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Dominance Games: Flak takes on the world and its gold

Posted in Commentary, current events, Education, journalism, media, News, opinion, partsanship, political analysis, political satire, political science, Politics, satire, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2011 by B Schiff

So we get beaten over the head every day with the mad wonks and spry slippers of politic land telling us sincerely that they are aware of and involved in dealing with the main important issues of the day.

They tell us true what today’s truths are…what tomorrows truths should be and what yesterdays parades of truths really were.  In  grand currant luminous wisdom they  impart to us the multileveled discount price of only having to listen.

Misery indexes, talking points, power presentations …..the real , the unreal, the imagined…what the hell… there can be a damned good story to sell, a damned good angle to use…a damned good lot of fool listeners to play with.   Slogans, baked truths, dilemmas, slithering vixens… the truth shall conquer all.  The game is on and the truth shall conquer all.   Sit and listen and care really.  Realities and complexities of any blow back…. the tricks of the trade

Hard edged eager takes on the world and its gold.   Renounce political advertising.  Renounce political posturing.  Renounce as obnoxious bores the players and our buddies, our friends and icons who try to game the game, the arguments, the funnies of our thought.  Make em work for their money…..Right and Santa gives mothers day eggs on Halloween and the fourth of never.

GOP draws blood with Michigan map  Alex Isenstadt  Politico

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57227.html

The conservative media’s pay-for-play deals

Want better coverage on talk radio?  Buy it…David Frum  The Week

http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/216302/the-conservative-medias-pay-for-play-deals

The dumb …… the honored creed. The rancid bastards …… the true…..the thrill..

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Dominance Games: A good little staunch questioner

Posted in Commentary, current events, Education, journalism, media, News, opinion, partsanship, political analysis, political satire, political science, Politics, satire, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 21, 2011 by B Schiff

As a good little staunch questioner of those who are of a political bent do you seek to understand the nexus of the issue at hand and steer your subject towards elucidation or the use of rancid speech as waste of time?

As a good little staunch questioner of those who are of a political bent are you there  for the thrill of speaking to one gracious enough to recognize your presence or are you there to allow them use you like a three dollar transaction so as to spout as many vile mind numbing set pieces, non answers and talking points as inhumanly possible to any and all of what may pass for imitation of thought or caricature of  question?

As a staunch questioner of those who are of a political bent do you get thrills up and down your spine when you are used and abused as no more than a hot little megaphone for  stridently honed plays to the bottom  and wild dances of glittering rhetorical twists, turns and hedonistic auto stimulation?

As a good little staunch questioner of those who are of a political bent are you thrilled to find out that you can go through a complete interview without ever getting the slightest inkling that your subject has any nascent or sentient human qualities what so ever?

As a good little staunch questioner of those who are of a political bent do you appreciate the inability of your subjects to structure logical arguments dependent upon false conclusions being built magnificently upon false premises so that false smiles can decry feted stimulation?

As a good little staunch questioner of those who are of a political bent do you revel in being the bent over constant stooge for the searing scathing thrusting agendas of the munificent constant bores who see themselves as interesting and full of god’s bodily fluids?

As a good little staunch questioner of those who are of a political bent do you feel the warming seas of total immersion taking you over, cascading around you and massaging you with bulbous, smothering, withering, eviscerating dementia?

politics, news, commentary, analysis   Dominance Games / Politics http://dominancegamesb.wordpress.com/

books…  http://bschiff.com/

Lust Games: Live the pornographic

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2011 by B Schiff

Public images and public brands can easily become inverted.  Those noble souls exercising free will and petrified manner easily choose against their own self interests all the time.  Their perceptions are weak.  Their premises are false.  Their logical constructs are frayed and superfluous.  They bring to the table of meager existence a predisposition towards abject dimness and poverty of mind.  They see not the heavens on earth offered them in their anguish as they self identify as noble souls, outlying outlaws, searing revolutionaries,  defenders of the faith, persons of sound judgment and cool reason.

Thought is sold.  It is not bought.  Freedom of thought is sold.  It is not bought.  Economic self interest is passed around and given away.  It is laughed away and made to look foolish.  The cloudy images of the sane and tolerant world are floated up and about, up and away by those knowing this endpoint of human endeavor and these clouds are massively comical and hopelessly ironic.  If only there were those of reason and virtue amongst the daily thugs of public discourse.  If only there were those of reason and virtue amongst those who stood tall and straight and bashed head for sustenance.  If only there were those that did not foam at the mouth and love always and always the red meat of swollen enemies.

The obtuse and the inbred know nothing save the next meal.  The sweet tastes of sweet tastes trump always the soothing health foods of good  doctors.  The wretched can never simply see what is to be seen.  The wretched can never simply experience what is there to be experienced, what is there bigger than a breadbox.

Enemies mine those who will not see.  Enemies mine those who will not hear.  Enemies mine those who live the cheap thrills and hot candy. Enemies mine those who live the pornographic.  We all live the pornographic.  We all love the pornographic.

Xan Rice  The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/death-by-tabloid/8491/

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed.  books….novels

Dominance Games: The hypocrite is cute

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , on May 11, 2011 by B Schiff

Soft and cuddly and squishy and comforting.  Safe and serene and  reassuring.  A calm needful port in the mortal storm.

Warm homilies and sweet butter.   In sunny aura around the easy grin and infectious manner of the sweet bedtime friend.  Tales of woods’ nestle, streams’ ripple …. soft nostalgia.   We see our nearest and dearest  whisper attractive syllables of calm and peace.

