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2009-08-02T13:35:00.001-07:00

Anthony Kavanagh and Melissa Mars ... Men in Black

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2009-03-18T14:27:00.000-07:00

Representative Gary Ackerman gets AIG FP
(Credit Default Swaps) dead to rights:

2009-03-12T11:55:00.000-07:00

Merde! Country-blocking crap!

(stay tuned lol)

Zazie "Je suis un homme" LE CLIP (Yvan Attal) Uploaded by zazie

2009-03-01T17:20:00.000-08:00

Tuba Sahaab (young rhetorical star, Pakistan)

2009-02-04T21:25:00.000-08:00

GEORGE CARLIN (to Jon Stewart):

"Don't forget
what we do is oratory.

It's rhetoric.

It's not just comedy;
it's a form of rhetoric.

And with rhetoric,
you listen for rhythms.

You look for ways to sing
at the same time you're talking."

"... It's just natural!

My grandfather, whom
I never knew...

...was a policeman in New York
at the turn of the century,
and he was an uneducated man,
self-educated, and he...

...in the course of his adult life
he wrote out the works of Shakespeare...
by hand, because of the joy it gave him!

JON STEWART: That's an obsessive young man!

Yeah! And almost everything is genetic,
and my mother cared a lot about language,
and my father was a...
...champion public speaker of 1935, he won the mahogany gabble...

...over 800 other public speakers from the Dale-Carnegie Public Speaking Institute...

...and he was great, I never knew him either!

2009-01-22T10:33:00.000-08:00

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So, Obama ...

[SO OBAMA, HAIKU]

You said "dispose of"

Guantanamo detainees.

(Perhaps poor word choice.:)

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2009-01-21T17:12:00.001-08:00

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So, Obama ...

[SO OBAMA, HAIKU]

Moving our troops from

Iraq to Afghanistan?

("... a bag of hammers.")

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2009-01-13T00:43:00.001-08:00

2009-01-06T09:42:00.000-08:00

[2 HAIKUS]

Senate Democrats

lacked the balls to keep us out

of the Iraq Mess.

But Reid's long lost dick

now swings at the Senate door

to keep Burris out.

2009-01-05T18:31:00.000-08:00

2008-12-29T14:57:00.000-08:00

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So, Obama ...

SO, OBAMA [HAIKU]

About Israel ...

Move it to California:

Solve Middle East Mess.

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2008-12-29T03:06:00.000-08:00

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So, Obama ...

SO, OBAMA [HAIKU]

FIRST ... sell all red states

to the Chinese ... to pay off

Reagan-Bushes debt.

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2008-10-11T11:53:00.000-07:00

AT LAST, the perfect political slogan:

2008-09-03T20:45:00.000-07:00

Looks like Regan speechwriter Peggy Noonan knows
the word "bullshit," too. Yeah, pickin' Palin
was political ... What was that, Peggy? :)

2008-08-23T09:37:00.000-07:00

re: OBAMA PICKS BIDEN ... who earned that spot
by calling "bullshit" on Bush ... in defense of Obama.

(Too bad Democrats couldn't have mustered that word
in defense of America, and avoided the Iraq Mess.)

[LIMERICK]

Joe Biden once slipped and called "bullshit"

on George Dubya's being a nitwit:

"Malarky, I mean.

I must keep it clean

or else prissy press will throw hiss' fit."

2008-08-22T15:54:00.000-07:00

NEW: boke.org.uk

2008-08-05T21:58:00.000-07:00

[HAIKU/BOX/EXPERIMENT]

If someone told you

the secret of everything,

everything would change...

Imagine I've said

something profound
in this box

until I say it...

Imagine someone

beautiful and quite naked,

instead of bare words...

Surely no one cares

what words will appear here now:

You've got the picture.

2008-07-14T11:12:00.001-07:00

It's Bastille Day ... among other things ;)

BOKE NOTE: I hope Joss puts subtitles for the songs on the DVD (and yes, Chinese ones would be nice—if you were smart enough to rewrite the songs so the Chinese lyrics fit the melody and rhymed ... but I would bet that not even Dr. Horrible is that smart. JUST WAIT for my robot. ;)

BOKE NOTE: A German band composes a song with Chinese/English lyrics for some talented women in Taiwan... The results are good, so the German band later does it themselves in all English... Of course, lots of people think the Chinese version is a cover song... but it came first. That's OK. Now, YOU KNOW.

