MLK Day 2012

"If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
                                 

Newt the Muckraker

You know the inherent cruelty of unfettered capitalism is getting pretty bad when Newt Gingrich is forced to become Michael Moore.

Update on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 11:35PM by C. Adolph Moores

The "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision brought you this message. No need reminding you of the heavy weight the conservative judges of that court played in its passage. It's fun to watch the benefactors of that decision bloody themselves with it. It won't be so fun in the future when it's bipartisan and the moneyed people control everything. As if they already do not.

Welcome to Thunderdome. The "New" United States of America. Where war is the norm, oil will be rationed, alternative energy policy will be stifled, and your NRA approved guns will prove futile against the militarized local police. Better get a job in an arms factory, toot suite. You voted this shit in with Reagan. Because you didn't want your taxes paying for "limo driving" welfare mothers or "cushy" prison gigs for drug peddlers.

You must feel a bit silly now.

Or maybe not. Your voting kind has never let reality or vision or truth get in the way of good old American gut instinct and prejudice.

Perhaps this GOP field is your wake up call. The South (with its rebuked demons) will not rise again. In its paranoid place will come something larger and less controllable than the hatred of small, disenfranchised minorities. It will be the hand of the very authoritarianism they once invoked for their own nefarious means. This time, against them and us all, a thousand fold in power, scope and oppression. Until we are all ironically reduced to slaves. We might not have to work for free, but it will certainly feel like it.

Actual Bowl Game Names

So much for tradition and the ghost of Knute Rockne. I don't want to hear another fucking word about the purity of college football, school pride or amateur athletics over the soulless, money-grubbing mercenaries of the NFL:

1. BBVA Compass
2. New Era Pinstripe
3. Ticket City
4. Champs Sports
5. Belk
6. Outback
7. Fight Hunger
8. Chick-fil-A
9. Famous Idaho Potato
10. Beef O' Bradys
11. GoDaddy.Com
12. Military Presented by Northrop Grumman (defense contractors!!!!!)
13. Bell Helicopter Armed Forces (see above)
14. Capitol One
15. Meineke Car Care
16. Little Caesars
17. MAACO
18. Insight

Straight To Video Holiday Films

1. Whose Goddamn Child is This?
2. A Post Modern Christmas: Reflections on Deer Blinds (documentary)
3. How the Gingrich Stole Christmas
4. Over the River and Through the 'Hood
5. 'Twas the Night Before Crippling Disappointment
6. Scrooge: An Ayn Rand X-mas
7. Santa Claus is Comin' on Your Cheek
8. Holiday Inn Off I-40 in Church Hill, Tennessee
9. The Gift of the Vagi
10. The Afternoon Before Christmas When My Cunt of an Ex-Wife Wouldn't Let Me See the Kids Even Though I Had Presents
11. The Night They Just Said Fuck It and Cancelled Christmas
12. Miracle on North Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard
13. Ḥănukkāh Schmănukkāh
14. I Saw Mommy Rimming Santa Claus
15. The Christmas That Daddy Almost Strangled an Angel
16. Tingles: The Little Elf Who Could Not Stop Masturbating
17. Lars Von Trier's Anti-Christmas
18. The Tastiest Reindeer

19. Tannenbaum Judenfrei

NFL Shaman - Week 15 (Last Week 8-7-1; Season 96-103-9; .482)

Mediocre week exacerbated by niggling point spread issues on games where I called the clear winner. The Steelers destroyed the Browns but missed on two red zone opportunities including failing to score on first down from the Browns' two yard line. They miss covering by 2.5.

The Patriots with an 8 point spread against the Skins win by 7.

The Ravens with a 16.5 point spread win in a rout, but by only 14.

The Lions looked as though they were on track to beat the Vikes by 35, but got lazy and gave up a late score to the slowest white man in football, thus winning by only 6 on a 9.5 point spread.

And I suffered a lousy push on the Broncos win. These go my way and I'm looking at 13-3 on the week.

Acrid grapes.

Week 15 - Heavy on the visitors this week:

Cowboys (-7) @ Bucs - Should be a rodeo romp.

Redskins (+6.5) @ Giants - I think the Skins can keep it close. They looked rejuvenated against the Pats.

Packers (-13.5) @ Chiefs - I'd giev even more points to the hapless Chiefs. Orton's debut will be a massacre.

Saints (-7.5) @ Vikings - Purple Jesus or not, the Vikes won't keep it close.

Seahawks (+3.5) @ Bears - I'll take those free points. Starbucks win this outright.

Dolphins (+2) @ Bills - I just can't take the Bills anymore. There ain't no comeback in them.

Panthers (+6) @ Texans - I'll take Cam and those points against a run heavy offense struggling to score lately.

Titans (-6.5) @ Colts - No reason to believe the Colts can do anything.

Bengals (-7) @ Rams - Clemens to start for Rams. Cedric Benson may gain 200 yards.

Lions (-1) @ Raiders - Lions are a much better team. Palmer can't stop throwing picks.

Patriots (-7.5) @ Broncos - Here's where the Jesus train derails. Tebow, meet the real Jesus. His name is Mr. Tom Brady.

Jets (+3) @ Eagles - I'll take Gang Green over a really crazy, unpredictable Iggles team.

Browns (+6.5) @ Cardinals - Beanie, Beanie, Beanie.

Ravens (-2.5) @ Chargers - The Bolts are playing better. But not that much better.

Steelers (+3) @ Niners - If the rapist plays, the Steelers win this. If not, go Niners.