R.I.P.

What will we do without Mrs. Slocombe trippping the tight lanfastic? Mollie Sugden 1922-2009

Quote du jour

"It really takes a lot of work to distill stupid down to something quite as concentrated as what (Pat) Buchanan presents."

PZ Myers, Old Fossil Takes On Darwin

In Praise of Freaks

"The Michael Jackson cacophony is fascinating in that it is not about Jackson at all.”

"All that noise is about America, as the dishonest custodian of black life and wealth; the blacks, especially males, in America; and the burning, buried American guilt; and sex and sexual roles and sexual panic; money, success and despair…”

“Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated–in the main, abominably–because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.”

James Baldwin wrote this in an essay on Jackson, originally titled Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood, originally published in Playboy in 1965 and later retitled Here Be Dragons, and I think it is one of the truest things that has been said on the subject.
(Via. Laura Flanders)

Still...

Why I use "queer"

"Why then is it in the interests of our bosses and the state to enforce gender roles when they are so evidently not applicable to all, are incorrect in their generalisations, and cause division? To ask that question is to answer it... Imagine the political potential of a unified working class; united in their exploitation and desire to end the monotony of work and life under capitalism, this is not an easy task in a society fragmented along so many different lines. (In) our division, lies our weakness and it is no accident! A united working class consisting of workers united in pursuit of freedom from the confines of a homophobic, violent and exploitative society is of course capitalism's greatest threat. The response of the capitalist class then, is to divide and rule; setting male against female, heterosexual against homosexual etc..."

"Whatever your self-defined gender identity, we all seek a world where how you dress, the people you sleep with and genitalia you possess do not embody who you are, we feel that the fight for a better world necessitates the overthrow of the very system that perpetuates gender myths and heterosexual supremacy. Sexual freedom will only be achieved in the pursuit of freedom for all, and not just freedom for our rulers and our bosses!"

link: Queer - An Anarchist Deconstruction

Thought for the Day

"We can do anything!" is a phrase usually uttered by someone who won't be around when it's time to clean up.

Just as I always suspected!

Eating Meat Is Not Natural
(Via. Alternet)