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Recently I made some remarks about Elijah's choice of residence, and how disappointed I am in him for it. I would not have expected him to be so insular and uninformed that he wouldn't know why downtown L.A. is such an ugly choice.

For those of you who don't know what's going on down there, here's a link that lays a lot of it out:


Skid Row, the homeless in L.A., and how the influx of Pretty And Rich is making life so much worse


This is not a new thing, but it's been accelerating over the last few years. I avoid the glitzy playground because, to be frank, I couldn't trust myself not to lay into those entitled richies and their assumption that no one else's life matters when it comes to their little whims.

How many cities have seen this happen? The rich decide to "clean up" a neighborhood by taking over the living accommodations that - however humble - give the poor a place to be. And with those dwellings go all the services that helped those poor people, because who needs 'em now, right? Then after a few years, the richies get bored and decide to move somewhere else, because they FUCKING CAN. And the area falls back again, but now the community that was there is gone, the services are gone, and the equilibrium that was established over decades is kaput. And of course, the people who used to live and work there are now doubly poor, the homeless are persecuted by the cops and by draconian laws enacted to make life NICE AND CLEAN for the fucking richies, who don't want to admit that their asshattery ruins lives. Rinse, repeat, endlessly.

Why the FUCK can't rich people just stay in their own fucking neighborhoods and stop with this egocentric OMG WE GON MAKE IT BETTER bullshit, I don't know. They really do think the world belongs to them, is exclusively their playground, and that no one else matters.

And yeah, I'm kind of pissed at Elijah for jumping into that. I mean seriously - DUDE. *glares*

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A comment I left at an article talking about conservatives and their attitude about climate change:


I don't think the refusal to do anything about global warming is necessarily partisan. Leftists do a great job of talking about it, but how much is actually DONE on our side? How many of US are willing to change our lives in the truly radical way it would take? None that I've seen. I'm not talking about changing light bulbs and taking the bus - those things won't made any difference at all. I mean REAL change, the kind that will work.

None. You know why? Because it doesn't exist. The tipping point was reached long ago. Anything we do now will be cosmetic, and any changes will go towards maybe - MAYBE - making sure things get worse at a somewhat slower rate

Through evolution, the earth managed to come up with a species that can modify its environment to suit its own desires. Any species with that capacity is going to do exactly that - and it won't stop. We are doing what we're doing to the earth because it's written in our DNA: we're selfish, manipulative primates, and we're not going to stop being selfish, manipulative primates. Some of us try, but the reality is that we're simply never going to give up what we have and what we want. It's just not in our nature, and the proof is - well, here we are. HAVE we given up anything? HAVE we made the necessary changes? If we're not willing to make them now, we're never going to do it. We'll make a half-hearted attempt at the last minute, and then moan and weep and tear our hair over WHY DIDN'T WE ACT SOONER?

Because we can't. Because we won't. Because WE DON'T WANT TO. Bottom line - we don't want to. That'll be humanity's epitaph:

I DON'T WANNA AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME.

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Jesus fucking CHRIST.

SHUT UP. SHUT UP.

Just SHUT THE FUCK UP, you horrible horrible HORRIBLE CREATURE!!!


Richard Dawkins Accuses Ahmed Mohamed of Committing Fraud


Somebody PLEASE tell me why the fucking fuckety FUCK someone awesome like Carl Sagan had to die young while a COPROCEPHALIC SCUMBAG like Dawkins gets to live on endlessly spewing his GODDAMN RACIST LOGORRHEA all over us???

How the HELL can anyone keep saying they admire this disgusting miscreant?


You know, it's been quite a while since we've had one, but I think it's just about time for another chorus.

Maestro Denis, if you please?

Asshole - Denis Leary


No, you racist coward, you're not some Expert On Global Terrorist Relations trying to warn the world of Its Grave Peril.

You're JUST. A FUCKING. ASSHOLE.


Just...just...

SHUT. THE FUCK. UP ALREADY.

GodDAMNit.

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Watched August last night. Uh...yeah. Seems Josh has been wilding on camera for a while now. Mm, mm, mm. Yummy, yummy man.

