American populism
Saw American Sniper last week. It made me feel dirty. If red-state Americans want to feel good about themselves, they don't need a jingoistic, hypermasculine, hate-filled propaganda film that ignores inconvenient realities and casts Muslims half a world away as untrustworthy and inhuman savages, they just need to zone out for a few minutes to John Cougar Mellancamp's "Small Town." John has nothin' against the big town. In fact, he's still hayseed enough to say "Look who's in the big town." The man is modest. He doesn't just make shit up to feel good about himself. He doesn't wallow in the self-pity of delusion that's central to Clint Eastwood's film.---
I still read stories daily about Bill Cosby. Not so much about Alan Dershowitz, Prince William, and Bill Clinton.
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Basketball teams with short players should secretly let the air out of the basketball. They don't have to dribble as high.
posted by CM @ 8:44 PM
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