BOKE NOTE: A young woman in Norway writes a song... A Hong Kong songwriter "recreates" it in Mandarin... It's sung by a star who normally sings in CANTONESE. Cool.

2008-07-11T18:13:00.000-07:00

BOKE NOTE: THE POWER of Shakira's hips to shake EVERYONE toward world PEACE :)	(Fingers can also dance.)

2008-07-08T17:02:00.000-07:00

[BOKE MOVIE NOTE] In Shintaro Katsu's 1989 "Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman" (approximately 50 minutes+ into the film) ... a young woman sings "Tsugaru Jongara Bushi" ... which is magnificent! ... but I cannot find a clip ... Instead, found this:) ... but it keeps vanishing :( ... and coming back ... (If you get "no longer available" message, that is not true. Clear your browser cache and load this page again, OR TRY:
(1) LINK TO YOUTUBE PAGE (2) ALTERNATE PERFORMANCE)

MEANWHILE: ...

2008-07-03T11:41:00.000-07:00

[BOKE QUOTES/AND TRANSLATES]
NEW YORK TIMES/PATRICIA COHEN/7-3-08/
"Certainly some disciplines, like literary studies,
seem more resistant to change."

WHICH MEANS: are less likely to become
bullshiteating lackeys of privilege
(e.g, journalists:)

2008-06-23T10:03:00.000-07:00

[RHETORICAL VERSE/TWO HAIKUS]

George Carlin once spoke

on American BULLSHIT,

and the Lord was pleased.

"Welcome to heaven,

even if you don't like it."

God's sense of humor.

2008-06-19T16:11:00.001-07:00

obama sonnet [1]
[RHETORICAL VERSE IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FORM]

WITH EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT OF US UNPROUD

OF WHERE THE NATION'S GOING ... it seems weird

to shout "unpatriotic" -- damn the crowd --

affixing Ms. Obama with a beard.

DID SHE SAY "PROUD," OR "REALLY PROUD"? Who cares,

except the BULLSHITEATERS who still lick

Iraq B.S. from their own pubic hairs?

I hope that image makes those mongrels sick.

Bent over, their heads slipping up their ass.

Coiffures now toilette paper, as their ears

plug further with more shit. Their nose with gas.

Their eyes close as the outside disappears ...

( I'm sure Obama won't approve these words.

But each side thinks the other guys are turds. :)

2008-06-16T06:58:00.000-07:00

(Is it time to write
about politics again?
Has anything changed?)

2008-05-15T13:31:00.000-07:00

AT LAST A DEMOCRAT USES THE RIGHT WORD:
Biden: Bush's Comments Were 'bullshit'

2008-02-23T08:45:00.000-08:00

(temporary use of image from www.courier-journal.com)

[NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE 2/24/08]

One full-moon night I was sitting outside a sandbag- reinforced hut with Kearney when a young sergeant stepped out hauling the garbage. He looked around at the illuminated mountains, the dust, the rocks, the garbage bin. The monkeys were screeching. “I hate this country!” he shouted. Then he smiled and walked back into the hut. “He’s on medication,” Kearney said quietly to me.

Then another soldier walked by and shouted, “Hey, I’m with you, sir!” and Kearney said to me, “Pro_zac. Serious P.T.S.D. from last tour.” Another one popped out of the HQ cursing and muttering. “Medicated,” Kearney said. “Last tour, if you didn’t give him information, he’d burn down your house. He killed so many people. He’s checked out.”

As I went to get some hot chocolate in the dining tent, the peaceful night was shattered by mortars, rockets and machine-gun fire banging and bursting around us. It was a coordinated attack on all the fire bases. It didn’t take long to understand why so many soldiers were taking antidepressants. The soldiers were on a 15-month tour that included just 18 days off. Many of them were “stop-lossed,” meaning their contracts were extended because the army is stretched so thin. You are not allowed to refuse these extensions. And they felt eclipsed by Iraq. As Sgt. Erick Gallardo put it: “We don’t get supplies, assets. We scrounge for everything and live a lot more rugged. But we know the war is here. We got unfinished business.”

