The gender roles are the deepest source of all violence that is not in direct self-defense and every government has as its most basic responsibility the duty of humanizing, eliminating the gender roles because it normalizes the masculine role, normalizes dominance and the feminine role, and normalizes submission to dominance. This is also normal from a race and class point of view.–Olaf Palma, former Swedish chief of state
I don’t know. WAOD kicks ass. They come up with terms like “hip hop industrial complex” and “Internet Ike Turners.” Mike Gravel is as entertaining to them as he is to me.
It’s a weird experience reading Hersh’s article on the plans for war in Iran. They couldn’t sell the idea of the nuclear threat. So now they’re gonna sell the war with a different reason. The mind boggles.Let’s go over that again. One excuse doesn’t work, so they come up with another. And if that one doesn’t fly, you can bet your bippy they’ll find a third. The important thing is: sell the war.
Got it? That means there is no real reason to go to war with Iran. If there was, they wouldn’t be switching reasons when they don’t poll well. Bush and Cheney just want to do it. That’s all. They just want to.
I can’t believe this is happening. And I have no idea how this can be stopped. This is sheer madness, not only on Bush’s part. A press that isn’t howling loudly about this, a political class that isn’t speaking up as one to prevent this, and finally, a public that can’t be troubled to protest warmaking on a whim - the country is as insane as it was in the fall of ‘02.
And that is really fucking scary.
Another good point from Cenk here who cracks me up in a gallows humor kind of way at the moment. Why not attack Malaysia instead of Iran? My mom was really funny nine months ago. She’s a CNN junkie so she said to me and my dad, “You know what? The war. It’s BECAUSE OF THE OIL!!!” Okay Mom, that’s three or four years late. Her big issue/obsession is impeachment. I often hear her say, “Dammit, why don’t they impeach?” Good point, Mom. Lately, CNN has been so negative she’s been listening to classical music instead.
