http://mikegold.malibulist.com/ The blog for Mike Gold, media metaphysician en-us Copyright 2007 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:13:11 -0500 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:43:50 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I’m trying to figure out why the so-called N-word has become the one word you cannot say anywhere, under any circumstances. Now, crawl off that high horse. I’m not defending Michael Richards’ rant, but if you’d seen it you certainly believe that this was a man who completely and indefensively lost it in public. He appeared to be dangerous, and not in the Michael O’Donoghue / Saturday Night Live sense of the word. Any audience... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/12/the_n_game.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/12/the_n_game.html Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:13:11 -0500 Famed writer Alan Moore will be appearing on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. Given his well-known and admirable commitment to faithful adaptations, Alan will be dying himself yellow and chopping off a finger from each hand.... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/11/reality_not_pol.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/11/reality_not_pol.html Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:57:07 -0500 The second most important aftereffect of this week’s election is a realignment of Potomac power brokers. With a Democrat victory in the Montana senator’s race, the Blues are now just one election result away from taking control of the Senate. In a party line vote with the Socialist Senator from Vermont showing Blue, the Democrats can have their way. If they take the Virginian senate seat, Joe “I shall caucus Blue” Lieberman becomes the party... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/11/the_new_king_of.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/11/the_new_king_of.html Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:48:27 -0500 It isn’t hard to make a Jew paranoid; you’ve got the weight of history to help out. But this year there’s a man preying on his own people, and his name is Joe Lieberman. Not content with his double-digit lead going into the election, this weekend damn near every Jew in Connecticut received a couple of mailers informing them that the Democratic Party has turned its back on Lieberman in favor of such well-known Jew... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/11/the_most_danger.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/11/the_most_danger.html Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:02:08 -0500 Everyone from progressives to reactionaries bemoan the lack of political options. “The lesser of two evils,” they say in disgust, often in an attempt to rationalize their own inertia. “If only we had a three party system.” Yeah, well, I’m against it. I want what our nation’s founders put in the Constitution: a no party system. The problem with Democrats and Republicans is that they are Democrats and Republicans. They endlessly fight their own Bizarro... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/11/the_life_of_no.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/11/the_life_of_no.html Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:49:35 -0500 What I’d like to do this week is write about South Park, but those damn Democrats keep working their way under my gums. For a long time I criticized the Blues for their 2006 campaign strategy of doing nothing and letting the Republicans beat themselves up. I’ve got to admit their strategy worked for a while. But after months of deaths in Iraq, bombs in North Korea, sex scandals in Washington and breathtaking incompetence in... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/10/post.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/10/post.html Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:47:01 -0500 When it comes to covering their ass, it’s hard to find a group more entertaining than the great American Right. You can catch them in the most hypocritical of illicit actions and establish a trail of contradictions and cover-ups so distinct that even Ray Charles could follow it without a cane, and these guys are going to endlessly blame it all on the Democrats and the media. Case in point: everybody’s favorite wrestling coach, Speaker... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/10/bugger_the_pres.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/10/bugger_the_pres.html Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:02:27 -0500 Florida Representative Mark Foley resigned late last month for sending sexually provocative e-mails to “underage” boys who happened to be Congressional pages. They were 16 – the age of consent in the District of Columbia – but I won’t quibble with the phrase underage. It certainly meets my standard, as well as that of Mr. Foley as suggested in his work in support of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. Immediately,... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/10/repubicans_appr.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/10/repubicans_appr.html Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:45:09 -0500 I, among many others, have been bitching about how the Democratic Party just lies there and whimpers in the face of repeated assault and lies from the Right. They’re programmed to fail; they seem to enjoy being the whipped underdog. Most Democrats are nice folks in the way naïve children are sweet, but in fact they’re the Chicago Cubs of politics. This is really a shame, because the Democratic Party is one of only two... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/10/that_growth_bet.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/10/that_growth_bet.html Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:21:46 -0500 Americans from Bill Maher and Jon Stewart to the autonoms on Fox “News” to our Federal government have condemned Venezuelan honcho Hugo Chavez for calling George Bush “El Diablo.” Nothing new here: in the past, Chavez has compared our national religion, capitalism, to Count Dracula, Frankenstein, Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler… but he then added that Capitalists are much worse than those monsters. He’s sure got a gift for metaphor, I’ll say that.... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/09/el_diablo_o_el.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/09/el_diablo_o_el.html Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:28:55 -0500 Blogs are supposed to be personal, and this entry is going to be more personal and a bit less political than usual. I just got back from my father’s funeral. I knew when I saw him last month at his 90th birthday celebration that it likely would be his last, and I’m glad to say he was happy and content. So when my brother-in-law called me on Sunday, September 3rd to tell me Dad was... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/09/the_will_not_to.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/09/the_will_not_to.html Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:34:56 -0500 Here’s what I really like about George Bush. While America gets busy defining each of his acts as either stupid or an outright lie, George does something to prove just how irrelevant the discussion is. It happens every day; he’s President Old Faithful. For example, while the media is focusing on Ned Lamont’s defeat of Joe Lieberman and how that puts a serious anti-war spin on the 2006 elections, President Old Faithful holds a press... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/08/someday_in_the.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/08/someday_in_the.html Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:33:46 -0500 I’m going to come right out and say it: I am in support of the 15-year ban on the conception and birth of new children. This may sound a bit radical, but I’ve always been an early adopter. We won’t have to deal with increasing the minimum wage. Supply and demand will take care of it. Wal-Mart workers and family farmers alike will feel valued, as will capitalists in general. Before too long we will... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/08/a_modest_propos.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/08/a_modest_propos.html Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:08:07 -0500 In his autobiography Blinded By The Right, David Brock stated he started his drift to the right when he was a student at University of California / Berkeley. I won’t minimize his experiences by attributing this drift to one single event, but Brock notes the time when then-president Ronald Reagan’s UN ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick, was viscously shouted down by a bevy of lefties when she showed up for a scheduled appearance in the school’s Jefferson... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/08/free_speech_as.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/08/free_speech_as.html Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:24:44 -0500 It’s no secret that I’ve been a Joe Lieberman-hater for most of his 18 years as my Senator. Indeed, one of the proudest moments of my life happened when he crashed one of my Head Start events, saw my nametag, and looked over his shoulder to see if his security showed up. Therefore, it will not come as a shock that his defeat warmed the cockles of my heart. Joe tried to paint Ned Lamont... http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/08/ding_dong_the_w.html http://mikegold.malibulist.com/archives/2006/08/ding_dong_the_w.html Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:55:56 -0500