By ELIZABETH RUBIN,
"Battle Company is Out There," Published: February 24, 2008, New York Times Magazine

All the candidates

should have to
read this out loud

before they debate.

Before they tell us

Afghanistan is
the place

we should spend
our force.

(later, a sonnet)

2008-01-16T09:25:00.000-08:00

BOKE NOTE: ROMANCE between artists (here, Mathias Malzieu [Dionysus], and Olivia Ruiz) can produce beautiful art ... and embarrassing TELEVISION. (Below, on the [top] left, beautiful art. On the [top] right, see when he [they?] announced they were a couple.)


BOKE NOTE: On the bottom row ... just a taste of the beauty of Olivia Ruiz ... before Malzieu carried her away. (upper right) LOL SURE BEATS Tom's couch jumping, "don't it"? LOL (RE: BAD VIDEO QUALITY [TOP RIGHT]—The good-quality video is "no longer available.")

2008-01-06T10:27:00.000-08:00

[MOVIE QUOTE / THE THIN RED LINE]

"Everything's a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out. They just keep coming, one after another. You're in a box. A moving box. They want you dead, or in their lie... There's only one thing a man can do - find something that's his, and make an island for himself. If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack; a glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours."

(fictional) First Sergeant Edward Welsh

2008

2007

2007-06-29T09:01:00.000-07:00

[RHETORICAL VERSE]

IMAGINE if Blair

refused to acknowledge Bush.

(Instead, sucked his cock.)

2007-04-25T18:03:00.000-07:00

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU SEQUENCE]

Doctors do not watch

"doctors" on television...

But they should watch "House."

Dr. House is wrong...

wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong,
wrong, wrong, wrong ...

until he is right.

(And once in awhile

he doesn't find the answer

'til the patient's dead.)

Most doctors are wrong ...

But "their system"
would not "work"

if that was well known.

So I say, "Watch, 'House.'"

Which is, of course, fantasy ...

but points toward the truth.

2007-02-17T11:31:00.000-08:00

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

Praise the Dixie Chicks :

pussies who apologized

for daring to speak.

2007

2006

2006-11-13T12:36:00.000-08:00

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

Bush family wealth

should go to
Iraq Mess vets.

(Private vendetta.)

FOOTNOTE: IRAQ VETERANS' BRAIN INJURIES

2006

2005

2005-12-16T10:06:00.000-08:00

LINK: NEW YORK TIMES ESSAY ... which "explains everything"
{serious smile}

2005-12-13T10:35:00.000-08:00

BULLSHITEATERLAND ...

Where "Christians" believe Christ said:

"Love execution."

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-12-11T10:58:00.000-08:00

BOKE/USA

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU SEQUENCE]

Election "00"

eliminated U.S.

legitimacy.

Election "04

ratified "the people's" choice:

No more U.S.A.

My flag shirt is all

that remains of that nation.

I remember it.

I claim the name now. {smile}

Not that red and blue state mess.

BOKE is U.S.A.

Ignore the morons,

claiming to represent it.

I'm all that is left.

(Yes, I like this shirt

even though there's no nation.

Hence this "poetry.") {smile}

2005-12-08T09:25:00.000-08:00

LINK: Art, Truth, and Politics
The Guardian, 8 DEC 2005, Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture

2005-11-20T01:04:00.000-08:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS

keep saying
"WAR IN IRAQ."

Define "war," dumbfucks.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-11-18T09:36:00.000-08:00

DEAR ASIAN FRIENDS IN STUPIDITY ...

Here's an article:

"Stupifying the People" ...

What's the West's version?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-11-07T01:18:00.000-08:00

DEAR ASIAN FRIENDS IN STUPIDITY ...

See our government's

I.R.S. bullshiteaters

illustrate "freedom."

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-10-30T09:58:00.000-08:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS VOCABULARY BUILDER ...

TRAUBULLSHIT:

"Articulate" "voice of reason" noise frequently transmitted by the New York Times to cover its ass regarding culpability in the perpetration of The Iraq Mess. [See today's New York Times Magazine and Book Review]

2005-09-30T22:32:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKU ...

WHAT IF journalists

were as worthless as now
... when

Martin had a Dream?

2005-09-27T21:45:00.000-07:00

DEAR ASIAN FRIENDS IN STUPIDITY ...

