Random Shit: Taken Out To Maybe Paint The Town Red

The Happiness of the Extreme Right Winger

Music Bridges Cultures? Actually, Not So Much

What Narcissists Talk About When Narcissists Talk About Narcissism

Kevin Spacey’s anti-piracy business model: Give the audience control

"One wonders how much stronger a position the music industry would be in right now, if it had paid as much attention to developing great artists as it did to the supposed scourge of file-sharing."

The truth about the tourism industry in France

Men find women sleeping in PYJAMAS sexier than lingerie and sleeping with NOTHING on

Lena Dunham really is the voice of my generation — for better or worse

Suspect in WWII vet slay: We were buying crack from victim

Looking At Things Side-Ways (To Avoid Choosing One)

Yea! THE INTERNET STAYS ON! And I've finally got company in the G.O.P.:

“I’m sorry to be the skunk at the garden party, but I think if Dr. King were alive today, he would step on some of these sacred issues.”

Republicans love to scream MLK was one of ours. Not cool to think like him nowadays - TMR is definitely "the skunk at the garden party" - but still the appropriate place to be. So what's the beef? Try this one on for size - a point I've made many times, before, to crickets:

“Everybody has come in front of [blacks] on the bus — gays, immigrants, women, environmentalists. You never hear any talk about the conditions confronting poor blacks and poor people in general.”

He got a standing O for show. I get push-back.

Let's see - he said gays. More important than poor blacks. That's been made clear. The coverage is overwhelming. Blacks have been struggling to keep food on the table for as long as I've been alive, but that obviously doesn't compare to gay marriage. Nobody's ever called anybody a loser for not resolving conditions in the ghettos. We should've thrown glitter in church for attention.

Immigrants. Hear about them all-the-time now. Will they be able to stay? Won't they? Not as important as how Americans can keep a roof over our heads. That's not very important at all. Never has been. Never hear about it. It's not a priority. Weird.

Women? Women. Ann Althouse makes $177,000 a year, for God knows what, and still bitches like she's raped daily. The average black household makes around $20,000. You do the math on "oppression".

And environmentalists? Why bother with blacks when they're determined to "save the planet" - which has only been around for, oh, what? 4 and a half billion years without their assistance? I can feel the love. But it makes total sense.

I've got two things that don't make sense, though:

A) Why it takes an idiot conservative like me to notice this is how it's been working, and B) why it took another one to mention it,...

Dead In Motion By The Anti-Pop Consortium Is Spot-On

This quote is so wrong-headed it's embarrassing:

There's never been a time when rap didn't have to defend itself. The culture perpetually generates criticism and accusations from every corner: from the political establishment; from proponents of other types of music; and, most crucially, from itself. 

Luckily, rap is particularly well equipped to absorb all the criticism it invites, because rap, by its very nature, is a culture in which almost nothing is impermissible. Pathological narcissism, poor taste, and criminal behavior are punishable traits by the standards of the mainstream culture. But within rap, even the most shameful acts are defensible, if only because rap is meant to be a melting pot of egregious behavior and reckless judgment.

Gee, what could I get to counter that argument? How about a never-complained-about True Sounds Of Liberty doing "Code Blue"?

 

I never got along with the girls at my school
 

Filling me up with all their morals and their rules
 

They'd pile all their problems on my head 


I'd rather go out and fuck the dead 


'Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain 


I wanna fuck I wanna fuck the dead 


Middle of the night so silently
 

I creep on over to the mortuary
 

Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead
 

Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red 


'Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain
 

I wanna fuck I wanna fuck the dead 


And I don't even care how she died...
But I like it better if she smells of formaldehyde!
 

Never on the rag or say leave me alone
 

They don't scream and they don't moan
 

Don't even cry if I shoot in their hair
 

Lying on the table she smiles and she stares
 

Chorus

So, Rock songs about fucking dead girls - performed without irony - are A-O.K., but let a Rapper call a feminist "bitch" and it's the end of Western civilization. 

 Race problem? What race problem? This is something different altogether.

Until recently, I haven't mentioned race on TMR, and there's a reason:

Too busy discussing American racial double standards with the corpse in my basement,...

 

I'm Talkin' Black (Like Death Or Africans Or Somethin')

White Boomers in America are mostly not focused on America, they've always been focused on themselves. Which is why America's been losing in every way that matters,...to America. 

Everyone else is a minority, while white Boomers are a HUGE majority. We can't tell them what to do because - whites not being a single ethnic group - they can't be reasoned with. That's a fact. If anybody thinks that describes a recipe for prosperity, or anybody's sense of well-being, well:

"I have a hard time arguing with stupid people."

- Dr. Carl Hart, author of High Price (a drug tome, arguing for decriminalization) when asked if his success as a black man means America's fair or blind.

How off-course are whites? 

The men, above, could've seen better tits in any National Geographic at the time,...