm really sorry, but I'm stuck in New Jersey right now completely out of touch and I can't even go mountain biking because I fucked up my back yesterday, humor me and at least pretend like you give a shit.
Plus, none of this stuff is even that totally ridiculous, right? I mean... the articles I'm reading ARE on the NASA.gov website:
Warp Drive, When?
This is it, the event of the half year. Thankfully the art gods smile on us and this showcase of urban art, dance, music, and fashion comes twice a year instead of annually. I don't know what I'd do if I had to wait an entire year after every Legends of Style event for the next lesson in my favorite sort of art.
Our parents and grandparents have the classics, which I am by no means shunning here, but today is all about urban art, street fashion, city life, and being a KID ABOUT TOWN. Our generation sees beauty in an increasing amount of talent scrawled on subway beams, alley walls, and otherwise bland buildings. I cheer at the defacing of mindless corporate messages, replaced with the aerosol expressions of someone pressed to spray their mind before the American gestapo comes and tares them down.
I'm talking about everything urban from art to style. Legends of Style is the showcase of our urban artists.
Obviously I've done a lot of digging. I pulled together photographs of past Legends of Style events, videos of the parties, press releases for the latest event and its theme "Surreal City," plus I have samples of work from a few of the artists who'll be showcasing this April 20th.
First checkout the most recent Legends of Style gallery. The photographer did a great job, not only capturing the party, but also with shots of an array of the artwork that was displayed.
It shouldn't be this hard to get my hands on a decent copy of a movie just released, should it? I should be able to find it before it fuckin' comes out. 300 was a pain in the ass but, MINE.
There is a sudden storm of record release parties approaching along with the NYC DJs flooding the Future Classic roster in the next few weeks. This Friday at Revolution Rock Bar, LCD Soundsystem's latest album will be available while DJ Frank White spins.
LCD Soundsystem's Single, "North American Scum," in WIDE SCREEN AND HIGH DEFINITION:
http://www.futureclassic.net
Everyones heard of the rigged Diebold voting machines and the scandal surrounding them. It's LESS known there are some alternative voting machine making companies like AutoMARK. Recently, Massachusetts AutoMARK to tally the votes in the state. A lucrative 9 million dollar contract, law makers research and approve such spending. Not to mention here in Boston and the rest of the state, we want our votes to COUNT.
As it turns out, this didn't make AutoMARK's competitor or the corrupt and Bush loving company Diebold all too happy. Now they are demanding the decision be overturned. Demanding? What even gives them the right to do that?
Damn kids, April is workin' up to be a wicked fackin' pissah! No joke though, we've still got, what, over a week of March left, but Revolution Rock Bar to the rescue with their Future Classic Fridays. DJ Cat with her pussy-esque parties followed by Oxy Cottontail and... well... the obvious colorful pills alone make me wanna cream myself:
One parking ticket is one parking ticket too many, especially in Boston where parking is at a premium. Add in the demented form of "thought" my stoned hippie DMB loving neighbors are capable of, and sometimes you get this:
I missed the release party for the new Hearthrob DVD mix... back in February I think. I'm not sure "mix" is the proper name for this near seizure inducing collection of visuals and blood pumping beats, though. Don't take the tone there wrong, this "volume 1" mash pleasantly exceeded my expectations of the Hearthrob guys. Sensitive Hand, Redfoxx, Baltimoroder, and Morgan Louis all put toge-- actually fuck it. I managed to find a shitty copy on planet Google, so formulate your own opinions:
Wasn't that a fun 49 minutes and 5 seconds? They killed the Roxy when we had them for the Masquerade Ball and Fashion Show by 280 Studios. Not the normal scene for the Roxy, but we wanted them!
Every now and again in this industry, you actually do manage to stumble across a fairly talented photographer. Not the average "I like taking pictures, I'm a photographer," photographer. Someone whose actually got a decent eye for "nightlife" style pictures. Mike Howard has been doing a great job, so far covering the Masquerade Ball and Fashion Sbow plus the ?uestlove's Dj set at Underbar. These are two of my favorites:
I'll be honest, you probably missed an amazing night at The Roxy on March 1st. Clearly I'm behind with this one... but "Future Classic's Masquerade Ball and Fashion Show," featuring 280 Studios, Karmaloop, New Balance, the Hearthrob DJs, and Stingray Body Art (props sponsors), was killer. Again though, you probably missed out. Most real talent doesn't get the credit it deserves... and even with a few hundred attendants the 280 Studios collection didn't get close to what it demands. We are talking well over 300 of Boston's most hip and fashionable young adults. Next time I'm collecting tickets for these guys though I expect my hands to reek from the stench of dirty crushed up money you dug out from under your ex's futon... because that is what these cats deserve.
280 Studios gave me a visual orgasm while my fresh New Balance kicks left me looking for a post sex jog instead of a cigarette. Yeah, and I fucking love cigarettes. So for those of you sad fools who were stoned at home thinking, "huh, where was I supp-- ooh chips," I've got the next best thing for you. Check out our hottest new photo gallery at Future Classic:
Throwed Dance Party definitely threw it down at Harpers Ferry, when Andrew WK’s crowed surfing sparked a wave of surfers to try their own luck. To bad those nasty sharks we call “bouncers” chewed them up and spit them out on the sidewalk. Sorry kids, with the zero re-admittance policy once I walked outside for a butt there wasn’t much getting back for me neither!
IANAEB (I am not an evolutionary biologist) but as I understand it, the Theory of Evolution cannot ever be proven in totality. However, independently individual tenets of evolution are provable in so far as they are observable.
Consider:
But you know, all of that taken together in no way supports or validates the general Theory of Evolution. In no way. God says."
(http://politics.reddit.com/info/62226/comments/)
I really don't want any of these borderline demented Republicans leading this nation... I could handle Ron Paul but the rest are scary.