So the Chinese want

"healthy & civilized" news.

Just like our bullshit?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-09-11T13:35:00.000-07:00

"LYRICISM"

"Don't wanna be an American Idiot ..."

GREEN DAY

2005-08-17T10:34:00.000-07:00

DEAR WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKU ...

Can you estimate

how long it will take
to fix

the USA brand?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-08-16T10:18:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK TIMES / CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK / MARGO JEFFERSON: "From Blog to Stage, a [Cursing] Pundit Examines the Power of Politics" 8/16/05

[EXCERPTS:]
...
I feel less fine trying to describe the show, because obscenities I am not allowed to quote here burst from almost all his sentences.
...
The Rude Pundit is a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson. Bruce and Richard Pryor were masters of stand-up comedy as political theater. Mr. Thompson was a master of journalism as performance art.

If you know their work you know that in the right hands, fantasy and obscenity are cathartic. They attack hypocrisy, because hypocrisy lulls us. Fantasy charms us and obscenity shocks us.

BOKE COMMENT [RHETORICAL VERSE / 3-HAIKUS]

Linking to "bad words"?!?!?

The New York Times might just slip

and let the truth loose.

{smile}

Undisciplined noise

is no danger to power.

Just "proof" that we're free.

Where power is cursed

with disciplined precision,

it won't be mentioned.

# # #

2005-08-10T20:54:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKU ...

Let their headstones read:

"There'd have been
no Iraq Mess

if we'd done our job."

2005-08-10T10:10:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED / "DEBUNKING THE DRUG WAR" /
JOHN TIERNEY 8/9/05

2005-08-07T11:36:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW / ESSAY /
"TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN FICTION" 8/7/05

How did our nation

become Bullshiteaterland?

Hungry (now) for truth(?)

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-08-07T09:51:00.000-07:00

AMERICA, AMERICA ...

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW/ "SETTING THEM FREE" 8/7/05

EXCERPT:

... apology in his will, seeking to "beg humbly beg" forgiveness from "an unfortunate race of bondmen, over whom my ancestors have usurped and exercised the most lawless and monstrous tyranny, and in whom, my countrymen (by their iniquitous Laws, in contradiction of their own declaration of rights, and in violation of every sacred Law of nature; of the inherent, unalienable & imprescriptible rights of man; and of every principle of moral & political honesty;) have vested me with absolute property."

( Has "America"

been "beautiful" even once:

Unbound from bullshit? )

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-08-03T22:12:00.000-07:00

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS NEWS ...
NEW YORK TIMES / "President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror'
EXCERPT: It is not clear whether the new language embraced by other administration officials was adopted without Mr. Bush's approval or whether he reversed himself after the change was made. Either way, he planted himself on Wednesday firmly on the side of framing the conflict ...

MR. BULLSHIT SAYS:

When I say 'war,' I mean war!

[Write this line yourself]

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-31T11:09:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKUS ...
RE: NEW YORK TIMES / "Longing For A Cuss Free Zone" / MICHAEL BRICK /7/31/05

QUOTE: "ACROSS the land, word-bombs are falling."

While real bombs explode

the Times calls curse words
            "word bombs."

"Word-bomb" is BULLSHIT.

Our nation is lost

because BULLSHIT
             can't be called --

and so can't be fought.

They cover their ass ...

Who would print
        "word-bombs"? Not us!

Hence the Iraq Mess ...

[RHETORICAL VERSE / 3 HAIKUS]

2005-07-29T23:23:00.000-07:00

The land of the free-

to-read-all-literature

ran into Iraq ...

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-29T15:16:00.000-07:00

EVEN DUBYA'S DROPPING THE "W-WORD" ... L.A. TIMES /
COMMENTARY / "a war by any other name" / JULIETTE KAYYEM
... (BUT THE MEDIA STILL "DOESN'T GET" RHETORIC)

QUOTE: “... a change in policy?
Or just a change in rhetoric?”

JUST RHETORIC
[RHETORICAL VERSE / SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET SEQUENCE]

[1] “Just rhetoric.” The metonymic space

of public conversation is just that.

The choice of words determines how we place

each data point. Inform each bureaucrat . . .

