(Some day soon, after illness, overemployment, and Texas’ three weeks a year of beautiful weather have faded, I’ll get around to typing something, but for now, a couple of paragraphs from Gravity’s Rainbow, which I’m reading now.) (more…)
Subtopia has a fabulous post about the mobile detention centers that are popping up more frequently (especially in Texas), as well as about the old-fashioned brick-and-mortar kind, some of which are becoming more family friendly. Go read it. (more…)
Is Lisa Nowak the exact inverse of Laci Peterson, the social imaginary’s uppity yang to latter’s natural yin? If Peterson was virginal–her pregnancy seemed very much by immaculate conception–and passive, the almost blank, nonresistant surface on which deviant (understanding the abnormality is essential) male desire was written, Nowak is the career woman who went too far, who could not manage the modulation of her manlike discipline and accomplishments between the public and the private. This is the substance of her psychosis.
From The New York Times, “U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling” (more…)
In the latest CBS News poll, Bush’s approval rating among Americans is 28%. Some of the other things that have 28% approval ratings are Kelley Osbourne, boxer briefs, cottage cheese, and porn. But there’s another appropriate numeric parallel as well:
[A] new poll finds that neither Mexicans nor Americans want a wall on their border. An overwhelming majority of Mexicans—90 percent—disagree with the idea of building a wall between the United States and Mexico. A large majority of Americans, 69 percent, also reject the idea, while 28 percent agree with it.
While I work on a post that contains actual content that could be said to come from the actual head-fingers matrix that could be said to belong to “me,” some links to things that are, or seem to be, worth reading: (more…)
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