The Culture of Life in a nutshell

[sabotabby]

Via realcdaae: We don't know how many people—most of them poor and black—died because of Hurricane Katrina. A lot of them died slowly, especially the sick and elderly, because help couldn't get there in time.

Fortunately, the, um, pre-born were rescued. Huzzah for the snowflake babies!

“That is great! I’m going to call all our officers and tell them. They’ll be pretty excited,” said Lt. Eric Bumgarner, one of seven Illinois Conservation Police officers and three Louisiana state troopers who sloshed through floodwaters to remove the embryos. Bumgarner said he has often wondered what happened to the embryos: “One of these embryos could be the next president.”

Arguably, said embryo couldn't do a worse job than the current president did.

Comments

[sabotabby]

What worries me is the whole frog-in-boiling-water aspect. I mean, Nixon was bad, but people protested en masse. Bush could get away with eating live kittens on camera, the media would spin it, and a few bloggers would go "OH THAT'S SAD POOR KITTUMZ."

It's not that he's worse, it's just that collectively everyone has their heads up their asses when it comes to doing something about his awfulness.

[eyelidlessness.livejournal.com]

That accounts for part of the sarcastic tone in my comment. I mean, on the one hand, I really think there's something to the idea that no activists could possibly damage the US as much as Bush is—and I really do look at our needs in terms of damaging the US as an entity, as a state, and if not eliminating it as such, at least drastically reducing its power in the world. On the other hand, I find it ironic, sad, and actually really perplexing that activists don't see it in that light and take advantage of it. I mean, we have the opportunity of a lifetime—a completely moronic administration that has made nearly every mistake in reaching its goals that it could, and has, perhaps irreparably, damaged US image in the world—and the majority of reactions have been to wish it would just go away.

I mean, there has been a little bit of an upsurge in radical activity, but nothing on the scale of the opportunities that have been cropping up for the last few years. So I just thank the gods that Bush is such a moron... I mean, imagine if that fascist were actually good at what he does.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Robert Jensen mentioned that students had little to do in organizing the anti-Iraq war protests, as opposed to the anti-Vietnam war protests, where they were front and center. He might also have made a remark about the quality of today's education, but that might just be me.