. . . and trigger ev’ry “truth” we know “by heart”

within the web of “facts” we’ve come to know

by proving to our teachers that we’re “smart.”

That’s how the forrests of all cultures grow.

(That metaphor of “forrests” came by chance.

An accident of rhyme, not willful choice --

an artist’s spinning top, not warrior’s lance;

No powermonger’s bullshit given voice.)

By “rhetoric” we do all that we do.

Repeating it’s just “mere” yields power’s coup.

[2] The president says “WAR” and so it’s framed.

That choice of word determines how we’ll think

about what’s going on. Our conscience gamed

to translate death “collateral.” The stink . . .

. . . ignored as what we stand for putrefies.

The veterans of Utah beach “sure” know

what “war” means; and their mem’ry deifies

“our troops” wherever wrongly they may go.

Yet finally if rhetoric rings wrong,

the public’s knee-jerk mind no longer jerks.

Too many encores of The Bullshit Song

and even the untrained sense how it works.

If rhetoric (for real) returns to schools,

foul word choice won’t so quickly play us fools.

[TO BE CONTINUED?]

2005-07-26T10:22:00.000-07:00

AS THE NEWSPAPER FADES ...

"SPEECH" [i.e., teleprompter reading] by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors / April 13, 2005

... And their attitudes towards newspapers are especially alarming. Only 9 percent describe us as trustworthy, a scant 8 percent find us useful, and only 4 percent of respondents think we’re entertaining. Among major news sources, our beloved newspaper is the least likely to be the preferred choice for local, national or international news going forward.

What is happening is, in short, a revolution in the way young people are accessing news. They don’t want to rely on the morning paper for their up-to-date information. They don’t want to rely on a god-like figure from above to tell them what’s important. And to carry the religion analogy a bit further, they certainly don’t want news presented as gospel.

Instead, they want their news on demand, when it works for them.

They want control over their media, instead of being controlled by it.
...
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What I worry about much more is our ability to make the necessary cultural changes to meet the new demands. ...

2005-07-22T14:19:00.000-07:00

BRAND USA'S IN TROUBLE ...

POOP-EATING BABY:

That's how Iraq
makes US look

to the whole wide world.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-22T11:17:00.000-07:00

"COVERING" (FOR) THE NEWS ...

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW/ESSAY / BAD NEWS / RICHARD A POSNER

TITLE/HEADLINE: "Bad News"

EDITORIAL FRAMING (WEB):
Consumers' limited interest in the truth is the key to understanding why both left and right can plausibly denounce the same media for being biased in favor of the other.

QUOTE/SUMMATION:

So when all the pluses and minuses of the impact of technological and economic change on the news media are toted up and compared, maybe there isn't much to fret about.

HAIKU COMMENT [RHETORICAL VERSE]

This is how the press

helps maintain its innocence.

Status quo BULLSHIT.

2005-07-22T10:44:00.000-07:00

CRITICAL NEWSPAPER FRAGMENTS FROM ...
New York Times / CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK / Virginia Heffernan / 22 JULY 2005

TITLE/HEADLINE:
The Podcast as a New Podium

HAIKU COMMENT [RHETORICAL VERSE]

Soapbox to stand on ...

but as with THE MEDIA,

no interaction.

2005-07-21T09:57:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY HAIKUS: ...

MERITOCRACY

always defends expertise ...

Quality? "Who cares?"

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-20T11:05:00.000-07:00

"The truth" is out there ...

... but always buried in noise.

"The rules" require it.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-19T11:27:00.000-07:00

"COVERING" (FOR) THE NEWS ...

EXCERPT FROM "THE FRAMING WARS"

(Last month, after we talked, Luntz challenged Lakoff, through me, to a ''word-off'' in which each man would try to ''move'' a roomful of 30 swing voters. Lakoff responded by counterchallenging Luntz to an ''on-the-spot conceptual analysis.'' Since I had no idea what either of them was talking about, I let it go.)

PARENTHETICAL COMMENT
[RHETORICAL VERSE/HAIKU]

The "missing frame" is

coded in that "deflection."

(Journalism's role ...)

2005-07-17T17:59:00.000-07:00

When you try Saddam,

put on trial all
who helped him.

Start in Washington.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-17T16:03:00.000-07:00

EAST/WEST TOUCHY HAIKUS: ...

