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| Thursday, May 15th, 2008 | |
| 6:10 pm |  Current Music: Santo - Pixies |
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | |
| 7:00 pm | Guess who! (really: guess!) "Justice is in itself powerless; what rules by nature is force. To draw this over on to the side of justice, so that by means of force justice rules -- that is the problem of statecraft, and it is certainly a hard one: how hard you will realize if you consider what boundless egoism reposes in almost every human breast; and that it is many millions of individuals so constituted who have to be kept within the bounds of peace, order, and legality. This being so, it is a wonder the world is on the whole as peaceful and law-abiding as we see it to be." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "People have always been very discontented with governments, laws, and public institutions; for the most part, however, this has been only because they have been ready to blame them for the wretchedness which pertains to human existence as such. But this misrepresentation has never been put forward in more deceitful and imprudent a fashion than it is by the demagogues of the present day. As enemies of Christianity, they are optimists: and according to them the world is 'an end in itself', and thus in its natural constitution an altogether splendid structure, a regular abode of bliss. The colossal evil of the world which cries against this idea they attribute entirely to governments: if these would only do their duty there would be Heaven on earth, i.e. we could all, without work or effort, cram ourselves, swill, propagate, and drop dead -- for this is a paraphrase of their 'end in itself' and the goal of the 'unending progress of mankind' which in pompous phrases they never weary of proclaiming." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "A man who tries to live on the generosity of the Muses, I mean on his poetic gifts, seems to me somewhat to resemble a girl who lives on her charms. Both profane for base profit what ought to be the free gift of their inmost being. Both are liable to become exhausted and both usually come to a shameful end. So do not degrade your Muse to a whore." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "[T]he weak point of all religions remains that they can never dare to confess to being allegorical, so that they have to present their doctrines in all seriousness as true sensu proprio; which, because of the absurdities essential to allegory, leads to perpetual deception and a great disadvantage for religion. What is even worse, indeed, is that in time it comes to light that they are not true sensu proprio, and then they perish. To this extent it would be better to admit their allegorical nature straightway: only the difficulty here is to make the people understand that a thing can be true and not true at the same time. But since we find that all religions are constituted to a greater or less degree in this way, we have to recognize that the absurd is to a certain extent appropriate to the human race, indeed an element of its life, and that deception is indispensable to it." Current Music: Childhood - Beach House |
| Monday, March 24th, 2008 | |
| 5:34 pm | Fornicator: bump it, bonefish this right time in your life this wide open night lost in your lust for lust catapult to the Celli nebula expect a different result you just can't call (to: Willey Pishione) Current Music: Love In This Club - Usher |
| 2:52 pm | Dr. Phil's Personality Test Your Score: 36 Others see you as someone they should "handle with care." You're seen as vain, self-centered, and extremely dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you. However, they don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you. Current Music: Too Hot To Handle - Giorgio Moroder |
| Friday, March 21st, 2008 | |
| 3:45 am | "Associating with people in large numbers is actually harmful: there is not one of them that will not make some vice or other attractive to us, or leave us carrying the imprint of it or bedaubed all unawares with it. And inevitably enough, the larger the size of the crowd we mingle with, the greater the danger. But nothing is as ruinous to the character as sitting away one's time at a show - for it is then, through the medium of entertainment, that vices creep into one with more than usual ease. What do you take me to mean? That I go home more selfish, more self-seeking and more self-indulgent? Yes, and what is more, a person crueler and less humane through having been in contact with human beings. "I happened to go to one of these shows at the time of the lunch-hour interlude, expecting there to be some light and witty entertainment then, some respite for the purpose of affording people's eyes a rest from human blood. Far from it. All the earlier contests were charity in comparison. The nonsense is dispensed with now: what we have now is murder pure and simple. The combatants have nothing to protect them; their whole bodies are exposed to the blows; every thrust they launch gets home. A great many spectators prefer this to the ordinary matches and even to the special, popular demand ones. And quite naturally. There are no helmets and no shields repelling the weapons. What is the point of armour? Or of skill? All that sort of thing just makes the death slower in coming. In the morning men are thrown to the lions and the bears: but it is the spectators they are thrown to in the lunch hour. The spectators insist that each on killing his man shall be thrown against another to be killed in his turn; and the eventual victor is reserved by them for some other form of butchery; the only exit for the contestants is death. Fire and steel keep the slaughter going. And all this happens while the arena is virtually empty." -- Seneca, Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium, VII (c. 63 A.D.) Current Music: Heart and Lungs - Beach House |
| Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | |
| 2:27 pm | Cop kills 2 cyclists with car, seriously wounds another, feels self-pity, gets VIP treatment. Man seeking emergency treatment for pneumonia gets pulled over by police. After blowing a zero on the breathalyzer, he is nevertheless arrested for a DUI and held until 2 a.m. without medical assistance. (more sad stories) |
| Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | |
