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The pure of the lure

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 13, 2011 by B Schiff

Policy is the property of the thoughtful, the innovated, the non disingenuous.  It is a reasoned thing  covered in the necessary language of the love.  It is a basic image of a picture. It is a basic simpleton of a picture of an image of a cluster of a backwater.

Policy is the logic of the gods.

The lure of the pure.

Lexington.. The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/18529711

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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Here comes the past

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on April 12, 2011 by B Schiff

Democracy……just the sound of the word…the texture of its artful arcane syllables cascading out of the mouth, over perched and parched lips….the breaths deepen, the body tremors, and there is a comforting sniffle to back up the hope and pride.

The grand and great religion of the non secular masses.  The grand and great religion of the sweet, lovely secular champions of honesty, honor and fair play.  the end point of all politics.  The fair shake for all mankind.  We get it.  We got it.  We import it.  We sell it.  We cherish it.  We mangle it.  We push it through hell to see if it is or is not a cardboard illusion.  Tis a strong thing this Democracy.  it mirrors many images.  It shows off many hues and colors.  it is purposeful and pure anything of care and caring.  Always to be improved.  Always to be made superior and worthy.

Bang goes the money trap.  Rat tat tat goes the fix.  Stomp stomp goes the rants.  And the melting pot just melts all charges to a shiny statue of group wisdom.

Who skews? And why not?…Who plays and takes the spoils?  And why not?

On the supremes and their proclivities.

Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/04/11/110411taco_talk_toobin

On the states and theirs.  The comfort and  joys of the gerrymandering fix

From  The Weekly Standard

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/854xppnl.asp

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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To think a world deeply

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

Always the nature of fun and games.  The workings of societies and systems soar the heart, spring the spirit.  The bum outsiders know all and change is always needed and all unentrenched minions are never wont to not be open for the better worlds that await…..and await with dreamy fervor.

A simple game to get from A to B.  The world changes.  It sways in ways honorable and profound.  Except when it does not.  Those of good will are always wished well by those of good will.  The guns matter…. all manner and stripe.  The rancid little polka dot guns of simple salvation matter.  Bang bang you are a dumb bastard.

Two views on things that are newly minted……an analysis of Italy….The grand Italians…..a tear for the structure and questions that seem to bear thought and warrant refection.

In The New Yorker.  Booted  by Tim Parks

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/04/11/110411crat_atlarge_parks

The great paeans to the social tools of the new world.  May they be so wonderful.

New York Review of Books

The Internet: For better or for Worse   By Steve Coll

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/apr/07/internet-better-or-worse/

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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Another quickie: The life and times of the gray ghost of Christmases past

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , on April 9, 2011 by B Schiff

Sing me no sad songs…..my heart bleeds for the joys of sin

I get up in the morning and seek the world I’m in…..

Marl Milian  on CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/31/google.face/index.html?iref=allsearch

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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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

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Now and again, then and again

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

One can get worn down by the processes of governance.  One can get overly drunk on the the grand personas of grand personas.  The derivatives of hell, the myopic mind numbing  incandescent devils of the once upon a sweethearts parade, these flights of fancy, your  favorite fido and my favorite slug of a useless star and hero….what better than to love the ones we love, act out on the ones we act out, drama the dramas of our time.

Its the stupid, stupid.

Its the ideology stupid.

Its the veneer of fine wine.

Bouncing heads  spring out of a captivating music box…

The passing parade.

In Vanity Fair

Doubtful Accomplishments

Hubris Maximus: V.F.’s 2010 Cavalcade of Unforgettable Regrettables

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/yearinreview/hubris-maximus-20101

The ubiquitous Trump.  Who can resist. The entertaining monkey as megalomaniac.

On Mediaite

by Mark Joyella

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/a-combative-donald-trump-on-cnn-obama-may-have-pulled-off-%E2%80%98greatest-scam-in-history%E2%80%99/

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Til death us do part…..

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

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

The books I am pushing…..

Dominance Games: An Essay on Power    A Novel …….. Lust Games: An Essay on Honor   A Novel ………. Void Games:  An Essay on Revenge   A Novel …. coming soon

http://bschiff.com/

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Rational 'round the rosey….Saunter 'round the glen..

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 7, 2011 by B Schiff

Who believes in rational policy?  And upon whet rational rests your firm beliefs?  Are you the master logician able to leap tall buildings in a single bound with the strengths of your abilities to match premise upon premise with masterful conclusion after masterful conclusion?

Perhaps, as a modern day Sherlock Holmes, you are the master detective striving and gritting and smoking out the true holy premise upon which to base your true holy thought.

No matter.  In the end logic eludes and we circle and circle and drive dizziness to new heights. We delve into the minds of the masters of pious previous thought and the masters of previous pious power. They say always…be scared boy…be very scared.  Be frozen girl…be very frozen.  Accepted truths don’t have to be accepted truths.  They just need to be convenient.

From The New Yorker

The Tyrant Tax by James Surowieck

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/03/07/110307ta_talk_surowiecki

From Harpers

By Slavoj Zizek

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/04/0083351

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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

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Statistics, Damned Statistics. Damned Lies

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

One could be a long time follower of the deceptive crafts, a long time lover of the  of parochial crafts of the political operative.  One can be a long time follower of all of the stars of all of the games, all of the felons of all of the games.  The ribald, the antiquated, those with the endearing mouths full of fun and fancy, gibberish and noise …these make me proud.   The grand and the intense, the frolicsome and the tedious, the major harmonies and bittersweet songs of the eminently sincere….these make me weep.  The lure of  a molten train wreck……the stuff of legend and the lifeblood of the passing scene.

Statistics, Damned statistics, damned lies.  The godly rational saints give us all gusto and purpose.

Two examples of the world as it is lived.

Lynnell Hancock   Columbia Journalism Review

http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/tested.php

From The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/18483411

It takes a lot to be sure of a lot.

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