I'm getting a little jumpy at the way sex scenes are just THROWN at you these days, though. There doesn't seem to be a lot of buildup anymore. Two characters are having a conversation and then BAM, they're rutting like crazed animals. It's a bit...abrupt. I'm not exactly complaining - the slam of erotic energy I got when the film cut from a sexy look to full-on FUCKING!!! was certainly enjoyable. I'm just glad nobody else was in the room, because I made a pretty bizarre sound when that happened, LOL.

The film itself was surprisingly good. It's one of those Some Guy indie films, like Thumbsucker. Some Guy (or Some Gal) films don't really have plots so much as they have spans. Here's a guy, here's where he works, here are the people he knows. He goes places, he talks to people, things happen, and then it's over, but you haven't necessarily gone any great distance. They don't have plotting in the classic film sense, and they depend on the characters' ability to engage the audience, so the actors are really important.

This one is about a Zuckerberg type who runs a start-up, and right from the get-go I was rooting for him to get a massive bitchslap. Wow, he is a shit. And Josh played it beautifully, all smug manipulation and manic narcissism, spouting off that terminally annoying techie nonsense as if it actually meant something. Gods, the self-stroking horseshit was astounding. I wonder how hard Josh had to work to learn those lines, because there is absolutely NOTHING to hang your understanding on unless you actually do that kind of work. He might as well have been speaking in numbers: "Nine fifty seven eight hundred thousand? ZERO FOURTY NINE AZIMUTH MILLION SQUARE ROOT SKEWEY, ASSHOLE!!!" It really did sound like that - just mouthfuls of hot air, but he rattled it off like every word had import. That's something I really admire in good actors - their ability to inject real meaning into things they might not understand at all. I guess those "recite the alphabet as if you were breaking up with your girlfriend" theater games really do pay off.


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Yeah, this is one I'd definitely recommend if you're looking for things he's been in. It's a tour-de-force, too - he's in every single scene. The movie is completely about him, and yet it never really enters him. I mean, it's not terribly hard to figure this guy out, but he never gets explained. Know what I mean? I don't know if the filmmakers actually want to you to sympathize with him or not; it's really hard to say. But I enjoyed it, and I think you will, too.

P.S. The character's name is Tom Sterling. I find that incredibly funny, myself. It's a name seemingly crafted to put across every bit of his egocentrism and superficial charm.

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On contemplating Laudito Si, Pope Frank's new encyclical concerning climate change and environmentalism:


I have this great little fantasy...

Up in heaven, the god of Christianity sits on his throne, his son beside him, both of them frowning thunderously at the rich asshole standing before them. YOU FUCKED UP MY PLANET, yells god. I GAVE YOU THIS AMAZING THING, TOLD YOU TO TAKE CARE OF IT, AND YOU FUCKED IT UP. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH EFFORT IT TOOK TO MAKE THAT THING? HOW MUCH TIME AND SKILL? BILLIONS OF FUCKING YEARS, IT TOOK ME. AND YOU SHIT ON IT. YOU THINK YOU'RE GETTING AWAY WITH THAT?

The angel guards drag the arrogant shithead blustering his excuses away to the Hell Chute, while Jesus yells ASSHOLE at him.

And this repeats for Every. Single. One. of the fuckwit cretins denying that the planet is dying, and refusing to do anything about its condition.

And not just in the Christian heaven. Every god in every afterlife yelling the same thing at whichever of their acolytes displayed this selfish, cretinous behavior. An entire chorus of enraged gods pounding idiots into the dust for deciding that their convenience is more important than the orders to the contrary given to them by the gods they pretend to worship.

'Tis a futile little fantasy, but mine own.

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I don't think I've entered and exited a fandom as quickly as that, like, ever. The combination of "the last thing he did that I liked was half a decade ago" with "don't say a goddamn thing that can be construed to be the tiniest bit critical" just chapped my ass. Not interested in the school-marming, thanks loads, Miss Crabtree.

Especially when you're pretending it's okay to be all randy and naughty. It kinda comes off looking like you're laying a trap, and...no. Just NO.

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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not just surrounded by assholes.

-- William Gibson

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So Brian Williams is Stephen Glass now?

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I don't think it's possible to express how utterly ignorant, blinkered and just plain STUPID a person would have to be to even begin to doubt this.

Simple answer, really.

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Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourette's - Lewis Black, The Daily Show

It's "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon",
except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler!


Oh DAMN, but I love Lewis Black.