suckguess who?
The emphasis on sucking cunt serves to demystify cunt in a spectacular way — cunt is not dirty, not terrifying, not smelly and foul; it is a source of pleasure, a beautiful part of female physiology, to be seen, touched, and tasted.”
Sucking is an act of the same magnitude as fucking. That read more.. FAIR: media cheer for “non-ideological” centristsFAIR’s on the case:
“Corporate media are largely cheering Barack Obama’s early appointment of Clinton-era centrists. Many of these nominees have a distinct record of support for the corporate-friendly NAFTA trade pact, gutting public assistance programs under the guise of welfare “reform,” and pushing various deregulatory policies in the financial sector (including the elimination of the read more.. oopthie: obama forgot laborLabor pained: Labor sec. not on econ team
Labor’s low profile in the president-elect’s transition is striking because of unions’ vital role in the general election campaign.
read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15972.html white power in black face: belief we can change inBarack Obama wasted no time bowing down to his Wall Street financial backers and war-mongering advisors. His cabinet selections represent the same old politics of imperialist wars of plunder abroad and police containment policies against the African and Mexican communities here. It could not be clearer that Obama is, as the Uhuru Movement sums up, read more.. pollanade drinkers: food snobs, 2Lemme get this straight: getting in the groove of the moment when
hunting for the first time, or getting a thrill out of eating what
you’ve caught and prepared with what sound like some real characters,
suggests a generalized ideology of nature-romanticism? Do I have that
right?
My argument is that he is not opposed to romanticization of nature — read more.. does calling it a blurred line between nature and culture make the opposition disappear?Answer to the title question? Obviously, I think not. Since I also had on my shelf Pollan’s _The Botany of Desire_ (look, if some wanker is going to tell me that I didn’t read The Omnivore’s Dilemma even after I quote line after line from the book, I’ll go out and read every thing Pollan’s read more.. look at all the invisible peopleIn this post, I take on the irritant of Pollan’s inability to see all the labor involved in the production of even his hunted and gathered meal. It strikes me that someone like Pollan, who talk repeatedly about how everything is connected in an ecological system, can’t extend that same thinking to *people.*
At 05:14 PM read more.. pollanade drinkers: food snobsAs andy’s increasingly angry responses reveal, what seemed to really motivate was the assumption that if you criticize pollan, you must be someone with rilly rilly declasse tastes. Which, I don’t know, might have been more a reaction to me and Andy’s assumptions about who I am. Which I hand’t considered until just now. Anyway, read more.. doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing: except when your taste buds are trying to colonize mineOn Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:39 PM, shag wrote:
> Andy, I apologize if I’m dense, but I am having a hard time parsing the
> sentence. Are you saying that you don’t understand why people think Pollan
> romanticizes nature? That you took him as someone who doesn’t? Both?
> Neither?
At 11:19 PM 10/15/2008, Andy wrote:
I read more.. pollan: nature troubledHere, I start to show, in a rather long convoluted way, that Pollan’s arguments ultimately lead to a weird kind of antipathy to science that encourages sciency types to lurv him anyway. I think they are self-hating sciency types, is what it is. *snort*
but more seriously, what I’m getting at is the way pollan needs read more.. Links for 2006-08-22 [del.icio.us]Links for 2006-08-19 [del.icio.us]Links for 2006-05-15 [del.icio.us]Links for 2006-05-14 [del.icio.us]Links for 2005-11-03 [del.icio.us]
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