Rhinocrisy

Just keeping you up-to-date in the very latest on some people’s quest to replace women with animatronic equivalents.

Of course, a reasonable question is, are they really aiming for fem-bots, or for flaming fag-bots?

From yesterday’s Hawaii primaries:

One would-be vote at Kawananakoa Middle School said he and his wife turned around after being unable to find a parking space and seeing police ticket illegally parked cars near the school.

Yes, an orderly parking regimen clearly outweighs the import of the democratic process.

Three of the most-viewed videos on YouTub today are of Hillary Clinton allegedly crying, or “tearing up”. I, for one, don’t buy it. If you haven’t seen it, here it is:

Clinton is giving a relatively boiler-plate speech about how much she “cares about our country”, and how she “passionately believes” in what she is doing. That, I DO buy: her passion is lust, and we all know what she’s lusting for. But what is she “tearing up” over? Who can tell?

This morning I woke up to some lady on NPR marveling at Hillary’s display of genuine emotion. She interviewed the lady who asked the question, and several others who testified that Hillary’s tears^* had convinced them to vote Clinton! at the very last minute. After vomiting on my pillow, I thought to myself “How the hell am I going to clean this up?” “My God, are we really so starved for political theater that we’re willing to swallow whatever horseshit act some politician can throw at us?” The lady who asked the question, incidentally, did NOT vote Clinton - she voted Obama, because the previous night, Obama’s stirring speech had “moved her to tears”.

I’m truly astonished that people can maintain this level of vacuousness. And not, apparently, a small handful of people - the majority of American adults. Shouldn’t there be an epidemic of head-implosion going on?

^* Which, frankly, are not in evidence in the video to mine eyes. Can you see ‘em?

Lately I’ve been reading John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, which I heartily recommend if you are anxious to get steamed up about imperialism and debt slavery and the like. Anywho, therein Perkins says the following:

I recalled an economics professor from my business school days, a man from northern India, who lectured about limited resources, about man’s need to grow continually, and about the principle of slave labor. According to this professor, all successful capitalist systems involve hierarchies with rigid chains of command, including a handful at the very top who control descending orders of subordinates, and a massive army of workers at the bottom, who in relative economic terms truly can be classified as slaves.

This is a pretty powerful indictment of capitalism, if you have any kind of commitment to anti-poverty, equality, social justice, etc. And certainly many capitalist cheerleaders will promise you that capitalism will, indeed, inevitably lift everyone out of poverty and provide us all with the stable, eco-friendly utopia we’d all love to be a part of.^* This led me to construct what I call “The T-shirt Argument”, which goes as follows:
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