Teddy bears of fertile joy make their way into our dreams and imaginations and give peace.  They are the chosen martyrs of self healing, the riotous cowboy atop the bull of petulance.  The honed, happy  honored.  The healing function in repose.

the psychic good comes from an intransigent spark.  All is trusted.  All is expected.  All is kind, love well chosen and love adroitly earned.

Salves and oils, slips and slides.   the depths of harmony and truth survive.  Sweet teddy bear of happy frivolity.  Sweet teddy bear of smashing joy.  The ramshackled flagrant hyperventilating hypocrite as beloved public character.

Banal  pretty pictures…

On Wisconsin

Wisconsin State Journal    Mary Spicuzza and Clay Barbour

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_5aa8adfa-7845-11e0-82be-001cc4c03286.html

On Congress  Politico

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0511/GOP_frosh_protest_Dems_rhetoric_on_Medicare.html

The dumb …… the honored creed. The rancid bastards …… the true.

http://bschiff.com/

Void Me

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , on May 5, 2011 by B Schiff

To be the messenger of the gods and informed the uninformed newly.  To be a potion mixer, a torture fixer, a redoubtable waste of uninspiring talent.  To ramble, to indulge, to be facetious, fatuous and debonair.   Fix the story blindly and model it in perfume.  Be an eerie piece of dirt in the loving muck, a dainty charlatan and buffoon.

Touch me.  Feel me.  Make me over and give me breakfast.  Treat me with affection.  Cherish my gratitude.  Picture me my pictures.  Speak me my words.  Envelope me well.  I love a long night with its comforts and joys.

The right practice of right practice is upon us.  Users pay and the users play.  Users use and users tell.  The power is to the user.  The user knows … the constant user knows…the democratized user knows…the common among us know.  Through sham and pretense, claustrophobia and hype the world is awash with informed common sense keeping up appearances and keeping  down wretched excess….. it is one damned big rancid circus after all …  blessing the beasts and the children.

The mornings know.  The paths to hot and hell, cool and low, to slumber and back know.  The bored to death and the spoon fed sick slick know.    The monster never sleeps.  All is known.  All is seen.  Hardy shame for those who are not…… Vivaciousness is the key.  Vital organs are key.  Eyes here there and eyes everywhere…

It is good to be free and smart and basking in dumb enlightened in times of joyous rays of godlike sun.  Be a proud seeker of the holy grail.  Move me.  Feed me.  Fondle me.  Make me cry.  I learn because I am.

Patrick B. Pexton  Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-journalists-no-1-platform-neutral-duty/2011/04/29/AFi1KyGF_story.html

From Columbia Journalism Review

http://www.cjr.org/news_meeting/what_are_americas_most_essenti.php

The dumb …… the honored creed. The rancid bastards …… the true.

http://bschiff.com/

Dominance Games: Void Me

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , on May 5, 2011 by B Schiff

To be the messenger of the gods and informed the uninformed newly.  To be a potion mixer, a torture fixer, a redoubtable waste of uninspiring talent.  To ramble, to indulge, to be facetious, fatuous and debonair.   Fix the story blindly and model it in perfume.  Be an eerie piece of dirt in the loving muck, a dainty charlatan and buffoon.

Touch me.  Feel me.  Make me over and give me breakfast.  Treat me with affection.  Cherish my gratitude.  Picture me my pictures.  Speak me my words.  Envelope me well.  I love a long night with its comforts and joys.

The right practice of right practice is upon us.  Users pay and the users play.  Users use and users tell.  The power is to the user.  The user knows … the constant user knows…the democratized user knows…the common among us know.  Through sham and pretense, claustrophobia and hype the world is awash with informed common sense keeping up appearances and keeping  down wretched excess….. it is one damned big rancid circus after all …  blessing the beasts and the children.

The mornings know.  The paths to hot and hell, cool and low, to slumber and back know.  The bored to death and the spoon fed sick slick know.    The monster never sleeps.  All is known.  All is seen.  Hardy shame for those who are not…… Vivaciousness is the key.  Vital organs are key.  Eyes here there and eyes everywhere…

It is good to be free and smart and basking in dumb enlightened in times of joyous rays of godlike sun.  Be a proud seeker of the holy grail.  Move me.  Feed me.  Fondle me.  Make me cry.  I learn because I am.

Patrick B. Pexton  Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-journalists-no-1-platform-neutral-duty/2011/04/29/AFi1KyGF_story.html

From Columbia Journalism Review

http://www.cjr.org/news_meeting/what_are_americas_most_essenti.php

The dumb …… the honored creed. The rancid bastards …… the true.

http://bschiff.com/

A quickie because the American people gave me a mandate

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 8, 2011 by B Schiff

……..They came to me in the night and and demanded that I do my bidding

Talk always talk. Write always write. Degenerate always degenerate.

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on April 6, 2011 by B Schiff

I know, I know….Anyone who distributes news and information has an agenda, is a mouthpiece, is annoying, bothers the hell out of people…..

Either they are old and moldy.  Fat and comfortable.  Puffed up, insulated and lazy.  Callous free loaders who are agent provocateurs.

They might be young and on the make.  They might be the wonders who translate events for a new news consuming public in a new news consuming environment.

We all have our favorites, our hates, our disposable clowns.  So much information.  So much endeavor.  so many brave and fearless scribes who comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.  Who could be jaundiced.? Who can say they are not worth the prize of our attention?

Is journalism dead?  Is it better? Is it sincere?

It does brave the questions of our survival.

Two views.: one hand wringing, one celebration.  I’ll do both.  One for fun.  One in tribute to the solid stodgy set.

From The Columbia Journalism Review a month or two back:

http://www.cjr.org/editorial/beyond_the_facts.php

Roger Simon in Politico:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52523.html