Wednesday, August 17, 2005
DEAR WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKU ...
[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]
Can you estimate how long it will take to fix the USA brand? |
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
| NEW YORK TIMES / CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK / MARGO JEFFERSON: "From Blog to Stage, a [Cursing] Pundit Examines the Power of Politics" 8/16/05 [EXCERPTS:] ... I feel less fine trying to describe the show, because obscenities I am not allowed to quote here burst from almost all his sentences. ... The Rude Pundit is a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson. Bruce and Richard Pryor were masters of stand-up comedy as political theater. Mr. Thompson was a master of journalism as performance art. If you know their work you know that in the right hands, fantasy and obscenity are cathartic. They attack hypocrisy, because hypocrisy lulls us. Fantasy charms us and obscenity shocks us. |
BOKE COMMENT [RHETORICAL VERSE / 3-HAIKUS]
Linking to "bad words"?!?!?
The New York Times might just slip
and let the truth loose.
{smile}
Undisciplined noise
is no danger to power.
Just "proof" that we're free.
Where power is cursed
with disciplined precision,
it won't be mentioned.
# # #
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
WORTHLESS JOURNALISTS HAIKU ...
Let their headstones read: "There'd have been no Iraq Mess if we'd done our job." |
Sunday, August 07, 2005
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW / ESSAY /
"TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN FICTION" 8/7/05
[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]
"TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN FICTION" 8/7/05
| How did our nation become Bullshiteaterland? Hungry (now) for truth(?) |
AMERICA, AMERICA ...
[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW/ "SETTING THEM FREE" 8/7/05 EXCERPT: ... apology in his will, seeking to "beg humbly beg" forgiveness from "an unfortunate race of bondmen, over whom my ancestors have usurped and exercised the most lawless and monstrous tyranny, and in whom, my countrymen (by their iniquitous Laws, in contradiction of their own declaration of rights, and in violation of every sacred Law of nature; of the inherent, unalienable & imprescriptible rights of man; and of every principle of moral & political honesty;) have vested me with absolute property." |
| ( Has "America" been "beautiful" even once: Unbound from bullshit? ) |
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS NEWS ...
NEW YORK TIMES / "President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror'
EXCERPT: It is not clear whether the new language embraced by other administration officials was adopted without Mr. Bush's approval or whether he reversed himself after the change was made. Either way, he planted himself on Wednesday firmly on the side of framing the conflict ...
[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]
NEW YORK TIMES / "President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror'
EXCERPT: It is not clear whether the new language embraced by other administration officials was adopted without Mr. Bush's approval or whether he reversed himself after the change was made. Either way, he planted himself on Wednesday firmly on the side of framing the conflict ...
MR. BULLSHIT SAYS: When I say 'war,' I mean war! [Write this line yourself] |
[RHETORICAL VERSE / HAIKU]