| 8:51 am | our system of justice "[F]or four full days, Adriana Torres-Flores was locked away and forgotten in 8 1/2-by-9 1/2-foot cell in the Washington County Courthouse, with only a metal table, two benches and a light bulb that never went out. She had nothing to eat or drink. There was no toilet. Thursday passed. Then Friday, Saturday and Sunday... She slept on the floor with her head on a shoe. "Panicked and afraid she would die, Torres-Flores pounded on the steel door with her hands and feet, and yelled. No one heard her." The poor woman had to drink her own urine for hydration. The judge in her case, whose office was near the holding cell, was unable to hear her cries on Friday because he was in Little Rock seeking re-election. (Agitator Inside) Current Music: Aguas De Março - Elis & Tom |
| Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | |
| 1:38 pm |  Current Music: The Eye You Lost In The Crusades - Califone |
| Monday, February 18th, 2008 | |
| 3:34 am | Backstory  Current Music: Into The Groove(y) - Ciccone Youth |
| Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | |
| 12:59 pm | This Valentine's... 1) Take a stand against natural insemination, Kerry Howley style. 2) Celebrate six glorious years of Radley Balko's TheAgitator.com with the post containing the only plug I'll ever need. 3) Revel in the truth that the tobacco pipe brandished by Drew in the latest Drew Carey Project video over at Reason.tv, "Living Large: America's Middle Class," was purchased by yours truly the evening before shooting.  "Ahhh.. isn't life in America great? -- But maybe I'm just an out of touch rich guy." Current Music: Cry For Me - Darkside |
| Monday, February 11th, 2008 | |
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| Sunday, January 27th, 2008 | |
| 4:38 pm |  Once, off the hump of Brazil I saw the ocean so darkened with blood it was black And the sun fadin’ away over the lip of the sky We’d put in at Fortaleza And a few of us had lines out for a bit of idle fishing It was me who had the first strike A shark it was And then there was another And another shark again Til all about the sea was made of sharks And more sharks still And no water at all My shark had torn himself from the hook And the scent, or maybe the stain it was, And him bleeding his life away Drove the rest of them mad Then the beasts took to eating each other In their frenzy, they ate at themselves You could feel the lust of murder like a wind stinging your eyes, And you could smell the death Reeking up out of the sea I never saw anything worse… Until this little picnic tonight And, you know, there wasn’t one of them sharks in the whole crazy pack that survived -- Orson Welles, Lady From Shanghai  Current Music: A Wonderful Guy - 'South Pacific' soundtrack |
| Saturday, January 5th, 2008 | |
| 2:58 am | Uecker Current Music: Epic skeptic |
| Thursday, November 29th, 2007 | |
| 10:20 am | The Glendale Fire Department notified a married couple that some of their trees must be trimmed in order to satisfy city regulations. The couple hired a tree trimmer for $3,000 to comply with the demands. However, when a city bureaucrat saw what was happening, she started proceedings that resulted in a fucking ridiculous $347,600 fine. The country's biggest criminal group (government employees) strikes again. Check theAgitator.com every single day to keep up with a portion of the evil. Current Music: Ex-Spectator - Fugazi |
| Monday, November 26th, 2007 | |
| 3:06 pm | not only do the libertarians have the best ideas they also have the best writers Current Music: The Anchor - Minutemen |
| Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 | |
| 12:50 pm | GQ honors Ron Paul in Men of the Year, 2007 Along with Daft Punk, Tom Hanks, Lil Wayne, Cate Blanchett, Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Howard, and a little over a dozen others, congressman, doctor, and presidential candidate Ron Paul has been named by GQ magazine as a Man of the Year. He is the only candidate in any party who earned inclusion.  Current Music: Nightride - Status Quo |
| Monday, November 19th, 2007 | |
| 5:15 pm | On The Origin of Band Names my favorites from this feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Inspired by a strange uncle of Don Van Vliet's who would expose himself, squeeze his penis until the head turned purple, then comment about it looking "like a big ole' beef heart" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHEAP TRICK They asked a Ouiji board what they should call their band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEEP PURPLE Ritchie Blackmore's grandmother liked the Bing Crosby song "Deep Purple" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DURUTTI COLUMN A Spanish Civil War brigade led by libertarian anarchist Buenaventura Durruti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FUGS When Norman Mailer first published 'The Naked And The Dead' in the U.S. he had to replace 'fuck' with 'fug' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KRAFTWERK German for 'power plant' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ORB A device in Woody Allen's movie 'Sleeper,' the Orb was a silver ball that turned people on when they touched it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PROCOL HARUM Named after Keith Reid's cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RAMONES Early in his career, Paul McCartney used to call himself Paul Ramone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TROGGS From the term 'troglodyte' . . . . . (Found where I find most everything) |
| Sunday, November 18th, 2007 | |
| 12:43 pm | zero to sixty in recent weeks I have purchased these fine vinyl records: ~ Stooges: Fun House ~ Pixies: Surfer Rosa (this and In A Silent Way sound the most extraordinary) ~ Public Image Ltd: Metal Box ~ Jesus Lizard: Liar ~ Pavement: Westing (by musket and sextant) ~ Congos: Heart of The Congos ~ Wire: 154 ~ Van Morrison: Astral Weeks ~ Notorious BIG: Ready To Croak ~ Pere Ubu: Modern Dance ~ Silver Jews: American Water ~ Big Black: Lungs ~ Big Black: Songs About Copulation ~ Raybeats: Guitar Beat ~ Captain Beefheart: Safe As Milk [divine white vinyl] ~ Captain Beefheart: Lick My Decals Off, Baby ~ Captain Beefheart: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) ~ Eno/Byrne: My Life In The Bush of Ghosts ~ Talking Heads: Remain In Light ( 18 more... ) I started out with nothing besides an original Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death by John Fahey I do not yet own a record player.. currently operating the equipment of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} freiheitdrache while also operating his couch Current Music: Trouble Down South - Mekons |
| Thursday, November 1st, 2007 | |
| 8:19 pm | |
| Thursday, October 25th, 2007 | |
| 4:36 pm | a different side of Reagan... or is it? "Well, I can change that in a hurry." (stolen from David Weigel's most recent Hit & Run post) Current Music: Super Going - Boredoms |
