Just Another Wednesday Morning

If you people think Marley slaps me around like a bitch on Xmastime, here's a glimpse of what he does to me in private emails. I see his name slip into my inbox, I'm like Tina Turner when Ike comes in the room. Shudder.

----- Original Message ----
From: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
To: Xmastime
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

----- Original Message ----
From: Xmastime
To: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

so youre fine defending Sarah Palin doing this, since apparently 6 years ago the same thing was done with Bush? can we even pause to imagine how your beautifully sculpted, probably just-gelled head would've exploded if I pulled out the 'ol "well, they were mean to Clinton too!" trope?

I know you're a gridlock guy. but pretending that such silence by the GOP is less of a political tactic than my pointing it out on Xmastime, and then defensively digging up "well, they did it too!" stuff, is nonsense and beneath you. In your defense ill chalk this up to tonight's episode of The Real World being the season finale. i know you get emotional.


----- Original Message ----
From: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
To: Xmastime
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

I'm saying that the entire thing, the whole shootin' match, whether utilized against the right or the left, is a creation, a story, and that it pains me to see you let them shove their hand up your bum to parrot their
line, and its even more painful to see you extract moral superiority from the proctological endeavor.  This same silliness was utilized against the left during the Bush administration - find the nuts, take the extremes, overblow and set your line.

Yet, your so invested in this built-to-suit drama, that you see me and immediately, in Pavlovian fashion, attack "the other."

I thought the video I sent you last night might have jarred you - a compendium of every stupid fucker out there parroting your line, like something right out of Network

And all you read was the title, and responded in standard puppet format. You eat the line.  You love it.  And it makes a fool of you.


----- Original Message ----
From: Xmastime
To: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

we can always go back to "well its always been that way, oh its the media" etc etc. which as a philosophy is fine, but it also demands an intellectual dishonesty. sure libs were "furious!" at Bush for things like the war, sure they called him "dumb." but i dont think they were showing up at rallies with posters with Hitler mustaches drawn on him, I dont think they were questioning his citizenship. i dont think they were promoting "bring your guns!" rallies, and I dont think they were planning rallies on the OK City bombing anniversary and claiming it has to do with Concord.

if you wanna say bah humbug to all that, thats fine. but to claim there's no discernible difference between the two "extremes" is laughable. it's all theater to you, since you're a gridlock guy anyway and dont want the govt to do anything except "kick ass!" But to people who would prefer otherwise, having someone like John McCain NOT increase their quality of life because he feels the need to play to the whims of these  people (the worst of tea partiers) is an incredibly frustrating misuse of time and government.


----- Original Message ----
From: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
To: Xmastime
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

Look, you want to be in the game, fine.  You want to eat the biscuit they - be they left or right - lay out for you, fine.

All I'm saying is that you can maintain a principled political philosophy without eating the pre-packaged, poll-tested, generally inaccurate biscuit.

Look if in your heart of hearts, you believe

a.  The Tea Party is racist
b.  The right is purveying violence
c.  Palin is a retrograde danger and moron
d.  the hate directed toward Bush was lesser and of a different stripe

Okay, fine.  You have company (just about every standard media puppet and an entire punditry and political apparatus prepared to reinforce your beliefs for their own aggrandizement).  I just think you're a dope eating an easy biscuit who doesn't really know shit about the history of these things, but just "feels" a certain way (a feeling bolstered by biscuit makers and biscuit supporters everywhere).

But I'm reminded of the girl in my Gilded Age class last night who, in a discussion of Michel Foucault's death by AIDS, said, 'Well, look, we're not talking the flu here.  We're talking about a devastating disease."

You are correct in one respect - it is theater.  And my sole goal is to get you to stop juggling for free.

----- Original Message ----
From: Xmastime
To: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

the entire point youre missing is that it doesnt matter if im a dope that eats the biscuit. hey, the part of it being theater goes like this:

1) some righty says/does something i take umbrage at, i post about it. hopefully im more witty than histrionic, but i wouldnt bet the farm on it.

2) you jump on me, pointing out that im an idiot falling for the media holding the football that ill never kick. which is never wrong, and we go round and round.

but the problem is that sometimes people eating the biscuit are people that are of actual power.

look at Texas. with the first Tea Party, Rick Perry sees opportunity and pops a hammy jumping up and screaming: "seccession!!!!" etc etc. which someone like me points out as lunacy/stupid, which you laugh at as theater, its how its always been/will be etc etc.

but Rick Perry is not some blogger in Brooklyn hoovering Cheetos. He's the governor of Texas. which means that while he dives in head-first to do cartwheels for Tea Partiers, people  of power take advantage of this to realize "hey, this would be a good time to change our history textbooks to say anything we want them to!!"

up to that point, everything can be laughed off. but what if these textbooks actually get changed? those are actual consequences. the danger isnt that I eat the shit biscuit at all. i dont really matter. you should be a little more concerned about powerful people that are eating the biscuit, lest you find your kids reading textbooks that claim "Rush Limbaugh was the first president and upset the Colts in Super Bowl III!"

----- Original Message ----
From: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
To: Xmastime
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

I get you, and its the most laughable part of the dance.  Textbooks are a perfect example.  For years, the liberals moved to have the emphasis changed, to de-emphasize white man history, to install "Billy has two Mommies."  The conservatives went batshit and the dance was begun.  In some of the jurisdictions where liberals held sway, the changes were made. Columbus a dick.  Billy has Mommy Frieda and Mommy Joan.  The conservatives cry, "It's the end of civilization."

Fast forward.  Now, the conservatives want a section on ID and to de-emphasize Jefferson and to make sure Pocahontas isn't showing her tits. The liberals go batshit.  The dance begins.  In some of the jurisdictions where the conservatives hold sway, ID is given nod, and Jefferson falls under "Jefferson, George."  The liberals cry, "It's the end of the civilization."

And you, you dramatic homo lug, who hollowed out your textbooks to keep your Wacky Packs cards,  conclude that there have been "actual consequences."

(you know - you should post this exchange)

----- Original Message ----
From: Xmastime
To: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

"(you know - you should post this exchange)"

then you admit I was brilliant!!!!!

:)

Pocahantas tits. dying.


----- Original Message ----
From: iwishididnthaveatinypenis@marley.com
To: Xmastime
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:02:23 AM
Subject: DAMN THE PURVEYORS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE!  DAMN THEM ALL!!!!

Actually, I admit that you're intelligible, owing mostly to me