WEB POLICE HEADLINE:

The Ministry of Culture ...

{

... Licks Prominent Tits
... Pinches Naked Butts
... Gives Hard Dicks Hard Time

}

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-17T14:30:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY HAIKUS: ...

Maintaining privilege

means making sure
some questions ...

{

[a] ... will never be raised.
[b] ... are always ignored.
[c] ... won't be televised.

}

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-14T09:25:00.000-07:00

To blaspheme Allah

is the terrorists' business.

To blaspheme Christ, ours.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-13T16:45:00.000-07:00

MEDIA MAD HAIKUS: ...

"Silence the white noise

[of that] which is already

incessantly said."

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-13T16:24:00.000-07:00

MEDIA MAD HAIKUS: ...

To live in cities

with MEDIA/TERRORISTS

is a choice you make.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-13T13:07:00.000-07:00

EAST/WEST TOUCHY HAIKUS: ...

Dear eastern censors:

Does "free speech" in the U.S.

constipate power?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-13T13:00:00.000-07:00

"JUST THE FACTS" NEWSPAPER FRAGMENTS

NEW YORK TIMES / July 8, 2005

LONDON, July 7 - Investigators searching for clues in the attacks here said Thursday that the three bombs used in the subway apparently were detonated by timers, not suicide bombers ...

NEW YORK TIMES / July 13, 2005

London Attacks Were Suicide Bombings, British Official Says

2005-07-13T09:23:00.000-07:00

EAST/WEST TOUCHY HAIKUS: ...

Dear eastern censors:

Free speech
drowns out all voices ...

So why waste your time?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-12T15:41:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY HAIKUS: ...

The standardized minds

of the meritocracy

marched into Iraq.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-12T15:39:00.000-07:00

MEDIA MAD HAIKUS: ...

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS'

"somewhat hysterical minds"

meet expectations.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-12T15:31:00.000-07:00

CRITICAL NEWSPAPER FRAGMENTS FROM ...
New York Times / CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK / SARAH BOXER / 12 JULY 2005

... We're Not Afraid, set up to show solidarity with London, seems to be turning into a place where the haves of the world can show that they're not afraid of the have-nots.

2005-07-09T09:50:00.000-07:00

CRITICAL NEWSPAPER FRAGMENTS FROM ...
New York Times / CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK / Margo Jefferson / 8 JULY 2005

... Audiences often need to learn to love - or at least understand - being provoked and disoriented. You don't have to love "Ulysses." (I don't.) But knowing what makes it a major work of art is worth the effort.

What helps prepare us to find beauty in what looks ugly or pointless at first? To find pleasure and some sense in apparent confusion?

I think for me it's a process of letting go; assuming nothing about what form the experience should take. ...

2005-07-08T12:37:00.000-07:00

MEDIA MAD HAIKUS: ...

THE MEDIA counts

every bleeding body ...

EXCEPT power's yield.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-08T10:10:00.000-07:00

ALT.POLL HAIKUS: ...

Were you outraged when

"a thousand bombs a day"
fell

innocents be damned?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-08T09:22:00.000-07:00

MEDIA MAD HAIKUS: ...

TERRORISTS' bombs

blow up in the MEDIA ...

[write this line yourself]

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKU

Regarding lynching

the New York Times
gave "both sides."

BULLSHIT, said Ms. Wells.

By the 1890s most newspapers had begun to balance their stories between two opposing viewpoints. But balance does not always guarantee accuracy. In fact, there is such a thing as the bias of balance. In 1894 the New York Times attempted to "balance" its coverage of lynching by acknowledging the evil of the practice while also allowing that some blacks deserved to be lynched. The Times' solution? That the U.S. legally "lynch" -- that is, convict and execute -- blacks with a swiftness rivaling any mob. By contrast, the African-American journalist Ida B. Wells brought little balance to her stories about lynching, but a great deal more truth.

