some light summer reading
some outstanding reading i have found on the internet recently….
this article over at rolling stone is an unbelievably interesting and sickening look into our current political system. even without all of the corruption in the administration and republican leadership in congress, the gaming of the system in which the republicans currently partake is enough to turn even my absurdly cynical stomach. good to know, yet unsettling. why can’t the public realize that these people are working “day and night to burgle the national treasure and burn the Constitution”?
on a similar theme, check out this post at the opinion mill that draws the analog of George W. Soprano. this administration is currently performing a “bust-out” of the United States government, taking it for everything its worth while they still have the reigns of power. and, as Thomas Frank can tell you, what’s the matter with kansas appears to be the matter with everyone (the media included). they’ve bought a bill of goods.
if you’re looking for something a little lighter, check out these two posts (one, two) over at blogmaverick, Mark Cuban’s blog. i have recently added his blog to the blogroll, despite it might seem that he’s a little full of it. i personally like to see people using their money to harass the status quo. anyway, the posts are Mark calling out Donald Trump for being a pompous ass and giving his (much more coherent) side of the competition between their reality shows (and yes, I know that this happened last year). for total surreality, take a look over at trumps new blog. i particularly like the donald’s argument that corporate corruption can really just be reduced to tackiness.
Saturday, August 13th, 2005 @ 9:40 pm 
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August 14th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
It is terribly awkward to find someone to listen to today. As if anyone with an outspoken opinion who gets 5 minutes of airtime is immediately bombarded with a 10 minute dissenting opinion.
As simple as it may seem, Americans need to start listening to someone who can highlight the good, if there still is any, in our country and outline the bad with clear solutions. It is easiest to point the finger at who dunnit, but isn’t it ironic that we’ve all been trained in elementary school that the guilty person then appologizes and tries to set everything right? Those are the morals we are teaching our children and yet at 25 years, we ditch those because we realize adulthood doesn’t really exist and the entire country is ruled by those selfsame schoolyard bullies who don’t have a teacher to make them fix their mistakes anymore.
It’s no wonder people turn the other cheek, you know, besides such enforcement by a rampant, but perverted, Christianity. (Even Jesus fought for something.)
People trust big companies that have been around a long time or their neighbor. Newbies into the political fold don’t seem to have much of a chance because they’ll be labeled, misquoted, misunderstood, and finally, misplaced.
If I ever figure out what to *do* about it, I’ll do it. It saddens me how people with good ideas only write and talk about it.
Not that I can blame them. The political cesspool I’m talking about fixing may not be fixable. How Roman is that?