2005-07-06T11:24:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY FRAGMENTS FROM ...
Los Angeles Times / BOOK REVIEW: Harsh Insight Into How We Make War / by Russ Baker / 29 JUNE 05 / RE: War Made Easy How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death Norman Solomon John Wiley & Sons: 320 pp., $24.95

...
The villains are the government and the media: the government because time and again it remorselessly falsifies the reality of war, and the media because major press and broadcast outlets can't seem to wriggle free from self-interest long enough to speak truth to power.
...
"Aren't we at least dimly aware that — no matter how smooth and easy the news media and elected officials try to make it for us — in faraway places there are people not so different than us who are being destroyed by what journalists and politicians glibly depict as necessary war?"

2005-07-06T09:55:00.000-07:00

DEFILED DEMOCRACY HAIKUS: ...

Why would you support

BULLSHIT-bred
OCCUPATION

by anyone's troops?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

2005-07-05T16:37:00.000-07:00

FAITHLESS CHRISTIAN HAIKUS: ...

I ask all "Christians":

What has this
Iraq BULLSHIT

to do with Jesus?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

2005-07-04T10:04:00.000-07:00

WHEN AMERICA

loses the taste
for BULLSHIT,

THEN I'll celebrate.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-03T10:51:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY VERSE : ...

THE ROTTEN MERITOCRACY's not yet

convicted of unworthiness to lead.

THE WE (in "we the people") now still let

the bullshit-spreaders
satisfy their

{

greed
need

}...

[RHETORICAL VERSE / SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FRAGMENT]

2005-07-02T10:28:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY HAIKUS ...

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS

have no skill
to mediate

public dialogue.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-01T22:46:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY HAIKUS ...

Anyone who says

the Iraq Mess
is a "war"

is spreading BULLSHIT.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-07-01T09:03:00.000-07:00

DEMOCRACY can't

be built on a
foundation

of steaming BULLSHIT

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-06-28T23:13:00.000-07:00

IGNORE the BULLSHIT

defiling democracy,

blaspheming Jesus.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-06-26T07:07:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY HAIKUS ...

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS

tend the fields
of ignorance ...

so power can reap.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]

2005-06-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY HAIKUS: ...

Cruise said to Lauer:

"You don't know
               the history

of psychiatry ..." *

Tom's right about that.

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS
               don't ask

how "facts" came to be.

Once upon a time ...

labotomy was "science"

not tragic BULLSHIT.

Once upon a time ...

didn't journalists praise them

as miracle cure?

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS

echo all kinds of BULLSHIT ...

until "the facts" change.

Let's remember that

the next time
              some "journalist"

tells us ANYTHING.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / 6 HAIKU SEQUENCE]

* SOURCE: AP via New York Times:
"Cruise Clashes With Lauer on 'Today' Show"

2005-06-22T14:27:00.000-07:00

DEAR SHITHEAD CONGRESS HAIKUS ...

When a U.S. flag

has been smeared with
fresh BULLSHIT

it's hard to catch fire.

So ... make that the law:

All flags MUST be
smeared with shit...

(No need. You've done it.)

[RHETORICAL VERSE / 2 HAIKUS

2005-06-22T09:21:00.000-07:00

ROTTEN MERITOCRACY HAIKUS: ...

THE MED SCHOOL DEAN said:

Half of what we teach ...
is wrong ... *

Doctor's always right.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

* SOURCE: Lisa Sanders, M.D.
"Medicine's Progress, One Setback at a Time"
New York Times Magazine, 3/16/2003

2005-06-21T14:42:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKUS: PROPRIETY ...

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS

have buried US
in BULLSHIT ...

Why shouldn't we curse?

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

2005-06-21T12:52:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKUS: ...

(WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS

are also
BULLSHITEATERS ...

unless they're evil.)

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

2005-06-21T11:42:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKUS: ...

The BULLSHITEATERS

heed the
WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS.

The rest of US don't.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

2005-06-21T11:14:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKUS: ...

(If it's so damned smart

how'd THE MERITOCRACY

yield THE IRAQ MESS?)

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

2005-06-21T10:56:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKUS: ...

THEY CAN'T IMAGINE

how a wiki would go wrong ...

Nor THE IRAQ MESS.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

2005-06-21T10:11:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKUS: ...

(Where oh where are they --

~~literary~~ mediating[?] journalists?

They DON'T spread BULLSHIT.)

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU

2005-06-21T09:51:00.000-07:00

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKUS: ...

WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS

fret about PROPRIETY ...

but let BULLSHIT pass.

[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU